It is not mere curiosity, that prompts me; but more as though some unexplained influence were at work.

We found it to be a black fox, that had walked out upon the ledge, and thus been added another victim to the indulgence of an idle curiosity.

" She came down lightly, again all eager curiosity.

I looked around with the most intense curiosity; but nothing that I saw, surprised me so much as to find so little that was surprising.

She looked with a little curiosity, mixed with anxiety, at the lady who had come out of the house, and who started, too, with a gesture of alarm, when she saw Mary move in the dark.

I am only aware of the existence of five copies of the edition of 1793; and although it has a certain autobiographic value, I do not think that many who read it once will return to it again, except as a literary curiosity.

It may be easily conceived how the pagans might be brought stedfastly to believe that comets, eclipses, and thunderstorms, were the forerunners of calamities, when man's strong inclination for the marvellous is considered, and his insatiable curiosity for prying into future events, or what is to come to pass.

Fools sometimes demand the exertions of my powers, and sometimes I gratify their childish curiosity.

Those girl friends in San Francisco who had met him at her birthday-party would be fairly squirming with excited curiosity to know everything.

Our dress, appearance, language, and the manner of our arrival, excited great surprise among the natives, and the liveliest curiosity; but with these sentiments some evidently mingled no very friendly feelings.

The mob who first attacked you were probably only perplexed and irritated; those who subsequently interfered may have been animated also by scientific curiosity.

What is his right name?" "Is it because you are especially interested in this man, my dear, or are ye simply consumed with feminine curiosity?" "Be good, Daddy!

" He had an uneasy look as he said this, and looked at her with an anxious curiosity, which the little Pilgrim did not understand.

Jacob asked, with mild curiosity, and the man replied: "It struck me that if any of the Mohawk Valley Tories were with Brant, General Herkimer would stand little chance of doing anything to aid the prisoner.

"There is no legal redressno legal means of dealing with his impertinent curiosity," he went on.

In his case it is no morbid curiosity which makes thousands interested in every detail concerning him.

Jake enjoyed the keen curiosity roused by his approach.

I had the foolish curiosity to strike the wires with my finger, and the devil flew at me with his toad-mouth wide open: the inside of his mouth is quite white.

"They were such a novel invention that I went to see them from pure curiosity.

The toy at this period is surrounded with a halo of poetry and mystery, and lays hold of the imagination and the heart without awaking vulgar curiosity.

I had no particular object in calling except to gratify a slight curiosity.

One thing Gifford quickly noted, as he looked at the man with a painful curiosity, was that the face before him lacked much of the suggestion of evil which in the brother he had found so repellent.

Left now to my own meditations, and unsupported by the example and conversation of my friend, I felt my first apprehensions return, and began seriously to regret my rashness in thus venturing on so bold an experiment, which, however often repeated with success, must ever be hazardous, and which could plead little more in its favour than a vain and childish curiosity.

She searched carefully through the divers articles, taking everything out, Jack looking on ruefully while his companions gathered about in vague curiosity.

she asked with a sudden curiosity.