As to dancing, my dear, I never dance, unless I am allowed to do it in my own peculiar way.

But then it was a poor sort of floorthe beams were only six inches thick, hardly worth calling beams at all: stone arches are much more sensible, when any dancing, of my peculiar kind, is to be done.

There the sable exhorter might indulge his peculiar talent for "'rousements" and the prayer leader might beseech the Almighty in tones to reach His ears though afar off.

Louisiana alone in all the Union, because of her origin and formative experience as a Latin colony, had a scheme of law largely peculiar to herself.

The violence of city mobs is a thing peculiar to no time or place.

All written history is the story of a minority and their peculiar and abnormal affairs.

And our Empire is at a peculiar disadvantage in the matter, because India and our other vast areas of service and opportunity overseas drain away a large proportion of just those able and educated men who would in other countries gravitate towards the army.

At nightfall they used to gather in their quarters and sing; and they had a peculiar yodel, which, starting from one plantation, was caught up by the others, and ran round and off along the river into the distance and back, going and coming again and again with a peculiar fascination, like the voice of a happy and careless common life.

At nightfall they used to gather in their quarters and sing; and they had a peculiar yodel, which, starting from one plantation, was caught up by the others, and ran round and off along the river into the distance and back, going and coming again and again with a peculiar fascination, like the voice of a happy and careless common life.

How warmly she sympathised with mothers, especially with young mothers, in their peculiar experiences and how great she thought their privilege to be, her writings testify.

In truth, my feelings about her, while I was at Monmouth Beach, were quite peculiar and excite my wonder still.

Never shall I forget that arch expressionso loving, so spiritual, and yet so stamped with marks of sufferingthe peculiar tones of her voice, or that dear little gesture!

The tones of her voice were peculiar; I scarcely know how to describe them; they had such a fine, subtle, womanly quality, were touchedespecially at this last readingwith such tenderness and depth of feeling; I only know that as we heard them, it was almost as if we were listening to the voice of an angel!

Now there are peculiar circumstances connected with the precentorship which must be explained.

It has all the love of detail that is peculiar to the Slavonic mind, a trait which is largely responsible for that feeling of pessimism that pervades the writings of all those who have listened to the "still, sad music of humanity."

Above them floated a peculiar flag, a field of deep blue on which was a crescent moon and stars.

"I fear I see more clearly that we are working up to a schism in the English Church, that is, a split between Peculiars and Apostolicals ...

"The peculiar fact is, that my name is Lettis.

In view of these several features, which are so closely related that they form a common character, more or less fully shared by various industries, and especially in view of the necessity for the formal granting to them of peculiar privileges in the form of a public franchise, the public, in order to protect the general interest, is forced to undertake an exceptional control of these industries. § 9.

Speaking generally (for the jurisdictions called "peculiars" formed exceptions), England was divided for the purposes of local ecclesiastical administration and discipline into archdeaconries, each comprising a varying number of parishes.

Peculiars were doubtless most subject to abuses, as being often exempt from the oversight and corrective discipline of the diocesan.

See Strype, Ann., iii, Pt. ii, 211-12 (Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield complaining in 1582 of peculiars, some of which belonged to laymen, as holders of abbey lands, in the matter of recusants).

On the scandalous neglect of duty of some holders of peculiars see Dean of York's Visit., 199, 201 ff., 324, et passim.

See also Mr. W.E.B. Whittaker's article "On Peculiars with special reference to the Peculiar of Hawarden," in Archit.

Lists of peculiars will be found in the above authorities.