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Sentences starting with curious

Curious to see who the arrivals were, he went to the register. [4]
Curious to see what changes time had wrought, she peered through the by no means narrow crack and overlooked the minister's spacious office, where he was now entirely alone with the Councillor Viglius. [10]
Curious to relate, though his heart was breaking, his voice was steady--steady as it always had been. [9]
Curious that she should cry. [5]
Curious for several reasons. [5]
Curious entities, or non-entities, space and tithe? [6]
Curious logic, one must say. [5]
Curious to know more of the episode in the village below, she ordered her carriage, and came driving slowly past the Louis Quinze at an exciting moment. [11]
Curious jumble of modern and ancient city and village, primitiveness and the other thing. [5]
Curious those names have escaped me. [5]

Sentences ending with curious

I don't know what has got into you to-day; you act mighty curious. [5]
If that is true, it is curious. [5]
The problem is to my mind not only interesting, but exceptionally curious. [6]
I have seen them, and I can assure you they are very curious. [6]
I have studied the growth of this tree by its rings, and it is curious. [6]
Hence it came that Asquith, before the house-warming, knew as little about Farquhar Fenelon Cooke, the man, as the nineteenth century knows about William Shakespeare, and was every whit as curious. [9]
Before long the sun begun to look very curious. [5]
I have given some account of his chapter "Butler" in different articles, but I would refer the students of our Homoeopathic educational institutions to the original, which they will find very interesting and curious. [6]
The view, looking sheer down into the broad valley, eastward, from this great elevation--almost a perpendicular mile--was very quaint and curious. [5]
By request of one who has read thus far, and is still curious. [9]

Short sentences using curious

It is curious to see. [5]
Instincts are curious things. [9]
They are curious people. [5]
I followed him, curious. [9]
This is very curious. [5]
It was very curious. [5]
It was very curious, somehow. [5]
It does seem curious, somehow. [5]
It was a curious population. [5]
Washington is a curious place. [4]

Sentences containing curious two or more times

I now come to a curious episode--the most curious, I think, that had yet accented my slothful, valueless, heedless career. [5]
He is about the most curious character I ever knew, and does the most curious things. [11]
It was curious that the Duke had never even hinted at the chance of his being already married--yet not so curious either, since complete silence concerning a wife was in itself declaration enough that he was unmarried. [11]
It was curious that such reflections as these should have been delayed until after the achievement of my absorbing desire, more curious that they should have followed so closely on the heels of it. [9]
That is the most curious feature of this curious table. [5]
I finished Guy Mannering--that curious, curious book, with its mob of squalid shadows jabbering around a single flesh-and-blood being--Dinmont; a book crazily put together out of the very refuse of the romance-artist's stage properties--finished it and took up Quentin Durward, and finished that. [5]
In their Vatican is stored up all that is curious and beautiful in art; in our Patent Office is hoarded all that is curious or useful in mechanics. [5]
I was most curious to see her; as curious as I could have been to see Satan. [5]
It was a curious situation; yet it is not on that account that I have made room for it here, but on account of a thing which seemed to me still more curious. [5]

More example sentences with the word curious in them

There was that youth in Pennsylvania, whose curious confession was published some years ago. [5]
And then came your party, and Glencoe, and that curious incident at the Fair. [9]
Let me remind you of a curious fact with reference to the seat of the musical sense. [6]
Faithful and sincere, yet loving power, curious and adventurous, she must needs, without intention, without purpose, stray into perilous paths. [11]
His words so wrought upon us that it was a relief to us all when the conversation drifted into a more cheerful channel and the natural features of the curious country we were in came under treatment. [5]
If I am wrong in making Franklin the father of our curious official clothes, it is no matter--he will be able to stand it. [5]
But our great world--the rich people, were stupid, with no wish to be otherwise; they were not even curious about authors and artists. [8]
Why in the world she should ever have been curious about Jethro Bass is a mystery to many, for the two of them were as far apart as the poles. [9]
He saw the work of his hands, the things he had made with adze and plane, with chisel and hammer, but nothing seemed familiar save the smell of the glue pot, which brought back in a cloudy impression curious unfamiliar feelings. [11]
He thought the words violent enough, but in connection with what he remembered of the cheery, poetic, hopeful idealist, they were even more curious than lamentable. [8]
However, the elder woman was sturdy and determined, and sixty years of age; while Melissa feared nothing, and thought herself sufficiently protected when she had arranged her kerchief so as to hide her face from curious eyes. [10]
Blushing, and confused with shyness, she remained standing by Caesar's seat; and though she only ventured to raise her eyes now and then for a stolen look, she felt herself the object of a hundred curious, defiant, bold, or contemptuous glances. [10]
It is curious, with his tendency to optimism and general expansion of futures, that he says nothing of the possible sales of the new book, or of his expectations in that line. [5]
He would stop with an exclamation and stand gazing, self-forgetful, for incredible periods, and she would watch him, filled with a curious sense of the limitations of an appreciation she had thought complete. [9]
Dick was seized with a great passion for examining this curious chain, and, after some preliminary questions, was rash enough to lean towards her and put out his hand toward the neck that lay in the golden coil. [6]
Almost mechanically, yet with a curious vividness and permanency of vision, her eyes drifted from the patriarch's chair to the cradle in the corner; and that picture would remain with her till she could see no more at all. [11]
This young man, with a curious name of Scandinavian origin, appeared unheralded in the town, as it was then, of Cantabridge. [6]
She took it with a curious contracted look and put it on the finger again, then pulled off the other glove quietly. [11]
What it held will, perhaps, never be known, until they are dead and gone, and same curious eye lights on an old yellow letter with the fossil footprints of the extinct passion trodden thick all over it. [6]
Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier --but do not dare to say so. [5]
Just here I will mention something that seems curious to me. [5]
Among the curious who had flocked together were many embalmers, laborers, and humble folk, who lived in the Necropolis. [10]
Here the General, who had been sitting by watching them with a very curious expression, spoke up. [9]
Besides the soldiers who formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. [2]
Some kind friend, who could challenge a nearer interest than the curious strangers into whose hands the book might fall, at last claimed it, and I was glad that it should be henceforth sealed to common eyes. [6]
In his muttering, which was mixed with the curious, stingless profanity of which he was master, I caught the name of Cheyne, and I knew that he was facing the crisis of a fortnightly theme. [9]
The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust. [12]
At the Fete when she and Ingolby met face to face, people had immediately drawn round them curious and excited. [11]
You can't buy what you want--you love such curious things, I assume. [11]
Seems to know what is going on, --reads books, old and new,--has many recent publications sent him, they tell me, but, what is more curious, keeps up with the everyday affairs of the world, too. [6]
Meanwhile Charley's eyes were upon him, curious, fixed, abstracted. [11]
And with them were some curious sleighs, whose bodies were shaped like lions, swans, tigers, etc.--vehicles that had once been handsome with pictured designs and fine workmanship, but were dusty and decaying now. [5]
The "Painter-man" forthwith went out into the rain behind the shed, where a somewhat curious colloquy took place. [9]
Between the scenes we went behind the curtain, and saw the very curious and admirable machinery of the dramatic spectacle. [6]
The day before we left Hannibal, a curious thing fell under my notice-- the surprising spread which longitudinal time undergoes there. [5]
Yet there it was, that curious, useless concession to old prejudices, the little touch of hypocrisy--she left the will where she had found it. [11]
The editorial, which was written by Mr. Olin Brad, and was in his best Macaulay style, began somewhat humorously by alluding to the curious interest of the public in ancient history, citing Mr. Froude and Mr. Carlyle, and the legend of Casper Hauser. [4]
The curious thing was that, while still this political matter was hanging fire, he painted with elation. [11]
The curious thing was that he had the power, and save in moments of weariness he felt it in him. [9]
That the habit was most extensively practised during former times, even by the ancestors of civilised nations, is clearly shewn by the preservation of many curious customs and ceremonies, of which Mr. M'Lennan has given an interesting account. [1]
The dinner itself was more like a ceremony than a meal, and as it proceeded, Honora found it increasingly difficult to rid herself of a curious feeling of being on probation. [9]
The curious thing was he had not had a word from her since the day of the mock marriage. [11]
Besides the military was a sober deputation of citizens, and hovering behind the whole a horde of curious, blanketed braves, come to get a first glimpse of the great white captain. [9]
In her eyes was a curious smile that lacked mirth, in her voice a dispassionate note that added to his bewilderment. [9]
Well, she certainly was a curious one, was Morgan le Fay. [5]
There is something very pleasant about all this, but what specially strikes me is a curious flavor of city provincialism. [6]
They were all very curious to hear him. [7]
Murray Bradshaw was very curious to find out how it was that he had become the victim of such a rudimentary miss as Susan Posey. [6]
It was a very curious fact that the first train of thoughts Mr. Bernard's small menagerie suggested to him was the grave, though somewhat worn, subject of the origin of evil. [6]
It is a very curious case she has got hold of, and I do not wonder at all that she should have felt convinced that she had come at the true solution of the village riddle. [6]
This is a very curious and interesting circumstance, and is a withering rebuke to those philosophers who would make us believe that it is not possible for any portion of the earth to fly off into space. [5]
Houzeau gives a very curious account of his observations on this subject in his 'Facultes Mentales des Animaux,' tom. [1]
She smiled a vacuous smile; she played "the lady" terribly, as, with a curious conception of dignity, she held her body stiff as a ramrod, and with a prim merci sailed into the street. [11]
These reflections weighed upon her, particularly when she seemed conscious of curious glances. [9]
We remained cooped up eight days and nights with that curious crew. [5]
Mr. Vane looked up at his son with a curious expression. [9]
The silence holding two men now held three, and a curious, cold astonishment possessed the two younger. [11]
The thread was twined; its parting meshes through From hand to hand her restless shuttle flew, Till the full web was wound upon the beam, Love's curious toil,--a vest without a seam! [6]
The soldiers without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their comrades' impression. [2]
So he cautiously turned the conversation to the spinner Arachne, and when Stephanion entered into it, admitted that he, too, was curious to learn in what way the sculptors would represent her. [10]
Then he turned towards me, and as they walked off a little distance I could see that he was curious concerning me. [11]
Her dark skin took on a curious reddish radiance, her eyes were lustrous and her figure beautiful. [11]
It was curious, too, that he could smile, but the smile did not encourage Billy Wantage now. [11]
Male snipe fight together, "tugging and pushing each other with their bills in the most curious manner imaginable. [1]
Apparently nobody happened to want such a river, nobody needed it, nobody was curious about it; so, for a century and a half the Mississippi remained out of the market and undisturbed. [5]
And I've come to the conclusion, curious though it is, that I can use every one of these freaks of memory to teach you all a lesson. [5]
His body appeared to stiffen, his face became rigid, he stared at the Governor blankly, appalled, the colour left his face, and his mouth opened with a curious and revolting grimace. [11]
I looked forward to seeing Bath with a curious kind of interest. [6]
I'm really curious to see your witness. [10]
Now we seem to see why that curious incident happened, so long ago; I mean Cox's return, after he had been far away and out of sight several days in the chief mate's boat. [5]
I am curious to see what sort of a sugarplum face, turned out by the dozen, he will stick on my torso--which will please me, at any rate, for a couple of days. [10]
I am curious to see what he can do as an artist. [10]
It is curious to see that a medical work left in manuscript by the Rev. [3]
It was curious to see how the various qualities which are esteemed in society appeared in his eyes, looked at merely in their relation to the limited world he knew, and judged by their adaptation to the primitive life. [4]
It was curious to see a good strong shadow of an earthly object cast upon so intangible a field as the atmosphere. [5]
It is curious to reflect how history repeats itself the world over. [5]
It was curious to observe the manners and customs which the enlargement plan produced. [5]
It is curious to note the insular, not to say provincial, character of the people even three centuries ago. [4]
It is curious to note the change in the stock-quotation of the Affection Board brought about by throwing this new security on the market. [5]
She was curious to know what this man saw in Hampton. [9]
I was curious to know what the pink dust was. [5]
I am curious to know what proposals my father's murderers are about to make me. [10]
I was curious to know how the size of the trunk of this tree would compare with that of the trunks of some of our largest New England elms. [6]
Accordingly I wrote to Herr J. von Fischer to ask what he supposed was the meaning of this strange action, and he has sent me two long letters full of new and curious details, which will, I hope, be hereafter published. [1]
He gave this to her, and pointed to a carved cabinet opposite his bed, one of those that had so attracted my curious eyes and set me wondering as to what it might contain. [6]
I am curious to hear you play and sing. [10]
I am curious to hear what he will say about our Urania. [10]
She was curious to hear about Asquith and its people, and I told her all I knew. [9]
On his return to Hartford he found that Osgood had issued a curious little book, for which Clemens had prepared an introduction. [5]
The jungle seemed to contain samples of every rare and curious tree and bush that we had ever seen or heard of. [5]
I have now to chronicle a curious friendship which had its beginning at this time. [9]
People were beginning to be curious about it, he said. [5]
Suspended pictures were thrown down, but oftener still, by a curious freak of the earthquake's humor, they were whirled completely around with their faces to the wall! [5]
In two or three weeks I had grown wonderfully fascinated with the curious new country and concluded to put off my return to "the States" awhile. [5]
Being awake, my thoughts were busy, of course; and mainly they busied themselves with Sandy's curious delusion. [5]
Even now, however, though association with her brothers had made her particularly alive to everything that was beautiful or curious, she glanced round with less interest than she otherwise might have done, for she had much else to think of. [10]
In one of those Benares temples we saw a devotee working for salvation in a curious way. [5]
But he resisted this weakness and kept mechanically about his work, opening the letters and the manuscripts before him with that curious double action of the mind common in men of vivid imaginations. [8]
The rock of this locality is a curious study. [4]
He couldn't explain this curious fact to himself, he merely knew it to be a fact. [5]

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