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"'Tis best to leave them alone," he said as they looked down into the street, where the English and their Dutch allies, many of whom had now landed, were wandering about examining the public buildings and churches, while the inhabitants looked with timid curiosity from their windows and balconies at the men who had, as if by magic, suddenly become their masters.
With thoughts like these I entered into my seventh year. And now the time was come, when the great moor was no longer to separate me from the object of my wishes and of my curiosity.
Had he had the least curiosity or interest in other matters, there were many things, strange things, about the recovery of his wife which might have set him wondering.
The next development was an announcement from Aunt Anne that she would like Maggie to accompany her to a meeting at Miss Avies'. Aunt Anne did not explain what kind of a meeting it would be, and Maggie asked no questions. She simply replied that she would go. She had indeed by this time a very considerable curiosity of her own as to what every one thought was going to happen in ten days' time.
Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for pure knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.
Concerning the nature of this errand she felt no particular curiosity, but that it was unknown to her, and was being withheld from her, was of itself a sufficient provocation to investigation.
"It too bad to raise my curiosity and not gratify it." "Well, then," said Fanny, "Mrs. Carrington said, ’There is a rumor that the eldest Miss Middleton is engaged to Mr. Wilmot. I wonder at it, for with her extreme beauty and great fortune, she could command a more eligible match than a poor pedagogue.’" The next morning at breakfast Mrs.
Even the great house itself, with all its pictures within, and pillars without, he had the hardihood to say "was nothing to Baltimore." He said a great deal about the market-house; he spoke of the bells ringing; and of many other things which roused my curiosity very much; and, indeed, which heightened my hopes of happiness in my new home.
Ulrica looked down with a mixture of curiosity and triumph; she could not understand these tears; but she had a secret satisfaction in seeing the person she most envied weeping so bitterly. "How is this? are you not happy to be a queen?" Amelia raised her face hastily and sobbed out: "No! I am not pleased to be an apostate, to perjure myself!
Quentin, who was neither very young nor very handsome. The painter, however, got out of the scrape very well. A small party accompanied me into the village, which was lively, and had some very neat houses. The peasantry, both men and women, had hats of straw; a manufactory which Mons. St. Quentin had introduced. A boy was reading at a cottage-door. I had the curiosity to see the book.
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