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Example sentences for "curious example"

  • The further demolition of the cairn disclosed a curious example of regular internal construction on a systematic plan.

  • In the circular Highland target, which is still to be met with among collected relics of the clans, we find a curious example of the imitation of the earlier model of the Bronze Period.

  • One enormous canvas gives a curious example of the theological doctrine of intercession between man and his Maker, spun out to its logical length.

  • For a curious example of weapons drawn from Galen and used against Vesalius, see Lewes, Life of Goethe, p.

  • A few months ago I witnessed a curious example of this combination in the elephant's character.

  • A curious example of this danger was given a few years ago in the Nagpur district.

  • It is a curious example of nature that creatures (ferae naturae) have a tendency to return to their original state of savagedom when the opportunity is offered.

  • In so doing, it pauses at a curious example of circumspection, intimately linked also with the treason of Judas.

  • And this is a curious example of it, that immediately after having failed themselves,(12) they should rebuke another for doing what their Master had once declared could not possibly be an evil work.

  • Now here is a curious example of the peril of pressing too eagerly our inferences from the expressions of an evangelist.

  • A curious example of this is found in the crest of Tyrrell: "A boar's head erect argent, in the mouth a peacock's tail proper.

  • This last is a curious example, inasmuch as, without being so specified in the blazon, the gambs are represented in the position occupied by the sinister foreleg of a lion passant.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute unity; amidst the; broken stone; cannot sleep; curious anecdote; curious example; curious fact; curious feeling; curious instance; curious little; curious mixture; curious smile; curious specimen; curious story; curious thing; curiously enough; distinguish them; greatly interested; green cloth; household management; judicial functions; polar bear; royal government; ship from; though less; though they