Peculiarities

Examples

• Shirley never laughed at her former governess; even the little formalities and harmless peculiarities of that lady were respectable in her eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This was a vegeto-animal substance, having peculiarities of animal products. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Other parts of his face and head have their strange peculiarities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The human body is a much more varied and complex machine than any ever devised by man; personal peculiarities, as well as fuel values, influence very largely the diet of an individual. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But he had these peculiarities: and at first they frightened me, though I soon got used to them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Ellsworth possessed in a remarkable degree the skill of imitating these peculiarities, and thus he deceived the Union operators easily. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• However, I advise you to humour his little peculiarities, when you see him to-day. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I had already noticed the peculiarities of the typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business address asking him if he would come here. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Woodhouse's peculiarities and fidgetiness were sometimes provoking him to a rational remonstrance or sharp retort equally ill-bestowed. Jane Austen. Emma.
• We are told of similar mental peculiarities running in families, and again of a tendency, as in the animals, to revert to a common or original stock. Plato. The Republic.
• Suddenly she was attracted to his individuality by observing peculiarities in his walk. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and peculiarities. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• One of the peculiarities I have noticed is that I have never known him to break into a conversation going on around him, and ask what people were talking about. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But has he no peculiarities? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Of all these things I could have told the peculiarities, numbered the flaws or cracks, like any _clairvoyante_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Henry's mother loved him; she thought his peculiarities were a mark of election. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Greenland whale is one of the most wonderful animals in the world, and the baleen, or whalebone, one of its greatest peculiarities. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Here was another of the marked peculiarities in her character disclosing itself to me without reserve. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• These peculiarities were not formerly yours. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I had often heard of Miss Marchmont, and of her peculiarities (she had the character of being very eccentric), but till now had never seen her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Colour and constitutional peculiarities go together, of which many remarkable cases could be given among animals and plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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