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Example sentences for "curious specimen"

  • See the Oratory, a curious specimen of the religious architecture of the Ostmen in the 9th century, and one of the oldest structures of wood and stone in the island.

  • There are ten rooms on a floor; one of which, a parlour, is wainscoted with oak, which presents a curious specimen of antique carving.

  • The Mansion-house is a curious specimen of Irish feudal splendour.

  • A curious specimen of his latter moments we reserve for our mention of the house where he died.

  • We have him before us, as if we were present, together with a curious specimen of the manners of these times.

  • I am exceedingly happy to have it in my power to lay before my readers a curious specimen of ancient engraved cards, in the possession of Francis Douce, esq.

  • The joculators did not confine themselves to the tutoring of quadrupeds, but extended their practice to birds also; and a curious specimen of their art appears by the following engraving, from a drawing on the same MS.

  • On the next page is a curious specimen of a performer's art.

  • His Æsop's Fables are a curious specimen of familiar style.

  • It affords a curious specimen of Rosicrucian mysteries; and Ashmole relates several miraculous stories.

  • A curious specimen of the intolerance of good sense.

  • For a curious specimen of this odium theologicum, see the "Censure" of the Sorbonne on Marmontel's Belisarius.

  • Footnote 231: Gerbier gives a curious specimen of Grondomar's pleasant sort of impudence.

  • The present one may serve as a curious specimen of the despotism and simplicity of an age not literary, in discovering the author of a libel.

  • It is a curious specimen of one who evidently wished to burn his brother with his book.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also produced; carry them; curious account; curious case; curious custom; curious example; curious expression; curious fact; curious feeling; curious instance; curious little; curious mixture; curious smile; curious story; curiously enough; exceeding good; gave birth; made the; malarial fever; near relative; rest upon; rose tree; twenty yards; upon receipt; vicarious suffering; why the