Curiously

Examples

• The talk was very often political or sociological, and interesting, curiously anarchistic. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I saw him look curiously at my companion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He straightened himself then, and I saw that what he held in his hand was a sort of gun, with a curiously misshapen butt. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The fourth side was the house, a quaint, low-roofed, old-fashioned place, with deep diamond-paned lattices, and stacks of curiously-twisted chimneys. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There was something curiously indecent, obscene, about her small, longish, dark skull, particularly when the ears showed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• See how curiously they settle when I shake the bottle. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As she did so, the woman paused in her work and looked up curiously, resting her clenched red fists on the wet cloth she had just drawn from her pail. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Pablo was staring at him curiously and Pilar was watching him with no expression on her face. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• What I knew before them, blends with them, too, so curiously. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In the meantime the lion had approached with quiet dignity to within ten paces of the two men, where he stood curiously watching them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He wore no mask; but his face, though curiously patched and painted, was easily known. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• His movements were graceful, yet curiously abject, slinking. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I asked her, and looked curiously at her, because she looked so curiously at me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The expression of Wildeve's face became curiously condensed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He watched her closely, curiously all the while. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The seats had also their stained coverings, and one, which was higher than the rest, was accommodated with a footstool of ivory, curiously carved. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I had a son,' she said, curiously distressed, and not by any of the usual appearances of sorrow; 'and he did well, wonderfully well. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Holmes was curiously distrait, and we walked up and down the garden path for some time in silence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Looking very curiously round it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Eustacia looked curiously at the singular man who spoke thus. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She had a curiously vivid dream that night, and before she had left the son of her old mistress many hours. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The dawnings, the first developments of peculiar talent appearing within his range, and under his rule, curiously excited, even disturbed him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It curiously doesn't concern one. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We are curiously bare of relations. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The little dark boats had moved nearer, people were crowding curiously along the hedge by the high-road, to see what was to be seen. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In a way this is curiously suggestive of the earnest, energetic method of frontal attack with which the inventor has since addressed himself to so many problems in the arts and sciences. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The oratory closed, the dormitory became the scene of ablutionsarrayings and bedizenings curiously elaborate. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The cyclist, having heard the voices raised in altercation, glanced curiously at the man, and the woman, and at the standing motor-car as he passed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We must not inquire too curiously into motives, he interposed, in his measured way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Because, curiously enough, that song was written by a Carolean ancestor of mine, and I cannot think how Justinian came to know it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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