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Example sentences for "peculiar interest"

  • The second of these, Micaiah ben Imlah before Ahab and Jehoshaphat, is of peculiar interest.

  • The question of authorship is of peculiar interest in the case of three prophecies which have for their subject the mission and suffering of the "Servant of Jehovah," Isa.

  • The chapter is of peculiar interest, because it is an account--the only one in the Old Testament--of the origin of a prophetic book.

  • The question is of peculiar interest in the case of the supposed Memoirs of Ezra, because Neh.

  • One cannot go anywhere without finding some cases of peculiar interest.

  • We have not thought it necessary to speak of Mrs. Ware's peculiar interest in the public ministrations of religion.

  • Monterey county, California, is of peculiar interest to dendrologists.

  • The Monterey cypress is of peculiar interest to botanists and also to physical geographers.

  • This and the Claude on the other side of the door (14) are of peculiar interest as being the two which Turner selected for "the noble passage of arms to which he challenged his rival from the grave.

  • The latter is of peculiar interest in the history of the Renaissance.

  • This picture is of peculiar interest because it is by Raphael's father.

  • This brooch is of peculiar interest, since in the Canterbury Tales that worn by the "Yeman" is described as "A Crystofre on his brest of silvyr shene.

  • This pendant is of peculiar interest in connection with its bearing on what has already been said with regard to the attributions given to Cinquecento jewellery.

  • The jewels of the unhappy Mary Stuart form a subject of peculiar interest.

  • Action to suppress violence and restore tranquillity throughout the Mexican Republic was of peculiar interest to this Government, in that it concerned the safeguarding of American life and property in that country.

  • The Snout Butterfly= Hypatus bachmani There is a peculiar interest in any form of animal life which can be definitely traced far back through the geologic ages.

  • The life-history of this insect is of peculiar interest on account of the way in which it passes the winter.

  • The author is known everywhere as one of the greatest interpreters of the traditions of the Hebrews; his opinions concerning this allied neighbouring people have, therefore, peculiar interest.

  • A peculiar interest attaches to the Hittites now, since their own monuments have shown that they possessed a unique form of hieroglyphic writing.

  • The letter was in relation to certain lands in Mason County then owned by a daughter, Priscilla Lee; and was of peculiar interest as confirming the familiar tradition of a connection by blood between the two families of Lee.

  • A name to which the "Burr Expedition" gave a peculiar interest in Kentucky.

  • The history of this name is of peculiar interest.

  • To find a large body of people in Kentucky derived from English sources and bearing Norman surnames is in itself a circumstance of peculiar interest and of almost conclusive weight.

  • Still I might have liked it, had not a telegram from Russia arrived, and induced me to surrender the piece to some one, who evidently felt a peculiar interest in it.

  • Worcester was one of the earliest churches in England in which English Gothic was developed, and therefore has a peculiar interest for us.

  • Its war-worn banners, its monuments of national heroes, all combine to add a peculiar interest to the building.

  • His treatment of the clerestory lights is of peculiar interest.

  • To glass lovers this cathedral has a peculiar interest in the fact that St. Louis was baptised within its walls.

  • To us it has a peculiar interest, because the incident shows that stained glass was held in such high esteem as to be considered a worthy gift from a king to a city.

  • Lowest down we find the kneeling donors; above them and occupying far more space are historical episodes from the life of Louis IX, of peculiar interest to us, his humble followers in the love of stained glass.

  • It was of peculiar interest to find that it has been only within the limits of the Trenton gravel, precisely traced out by the writer, that Dr.

  • A peculiar interest attaches to the poems of Avienus, of the fourth century A.

  • His description, entered in his journal, of the Man of Destiny, then approaching the reverse of his fortunes, is of peculiar interest.

  • Throughout my life the Gypsy race has always had a peculiar interest for me.

  • From Casa Guidi windows--and before long Mrs Browning was occupied with the first part of her poem--something of the life of Italy at a moment of peculiar interest could be observed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adjure thee; been murdered; commercial enterprise; first base; former place; good portrait; iron door; late home; little ones; marched through; more favourable; numerous army; obey them; obtain what; peculiar feature; peculiar flavor; peculiar form; peculiar institution; peculiar interest; peculiar people; peculiar smile; peculiarly interesting; port towns; sallow face; take the; tiny woman