Word: peculiarities
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...quite certain himself what the creature truly was, gave it to a naturalist friend for confirmation of its mermaid status. In his autobiography, Barnum describes his friend's incredulous reaction: "He could not conceive how it could have been manufactured, for he never saw a monkey with such peculiar teeth, arms, hand & c., and he never saw a fish with such peculiar fins." However, the naturalist told Barnum it must be manufactured, not because he could prove it, but because he didn't "believe in mermaids." Barnum's response: "That's no reason at all, and therefore I'll believe...
...amazing how long you can drag out one of these conversations--a night, a weekend or even an entire summer. The discussion happens over and over again and the stories are always the same, but the peculiar thing is that no one ever gets tired of it. Those conversations still evoke old memories that you thought were long since forgotten, but clearly...
...dark-haired 40-year-old was tending to the small front yard outside the faded blue house with the white shutters. "He was spreading fertilizer on the lawn with his bare hands," says the person who lives directly across the tree-lined street. "I thought it was peculiar...
Rugby, like all sports, has many other peculiar rules and features. And if many of these might seem odd to the uninitiated, just remember that a study was once done on people who knew little or nothing about sports, and it found that baseball was the least attractive and most complicated to these sports novices...
...account, he does not simply disdain coffee; he rages against it, preaches of its evils, overturns coffee urns in restaurants. He breaks up a marriage to a beautiful, intelligent and adoring woman because she backslides and drinks the foul stuff. Et, for several hundred pages, some very peculiar cetera...