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Example sentences for "curious case"

  • Godine has given a curious case of a ram of a goat-like breed of sheep from the Cape of Good Hope, which produced offspring hardly to be distinguished from himself, when crossed with ewes of twelve other breeds.

  • I think that I might as well mention here a curious case of telepathy which occurred during those terrible days of starvation.

  • I have examined many specimens of various colours from different countries, and there was no trace of the oil-gland; this is a curious case of abortion.

  • Newman reports a curious case of twins, in which the cord of one child was encircled by a knot on the cord of the other.

  • A curious case is invariably reported, and the insertion of such a report is generally productive of correspondence and discussion with the object of finding a parallel for it.

  • Gordon speaks of a curious case in a negress, six months pregnant, in which an extrauterine fetus passed down from the posterior culdesac and occluded the uterus.

  • There is a curious case of this kind related in Le Sage's Bachelor of Salamanca, which is too nicely described to be totally imaginary.

  • There is a curious case related in the Transaction of the College of Physicians at Philadelphia, Vol.

  • Pinel relates a curious case of hereditary mania in a man who, up to the age of fifty, fulfilled with intelligence and activity the duties of an important office which he held.

  • A curious case is related on this subject by Dr.

  • In the German Psychological Magazine we meet with a curious case of a patient who believed that he was supernaturally endowed with the power of working miracles.

  • The honour and glory of being associated with the "curious case" were not inordinately estimated by him; the firm had been so closely connected with such a number of other curious cases ever since he had become a partner.

  • Hildebrand has lately described a curious case of Corydalis cava which is quite sterile with its own pollen, but fertile with pollen of any other individual plant of the species.

  • Would it not be a curious case of correlation if it could be shown to be probable that herbaceous and small Leguminosae do not exist because when [their] seeds [are] washed ashore (!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both numbers; curious account; curious anecdote; curious coincidence; curious custom; curious enough; curious example; curious expression; curious fact; curious instance; curious little; curious mixture; curious sense; curious smile; curious specimen; curious story; curiously enough; everlasting love; fifty francs; four wheels; number twenty; reckoned upon; sulphuretted hydrogen; take anything; vest pocket; whosoever believeth