Curiosities

Examples

• It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They're curiosities. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Yesterday we spent three or four hours in the Vatican, again, that wonderful world of curiosities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I visited many other apartments, but shall not trouble my reader with all the curiosities I observed, being studious of brevity. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• They introduced me to some gentlemen from the country, who went to Chelsea by water, to see the college and Don Saltero's curiosities. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The interval between that time and supper Wemmick devoted to showing me his collection of curiosities. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• On the other side, after having seen all the curiosities of the island, I was very desirous to leave it, being heartily weary of those people. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He had two large rooms full of wonderful curiosities, and fifty men at work. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Some of the pictures of the Saviour were curiosities in their way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It's six now, so if you care for a stroll this beautiful evening I shall be very happy to introduce you to two curiosities. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I desired leave of this prince to see the curiosities of the island, which he was graciously pleased to grant, and ordered my tutor to attend me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• At that time motors were curiosities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One of our curiosities mustn't be cold when we have it in our power to warm her up comfortable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I had brought over a few curiosities, among which the principal was a purse made of the _asbestos_, which purifies by fire. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Several curiosities have been lately dug up near the wall, as well as at the ancient station of Habitancum. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The servants deny having seen it before, but among the numerous curiosities in the house it is possible that it may have been overlooked. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• But the attorneys, who sit at a large bare table below the commissioners, are, after all, the greatest curiosities. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Rome never developed the fine curiosities that sent Hanno and the sailors of Pharaoh Necho down the coasts of Africa. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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