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Example sentences for "rather curious"

  • It is rather curious to find that while other monkeys are very fond of nibbling the tips of their own tails, often making them quite raw, spider-monkeys never do so.

  • It is rather curious to find that those which live in muddy places are nearly always dark brown or black in color, while those which lie upon sand are light-colored, and sometimes almost white.

  • It is rather curious to find that when they are returning to the trees in which they roost, early in the morning, these bats quarrel and fight for the best places, just as birds do.

  • Its rise and progress is rather curious: it was undertaken at the instance of Pitt and Dundas, by John Reeves, a barrister.

  • There was another inn of this name in Whitechapel, connected with the name of a rather curious character, Mrs Mapp, the female bone-setter.

  • What is rather curious is that, not many years since, one of the descendants of trusty Dick Pendrell kept an inn at Lewes, in Sussex, called the Royal Oak.

  • It is fair to say that the first is "make-weighted" with a pastoral play entitled Athlette, from the heroine's rather curious name.

  • The constant confusion, in these quasi-classical romances, of masculine and feminine names is a rather curious feature.

  • The pupa of this insect is enclosed in a thin membrane, and when the male insect is about to emerge from its pupal shell, it has recourse to a rather curious expedient.

  • One species builds a nearly globular nest, made in a rather curious manner.

  • One puss-moth larva, which I reared, made its nest in a rather curious manner.

  • I'm rather curious to see Mrs. Bent and the Delville woman together.

  • If the man with the beard had given me a rupee I should have kept it as a memento of a rather curious affair.

  • Yes, a rather curious story, yet numbers of these instances crop out along life.

  • The daughter will be a rather curious study.

  • He went to his club, he called on a few old friends, and he was taking a rather curious interest in one of the new companies.

  • It is rather curious that Mr Burt had no idea how apropos his hospitality was.

  • It is rather curious to note, too, that during the evening the Rev.

  • It is rather curious to compare their two separate accounts of the meeting.

  • It is a rather curious fact, also, and one which has not, I believe, been mentioned in print, that the earliest Ruskin of all was a sea captain.

  • It was here, in the Caravansary Emir, that I met with a rather curious adventure, which I must relate.

  • There was, however, a rather curious hindrance to the final settlement, an incident which I cannot leave untold.

  • It is rather curious to notice what effect a drink of fair water has on the temper of one's men.

  • These longings of parturient women are most common; but it is rather curious, that, among our negroes in the West Indies, the husbands pretend to long for their wives, and endeavour to gratify them by proxy.

  • He had looked up in the middle of dinner, and caught a rather curious look on Sir Lyon's face.

  • Sir Lyon then asked a rather curious question: "How was the apparition clothed?

  • Weston laughed in a rather curious fashion, and she saw the blood creep into his face.

  • Miss Stirling," he said, with a faint flush in his face, "I am going to ask you a rather curious thing.

  • She smiled, a rather curious smile it was, I thought.

  • It's rather curious that I haven't seen her before, as I should certainly have remembered it, though I had once or twice a deal with her father.

  • No," replied Thorne, with a rather curious smile; "in an Edinburgh hospital.

  • Florence regarded her in a rather curious fashion.

  • It took him some time to make his errand clear, and then Overweg looked at him in a rather curious fashion.

  • In the meanwhile Hawtrey watched her with a rather curious expression.

  • In another moment she stood face to face with Hawtrey, who had risen, while Sally gazed up at her with a rather curious expression in her eyes.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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