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Example sentences for "curious account"

  • Researches' page 10) a curious account of the atrophy of the limbs of rabbits after the destruction of the nerve.

  • For the effects of food on caterpillars see a curious account by M.

  • Gallesio gives a curious account of the naturalisation of the Orange in Italy.

  • The elder Brehm gives a curious account of the Balz, as the love-dances and love-songs of the Black-cock are called in Germany.

  • Mantegazza gives a curious account of the shame felt by a South American native, and of the ridicule which he excited, when he sold his tembeta,--the large coloured piece of wood which is passed through the hole.

  • To which is annexed a curious account of the Cataracts at Niagara, by Mr. Peter Kalm (London, 1751).

  • A Curious Account of the Indians, by an Honourable Person [Oglethorpe], and A Poem to James Oglethorpe, Esq.

  • Falconer gives a curious account of the Indians driving troops of wild horses into it, and then by guarding the entrance keeping them secure.

  • Mantegazza gives a curious account of the shame felt by a South American native, and of the ridicule which he excited, when he sold his tembeta,--the large coloured piece of wood which is passed through the hole.

  • The elder Brehm gives a curious account of the Balz, as the love-dance and love-song of the Black-cock is called in Germany.

  • Keating gives a curious account of this battle, from an ancient tract not known at present.

  • The Annals of the Four Masters give a curious account of O'Brien's death.

  • Duald Mac Firbis gives a curious account of these contests in his fragments of Annals.

  • Marmaduke Johnson, a poor debtor in Lud Gate the year before the Restoration, wrote a curious account of the prison, which Strype printed.

  • Pennant quotes from the Sydney Papers a curious account of a grand festivity at the house of Lord Herbert, which the Queen honoured by her attendance.

  • Stow gives a curious account of a religious service attached to this church.

  • Of these emigrants Tacitus has given a curious account, which has never been sufficiently heeded.

  • These were four in number, of which Nonnus gives a curious account, and says, that they contained matter of wonderful antiquity.

  • This is a curious account of the first delineation of countries, and origin of maps; which were first described upon [205]pillars.

  • Deslongchamps has published, in the "Transactions of the Linnaean Society of Normandy," 1842, a curious account of the movements of the gurnard at the bottom of the sea.

  • Abd-Allatif gives a curious account of the different vegetables grown in Egypt early in the thirteenth century.

  • The Mexican historian, Ixtlilxochitl, gives a curious account of one of the royal palaces.

  • Sir John Reresby gives a curious account of a conversation Charles II.

  • A friend at Twickenham sends us a curious account of a recent exploration of what was once the manor house, "Arragon Towers.

  • Cussans, in his History of Hertfordshire, gives a curious account of the discovery of an iron door up the kitchen chimney of the old house Markyate Cell, near Dunstable.

  • The History of Guicciardini is still scarred with the merciless wound of the papistic censor; and a curious account of the origin and increase of papal power was long wanting in the third and fourth book of his history.

  • Houssaie gives the following authentic notice drawn from the registers of the court, which presents a curious account of domestic life in the fifteenth century.

  • We have a curious account of a drunken bout by some royalists, told by Whitelocke in his Memorials.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    body weight; both inclusive; curious account; curious anecdote; curious case; curious coincidence; curious custom; curious enough; curious example; curious expression; curious feeling; curious look; curious sense; curious specimen; curious story; curiously enough; each club; facing page; history proper; mighty good; really cannot; salt beef; useful purposes; white paper; whose love; young orchard