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Sentences starting with unusual

Unusual happenings had been its portion ever since it had been the rail-head of the Great Transcontinental Line, and many enterprising men, instead of moving on with the railway, when it ceased to be the rail-head, settled there and gave the place its character. [11]

Sentences ending with unusual

Your experience and your convictions are made the reader's; and to an author, at least, they have a value and an interest quite unusual. [14]
Not that she was anything partik'ler to him; but the thing took hold of him unusual. [11]
Still nobody seemed to perceive that the prince had done a thing unusual. [5]
I do not think I was unusual. [11]
After one passes the last of these he has a backward glimpse at the falls which is very pleasing--they rise in a seven-stepped stairway of foamy and glittering cascades, and make a picture which is as charming as it is unusual. [5]
It appealed to the British public rather more than 'The Right of Way', and the great public of America and the Oversea Dominions gave it a welcome which enabled it to take its place beside 'The Right of Way', the success of which was unusual. [11]
He has a taste for the ingenious and the unusual. [11]
He always wore something unusual. [10]
In one way or another he put all this to his fellow officers, and said that the existence of two such patriots as Byng and Jasmine in one family was unusual. [11]
Ranulph had changed only in growing very tall and athletic and strong; the look of him was still that of the Norman lad of the isle, though the power and intelligence of his face were unusual. [11]

Short sentences using unusual

Is it unusual, unsophisticated, primitive? [12]
The statement was not unusual. [9]
Don't you think it unusual? [5]
That's--why, that's unusual. [5]

Sentences containing unusual two or more times

An unusual expression, or an unusual article, would be charactcrized as a "kind of a scientific literary git-up. [4]
Hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more unusual than what he was seeing. [2]
Nothing of unusual interest occurred on the outward voyage; for one thing, because there were no unusual people among the passengers; for another, because the vessel behaved admirably. [11]
Nicholas noticed this, as he noticed every shade of Princess Mary's character with an observation unusual to him, and everything confirmed his conviction that she was a quite unusual and extraordinary being. [2]

More example sentences with the word unusual in them

Jean's brain began working with unusual celerity. [11]
He approached this with unusual delicacy: it needed bravery to look into the mother's eyes, and tell the story. [11]
Among the guests who thronged to her house there was no lack of elderly gentlemen who would gladly have married the vivacious, unusual woman, who was so nearly connected with the royal family, and lived in such luxurious style. [10]
The little bell, which, summoned all the occupants of the monastery, was heard at an unusual hour, and about vespers the sound of sleigh-bells attracted him to the window. [10]
The next morning, when Hodder entered his study, he sighed as his eye fell upon the unusual pile of letters on his desk, for their writers had once been his friends. [9]
Upstairs, the bedrooms were quite as unusual, the plumbing of the new pattern, heavy and imposing. [9]
Perhaps some deer were feeding there, for it was no unusual thing, when we rose in the morning, to hear the whistle of a startled doe near our camping ground. [9]
For the three were an unusual group, even in Boston. [9]
Els knew it well; it had adorned the clasp of her lover's belt, and the unusual delicacy of the workmanship had often aroused her admiration. [10]
An unusual influence was working upon the frequenters of the busy tavern. [11]
Her own costume was picturesque, but it might appear unusual in London society. [11]
However, the man was handsome and unusual in his leopard way, with his brown curling hair and well-cared-for moustache. [11]
How hot she was from dancing, and the unusual strength of the wine and water she had drunk! [10]
Indeed--and this thought was cynical and out of character--he asked himself on one occasion whether his principal achievement so far had not consisted in getting on unusual terms with Eldon Parr. [9]
And Mr. Plimpton was beginning to have the unusual and most disagreeable feeling of having been weighed in the balance and found wanting. [9]
Not that Phil was at all pious, nor yet possessed of those abstemious qualities in language and appetite by which good men are known; but he had a gift of civic virtue--important in a wicked world, and of unusual importance in Viking. [11]
But, besides, there was a bookcase with an unusual number of books in it, and there was an open colonial writing-desk, claw-footed, brass-handled, and scutcheoned, with foreign periodicals--French and English--littering its leaf, and some pages of manuscript scattered among them. [8]
Here was a very unusual man, with mystery and tragedy, and yet something above both, in his eyes. [11]
I selected a very modern and unusual type of man as the central figure of my story. [11]
One of them ventured a compliment, namely,--that I talked as if I believed what I said.--This was apparently considered something unusual, by its being mentioned. [6]
How dared he venture to wear a sword in the precincts of the Emperor's residence, contrary to the law, and, moreover, a weapon of such unusual length and width, which had not been carried for a long while? [10]
Mrs. Temple got up, an unusual thing. [9]
He had come up the Trausnitz to make all sorts of arrangements, for something unusual was to happen which would bring even his Majesty the Emperor here. [10]
Such acts were unusual with her. [11]
It is most unusual weather for the season: it is so every year. [4]
It is not unusual to have American gentlemen in New Orleans, for many come here first and last. [9]
This conjunction of unusual things was easier to the intelligences of the dead than the quick. [11]
That was an unusual thing to happen to him. [11]
It was an unusual thing to do, but it brought matters to an issue. [11]
You have an unusual quantity of Quaker composure, to see in it all 'inevitable law. [11]
That she possessed unusual mental endowments Cleopatra did not believe. [10]
Here was an unusual man, who ignored the conventional preliminary nothings, beating down the grass before the play, as it were. [11]
There was an unusual lock of benignity upon his firmly moulded features, and an air of ease which rather surprised Mr. Bradshaw, who did not know all the social experiences which had formed a part of the old Master's history. [6]
There is nothing unusual in the fellow's dress; he wears a shiny silk hat, and has one of those grave faces which would be merry if their owner were not conscious of serious business on hand. [4]
Two brothers of unusual height, who, nude like all their comrades in death, offered their broad, beautifully arched chests to the arrows, would not leave his memory. [10]
One day, after unusual forbearance, Mrs. Brice had overtaken Virginia on the stairway. [9]
It was not unusual for Mr. Cluyme to feel virtuous. [9]
What was most unusual for him, he was alarmed and depressed, at moments irritable. [9]
It is not unusual for a quiet country gentleman to be more taken with such a venture than a speculator who, has had more experience in its uncertainty. [5]
He was an unusual figure for a woodsman or river-man--he did not wear ear-rings or a waist-sash as did the river-men, and he did not turn in his toes like a woodsman. [11]
He dressed with unusual care for him in these days, breakfasted at the cheap restaurant which he frequented, and before noon was in the Fletcher warehouse in Pearl Street. [4]
It was these unusual broodings that worried him; he waked up suddenly one night calling, "Margaret! [11]
There was an unusual amount of talk. [5]
There is something unusual about him, something clean cut. [9]
After the last two days spent in solitude and unusual circumstances, Pierre was in a state bordering on insanity. [2]
Langmaid, if the truth be told, found himself for the moment in the unusual predicament of being at a loss, for the rector had put forward with more or less precision the very cynical view which he himself had been clever enough to evolve. [9]
Considering the crimes tried at the court in this town, Mazarine's got unusual faith in human nature; or else he feels himself pretty safe at Tralee. [11]
They were walking towards Fourth Avenue one evening--the priest could not resist the impulse to accompany her a little way towards her home--after a day of unusual labor and anxiety. [4]
Understanding gave place to wonder; he interpreted the unusual look in her face. [11]
He had something to tell their uncle, and the communication appeared to permit no delay, for with a haste very unusual in the deliberate old gentleman he left the two sisters with a brief farewell. [10]
This had seemed to Antony unusual and noble and, in his generous manner, he had not only forgiven him, but bestowed his favour upon him. [10]
Possibly because he thought that he discovered in me a talent for poetic expression, he showed me unusual favor, even read his own verses aloud to me, and set me special tasks in verse-writing, which he criticised with me when I had finished. [10]
The result of this system is, that lecture-courses upon specialties of an unusual nature are often delivered to very slim audiences, while those upon more practical and every-day matters of education are delivered to very large ones. [5]
What she did think or feel could not easily have been set down, for her mind was one tremulous confusion of unusual thoughts, her heart was beset by new feelings, her imagination, suddenly finding itself, was trying its wings helplessly. [11]
As I said these things we were walking the decks, and, because eyes were on both of us, I tried to show nothing more unusual in manner than the bare tragedy might account for. [11]
How unusual that their horses did not see Wrangle! [13]
His knowledge of the world, his habits of directness, his eager but not hurried speech, his unconventional but original statements of things, his occasional literary felicity and unusual tact, might have made him distinguished in a more cultured community. [11]
I noticed that the witnesses were treated with unusual consideration, being allowed to sit down at the table opposite the little justice, who interrogated them in a loud voice. [4]
He had followed the unusual and somewhat surprising career of the gentleman from Leith with some care, even to the extent of reading of Mr. Crewe's activities in the State Tribunes which had been sent him. [9]
The tendency of the new generation is towards unusual height and gracious slimness. [4]
The duties which the minister had to perform were unusual, delicate, and difficult; but I believe he acquitted himself of them with the skill of a born diplomatist. [4]
One afternoon in the late winter of the year following that in which we had given a dinner to the Scherers (where the Durretts had rather marvellously appeared together) I left my office about three o'clock--a most unusual occurrence. [9]
On Saturday morning, the heat being unusual, they ended their game by common consent at the fourth hole and descended a wood road to Silver Brook, to a spot which they had visited once before and had found attractive. [9]
True, he was the father of her Wolff, but the son resembled this cold-hearted man only in his unusual stature, and a chill ran through her veins as she felt the stately old merchant's blue eyes, still keen and glittering, rest upon her. [10]
Pleasant companionship during the day produced, for the time, the unusual blessing of calm repose at night; and after her friend's departure she was well enough to "fall to business," and write away, almost incessantly, at her story of Villette, now drawing to a conclusion. [14]
As she left the car Janet was aware of the presence on the platform of an unusual number of people; she wondered vaguely, as she pushed her way through them, why they were there, what they were talking about? [9]
The members of the body-guard who were on duty told her that nothing unusual had occurred, and with a sigh of relief she passed into the sitting-room. [10]
Her mistress knew that something unusual must have happened to detain her so long from her post at Barine's side, and her appearance showed that she had been attending to important matters which had severely taxed her strength. [10]
It was unusual that none of her churchmen or friends had called upon her of late; but it was neglect for which she was glad. [13]
Petrus had been talking to his grown up elder sons; they were tall men, but their father was even taller than they, and of unusual breadth of shoulder. [10]
In addition to supervising its customary affairs, she also shouldered the responsibility of an unusual combination of misfortunes, for besides the critical condition of her mother, her sister, Jean Clemens, was down with pneumonia, no word of which must come to Mrs. Clemens. [5]
Seized by a sudden whim, she rang her bell, breakfasted at an unusual hour, and nine o'clock found her, with her skirts flying, on the road above the cliffs that leads to the Fort. [9]
She had a sudden apprehension of an unusual quality called "the genteel," for no storekeeper in Chaudiere ever opened or shut a shop-door for anybody. [11]
But he was such a colossal figure in the world that whatever he did of an unusual nature attracted the world's attention, and became a precedent. [5]
It is a subject of gratulation that the efforts which have been made for the suppression of this inhuman traffic have been recently attended with unusual success. [7]
She is certainly something unusual, that will fit no mould with which I am familiar. [10]
She felt that something unusual was passing in his mind, and such dreadful forebodings arose in her own, that she could only offer him the gift in silence and with trembling hands. [10]
Perhaps it detected something unusual in the voice. [11]
There must be something unusual in a person whose feelings could be so intense, whose emotions rang so true. [9]
Uarda saw that something unusual agitated him; she spoke to him kindly, saying that if he wished to speak to her alone he need not be afraid of Rameri, for he was her best friend. [10]
There must be something unusual about this woman! [10]
People were very solemn as yet, many of them being new to such splendid scenes, and crushed, as it were, in the presence of so much crockery and so many silver spoons, and such a variety of unusual viands and beverages. [6]
This meeting, at so unusual an hour, had been convened by Eusebius, the deacon of the district, with the intention of calming the spirits of those who had caught the general infection of alarm. [10]
He never did so on such anniversaries unless he or Gombert had something unusual to offer. [10]
But as all slept, a figure in the dress of a habitant moved through the passages of the house stealthily, yet with an assurance unusual in the thief or housebreaker. [11]
She made no sign that anything unusual had occurred. [4]
Even Leonard Dickinson showed anxiety, which was unusual for him. [9]
Everyone told her she looked very handsome, and she was in a spirited and energetic mood unusual with her. [2]
Yet, when still several miles from the mouth of the harbour at the Pharos, it was evident that the Rhodian helmsman in the island tavern had predicted truly; for the weather changed with unusual speed, and the wind now blew from the north. [10]
She was entirely self-possessed, and beyond unusual excitement did not act unnaturally. [5]
This is the second time that 'The Tribune' (no doubt sincerely looking to the best interests of Spain and the world at large) has done me the great and unusual honour to propose me as a fit person to fill the Spanish throne. [5]
All parties having seated themselves, the dowager delivered herself of a remark that was not unusual in its form, and yet it came from her lips with the impressiveness of Scripture: "The weather has been unpropitious of late, Miss Hawkins. [5]
Glancing up, I saw Hungerford, among others, leaning over the side, and looking at Mrs. Falchion in a curious cogitating fashion, not unusual to him. [11]
But Jake Dunlap said it warn't unusual in the profession. [5]
People who don't rightly know him may think he is commonplace, but to my mind he is one of the most unusual men I ever saw. [5]
Their resemblance was rendered all the more striking by the fact that each wore a simple, narrow circlet of gold-round the head; nay it would have seemed some unusual trick of Nature's but that their eyes were quite unlike. [10]
At last she remained alone in the great court; her heart beat faster unusual, and strange and weighty thoughts were stirring in her soul. [10]
But I have reason to think now that Belle Treherne was not wholly moved by annoyance--that she had seen something unusual, maybe oppressive, in my look. [11]
He was now ready to learn, by what ways the future should show, why this man, of such unusual force and power, should have lived at a desolate post in Labrador for twenty-five years. [11]
Lablanche was no reader of souls, but there was something here beyond the usual, and she moved and worked with unusual circumspection and lightness of touch. [11]

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