Their curiosity in these matters becomes a kind of enthusiasm: their will spurs on their intellect, and drives it forward to the attainment of the most remote results.

His own curiosity was the best possible aid in satisfying our own.

However, I was determined your curiosity should be no sufferer by my long silence if I could help it.

Its chief curiosities are a small sacristy at the E. end (cp.

The curiosity of the volume, and indeed, the only poetical contribution we have room to notice, is the following lines of Lord Byron, written in his boyhood, to "Mary," (Mrs. Musters,) about a year before her marriage: Adieu to sweet Mary for ever; From her I must quickly depart; Though the Fates us from each other sever, Still her image will dwell in my heart.

Curiosity rather than neighborliness was the inciting cause.

Curiosity was a thing which the fat man hated above all else.

Curiosity, deep stirrings to wander, the still more ancient inheritance of the hunter, a recurrent distaste for labour, and resentment against the necessary subjugations of family life have always been a straining force within the agricultural community.

"The next curiosity is the loadstone, a specimen of which I have with me; you can examine it when you visit this country.

Curiosity with reference to origins is for various reasons the most marked element among modern scientific tendencies.

Curiosity is a principle that carries its pleasures, as well as its pains, along with it.

Another curiosity near Callander is the Pass of Leney, a narrow ravine, skirted with woods, and hemmed in with rocks, through which a stream, issuing from Loch Lubnaig, rushes with amazing force, forming a series of cascades.

III Catherine's curiosity was a worry.

Then she reproached herself for not understanding that his frank curiosity was a delicate appeal to her confidence in him, and answered: "He proposed to me.

Contented to suck the milky fountains of their Alma Maters, without inquiring into the venerable gentlewomen's years, they rather hold such curiosities to be impertinentunreverend.

Our curiosity in regard to the character and habits of the men who have played conspicuous parts on the stage of history would have been not a whit diminished.

"This curiosity, my dear child, is an improper state of feeling which should not be indulged in.

He tells us, with great gravity, that curiosity was the only object in view; not an intention to grow suddenly rich by the philosopher's stone, or the transmutation of metals.

Curiosity is a restless propensity, and often does but hurry us forward the more irresistibly, the greater is the danger that attends its indulgence.

Their curiosity is all personalabout men and women, never about things.

Curiosity was a failing which she systematically repudiated.

Curiosity soon became an obsession; he wandered down into the hall where the serving-wench was plying her duster.

I found, however, that my curiosity was an abominable nuisance, that my morning walks were almost entirely neglected, and that I could not bear to leave my room until I had heard her go out and lock her door behind her.

But the curiosity of the tree was a Carat-palm which had started between its very roots; had run its straight and slender stem up parallel with the bole of its companion, and had then pierced through the head of the tree, and all its wilderness of lianes, till it spread its huge flat crown of fans among the highest branches, more than a hundred feet aloft.

He had to admit, as later he sat in the cloistered silences of his club library and blew contemplative smoke-rings into the air, that a certain idle curiosity had been the mainspring of his concern for her.