Another curious thing I have found about experimenting is this: you may start out on a certain line and find that the result you want is so hard to get it seems hopeless to go ahead.
It is rather a curious motion and not easy for a fellow who is not posted on mechanics to grasp offhand.
Probably it was friendly, he felt, in spite of its curious shape and the stealthy way it had come.
Curious distant voices shouted from time to time all manner of sentences and rhymes in his ears, but he could neither understand nor remember them.
At first he only imagined there was somebody after him because of the curious vibrations of the very rarefied air in which he flew.
Black Rod is on such occasions the central figure of a curious ceremony of much historic significance.
It is curious that Leibnitz, who originally regarded the Colloquium as the work of a professed enemy of Christianity, subsequently described it as a most valuable production (cf.
It is curious to observe how much importance is attached to the ipsissima verba of a writer who aimed more at presenting a picture intelligible to laymen than at recording the principles of the law with technical accuracy of detail.
A curious expurgated edition, authorized by the pope, appeared at Florence, 1573.
For the Shetland sexern and the broad boats of the Orkneys, and the nabbies of the west coast of Scotland, the curious will do well to refer to H.
It is curious that Black left to others the detailed study of this "fixed air" he had discovered.
Returning to Edinburgh in 1804, he opened a shop in South Bridge Street for the sale of old, rare and curious books.
The Brahmanic and Buddhistic literature supplied the society with its terminology, and its doctrines were a curious amalgam of Egyptian, kabbalistic, occultist, Indian and modern spiritualistic ideas and formulas.
Curious as to the reason why Pax had isolated himself in this frozen wilderness, they next examined the high cliffs which shut in the valley on the west and against the almost perpendicular walls of which he had played the Lavender Ray.
Though many persons must have lost their lives the records are incomplete in this respect; but there is a curious document in the mosque at Sfax touching the effect of the Lavender Ray.
The water began to boil almost immediately, and they were on the point of breaking their chocolate into it when, from what appeared to be an immense distance, through the air there came a curious rumble.
His action, to say the least, was curious and unprecedented.
Many of these are quaint and interesting, and the whole etymology curious in the extreme.
It stands on a natural elevation far above the level of the valley and so forms a very conspicuous and curious object.
Curious straight bars of light were visible across the sky--a band of violet in the morning; one of crimson at evening.
As he waited, he noticed a curious little dial, in a lower corner of the instrument board, which he had not seen at first.
Both mobs claimed to act "on principle," and there is a curious likeness in the details of these two acts of violence.
To account for this curious fact, it will be necessary to give a more extended notice of the history of the family than would otherwise seem necessary.
The explanation of this curious state of affairs is the "Quebec Act.
It may have been artificially sculptured, or it may be only one of those curious hollows into which limestone rocks are frequently weathered.
Ibn Batuta saw this curious relic early in the fourteenth century; but both the mosque and the stone have since disappeared.
With these sepulchral marks are associated curious Danish legends, which refer them to real impressions of human feet.
A long and curious list might be made of the miraculous impressions said to have been left by our Saviour's feet on the places where He stood.
For several generations the men and women were remarkable for the curious contrasts of a violent character and the pursuits of the arts of peace which they displayed.
These impressions are considered Druidic, and are pointed out as such to the curious stranger by the guides.
It is very difficult to obtain any accurate or satisfactory information regarding these curious stones.
But the most curious of all the plants that adorn the walls is a kind of ivy which, instead of the usual dark-greenish or black berries, bears yellow ones.
While the curious and admiring crowd were measuring and guessing at the weight of the cougar, Mr. Yesler called at the cabin.
The old account books, growing yearly more curious and valuable, show that the majority of the old pioneers joined heartily in the undertaking and did valiant work in building the old University.
When the party arrived at Alki Point on Puget Sound, although the outlook was not cheerful, she busied herself a little while after landing in observing the luxuriant and, to her, curious vegetation.
I feel curious to know how it seems to be there again," and Ned ran after the other boys, who had disappeared around the spur.
The boys crowded around and watched the curious creature as he slanted his spines until he brought them into position where he could move himself on them, and gradually bring himself right side up again.
A curious ancient Survey of Dorsetshire was written by the Rev.
Bergun on the Albula Pass route, and the curious little group N.
And how minutely have modern dramatists found it necessary to study the more fascinating aspects of la vie parisienne, in order to convey to the curious at home and abroad a conviction of the verisimilitude of their pictures!
A very curious cairn on the summit of Slieve Croob is 80 yds.
In 1611 Donne wrote a curious and bitter prose squib against the Jesuits, entitled Ignatius his Conclave.
Of the bhana, a monologue in one act, one literary example is extant--a curious picture of manners in which the speaker describes the different persons he meets at a spring festival in the streets of Kolahalapur.
Now I was very curious to know what was inside the caves.
Sibijaan was as curious as I was and made an attempt to pass in the rear of the king's hut with the intention of hearing something.
Her indunas had told her that I had received a summons to visit the Commissioner and she was curious to know all about it.
This question was not asked so often in those days, and I was curiousto hear Sugden's reply.
It seems that aeroplanes had flown over parts of Swaziland during the war, and she was curious about these.
Of course he would be found easily if the wagonette was searched, but we intended to prevent that, even if we had to fight off curious kaffirs.
I promised Tuys to do as he asked, in spite of the fact that I was very curious to see what might take place.
We were all curious to see the effect of the witch-doctor's prescription, and had quite an argument about it.
This explanation of the situation placed a very different light on it and I was curious to know what Tuys intended to do.
I was very curiousto see "the caves" where Buno was to be buried.
Now I was very curious about the "muti" of the witch-doctor.
I noted that the interest was not all on our side; these farmer Boers were quite as curious about us as we were about them.
Instead of our being met by a welcoming party of indunas, only a few curious savages and a horde of children came out to watch us arrive.
It produces a profusion of umbel-like corymbs of pretty white flowers, that are succeeded by curious swollen membraneous purplish fruit.
This is a common plant in English gardens, bearing yellow Pea-shaped flowers, that are succeeded by curious reddish bladder-like seed pods.
From its curioustropical appearance this species is well worthy of a place in the shrubbery.
This species grows fairly well in some parts of England and Ireland, and is a curiousshrub with awl-shaped leaves, and, like the other members of the family, an abundant producer of flowers.
This is a curious and uncommon shrub that one rarely sees outside the walls of a botanic garden.
To the Daphnes it is nearly allied, and is close in resemblance; but there is a curious yellowish hue pervading the whole plant.
The flowers are small and inconspicuous, but the feathery nature of the flower clusters, occasioned by the transformation of the pedicels and hairs into fluffy awns, renders this Sumach one of the most curious and attractive of hardy shrubs.
It is a curious and distinct tree, worthy of culture if only for the production of three distinct kinds of flowers on the same plant.
A curious New Zealand shrub with rigid ashy-coloured branches, and small leathery leaves.
It was curious to see the old man in a court of law, which he thoroughly despised, fighting for his rights.
Before we go on, let me tell you of some of the curious customs which Boone noticed among the Indians, during his captivity.
Another curious habit which surprised Boone was that of continually changing names.
Then he spoke of the strange caves in the mountains; of curious salt springs; of the footprints of men to be seen distinctly upon the solid rocks; of the strange figures of huge animals on the sides of the high cliffs.
It was a curious place, surely, to lie hidden in the heart of a comparatively modern house.
But the blue eyes, usually so clear in their grave gaze, held a shadow to-day, a curious look of shyness, one might almost say shamefacedness.
He had already displayed great skill in carving, and the little grotto of Thetis was like a piece of wonderland, fitted and furnished with all manner of curious ornaments made by the lame boy, Hephæstus.
The curious part of it was the cross-sticks and fore-bands.
It is a curious fact, known to some, that all the heroes of Bellona are not expert in the wars of Venus, the strongest and most valiant souls being weak in combats in which valor plays an unimportant part.
A curious incident in her relations with Count de Coligny was her success in persuading him to adjure the errors of the Huguenots and return to the Roman Catholic Church.
The heart is so very strange in its vagaries, and the reasons and causes which actuate it are so curious and varied, that it is impossible to discover all the hidden springs that set it in motion.
A curious instance is that of Nicolas Vauquelin, sieur de Desyvetaux, whom she missed from her circle for several days.
Tourielle, a member of the French Academy, and a very learned man, became enamored of her and his love-making assumed a curious phase.
Not knowing, either of us, what to reply to such a curious speech, we closed the gate again and came back to the cab.
But soon the infinite incongruity of this juxtaposition began to produce within one a curious eagerness, a sort of half-philosophical delight.
A couple of curious war-monuments here at Wanganui.
The jungle seemed to contain samples of every rare and curious tree and bush that we had ever seen or heard of.
Surely, it must occur to even his dull head, sometimes, that she has a curious way of showing it.
That is the most curious feature of thiscurious table.
Australian history is almost always picturesque; indeed, it is so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country has to offer, and so it pushes the other novelties into second and third place.
This was a curious and interesting mystery, and I was frank with him, and asked him to explain it.
One or two reasons are given for this curiousstate of things.
Curious jumble of modern and ancient city and village, primitiveness and the other thing.
Many curious stories of which O'Donaghue is the hero have been invented in the generations that have passed by imaginative mothers to entertain their children.
Beyond the peat beds rises a chain of low mountains with a curiousprofile that runs west of the town of Templemore.
And the present earl has a curiousand interesting letter written by Thady Quin of Adare in the time of James I.
They inspected Harvard, Yale, the University of Chicago, and Stanford University, for the young duke has recently taken a degree at Oxford, and was naturally curious to see some American institutions.
An interesting volume has been written concerning St. Mary's Cathedral and its history and the curious tombs that are found under its roof.
The corner stone bears a curious inscription in stilted Latin, which illustrates the lofty pride of the earls of Kildare.
By a curious freak of nature these mountains are all detached and separated by narrow valleys and gorges, although at a distance they seem to be in a cluster.
At what is called the Giant's Loom the columns are exposed for about thirty feet, but the rest of them form a curious and extraordinary mosaic flooring, stretching out into the sea and extending for several miles with remarkable regularity.
Another curious inscription upon a gravestone two feet square reads: "Fifteen years a mayd, one year a wyfe, Two years a mother, then I left this life.
But these marks--isn't that a curious coincidence, now, when you come to think of it?
Melky uttered a curious groan, and glanced at Lauriston.
It was a curious sort of gate, set between two stout pillars, and fashioned of wrought ironwork, the meshes of which were closely intertwined.
As I bent over this man as he lay there on the pavement I detected a certain curious aromatic odour about his clothes.
That little Rubinstein man might have had some curious premonition when he came to me tonight with his odd question about Chinese!
It was a window in which there were all sorts of curious things, behind a grille of iron bars, from diamonds and pearls to old ivory and odds and ends of bric-à-brac.
And the detective winked at him significantly as a strange and curious figure came out from the crowd and stepped into the witness-box.
There was a curious silence in the place--broken only by the quiet, regular ticking of a clock.
With a curious sense of old-time familiarity, Jack entered the big square room which he had visited last, now upward of three years ago, and closed the door behind him.
The other stood gazing at him with a curious expression on his swarthy face, a curious gleam far back in his dark eyes.
I am told that he asserts the first volume of Robinson Crusoe was written by the first Lord Oxford, when in the Tower, and given by him to Defoe; if true, it is a curious anecdote.
In tracing the fortunes of men, it is not a little curious to observe, how often the course of a whole life has depended on one single step.
Lord Holland told me a curious piece of sentimentality in Sheridan.
I wish I had the pleasure of Mr. Smith's acquaintance, as I could communicate the curiousanecdote you read in Mr. T.
I 'm glad I don't believe it, For it would stop my breath, And I 'd like to look a little more At such a curious earth!
Something in the curious expression of his face, and the evident satisfaction which he derived from his hasty investigation, told Edna that the book was a mere pretext.
She felt as if all curious eyes read her troubled heart.
My dear little girl, you will not think me impertinently curious when I ask you a question, which my sincere affection for and interest in you certainly sanction?
Here is a curious old ring, which she will appreciate more highly than any one else whom I happen to know, and I want her to accept it as a birthday memento from me, but a few minutes ago she refused to wear it.
The manuscript was a mental tapestry, into which she had woven exquisite shades of thought, and curious and quaint devices and rich, glowing imagery that necked the groundwork with purple and amber and gold.
People seem so curious to learn all the routine of her daily life.
