Portingall) a curious instance of the omission of a line, which escaped the author's own notice in the proof-sheet.
A curious instanceoccurred at an early time: a settler took a location order and provisions, and went out to commence his labors.
A less experienced politician might have been expected to disregard a heavier censure; and this conflict with a local editor was noticed by the London press as a curious instance of official sensibility.
The collection of quit-rents is a curious instance of dodging--the government to obtain, and the settlers to evade.
He had laboriously collected all the evidence, and had added his arguments: the result offers a curious instanceof acute reasoning on a wrong principle.
The French thing below is a curious instanceof the inherent grossness of the French taste.
The fact, that Hooker and Bull, in their two palmary works respectively, are read in the Jesuit Colleges, is a curious instance of the power of mind over the most profound of all prejudices.
We find a curious instance of this, in the attempt made by M.
Thus, to give a curious instance, we are now able to prove that even the aberrations of memory are marked by this general character of necessary and invariable order.
The doubts of Boyle upon this subject supply a curious instance of the transitory state through which the mind was passing in the seventeenth century, and by which the way was prepared for the great liberating movement of the next age.
This is not only a curious instance of the argumentative theology of that period, but of the fascination of a most refining genius influencing kindred imaginations.
It was written in the reign of Edward the Second, and is a curious instance of the childhood of the drama.
A curious instance of this occurred to Monsieur Peron, in his voyage from Europe to the Isle of France.
Mr. Smellie, in his "Philosophy of Natural History," mentions a curious instance of the intellectual faculty of a dog.
Colonel Hamilton Smith, in the "Cyclopædia of Natural History," mentions a curious instance of fidelity and sagacity in a dog.
There is a curious instance on record in which a child was born in a hip-bath and narrowly escaped drowning.
A curious instance of popular superstition, in defiance of plain facts to the contrary, is related in a letter written in the year 1808, published in Dr.
A curious instance occurred of a witness confounding a counsel, at Gloucester, England, some years ago.
A curious instance of combined docility and destructiveness is related by Mr. Lloyd, which, as it also illustrates the cunning of this animal, we adduce here.
Captain Marryat, in his very entertaining work called Masterman Ready, relates a curious instance of the sagacity of an Elephant in India, which had fallen into a deep tank.
A curious instance of this will be found in the case of the family of Dymoke of Scrivelsby, the Honourable the King's Champions.
A curious instanceof the use of the rose will be found in the crest of Bewley, and the "cultivated" rose was depicted in the emblazonment of the crest of Inverarity, which is a rose-bush proper.
A curious instance of the use of an inescutcheon will be found in the arms of Gordon-Cumming (Plate III.
A curious instanceof the use of the sun's rays in bend will be found in the arms of Warde-Aldam.
One of the principal tenants of this thriving estate is Mr. Jeremiah Hegarty, whose peculiar position towards his landlords affords a curious instance of the working of the present land laws of Ireland.
A curious instance of the effect of not liming the land is supplied on one of the fields newly reclaimed by Mr. Hegarty.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curious instance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
