| Passers-by are often curious to see a Western face behind the waffle irons, and he sells hundreds of waffles a day. |
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| I'm curious now, with war so close, are his critics backing off a little bit? |
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| Well, I'm as curious as the next man, so I phoned one of my mates from the Yard. |
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| Immigrant literature may seem to occupy a curious midway world, weaving a tapestry that is at once familiar and far away. |
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| 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. |
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| One of the curious aspects was the age of the decorated Samian bowls when they were placed in the graves. |
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| They're all sizes and nationalities, a crowd of curious youngsters who gather around the two mayors and their mace bearers with interest. |
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| Friends described him as reserved, almost taciturn, but insatiably curious about science and technical processes. |
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| 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. |
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| The nearest faces looked askance at me, but as I moved quickly through the crowd, I left the curious expressions behind. |
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| It was a curious decision to take long service leave only 10 months into a three-year program of improvement. |
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| The crowd of royalists and the curious cheered as Prince Charles unveiled a plaque marking his visit. |
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| While he spoke, I could see his curious eyes roving over us, trying to understand the unfamiliar sounds that reached his ears. |
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| The latter was the hardest, as I was very curious about the sounds that resonated from the choir loft. |
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| 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. |
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| Some curious record buyer may come across it and be tempted to take it home for a listen. |
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| Over her shoulder, she cast Mark a curious glance before unfolding the small, lined piece of paper. |
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| Most curious of all is the apparent lack of activity where you would expect it most. |
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| His attempt to define effective prose rhythm technically is one of the most curious and interesting parts of his preface. |
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| 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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| In Asia, a wide array of sites offers unique and revelatory experiences for both curious visitors and devoted pilgrims. |
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| His fears are confirmed when he spies a curious Post-It note on the fridge revealing an unfinished game of hangman. |
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| The text offered a curious blend of scientific background and moralistic anthropomorphism. |
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| His touch is that curious blend of tenderness and leashed violence that is the hallmark of a genuine man. |
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| Soon the retiree began soliciting friends in the trade for any rare or curious fixtures they might have squirrelled away. |
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| The final piece of the jigsaw fell into place at Villa Park and it's a curious anomaly that whenever he has found the net we have always won. |
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| Strap on a mask and snorkel, and you can swim with sea lions, so curious and friendly that they will brush past your face. |
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| In bright sunlight, the blocks and shadows play curious visual tricks on the eye as you view the structure from different angles. |
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| One core was dried and impregnated with liquid epoxy resin, finally preserving the curious surface pattern of holes. |
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| Orwell was, in fact, a maverick on the Left and his ideas were a curious mixture of anarchism and Labour Party reformism. |
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| The whole package amounts to a curious blend of high power and domesticity which she hopes will win over doubters. |
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| The curious may want to rent this first or check out the endless repeats on cable. |
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| On the West Coast of the American continents, the sea-lion is one of the most curious and playful members of the seal family. |
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| With so many remnants of colonial policies surviving in India, what could have been just a curious insight thus becomes sadly relevant. |
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| In a curious move, bombing the country is coded as a greater humanitarian good than feeding or educating people. |
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| I was curious after someone suggested that foul language would keep away readers. |
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| This intriguing and maddening novel is a curious amalgam of detective mystery, period romance, and fictional memoir. |
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| In fact, what we're getting on November 30 is a curious amalgam of the reactionary and the progressive. |
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| They are a curious bunch, clad only in shorts, aloha shirts and Hawaiian leis. |
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| The only thing parents have in common is our curious relationship with our own children. |
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| A few weeks ago we sent out an all-points bulletin at the behest of a curious reader, surprisingly without success. |
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| I'm also curious how regular riders might be able to patch and reinflate tubeless road tires out in the field? |
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| But the curious thing in these cases is that no actual wrongdoing has been proven or even alleged. |
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| What explains this curious death of an idea once favoured by the men at the top of their two parties? |
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| His curious logic in explaining his reasons for this is beyond my wit I am afraid. |
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| And Ayesha, with her curious mix of rabid work ethic and kooky naivety, looks right at home here. |
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| The show attracted not only ardent dog lovers but curious onlookers too who possessed little knowledge about the dogs. |
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| Lord knows how we will all cope when the truly important stuff begins and people in curious woollies are hitting dimpled balls into little holes. |
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| Many active people are curious about their body composition and wonder what percent of their weight is excess fat. |
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| This combat goes on for a few curious minutes before an air horn signals a change in the drill rotation. |
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| I called this place and asked to be put on hold, curious what the music would sound like. |
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| As the route climbs out of Glen Nochty it passes an old house that goes by the curious name of Duffdefiance. |
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| All children are curious about the texture of the blood agar, and many have indicated an interest in touching it. |
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| I am curious as to exactly when scientists found out that space is a vacuum and not made up of ether? |
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| We look around and smell the aromas, growing ever more curious about the whirl of activity surrounding us. |
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| Another release had a curious note advising the recommending of headphones when listening. |
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| This is just as well, given his curious double life at opposite ends of the entertainment spectrum. |
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| A curious person in court then wanted to know if the man had anything to say while he was administering the punishment. |
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| It comes highly recommended if you are into such museums and are curious about the history of passenger railroading in this part of the country. |
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| The problem had something to do with their addled lead singer's curious notion of what constituted a promotional radio appearance. |
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| He wasn't curious enough to ask what she was doing, just as long as she was staying out of his way. |
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| Now that nobody's smoking, I've noticed there's a curious new aroma wafting around our local watering holes. |
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| In its final throes the decaying rock is whittled down into curious rounded shapes standing in a line, like a queue of shrouded figures. |
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| In view of the manner of his death it is curious to note that his nativity has no planets in water signs. |
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| The legal age of consent is a curious weapon in the hands of those who would otherwise have no qualms about child marriage. |
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| She just looked at him, curious as to why his absent expression was now missing, replaced by a foolish something. |
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| I want you to be curious about how the world wags its tail in different lands. |
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| This is a simple snack with tremendous seasoning and flavor sure to entice an eater who is more curious about taste than quantity. |
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| By a curious coincidence, they bought a house the same day their old one burned down. |
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| But for anyone curious enough to ask, she cited a mixed Native American ancestry. |
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| In the curious case of Elle Fanning, however, the appellative is entirely deserved. |
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| The anonymity of the Internet, however, gives the curious a new kind of boldness. |
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| We remain constantly curious about what great designers will turn out from their capricious artistic alchemy. |
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| In between the luxurious modern houses are two curious abodes. |
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| It won't last long, this curious quadrille of quasi-courtship. |
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| Also at around this time there was a curious amalgam of serious and exploitation films concerned with atomic war and the acceleration of nuclear experiments. |
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| On the pink cotton inside lay a clasp of black onyx, on which was inlaid a curious symbol or letter in gold. |
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| As a curious crowd gathered at the entrance to Central Park at Fifth Avenue and 60th Street, a team of riggers, steelworkers and Japanese art world figures went into action. |
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| Even other men of color considered Revels a curious figure, for Mississippi had never had a large free black population. |
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| As I got better, I also got curious about what happened to other patients like me. |
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| I had, for a long time, been curious about the place where all this fantastic stuff was made. |
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| He was speaking in a curious accent and so fast that the words were winging over my head like a flock of supersonic pheasants above a drunken shooter. |
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| Another curious aspect to leopard seal vocalizations is their use of high-pitched clicks up to 165 kilohertz, a frequency far beyond the range of normal human hearing. |
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| On a visit to a Paris flea market with the sculptor, Breton lit on a curious wooden spoon with a little boot carved under its handle and carried it off. |
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| After the announcement, Taras approached Duerexme, who was leisurely studying the artifacts near the balcony of the Head Palace as if she was just another curious wonderer. |
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| It will also have a new epilogue written by my spouse, Deirdre, who is the one person readers are most curious about. |
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| A nearby curious wormfish with stripe ablaze was not as sure. |
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| He could do worse than refer the curious to Rebecca Tyrrel's book. |
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| There were curious proportions with saggy leather jodhpurs and nipped-waist jackets with tiny peplums. |
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| And if someone was plotting this, Diallo was a curious choice as a seductress. |
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| Although only an alpha version, we still were curious to try Crow. |
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| A curious amalgam of straight history and political pamphlet, it was relatively little read in antiquity, and its modern status has declined in recent years. |
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| One curious thing about her is that her evident calculatedness, her shark-like remorselessness and her aloofness has never dented her immense popularity. |
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| Aren't you curious to see how a child of yours will turn out? |
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| I'm sure the legal eagles who reviewed all this know what they're doing, but this has made me just a little bit curious about exactly how libel laws work. |
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| She lies on an empty avenue overlooked by curious streetlights. |
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| The costs associated with risk were stunningly apparent to the young girl, as curious people wandering out to the beach were swept away by the rising tide. |
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| Because she didn't seem to be armed, police cars did not apprehend her as she alternated between stops and starts and conversations with curious bystanders. |
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| With his aquiline profile, unfashionable dress, strange accent and flowing locks of chestnut-brown hair, John James Audubon must have drawn curious stares from onlookers. |
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| At this time of year there are plenty to be seen, sitting upright in the begging position and giving passers-by a curious once-over before lolloping off to a safer distance. |
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| Guards escorted us out of the shadows and into the morning sunlight of the street where curious neighbours rubbernecked from windows and doorways. |
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| With Sun, Uranus, Neptune and the weekend Moon playing loony tunes in the curious universe of Aquarius, who could predict what this week's winds of mischief will bring? |
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| This was a rumbustiously motley affair where amateurs would don disguises and curious monikers to run for cash in what is, I believe, the oldest sprint event in the country. |
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| It is a curious show which, while at first sight might appear to be an uncomfortable mix of high art and popular culture, in effect works surprisingly well. |
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| If you're curious about the Titanic, you might want to tag along. |
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| In Hampstead, he leapt onto the counter of the jam-packed Beantown Cafe so that curious voters could see him speak. |
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| The amendment has a curious backstory involving McCarthyism and hardball Texas politics. |
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| Abroad, this story could be seen as a demonstration of British eccentricity, as curious as the advertisements for donkey sanctuaries below headlines about starving children. |
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| Yet he's also studied jazz and Indian music and learnt to play the sarod, so his band achieves a curious rapprochement between world-jazz and heads-down, no-nonsense boogie. |
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| Whatever their final appearance, they won't be nearly as curious as the serving of sliced saucissons and fresh radishes that arrived at our table before the first course. |
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| But as the hype surrounding the movie heightens, many are curious about the writer behind the story. |
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| He was way too ill to visit the set and all that, but was very curious about the film. |
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| Agitated by a multitude of curious thoughts, I retired to my room, that night, prepared to encounter some new experience of a spectral character. |
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| Even Maxwell the trader, who has been most among them, is compelled to resort to the curious sign language common to most of the prairie tribes. |
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| It's more of a curious interest I have into the workings of those living in Mondo Bizarro. |
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| Jackie and I strolled down the streets, each balancing a beverage and provoking many curious stares from passing Salzburgians. |
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| The bowl of Dove Crags is one of the largest glacial combs or cirques in the Lake District, yet has no tarn, but dry hollows noted as curious by. |
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| Europeans were becoming more curious about their society around them causing them to revolt against their government. |
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| Although initially curious about Disraeli when he entered Parliament in 1837, Victoria came to detest him over his treatment of Peel. |
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| The walls of the shaft are circular, finished in stucco, and hung with paintings and other curious objects. |
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| Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths. |
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| It's a curious adequation, for once the exact adequation of true love, love dreamed, love lived, true love itself. |
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| Weishampel explained the curious monospecific assemblage by theorizing that Plateosaurus were common during this period. |
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| They are curious and will often look in on divers in the water and are impressive to watch underwater. |
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| But this is only touching the outskin of a very curious subject, to which I hope, some day, to return. |
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| Light applause from the shaded edges of the courtyard, where in twos and threes curious ninjettes had been pacing, whispering, touching. |
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| These contain one very remarkable vault with curious painted reliefs, now artificially lit and open to visitors. |
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| Throughout life, this species is regularly curious about the potential of eating virtually any organism or object that they encounter. |
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| Xenarthrans are a curious group of mammals that developed morphological adaptations for specialized diets very early in their history. |
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| Marco Polo emerges as being curious and tolerant, and devoted to Kublai Khan and the dynasty that he served for two decades. |
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| And he tells a curious story, which he had heard in his youth, how a worthy man did travel ever eastward until he came to his own country again. |
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| This is a curious fact, as he was the first of the Portuguese royal line up to that time to have that hair color. |
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| Carmine is a curious little girl who is on her way to have some alphabet soup for lunch at her Granny's house. |
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| Being both curious animals and scavengers, polar bears investigate and consume garbage where they come into contact with humans. |
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| Webster's father never attended college, but he was intellectually curious and prized education. |
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| The reader will perhaps be curious to know the quantum of this present, but we cannot satisfy his curiosity. |
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| Alice leaves her sister on the bank to imagine all the curious happenings for herself. |
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| She follows it down a rabbit hole, but suddenly falls a long way to a curious hall with many locked doors of all sizes. |
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| First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. |
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| If Behn is a curious exception to the rule of noble verse, Robert Gould breaks that rule altogether. |
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| On this new site dedicated to hand-crafted-beer aficionados and curious newcomers alike is an extensive list of microbreweries and brewpubs. |
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| The old smell of dead whale permeates everything. It is a strange and curious place. |
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| A curious instance of perversion in religio-sexual feeling, bordering on zooerastia, is the case of St. Veronica. |
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| Both she and Voltaire were also curious about the philosophies of Gottfried Leibniz, a contemporary and rival of Newton. |
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| I have not been able to discover the source of the very curious underplot of The Captives. |
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| But one of the lingering arguments will be whether light-middleweight Minter was robbed by wretched judging and curious refereeing. |
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| In the same library he has sexual encounters of the sodomitic kind with tourists curious about him enough to penetrate his domain. |
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| Aren't there any REAL TSgirls in Cleveland? Or are you still in the closet. Very curious man wants to know! |
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| I'm curious to know where you find words like plouters, pronotum, noggles, sloom, drouking, moils, gowpen and dunch. |
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| Many of the older trees presented a very curious appearance from the tresses of a liana hanging from their boughs, and resembling bundles of hay. |
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| A curious phenomenon associated with the lower reaches of the Severn is the tidal bore, which forms somewhat upstream of the port of Sharpness. |
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| There are a jajillion opinions on this. My perspective is that of a curious lay newbie. |
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| The back matter supplies useful material for women's history studies, particularly websites that answer questions from curious young readers. |
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| He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestick and field accommodations. |
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| We are a nation that likes reading and Slovenians are always curious to read authors from different cultures. |
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| An owner of a shooting range in Guam said, 'I think it's human nature to be curious about something that is forbidden. |
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| I was curious about the fate of Ras Mikael who came to the palace of lyoas as a guest and committed the hosticide. |
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| His writings provide an account of many scientific observations, a mixture of precocious accuracy and curious errors. |
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| He also has a lengthy discussion with the curious Adam regarding creation and events which transpired in Heaven. |
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| Woollen hayks for garments are manufactured here of a curious texture, extremely light and fine, called El Haik Filelly. |
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| What brought about this curious state of affairs is my recent marriage to a Barbadian, or Bajan as 'we' like to call ourselves. |
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| A wonderful way to introduce the concept of Bar Mitzvah to curious children of all faiths and backgrounds. |
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| The curious misogyny which chequered Maupassant's gynomania seems to have tried hard to express itself in her portrait. |
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| The only other animal he'd seen hadn't been an animal at all, but a wererat who had given him a curious look before darting away into an alley. |
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| The charge of my most curious and costly ingredients frayed, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied. |
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| The curious ant-eaters are probably relics of an earlier fauna, which have survived owing to their nocturnal habits. |
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| The cathedral was extended several times in later ages, turning it into a curious and unique mixture of building styles. |
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| Yet we should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and not make the voyage like stupid sailors picking oakum. |
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| This Serengeti Migration of the wildebeest is a curious spectacle listed among the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa. |
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| What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition. |
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| Commonly known as a bombie, the bombs, which are the size of a baseball, often attract the attention of curious children. |
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| This curious species of non-publication provoked numerous programmers to post directions on Slashdot for circumventing the clickwrap. |
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| This table shows the curious fact that little Prince Carol of Roumania has a better hereditary right to the British Throne than Her Majesty. |
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| The appearance of our caravan was curious and grotesque. Our britchka was drawn by three camels, taken in tow by a man on foot. |
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| A few taxidermic examples do exist, for those curious to know what they look like up close. |
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| With curious looks a pair of tiny-winged amoretti press back the overspill of grapes from the basket they have brought Erigone. |
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| Wholesale buyers and curious onlookers pack Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market at the break of day. |
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| It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament records than have many theologians. |
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| They are very playful and curious towards human vessels making them relatively easy targets for whale hunters. |
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| Himself almost unknown, Gay yet held a curious subcelebrity with not a few men who had won distinction in widely diverging lines. |
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| It is a curious quality of the bathing beauty that there is no requirement of surf or lake in her experience. |
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| The Jester sat down on one of the marble balustrades and regarded Alvin with a curious intentness. |
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| In a corner of the dining room hangs a brass Sabbath light, an exceedingly curious piece of Judaica in an American home. |
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| But since our soldiers were curious to see the country and hunt deer, they were met by some of these savage fugitives. |
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| With curious onlookers packed into the office as witnesses, faint voices were heard replying. |
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| The Bobbio Missal is a curious liturgical compilation that contains both a sacramentary and a lectionary as well as other elements. |
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| The upright blocks or stelas are among the most curious parts of the present ruin. |
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| They are extremely curious and most will approach people easily. |
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| In Java there is a curious animal, the mydaus, intermediate between a pole-cat and a badger, which lives only on the high mountains, and has an offensive smell. |
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| The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it. |
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| The former often marshal a curious argument, that because the early monodic sources did not indicate any rhythm, no rhythm was therefore intended. |
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| He halted in midspeech as he noticed a curious figure hurrying towards us. |
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| The clubhouse was built on the Aylestone Road end in 1909, giving the curious situation of Welford Road Stadium's address being on the Aylestone Road. |
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| A couple even attempt to use the never-ratified Equal Rights Amendment, which was pending in 1973, as part of their argumenta rather curious move. |
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| There was a bridge, but a mob of curious townspeople who wished to watch the execution had so clogged the bridge that the execution party could not cross. |
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| Nevertheless there are curious points to be investigated in the earlier stages of development, such as the vascular supply and the chalazal lobings. |
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| Then, as if to contradict me, a stray sunbeam found the spot and sent curious bright glintings of sheen and shadow dancing and playing under the fallen roots and trunk. |
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| She is more intelligent and curious about external ideas than her husband. |
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| She glanced round the kitchen. It was small and curious to her, with its glittering kissing-bunch, its evergreens behind the pictures, its wooden chairs and little deal table. |
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| I'd done a bit of shooting with slugs out of rifle-sighted smoothbores and was pretty curious as to how I'd fare with that large fiber optic front bead. |
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| The highly controlled, cautious and curious aspects of the scientific method are thus what make it well suited for identifying such persistent systematic errors. |
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| Moonshiner For the uninitiated, it could be a rather curious experience to watch throngs of hip young things pile through the freezer door at the back of a local pizzeria. |
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| Always, always look in the darkest thickets for the boundlings, a curious myth in which babies are rescued from their light covering of troubles if found in time. |
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| Speaking of frightful words, a curious fear I've suffered from on occasion, especially on long airplane flights, is abibliophobia, the fear of not having enough to read. |
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| I have come across different concepts, and I'm curious about this wording for justice. So I wonder what is the meaning, what is the concept of justice in the Maoli language. |
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| For the odd and curious of us, to fly like a bird is a not an easy thing. |
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| Alfie is a little boy from India who is curious and imaginative and goes on adventures with his baby elephant best friend, Haathi and their magical bioscope. |
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| Each schematic drawing depicted a different county in Kansas or Missouri, eliciting identification in its inhabitants but a curious emptiness in the rest of us. |
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| Across the ocean, in Japan, there once lived curious creatures called Onis. Every Japanese boy and girl has heard of them, though one has not often been caught. |
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| The curious orologist may refer to the work in the British Museum. |
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| In a curious decision, ships of different squadrons were mixed through the formation, an attempt to ensure that the smaller ships would be supported by larger ones. |
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| He gives that impression by a curious mixture of great courtesy, and even if yielding to pressure, with underlying rigidity on matters of principle. |
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| Pavement art and stonework commemorate eclectic historical events, John Dalton's atomic theory, local dialect, flooding and a curious range other memorabilia. |
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| This side of the fell presents a long and mainly featureless slope, although near the summit are the Hackney Holes, curious rocky depressions of uncertain origin. |
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| The poetry, prose and personality in Soul Clothes, may rub up on a curious and compassionate place within you, a place of stark reality drenched in divine hope. |
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| He lookedat me fora few seconds, with eyes like those of an inquisitive owl or curious herring, then suddenly burst into a peal of rumblesome laughings. |
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| A curious web, whose yarn she threw in with a golden shittle. |
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| While the Cointreau technology did not strike him as novel, Mr. Freeman was curious about the spherification kit the company had put together for bartenders. |
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| The odd and curious is born good and pure. The society corrupts. |
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| You've always been curious about the underworkings of the city, and you wonder where the ladder will take you. You descend the rungs until you are on solid ground. |
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| Pharmacy groups had generally recommended flushing away these leftovers, arguing that the practice prevents pets and curious children from retrieving drugs from wastebaskets. |
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| In case you're curious, caracals are a type of African lynx, very fast and efficient hunters. |
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| Like him, it's a little loud and rambunctious, insatiably curious, and extroverted in nature. |
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| When half the population is reading a book, you'd have to be dead not to be mildly curious. |
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| It is curious, however, that so few of the work's prominent recordings feature French sopranos. |
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| His tone was neither accusing, nor incredulous, but rather plainly curious. |
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| I mean, instead, a mind that is thoughtful, curious, with a discernable pattern of associative thinking and insight. |
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| It's curious, though, there was a blue ribbon panel of six experts who said, this will never work, the public will not accept it and you'll lose your shirt. |
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| This curious, needlessly constrictive recording technique does make the album's deliberate, measured structure more impressive though not necessarily more entertaining. |
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| Pugnacious, bold, and curious, like other weasels, the wolverine is omnivorous and consumes a wide range of edible roots and berries, small game, and fish. |
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| We have just changed horses at Birmingham where I was two years ago and we visited the manufactories which are very curious. |
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| The lawns are spotted with curious, low-spreading, Japanesey-looking trees, and under these trees students squat on the grass with their books. |
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| Apathetic, yet curious, he solved the conundrum by facebooking his prey, then weathering the blamestorm. Victory was his. |
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| He was terribly, churningly curious, although not about the details of their lesson. |
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| Take a peeksy around this Colossal theatre. You will no doubt notice that most of your comrades, your fellow patrons of the curious, have disappeared. |
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| This is the frontier which is now visible and visited by the curious. |
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| If they were so curious, they could've just snuck in a spycam. |
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| Naturally they were curious, the businessmen and cadre and assorted visitors, who offered up cigarettes and tea before making their first hedgy attempts at conversation. |
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