curiously

THE gentleman raised his eyes above his newspaper and looked curiously at Jemima--

He brought out the pepper box, and eyed it curiously.

His voice when he spoke was, curiously enough, the voice of a gentleman, thick and a trifle rough though it sounded.

Only the even lines rhyme, except in the four-line or stop-short poem, when the first line often rhymes with the second and fourth, curiously recalling the Rubaiyat form of the Persian poets.

Miss Polly, to tell the truth, was feeling curiously helpless.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

The sun shone into my bath-water through the west half-window, and a big Maltese cat came up and rubbed himself against the tub, watching me curiously. While I scrubbed, my grandmother busied herself in the dining-room until I called anxiously, `Grandmother, I'm afraid the cakes are burning!' Then she came laughing, waving her apron before her as if she were shooing chickens.

Here and there she came to a full stop, ad peeped curiously into a pool, left by the retiring tide as a mirror for Pearl to see her face in.

Suddenly he dropped from the tree, and in another moment was holding the fronds apart and staring curiously at me.

The smoke was inhaled from large pipes, the bowls of which, made out of small cocoanut shells, were curiously carved in strange heathenish devices.

There were boys all round him, looking at him curiously, and a feeling of shame came over Philip.

Curiously enough, almost the first person whom she saw was the Prince.