Use curiously in a sentence
Sentences starting with curiously
- Curiously enough, in this mental argument of justification, I left out all consideration of the size of the probable profits to Mr. Scherer and his friends. [9]
- Curiously enough, now that it is defined, it proves to be an American issue--a logical and positive projection of our Washingtonian tradition and Monroe doctrine. [9]
- Curiously enough, they seemed to acknowledge it. [9]
- Curiously enough, this rock was not degraded or defiled in any way. [5]
- Curiously enough, she ran into Jethro in the hall immediately outside of Ephraim's door. [9]
- Curiously enough, she most liked to hear Jesse Bulrush read. [11]
- Curiously enough, Jean Jacques' snoring stopped on the instant that Sebastian Dolores' fingers clutched the money; but it began cheerfully again when the door in the wall closed once more. [11]
- Curiously enough, the Honourable Brush Bascom and the Honourable Jacob Botcher join Mr. Crewe in his complaint, and reiterate that it is an outrage that a man of such ability and deserving prominence should be among the submerged four hundred and seventy. [9]
- Curiously enough, he found himself seeking sentiment, purity. [4]
Sentences ending with curiously
- And yet she was aware that he was regarding her curiously. [9]
- Her eyes ran up and down his figure, then met his curiously. [11]
- Honora looked over them curiously. [9]
- He stood before the tomb, looking at it curiously. [11]
- She had heard the last words, and she glanced towards the watch curiously. [11]
- She walked about the Common, seeing nothing, paying no attention to the passers-by, who glanced at her curiously. [9]
- The puffing of the boat is music in this gloom, which affects one most curiously. [5]
- The rain had stopped, the sun was peeping out furtively through the clouds, the early loiterers in Dalton Street stared at them curiously. [9]
- Tom scanned the prisoners curiously. [5]
- A little later perhaps," answered Barry, with a glance round the group, who eyed him curiously. [11]
Short sentences using curiously
- I am curiously situated to-night. [5]
- Nahoum looked at Mizraim curiously. [11]
- He looked at me curiously. [9]
- She regarded him curiously. [9]
- I watched him curiously. [9]
- Some eyed him curiously. [11]
- The incidents are curiously parallel. [4]
More example sentences with the word curiously in them
- At first he wore the surplice, stole, and hood, took the eastward position, and intoned the service, and no man said him nay, but watched him curiously and was sorrowful--he was so youthful, clear of eye, and bent on doing heroical things. [11]
- I don't know what there is about Elsie's,--but do you know, my dear, I find myself curiously influenced by them? [6]
- The separate pieces were made of ebony and ivory, some being curiously inlaid with sentences, in hieroglyphics of gold and silver. [10]
- This morning singer was just that age; and if you had looked at the golden carpet of wheat stretching for scores of miles, before you looked at her, you would have thought her curiously in tone with the scene. [11]
- His austere face was curiously illuminated, and she knew instinctively that in some way he shared her happiness. [9]
- She saw Prince Vasili's face, serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression "Marie" produced on the visitors. [2]
- She drew herself up, almost with an effort, as though she had been lost in thought, and looked at me curiously for a moment. [11]
- She glanced curiously towards the Vicomte, and met his eye. [9]
- Then I turned to the Chevalier, who was watching me curiously, yet hiding anxiety, for he had upheld his dignity with some accent since he had come into my service: "Chevalier," said I, "you shall find me more humane than my persecutors at Quebec. [11]
- For a long time wages had been two hundred and fifty dollars a month; but curiously enough, as steamboats multiplied and business increased, the wages began to fall little by little. [5]
- From time to time he was aware of the grey-green eyes curiously fixed on him, and at a loss to account for their expression. [9]
- The words, or the tone in which he spoke, curiously transformed the picture. [9]
- At last, when the shadows of the big trees had crept across the green, he came, the customers flocking to the porch to greet him, Wetherell standing curiously behind them in the door. [9]
- During mass and the sermon Valmond had sat very still, once or twice smiling curiously at thought of how, inactive himself, the gate of destiny was being opened up for him. [11]
- The housings of the mule were of fine crimson cloth; the borders embroidered with gold; the reins and head-piece were of satin, curiously embossed with needlework of silk, and wrought with golden letters. [4]
- He stood regarding the Judge curiously, wondering what manner of man he was. [9]
- This intussusception of the ideas of inanimate objects, and their faithful storing away among the sentiments, are curiously prefigured in the material structure of the thinking centre itself. [6]
- The ears of the chimpanzee and orang are curiously like those of man, and the proper muscles are likewise but very slightly developed. [1]
- Mr. Freeman took the boxes, glanced curiously at Austen, and went out. [9]
- Philostratus informed him that Melissa was staying with the chief priest's wife; but just as he was about to inquire curiously what had passed between the audacious painter and Caesar--for even Philostratus was a courtier--he was called away to Caracalla. [10]
- He saw me, stood still for a moment looking curiously, and then, taking up the song again at the very line where he had broken off, passed round an angle of the building and was gone. [11]
- His face was still square, determined, but Mr. Flint noted curiously that the anger was gone from his eyes, and that another--although equally human--expression had taken its place,--a more disturbing expression, to Mr. Flint. [9]
- They often ascend stairs on all-fours; and are curiously fond of climbing up furniture or trees. [1]
- She heard Ditmar speaking, the arguments were curiously familiar--but they were not Ditmar's! [9]
- I had a sort of realizing sense of what the Bastille prisoners must have felt when they used to come out and look upon Paris after years of captivity, and note how curiously the familiar and the strange were mixed together before them. [5]
- As he did so she tapped the floor impatiently with her umbrella, and looked at him curiously, but with a little quirk of humour at the corners of her mouth. [11]
- Then there are shirts of cambric, holland, and lawn, wrought with fine needle-work of silk and curiously stitched, costing sometimes as much as five pounds. [4]
- For a time she had studied curiously his efforts to adapt himself to his surroundings. [4]
- But no, she sat and preened herself with the tissue-paper sort of pride of a vain milliner, or nervously shifted about, lifting up this and that, curiously supercilious, her tongue rattling on to her husband and to his mother in a shallow, foolish way. [11]
- White man and red went trooping into town, staring curiously at the guard which was leading the North Wind and his friends to another night of meditation. [9]
- At first the public, the jury, and the judge were curiously attracted, surprised into a fresh interest. [11]
- He regarded the place curiously for a minute. [11]
- With a tender patience he explained what a thief and a rogue were, and his voice was curiously soft when he added, in Arabic: "And the third son was like you, Mahommed--and he died first. [11]
- People who were passing stared curiously at the three. [9]
- As to those other coopers, they found their position curiously changed--they were important people, or unimportant, now, in proportion as to how large or how small had been their intercourse with the new celebrity. [5]
- The Marches talked of these and other facts of their appearance, and curiously questioned whether this were the best that a great material civilization could come to; it looked a little dull. [8]
- On the edges of their bolstered hair (for it standeth crested round about their frontiers, and hanging over their faces like pendices with glass windows on every side) is laid great wreaths of gold and silver curiously wrought. [4]
- She did not notice that people she met glanced at her curiously, and turned to look after her as she hurried on. [11]
- This time, however, not a few remained behind, curiously watching a beautifully-built Samian ship, the Okeia, with a long prow like a swan's neck, on the front of which a likeness of the goddess Hera was conspicuous. [10]
- Time and a narrowing subscription list proved too hard a trial, and its four volumes remain stranded, like some rare and curiously patterned shell which a storm of yesterday has left beyond the reach of the receding waves. [6]
- He inspected his napkin curiously, and with deep interest, for it was of a very dainty and beautiful fabric, then said with simplicity-- "Prithee, take it away, lest in mine unheedfulness it be soiled. [5]
- He believed that Mr. Bentley understood perfectly why he had come, and the knowledge of the old gentleman's comprehension curiously added to his sense of refuge. [9]
- The servant, or more properly, Orderly-Sergeant Gosse, late of the Scots Guards, departed on his errand, glancing curiously at his master's face as he did so. [11]
- Since that agonizing moment when her eyes had met his own among the curiously vulgar at the Fair, Stephen's fear of meeting Virginia had grown to the proportions of a terror. [9]
- More than once Mattingley had looked at Perch Rock curiously, but whenever the thought of it as a refuge came to him, he put it away. [11]
- He lighted a match, found a candle, and, having lighted that, looked curiously about him, as Clodius might have done when he smuggled himself in among the Vestals. [6]
- There are two martyrdoms in the piece; and they are curiously and sarcastically contrasted. [5]
- His affection for many of them curiously remained, though it was with some difficulty he strove to reconstruct a state of mind with which he had once agreed. [9]
- His speech and manners became curiously ceremonious and courtly, to the vast admiration and amusement of his intimates. [5]
- Then he stood looking at the building curiously for a moment. [11]
- The burning eyes looked out at Hodder curiously, as at a being upon whom the vials of wrath were somehow wasted, against whom the weapons of power were of no account. [9]
- The old man looked at her long and curiously, his imperfect sight excusing the closeness of his scrutiny. [6]
- He took the letter, turned it over, looking at it curiously, and at last, with a shrug of the shoulders, passed it back. [11]
- He stared, took it out, turned it over, looked curiously at the Honourable for a moment, and then began to break the seal. [11]
- Persons who saw it at the auction said it was so curiously and wonderfully carved that it was worth the money that was paid for it. [5]
- Let us not inquire too curiously, then, how he received this kind proposition. [6]
- As he lay in the early morning recalling the incidents of his great adventure, he noticed that they seemed curiously subdued and far away--somewhat as if they had happened in another world, or in a time long gone by. [5]
- The analogy, indeed, in all these respects between birds and insects is curiously close. [1]
- Curiously, even as I fought desperately I compared him with that other lad I had known, Andy Jackson. [9]
- Lassiter examined the huge rock, listened to Venters's idea of its position and suggestion, and curiously placed a strong hand upon it. [13]
- You can't think how curiously sensitive and proud he is. [5]
- The Colonel, stroking his goatee, regarded him curiously. [9]
- Young Enderby watched his father curiously and sullenly. [11]
- The Baron eyed him curiously, yet kindly, too, as well he might, for when was ever man to hear such a speech as came to Garoche the morning after his marriage? [11]
- The Vicomtesse seated herself on one of the rude chairs, and looked at Nick curiously. [9]
- Insall had asked her to call again; and the reflection that she might do so was curiously comforting. [9]
- He, curiously enough, had some fifteen minutes before gone in at the same doorway, questioned the same floor-walker, and he found himself in due time walking amongst a bewildering lot of models on the third floor, followed by a giggling saleswoman. [9]
- He did a good deal of thinking, and the king waited curiously to see what the result was going to be. [5]
- The horns spring from beneath the eyes, and curiously resemble those of a stag, being either branched or palmated. [1]
- Charley watched him for a moment, half whimsically, half curiously. [11]
- The more remarkable figures in the imperial train were curiously gazed at and discussed. [10]
- He had encircled Fairview in his drive that day, and was, curiously enough, headed in that direction now. [9]
- He was curiously exact where she was concerned. [11]
- Now and again Doltaire drew out a box and took a pinch of snuff, and once, coolly and curiously, he walked up to the most stalwart prisoner and felt his pulse, then to the weakest, whose limbs and body had stiffened as though dead. [11]
- Then I saw Dolly by the door regarding me curiously, with something of a smile upon her lips, but anxiety still in her eyes. [9]
- It succeeded in doing this, and also in being as curiously misunderstood and misrepresented as if it had been a political harangue. [6]
- From the curiously diversified means for producing various sounds, we gain a high idea of the importance of this means of courtship. [1]
- The formation of different languages and of distinct species, and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel. [1]
- She opened it curiously, and while reading it her cheeks paled and flushed as in the days of her youth. [10]
- You see how curiously theological it is. [5]
- Even the diaries, curiously frank and without reserve, never mentioned the name, so far as she could find, though here and there were strange allusive references, hints of a trouble that weighed her down, phrases of exasperation and defiance. [11]
- His own expression, curiously enough, had not changed to one of anger. [9]
- Sequences of words curiously convey meanings and implications that transcend their literal sense, true thoughts and feelings are difficult to disguise even in written speech. [9]
- The prediction cut curiously close to the truth; forty-one years after the catastrophe, the remains were cast forth at the foot of the glacier. [5]
- Mrs. Kame glanced curiously at Honora, and laughed again. [9]
- Sir William stared curiously at Gaston, then felt for some keys in his pocket. [11]
- The Osgoods speculated curiously and futilely on Roadmaster's identity, as indeed the whole colony had done. [11]
- But, sir," I continued curiously, "what do you know of John Paul's abilities as an officer? [9]
- Then a voice came from behind the paper: "Your Excellency--" At the first words the Governor started, and his eyes flashed searchingly, curiously at the paper that walled the face, and at the iron-grey hair. [11]
- The whip was brought and laid upon the table beside Barry Whalen, and the footman disappeared, looking curiously at the group and at Krool. [11]
- I've dipped into Blowitz and find him quaintly and curiously interesting. [5]
- Philip now knew beyond doubt that he was the subject of debate, for all the time that the Duke in a low tone, half cordial, half querulous, spoke to the new-comer, the latter let his eyes wander curiously towards Philip. [11]
- A dance was beginning; but many eyes were turned curiously, and even admiringly, to him; for he looked singular and impressive and his face was given fulness by a beard and flesh paints. [11]
- Then he was aware that James Redbrook was gazing at him curiously. [9]
- When she looked at the little Guilbert, refined and strong, curiously observant, and sensitive in temperament like herself, her courage suddenly leaped to a higher point than it had ever known. [11]
- She gazed curiously at the illuminated, orange-coloured panes separated by curving leads, at the design of a harp in green, at the sign "Ladies' Entrance"; listened eagerly to the sounds of voices and laughter that came from within. [9]
- He sat gazing at the financier during this speech, speculating curiously on the inner consciousness of the man who could utter it. [9]
- They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. [5]
- The Cure smiled at Parpon's words, and looked curiously and gravely at the stranger. [11]
- His master looked at him curiously, intently. [11]
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