kewrious

Updated: May 17, 2025

She sat down on a stool in the kitchen, and lork! how she did cry! Howsivir, all on a sudden she hard a sort of a knockin' low down on the door. She upped and oped it, an' what should she see but a small little black thing with a long tail. That looked up at her right kewrious, an' that said: "What are yew a-cryin' for?" "Wha's that to yew?" says she.

- Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

"I ked catched him a leetle sooner," says Walt to his comrade, coming up, "but I war kewrious to find out what he war arter, an' waited to watch him. That's the explication o' it." He points to a large bag lying near, with its contents half poured out a varied collection of articles of bijouterie and virtu, resembling a cornucopia; spilling its fruits.

Mayne Reid - The Lone Ranche