" "Isn't this your box, Rover?" As Professor Sharp uttered these words he brought to light a German silver case which Tom had picked up in a curiosity shop in New York.

The firm sand affords pleasanter footing than the slippery stones we leave behind us, but it seems bare of promise to the curiosity-hunter.

The curiosity seekers in the audience could not hear, no matter how they craned their necks.

" "Undoubtedly," said the Architect; "and then curiosity-collectors and amateurs would be better contented to show their valuable treasures to the world.

Bulusan is so seldom visited by strangers that the "tribunal" where I put up was soon full of curiosity-mongers, who came to stare at me.

History has been considered with the regard due to that study by which the manners are most easily formed, and from which the most efficacious instruction is received; nor will the most extensive curiosity fail of gratification in this library, from which no writers have been excluded, that relate either the religious, or civil affairs of any nation.

What did all this curiosity foretel, but an intention to come on board?"

He was filled with a strange desire to see it, a vague curiosity hitherto unknown to his preoccupied life; he wished to gaze upon that strand, perhaps the very spot where she had been found; he doubted not his questioning eyes would discover some forgotten trace of her; under his persistent will and aided by the Holy Virgin, the sea would give up its secret.

Pray, would not the word curiosity answer as well?"

As I walk, my curiosity increases and I quicken my pace.

" At this speech the Heelandman lost a' patience, and lookit sae awfully fairce, that ance or twice I was on the nick of coming forrit, and explaining how matters really stood; but curiosity keepit me chained to the back shop, and I just thocht I would bide a wee, and see how the affair was like to end.

I felt an unextinguishable curiosity kindle in my mind, and resolved to snatch this opportunity of seeing the manners of other nations, and of learning sciences unknown in Abissinia.

Here was an exception, howeversomething concerning the past that stirred his curiosity powerfullyand it became his first subject for brooding.

her ancient curiosity reviving.

And to run a risk of consequence now, for mere curiosity-sake, would be inexcusable.

Curiosity impels some, they desire to know what love is.

(Pious curiosity awakens.)

As the play proceeds, the curiosity centres around the new Leonora, so that even the scene where Sir Courtly is found making the most elaborate of toilets, with the assistance of a bevy of vocalists, does not exert the attraction to be found in the presence of Oldfield.

The crystal he said had come into his possession with other oddments at the forced sale of another curiosity dealer's effects, and not knowing what its value might be, he had ticketed it at ten shillings.

A good deal of curiosity exists regarding the management of the Bolshevik army, in which it is stated that discipline does not exist.