Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Corsair makes his first appearance in American poetry. "Hannah Bantry in the pantry," who employed her solitude in gnawing a mutton-bone, is the prototype of the "Marchioness." Hannah, to be sure, seems, in this instance, to have solaced her loneliness in a more sordid manner than the curious creature in Dickens's novel, but if Mother Goose had given us further glimpses of her heroine's character, we should, no doubt, find her more winsome...
Half ashamed, yet curious growing...
SOME time ago a few letters from a Chinese gentleman, residing in Cambridge, to a friend in China, accidentally fell into my hands. Anticipating some curious comments on our civilization, I immediately elected all the Chinese courses given at Harvard, and after a time I was enabled to translate the valuable find. I was not deceived in my anticipations, for I think the interest attached to the letters well repays all my trouble. I send you herewith some extracts from them; if they are acceptable, I shall send them from time to time. It is to be observed that...
...None of the graces of a closely cropped crown or a long plait adorn American heads. The men cut off their hair in places called barber's shops, where three times a week they have their faces painted white with a mixture of froth and fire-water. I was curious to visit such a barber's shop, and what did I see? Three men were stretched out full-length and wrapped up in towels, with shut eyes, lying opposite a looking-glass. They probably wished to see how they looked when asleep. Some must have been in a fainting...
...application for rooms in the College buildings for the year, a curious change is noticed. Last year students wanted cheap rooms, usually those under $125, but this year the more costly rooms were put first in choice on the application...