He was, at times, amazingly peculiar.

"I at once read your work, with eagerness and delightthat peculiar and strange delight which Calderon gives his admirers, as peculiar and distinct as the flavour of an olive from that of all other fruits.

It would be an interesting thing to analyze this sentiment, to trace it to its roots: it was so universal among successful sea-faring men that it must have had its origin in some trait distinctively peculiar to their profession.

It strikes me as exceedingly peculiar that he checked out from the Hermitage Hotel at four o'clock in the afternoon when he intended taking a two a.m. train.

Not that these would have seemed excessively peculiar to anybody familiar with the haphazard improvisations of minor journalism in the provinces!

"Firstly,if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?" Here a little waxen hand came with a very gentle tap on his huge shoulder, and "Doctor, tea is ready," penetrated drowsily to the nerve of his ear, as a sound heard in sleep.

Our present object is to determine whether the reality, to which the feeling of justice corresponds, is one which needs any such special revelation; whether the justice or injustice of an action is a thing intrinsically peculiar, and distinct from all its other qualities, or only a combination of certain of those qualities, presented under a peculiar aspect.

At the present day, however, we even more commonly use another name for this peculiar liquidnamely, "alcohol," and its origin is not less singular.

They were not merely peculiar or remarkable; they were probably unique.

For a man to get out of bed in the middle of the night and call for an auger, was indeed a trifle peculiar.

My case, as you of course grasp, Dr. Silence, is extremely peculiar, uncomfortably peculiar.

"I say," George Cannon continued, in a tone that now was unmistakably peculiar, "I want you to come out with me.

Many of us are profusely original, in that no man can understand usviolently peculiar ways of looking at things are no great rarity.