Peculiarity

Examples

• The latter peculiarity took the form of a dislike to being left alone, especially after dark. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Was some constitutional peculiarity in him, feeling the influence in some new way? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was a peculiarity of Hermione's, that at every moment, she had one intimate, and turned all the rest of those present into onlookers. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• That's a peculiarity of his. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He was sorry--he was very sorry: for my sake he grieved over the hapless peculiarity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was Stryver's grand peculiarity that he always seemed too big for any place, or space. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The Aged's reading reminded me of the classes at Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's, with the pleasanter peculiarity that it seemed to come through a keyhole. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• This peculiarity has been observed in birds of quite another feather, climbing upon golden wires. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He had the special peculiarity of some birds of prey, that when he knitted his brow, his ruffled crest stood highest. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Then I need give my directions only to you, said Lydgate, not feeling surprised at a little peculiarity in Bulstrode. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The housekeeper tried to describe him, but failed to distinguish the nameless visitor by any personal peculiarity which her master could recognise. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The peculiarity of my temper is, ma'am, that I won't be swallowed up alive. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• That illness, from its peculiarity, makes it painful to me beyond words to hear him mentioned, unless in terms of respect and affection. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Dorothea could fancy that it was alive now--the delicate woman's face which yet had a headstrong look, a peculiarity difficult to interpret. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• 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.

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