Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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II.Her American manners were curious and free...
...names assumed by literary or social clubs in some of the colleges are sometimes fearfully and wonderfully constructed. The most curious instance of the peculiar talent of the classical student which manifests itself in inventing these names, we find in the name of a society at Tufts College, which is called the "Zetagathean." Zetagathean, we are inclined to believe, would be hard to beat...
...about to order a coffin immediately, in which to keep the pieces when the machine went off. The student, when the man had got far enough along in his story to propose a visit to the nearest life insurance office, remarked that there was only one explanation for the curious phenomenon - his chum kept a dog which was in the habit of laying in the corner of the room, near the wall, and the wagging of his tail against the foot-board probably produced the mysterious noise. The order for the coffin has been cancelled and the insurance agent...
...cafe on Sunday while he was out on leave no notice would be taken of the fact, nor would a professor or usher think of cross-questioning him on his return from the holidays as to what he had been doing, what books or newspapers he had read. This curious mixture of subjection and license might have worked well if French boys had the same taste for out-door games as the English, and could be trusted to make a healthy use of their freedom; but political accidents have combined in an odd way to check all athletic tendencies among...
...specimens of native gold and silver, sea shells, hatchets, together with the bones of various animals, and, above all, several specimens of meteorie iron, which are the first ever discovered in these mounds. By the aid of the stereopticon Dr. Putnam was enabled to represent a number of these curious relics upon the canvass, which with the drawings of mounds lent no little additional attractiveness to the lecture...