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Example sentences for "curious thing"

  • Well, it was a curious thing, that codicil," remarked Roy.

  • Alhaji Maurorum is not found between this and Hussun Abdul, which is a curious thing.

  • Quails are abundant in the fields about Bamean; it is a curious thing that in many of these fields oats far preponderate over other grain; yet they are not cut, although all the seeds have fallen out of the ear!

  • Curious thing, 'twon't have the slightest effect on you.

  • It's a curious thing," said one, "how completely all trace of it disappeared.

  • It is a curious thing that, when a man hates or loves beyond reason, he is ready to go beyond reason to gratify his feelings.

  • The comin' of war is a curious thing, child.

  • It's a curious thing, child, the hold that flowers and trees has on human bein's.

  • Chort znaiet shto etta takoi [the Devil only knows what it means]--it is a curious thing!

  • It’s a curious thing to say, and you are perhaps the only man who will understand it, but sometimes I think she misses that.

  • At five o’clock the same afternoon, as the three friends were discussing the one topic, Dangerfield entered unexpectedly, and a curious thing happened.

  • It's a curious thing," said Joseph Antony in an offended tone, "for you to be saying the like of that and the boat up to the seats with gravel before your eyes.

  • It is a curious thing that I never saw these trees before," she thought.

  • That is a curious thing," said Jean to himself.

  • After a while Jean began to notice a curious thing.

  • That seemed a curious thing, but still Blanche said nothing.

  • It's a curious thing, isn't it, Sir Gilbert, that when a man is really satisfied with himself he gets to look like a sheep.

  • The law, especially in Ireland, is a curious thing, and no wise man entangles himself with it if he can help it.

  • It's a curious thing," said Doyle, "that a gentleman like you would find a pleasure in preventing a poor man from earning his living.

  • It is a curious thing, but in such matters most men never learn wisdom from experience.

  • Trenholme went on with his writing, and now a curious thing happened.

  • Their little society was, indeed, a curious thing, in which the mincing propriety of the Old World had wed itself right loyally to the stern necessity of the New.

  • But when the young ones are grown up and able to feed themselves, a curious thing happens.

  • A curious thing about a bird's color is that the same species, or kind of bird, is darker in one place than another.

  • It's a curious thing, so it is, doctor," he said.

  • And here is a curious thing also--the very facts that were making Grant a leader of his fellows should have warned Mary and Amos that their son was setting out on his journey from the heart of his childish paradise.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another called; been revealed; curious account; curious anecdote; curious coincidence; curious custom; curious enough; curious expression; curious feeling; curious look; curious mixture; curious sense; curious story; curiously enough; essential part; general name; grey hairs; least expected; level surface; looked upon; many were; only fair; our ship; representative species; strongly marked; teaspoon butter