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Example sentences for "peculiar kind"

  • It is distinguished by a peculiar kind of opalization, and on certain changes of light it exhibits a yellowish tint.

  • Not a few of the male negroes suffer from a peculiar kind of cutaneous disease, which shows itself by large pustules on the arms and breast.

  • In most instances the head is covered by a peculiar kind of cap.

  • A term in Cumberland and Westmoreland wrestling for a peculiar kind of throw, as "an inside CLICK," or "an outside CLICK.

  • In American ships a peculiar kind of light sweet pudding.

  • Here there arose the Babylonian Talmud, which was more fortunate than its companion-work, the Palestinian or Jerusalem Talmud, a religious code of a peculiar kind.

  • But it is not correct to call an expression of this sort a peculiar kind of definition.

  • Morphology and distribution might be studied almost as well, if animals and plants were a peculiar kind of crystals, and possessed none of those functions which distinguish living beings so remarkably.

  • Heavy and sumptuous, the gown worn at home consisted of baggy trousers of thin texture drawn in tightly at the ankles, supplemented by a long sleeved chemisette of white muslin trimmed with a peculiar kind of lace.

  • A loose jacket of soft white muslin, decorated with a peculiar kind of lace, forms a vest in front beneath an open embroidered jacket of a shade contrasting with that of the skirt.

  • A group of individuals which, however many characters they share with other individuals, agree in presenting one or more characters of a peculiar kind, with some certain degree of distinctness.

  • The term “peroxide of iron,” for example, belonging by its form to the systematic nomenclature of chemistry, bears on its face that it is the name of a peculiar Kind of substance.

  • The result of the influence of this miasm is a process in the blood which has been compared to fermentation, and which produces regularly recurring paroxysms of a peculiar kind.

  • Diminishing the Fibrine of the blood, and having other operations of a peculiar kind in this fluid, it powerfully promotes absorption and counteracts effusion, in all inflammations.

  • I have already sought to show that the metallic substances which are used in the treatment of spasmodic disorders act in the blood, and tend to establish in it a set of actions of a peculiar kind.

  • The ordinary wooden houses, with their high sloping roofs, gradually gave place to flat-roofed huts, built of a peculiar kind of unburnt bricks, composed of mud and straw.

  • The Russian merchant's love of ostentation is of a peculiar kind--something entirely different from English snobbery.

  • They are now snapped between the fingers, in order to judge of their quality; the bundles belonging to the most brittle wires are set aside, to be employed in making a peculiar kind of needles.

  • The coal oil when rectified by distillation, is extensively employed for dissolving caoutchouc in making the varnish of waterproof cloth, and also for burning in a peculiar kind of lamps under the name of naphtha.

  • A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zo\'94spores.

  • A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red alg\'91, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores.

  • The Hindus still possess a peculiar kind of flute which they consider as the favourite instrument of Krishna.

  • The dwarfs in that district possessed in former times a peculiar kind of cradle song, of which some fragments have been caught by the listening peasants, and are still preserved.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    charming picture; figurative sense; free persons; heart beats; intensive cultivation; like structure; major problem; moderate oven for about; particularly when; peculiar acid; peculiar character; peculiar expression; peculiar feature; peculiar flavor; peculiar form; peculiar interest; peculiar kind; peculiar look; peculiar manner; peculiar smile; praise thee; said smiling; shining like; then strain; took some; what really