Unusual

Examples

• The newspapers had previously published articles showing the unusual capacity and performance of the battery, and public interest had thus been greatly awakened. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Miss Eliott is a very sweet girl, and seemed to enjoy herself, I thought, observed Beth, with unusual warmth. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Did I not say we should see unusual things ere long? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A four-oared galley hovering about in so unusual a way as to attract this notice was an ugly circumstance that I could not get rid of. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In about three weeks from that time--as well as I can remember--the first warning reached me of something unusual going on under the surface. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This speech was delivered with an energy and readiness quite unusual with Mr. Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At least it must be owned, that heroic virtue, being as unusual, is as little natural as the most brutal barbarity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• His mother drew near, and looked so earnestly into his eyes, that he at once divined that something unusual was the matter. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Bell, inheriting unusual knowledge of the laws of speech and sound, came from the other direction. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The moonlight was strong enough to let him see his daughter in her unusual place and attitude. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to have a small opening between two rooms. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• An unusual--to me--a perfectly new character I suspected was yours: I desired to search it deeper and know it better. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Her aunt Bertram had recollected her on this occasion with an unusual degree of wakefulness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Meyler's spirits sunk into despondency: he actually shed tears, which, with him, was a very unusual event. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• One, his incessant restlessness and excitability--which may be caused, naturally enough, by unusual energy of character. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The apartments were restored to their pristine splendour, and the park, all disrepairs restored, was guarded with unusual care. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• How little practice he had had in dealing with unusual situations! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The governor and his family are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Why is this unusual pressure of company? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He had been talking all day, on many subjects, and with unusual vivacity. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This unusual movement attracted the attention of the young man, and as he continued to watch its deliberate movements, he did more than watch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Upon which, as is not unusual in such cases, a rather angry colloquy ensued. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They appeared to afford rather an unusual unction to his soul, and his astonishment seemed to me not quite unmixed with gratitude. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• We heard martial music--we saw an unusual number of soldiers walking hurriedly about--there was a general movement among the people. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is not my fault that so unusual an occurrence has taken place tonight. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Their reason for choosing so unusual an hour for a consultation was obviously to insure that there should be no other patient in the waiting-room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• A dead silence greeted this unusual flow of words from Mr. van der Luyden. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• No, no--oh, not there,' replied Job, with a quickness very unusual to him, 'not there. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Bell slept soundly, after his unusual exercise through the day. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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