Curiously enough, it was defined accurately, being exactly in shape like one of the rectangular tin air-shafts you see so often in city hotels.

These entertainments, always splendidly done materially, and curiously erratic socially, were sometimes extremely amusing; at others, of course, a frost; it was rather a toss-up.

Impressionistic as he was in life, on the other hand, curiously, Aylmer's real taste in art and decoration was Pre-Raphaelite; delicate, detailed and meticulous almost to preciousness.

Then, observing that his guest looked curiously at a cracker, which, from the gravelly marks on one side, seemed to have been dug out of the earth, like a potato, he hastened to obviate all complaint in that line by carefully wiping every individual cracker with his pocket handkerchief.

The little incident left a curiously sinister impression on the camp.

All these things, Rudolph Musgrave regarded with curiously deep interest for one who had seen them so many times before.

Still, her intervention led to peculiar resultsresults, curiously enough, in which she was not in the least concerned.

" "And now? asked Uncle John, looking curiously at the man.

A few moments later Bob West came in and looked at the girl editor curiously.

"Wonder ef they'd pay fer a pome?" "What were it like?" asked Skim curiously.

"What's the verdict, Arthur?" asked Louise curiously.

Nothing is certainly known of the exact nature of the mud thus obtained, but we shall see that the mud of the bottom of the Antarctic seas is described in curiously similar terms by Dr. Hooker, and there is no doubt as to the composition of this deposit.

" She took the curiously-decorated box he gave her and broke the seal.

She thought the policeman who was regulating the traffic eyed her curiously, and, more with the object of evading his eye than with any set plan in her mind, she stepped into an empty taxi-cab which was waiting to cross the street.

Rolfe, who had been watching Crewe's manoeuvres curiously, walked up to them with the tape in his hand.

Felicia felt somehow curiously aloof, and almost like an intruder, in this crowd of people, all of whom had known each other for long years in Asquam.

Curiously enough, while she changed her clothes, her thoughts a jumble of present things she disliked and the unknown that she would have to face alone in Vancouver, she found her mind turning on Jack Fyfe.

There she paused to look and wonder curiously.

Curiously enough, she did not blame her brother now; neither did she blame Jack Fyfe.

"Well," he remarked then, in a curiously detached, impersonal tone.

But where a greater variation than that between one midland dialect and another is required, "George Eliot's" conscientiousness is very curiously shown.

she whispered, glancing curiously across the room at him.

" "Mr. Lind has suggested our supping together," said Conolly, observing her curiously.

And Dr. Panton, looking at the charming groupfor the lithe, dark-haired girl in her brilliant, quaint garment, and the dog over which she was bending, made a delightful grouptold himself grudgingly that Miss Bubbles was curiously attractive: far more attractive-looking than he would have thought her to be by the portrait published in the Sketchthough even that had been sufficiently arresting to remain in his mind for two or three days.

In the face of shrapnel or the Judgment Day, it was evident to Redwood that this man would have sheltered behind some curiously dodged vote of the House of Commons.