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Passers-by are often curious to see a Western face behind the waffle irons, and he sells hundreds of waffles a day.
I'm curious now, with war so close, are his critics backing off a little bit?
Well, I'm as curious as the next man, so I phoned one of my mates from the Yard.
Immigrant literature may seem to occupy a curious midway world, weaving a tapestry that is at once familiar and far away.
He got home however and was very curious why his house was taped off by police, three cars were there and he sprinted down his street.
One of the curious aspects was the age of the decorated Samian bowls when they were placed in the graves.
They're all sizes and nationalities, a crowd of curious youngsters who gather around the two mayors and their mace bearers with interest.
Friends described him as reserved, almost taciturn, but insatiably curious about science and technical processes.
On Sunday last, a cow of the Durham breed calved, along with a remarkably fine bull calf, which is still alive, a very curious lusus naturae.
The nearest faces looked askance at me, but as I moved quickly through the crowd, I left the curious expressions behind.
It was a curious decision to take long service leave only 10 months into a three-year program of improvement.
The crowd of royalists and the curious cheered as Prince Charles unveiled a plaque marking his visit.
While he spoke, I could see his curious eyes roving over us, trying to understand the unfamiliar sounds that reached his ears.
The latter was the hardest, as I was very curious about the sounds that resonated from the choir loft.
There was the curious fact that whereas Hitler began as a competent strategist and ended as a rotten one, with Stalin it was the other way round.
Some curious record buyer may come across it and be tempted to take it home for a listen.
Over her shoulder, she cast Mark a curious glance before unfolding the small, lined piece of paper.
Most curious of all is the apparent lack of activity where you would expect it most.
His attempt to define effective prose rhythm technically is one of the most curious and interesting parts of his preface.
Not content with simply having a restful and rewarding experience, I was still curious to find out just how good I was.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This makes me think of a curious bird I noticed in my drives at San Diego, the roadrunner, classed with the cuckoo.
It is a curious question why sacred song should so often be dull and commonplace.
Now, in Morocco a convert is a most rare and curious animal, and he is usually not a great credit to his capturers.
Old Mrs. Cayce followed him with curious eyes, peering out in the gaps of the hop-vines.
To the animated and curious Frenchwoman what a cicerone was Ernest Maltravers!
Perhaps the most curious of the colubrine snakes is the egg-eating snake of South Africa.
It is curious to trace the varied fates of the calorific rays which strike on the surface of the earth.
I am also equally curious to know if anything eats the fruit of the red and white baneberry and the blue cohosh.
The Lantern also is of English oak, and its construction a curious piece of carpentry.
Signor Righellini observed him, in company with many other Cavalieri very curious to see him eat.
A curious variety of the chausson and chausses is found in the figure of a knight from Roy.
The process by which the chromatin is subdivided is so curious as to be worth a brief description.
Some of them waded in the river and caught a curious fish in holes in the claybank.
One of the most curious pictorial and antiquarian blunders may be seen in Vallancey's collectanea.
By a curious divergence the bordure wavy is not a mark of illegitimacy in Scotland, but a mark of perfectly legitimate cadency.
The Viper's bugloss is a stout, upright plant, with a curious pale green hairy stem, which is dotted all over with red spots.
As she drew near it was seen that she was bedecked in the most curious fashion.
And the curious part of the besetment is that I have known all along that I was killing your love for me.
In Fig. 43 we have the sea fan magnified to twice its natural size, showing the curious details of its organization.
We found there a curious black-headed grass which proved to be of the carex genus.
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