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Updated: May 27, 2025
This curio was carried back to town, and ultimately became the property of an enterprising curiosity shop-keeper, who cut artistic bullet holes in the pennon with his scissors thereby adding largely to its curiousness. Nothing else occurred to make Friday noteworthy. Saturday completed the round dozen weeks of siege life. How many more were to follow? Alas! our seers were discredited.
I am talking about the curiousness of learning in that moment a new shade or quality of fear that had hitherto been outside of my knowledge or imagination. Does it interest you? "I examined the dagger, minutely, turning it over and over in my hands and never as I suddenly discovered holding it loosely. It was as if I were subconsciously surprised that it lay quiet in my hands.
"I was married, and long married, and I fathered three brave sons. But they are dead. I shall not live so long as you. I think of my young days as pleasant dreams remembered after sleep. More I think of death, and the end. Of marriage I think not at all. I am too old to marry. I am old enough to make ready to die, and a great curiousness have I about what will happen to me when I am dead.
Nor does it at all diminish the curiousness of this matter, that to many thousands of our rural boys and young men born along its line, the probationary life of the Grand Canal furnishes the sole transition between quietly reaping in a Christian corn-field, and recklessly ploughing the waters of the most barbaric seas. "'I see!
He lay down in the snow, depositing the ptarmigan beside him, and with eyes peering through the needles of a low-growing spruce he watched the play of life before him the waiting lynx and the waiting porcupine, each intent on life; and, such was the curiousness of the game, the way of life for one lay in the eating of the other, and the way of life for the other lay in being not eaten.
"'Tut, tut, Eddie, I answers, holding him hard; 'let an old friend gaze on the exhibition of your curiousness. It's an eminent graft you fell onto, my son. But don't speak of assaults and battery, because you're not fit. The best you've got is a lot of nerve and a mighty empty stomach. And so it was. The man was as weak as a vegetarian cat.
"This is where I used to walk up and down and wonder and wonder." "Is it?" cried Colin, and his eyes began to search the ivy with eager curiousness. "But I can see nothing," he whispered. "There is no door." "That's what I thought," said Mary. Then there was a lovely breathless silence and the chair wheeled on. "That is the garden where Ben Weatherstaff works," said Mary. "Is it?" said Colin.
The detective glanced at the girl with an expression of aroused curiousness as he said: "You dreamed of me?" "Yes." "This is very strange. What could have suggested such a dream" "I have dreamed all my life that some good friend would come some day and unravel the mystery of my parentage.
Nor does it at all diminish the curiousness of this matter, that to many thousands of our rural boys and young men born along its line, the probationary life of the Grand Canal furnishes the sole transition between quietly reaping in a Christian corn-field, and recklessly ploughing the waters of the most barbaric seas. "'I see!
There is only one man in the world who has the right to the throne and I don't know whether he is in the world or not. But I believe he is! I do!" Loristan looked at his hot twelve-year-old face with a reflective curiousness. He saw that the flame which had leaped up in him had leaped without warning just as a fierce heart-beat might have shaken him. "You mean ?" he suggested softly.
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