And he realized that these things were far more wonderful than the rarest curios he could find in all Formosa.
The stranger found many rare specimens of orchids on that trip and several peculiar spear and arrow heads to be taken back as curios to Germany.
These I examined carefully, for it is just at such times one can get lovely curios very cheaply.
There were open rooms in it, with the flowers arranged according to the best artistic styles, with valuable dwarf trees and curios placed beside them; there were three old kakemonos I should have loved to possess.
It was entertaining to watch the crowds, and lots of the curios were very nice.
The pavements on both sides of the streets are thronged with people, and lined with mats on the kerb, covered with curios and oddments and modern articles of all kinds.
As every one must pay all his debts by the end of the year, lots of curiosgo cheaper then than at any other time--though great bargains are not to be had in Tokio any more, too many foreigners have visited it.
Much of his time he spent among his jewels, conning them, handling them, taking curiosfrom their cases and, as it were, caressing them.
I'm an expert on curiosand antiques and other specialties, but I am no wiser on bulls than any other city man.
He followed me about wherever I went, and I often lingered in his store, watching him sell curios to English people and British merchants from Kobe.
He does not stand a chance against the Japanese merchant, and half the collections of curios ticketed and placed in museums in England as fine and unique specimens are in reality worthless imitations.
It is all very well to draw gloomy deductions about the decay of Japanese art from the manufacture and the importation of curios destined for the European market.
If you have any more curios to sell, my address is Miss H.
She put the ten bracelets into their tin box, and the necklets and other curios into the other, locked each, and took them upstairs.
His opinion was that the bracelets and other curios were worth at least seven thousand pounds, and that such a sum could easily be obtained for them.
The Chinese Emperor found her very charming and loved her very much, and when she told him of her promise, he put before her many curiosto choose from.
The old Japanese curios that are really good cost more than ever, and are every year more difficult to find.
They might have been given in Europe or anywhere, except for a touch of the East in the costumes of the servants and the curios about the house.
After luncheon our drawing-room would fairly seethe with dealers, who came to show us their curios both old and new, which they laid out on the furniture or the floor, as it happened.
Mr. Erin, knitting his brow in the depreciating manner peculiar to the examiner of all curios before purchase, ‘some old deed or another, I suppose.
Unhappily, an antiquary the genuineness of whose curios has been disputed, is not often a chivalric antagonist.
So far we have marshalled our curios under certain more or less convenient headings, but some of them refuse all attempts at classification; they are no less attractive on this account, however.
For the sake of method, we have grouped the miscellaneous curios with which we shall deal under certain heads, the first of which is "Battlefield Souvenirs.
Of curios coming within this class the collector should be able to gather quite an abundance of valuable material, ranging from, say, Royalist powder-flasks to the sashes worn by celebrated soldiers on historic occasions.
Thus it is clear that the curios made by prisoners of war embrace a wide range of interesting objects, and that there is much fascination to be had in collecting them.
Needless to say, all such curios will be valued by the collector more and more as time rolls on.
The Author also wishes to state that in forming his own collection of military curios he has gained much helpful assistance from "The Connoisseur"; from C.
The contents of this table, however, were not curios in the strict sense of the word.
Another table stood in a corner near the door--a small, glass-topped table such as collectors of curios gather their treasures in.
Besides the Cabildo, which was a veritable museum of curios and interesting relics, Louisiana had 15 exhibits in 10 buildings.
She handled the Captain's curios reverently, drinking in eagerly his explanations and the strange tales of where he had found these wonders.
They were all so interested in the curios and asked so many questions they came near forgetting the boat ride.
It was a little ramshackle building extending back through two or three rooms filled with all manner of old curios such as comes from sailing vessels that go to different parts of the world.
These curios were piled indiscriminately everywhere, and there were boxes and barrels piled with no regard whatever for regularity.
Curios of all sorts were displayed on the walls, and among them were many queer wood growths showing odd shapes as well as odd colorings.
The elder sons and daughters attended to the wants of those who fancied any of the curios displayed in the long showcase that extended from the door to the rear of the room.
What was the Latin class altogether but a sort of second-hand curio shop, where one bought curios and learned the market-value of curios; dull curios too, on the whole.
I haint time to say anything about the heap of harnsome picters that I saw, and besides, I mean to write you all about them some day afore long, for they are curios I can tell you.
I looked at the stout, unpainted deal door and then at some kaffir curios fastened to the wall on either side of it in rather picturesque groups.
As I sat amongst the kaffir curios before an amazing tea-tray I felt it.
Bob meanwhile had been overhauling the various curios in the little parlour, where the invalid was lying, this being the first time he had been there.
Why, the walls are covered with Chinese pictures and shells and curios which he picked up in all sorts of outlandish places, bringing them home after his various voyages.
In a week or ten days later he came back, bringing with him a number ofcurios which he had wrapped with care in a piece of deerskin and placed in a small canvas sack.
He said that the Spirit visited a man when he became rich--in order to bring curios to him; and again when he became poor--in order to take them away from him!
It is in these places that the Europeans hunt for their frequently stolen property, or search for the curios that are afterwards presented to friends or sold to museums at home.
They are no longer used as money, but are bought as curios for four times their original value.
To the late Henry Evans Evanion I am indebted for many of the most important additions to my collection of conjuring curios and my library of magic, recognized by fellow-artistes and litterateurs as the most complete in the world.
It can be imagined how wonderful this talking machine must have been when Barnum gave it special emphasis, selecting it from the hundreds of curios he had on exhibition.
Quaint brackets of Morocco work, Eastern pictures, portraits, Persian enamels, and curios of every description covered the walls.
Most of her relics and curios were housed at Baker Street, and this place had few associations for her beyond those which connected it with her husband's grave.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curios" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
