Word Finder - curiously

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In a curious manner; with curiosity; inquisitively.

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The children peeped curiously into the attic room.

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Oddly; in a strange or unexpected way.

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Curiously, when I arrived home, the front door was standing ajar.

She looked at it curiously, then at Damian.

Yully looked around curiously, not recognizing the sloping hill before them.

The names of the engravers who cut his designs are not known, and in fact the reputation of these craftsmen is curiously subordinated to that of the designers in all Japanese work of the kind.

Helga turned to look at her curiously, and she forced herself forward.

Curiously enough, it never occurred to me to call Greek patronymics "queer."

Bianca looked at her curiously.

Her hands were soon roaming his body curiously, resting on his jaw and trailing along his neck.

Curiously enough, the absence of eyes struck me more than all the other defects put together.

A few people acknowledged Cassie, and glanced curiously at Darcie.

He peered at the Original Immortal curiously then looked up at her.

Curiously, Buddhism itself is ruled by the ghost or shadowy remainder of belief in transmigration - Karma.

Curiously enough, however, they differ from the cephalic Molluscan eye in the fact that, as in the vertebrate eye, the filaments of the optic nerve penetrate the retina, and are connected with the re surfaces of the nerve-end cells nearer the lens instead of with the opposite end.

Cobalt, curiously enough, was found to be quite unaffected by tensile stress.

Lana looked up curiously, wondering if the military was doing maneuvers.

But it is equally plain that the Ophite nucleus has from time to time received very numerous and often curiously perverted accretions from Babylonian Judaism, Oriental Christianity and Parsism, exhibiting a striking example of religious syncretism.

Why? she asked curiously.

She watched him curiously, wondering if he planned on wiping off her offending fingerprints.

It retains a curiously carved screen, and the black marble tomb of Queen Elizabeth's physician, Marwood, who attained the age of 105.

Ully looked over at the child and jaguar curiously.

Yours is impossible, Jenn said curiously.

Curiously enough in Italy - and particularly in Rome - the external conditions were better.

She looked at him curiously.

Damian sat back, waiting curiously.

Curiously enough the cottage, a stone building, built by the same duke for Jean Jacques Rousseau, still stands in the park, while the ducal residence was burnt down by the sans-culottes.

It has four Evangelical churches, two with curiously leaning, lead-covered spires; an old town-hall; a gymnasium; and several philanthropic and religious institutions.

Then they began to wander merrily about searching for nuts, climbing trees, peeping curiously into the empty birds' nests, and playing hide and seek from behind the trees.

Deidre glanced at the angel curiously.

Megan looked at her curiously.

Jessi met the Oracle's gaze curiously.

Curiously, Apotheosis is used by the Latin Christian poet, Prudentius (c. 400), as the title of a poem defending orthodox views on the person of Christ and other points of doctrine - the affectation of a decadent age.

Other remains of pre-Conquest date are the chancel arches in the churches of Marston Montgomery and of Sawley; and the curiously carved font in Wilne church is attributed to the same period.

Trambusti, curiously, finds confirmatory evidence of this in the division of cells in sarcoma.

Curiously enough, Vienna has for a long time turned its back, so to speak, on the magnificent waterway of the Danube, the city being built about '1 m.

The staple type has black glaze showing little lustre, and in choice varieties this is curiously speckled and pitted with red.

Huge walls were erected at the edges of the ancient terrace, the courts of the temple were filled with houses and streets, and the ziggurat itself was curiously built over in a cruciform shape, and converted into an acropolis for the fortress.

This Mr Moberly curiously misrepresents as action against Wykeham.

I perceive that you are curiously constructed, and that if you cannot breathe you cannot keep alive.

She saw Prince Vasili's face, serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression "Marie" produced on the visitors.

Deidre faced her curiously.

They looked her over curiously.

She studied him curiously.

The contrast between this low zone and the upper zone of rich vegetation (above about Boo ft.) is curiously marked.

The only speech made by him during his three years in parliament that was listened to with impatience was, curiously enough, his speech in favour of counteracting democracy by providing for the representation of minorities.

Elands and kudus appear to have been represented in India during the Pliocene; the European Palaeoreas of the same age seems to be intermediate between the two, while Protragelaphus is evidently another European representative of the group. Helicophora is another spiral-horned European Pliocene antelope, but of somewhat doubtful affinity; the same being the case with the large Criotherium of the Samos Pliocene, in which the short horns are curiously twisted.

Curiously enough, the allies do not appear to have decided upon the course to be taken in case they were surprised, as they virtually were, and their system of intercommunication - if system it can be called - was most imperfect.

If their character was approved they were taught during the winter months, when work was slack, for a space of three or four years; after that they were sent for two years to serve as menial assistants at a nunnery for women, which curiously enough existed in a recess of the valleys.

Its streets are for the most part narrow and irregular, and contain many old houses with overhanging upper storeys and richly and curiously adorned wooden facades.

Other buildings are the Gothic church of St James, with curiously carved altars and beautiful stained-glass windows, and containing in the Toppler chapel the tomb of the burgomaster, Heinrich Toppler; the 15th-century church of St Wolfgang; the Franciscan church; and five other churches.

This time the Poles came to the rescue of the Government in its hour of need, by getting a form of standing order approved which rendered obstruction somewhat more difficult, and in this, curiously enough, they were helped by the Czechs; for obstruction had brought even them into an impasse, since their financial requirements had not been met.

His tastes were curiously limited.