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Example sentences for "curious coincidence"

  • Is it not a curious coincidence, remembering our connection afterwards, that I bought the magazine [The Monthly Magazine, Dec.

  • Footnote 49: By a curious coincidence, this scene is almost identical with that depicted by Seymour on the wrapper for the monthly parts of "Pickwick.

  • That is a curious coincidence, and if we had been tenderly acquainted you might say that Irene was my daughter, and I should believe you, and think that my affection for her was purely paternal.

  • By a curious coincidence, Campomanes, the Count of Aranda, and the General of the Jesuits, were all squint-eyed.

  • It would be a curious coincidence," I thought, "if that dressmaker should be my aunt, and my valet my cousin!

  • By a curious coincidence, just about the same date, Rezzonico's mother died of joy because her son had become pope.

  • He had finished only a hundred pages or so when, by a curious coincidence, the card of the author of the manuscript was brought to the "reader.

  • It was a curious coincidence that it should fall upon Edward thus to get a first-hand knowledge of woman's housework which was to stand him in such practical stead in later years.

  • There was rather a curious coincidence at dinner at Orange River.

  • By a curious coincidence he stood quite still when he came into my full view, and, as he was only about twenty yards away, presented a very fine sight.

  • This tiger is known as the lame tiger from being so in the right fore leg--the result of an old wound probably--and some ten days after my wounding him a curious coincidence happened.

  • But there was a curious coincidence in London, which puzzled the British Association, the Royal Society, and other learned bodies, and which it is probable never can be satisfactorily accounted for.

  • This was what is called a curious coincidence.

  • It is a curious coincidence that it was at this very moment that the Duke of Romagna, who had vanished from the stage, again appeared.

  • This place is situated in the diocese of Pamplona, and, as Zurita remarks, Cæsar's death by a curious coincidence occurred on the anniversary of the day on which to him had been given the bishopric of Pamplona.

  • By a curious coincidence, in the year 1550 a man appeared at the court of Lucretia's son, who vividly recalled to the Borgias who were still living their family history, which was already becoming legendary.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after some; another side; commenced operations; curious account; curious anecdote; curious case; curious coincidence; curious custom; curious expression; curious fact; curious little; curious mixture; curious sensation; curious smile; curiously enough; equal justice; front door; given from; high trees; moment ago; must find; reason and; small stewpan; thus seen; white swan; yonder town