Before we left the theme park, we went into a curio shop to look for a souvenir. From LearnThat.org.
'The curio is my own property, and I will do just as I please with it.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta] Reference
Data collection as a kind of curio cabinet filled with the atrocious and their atrocities?. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
Like Mark Twain's preacher with the car rhyme, "I have got it, got it bad" -- the "curio" malady in one of its most virulent types. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World] Reference
Upon Mr. Arbuthnot admitting that he studies Shakespere merely from a "curio" point of view, and that for the poetry he cared nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton]
A "curio" point of view, and that for the poetry he cared nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
"He was away from the curio shop that night, you say?". From Wordnik.com. [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference
Beeding and the Romney -- A digression on curio-hunting. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
That was an Egyptian curio -- very old and very valuable. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
"Mhtoon Pah is the man who has the curio shop?" he asked. From Wordnik.com. [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference
The bazaars of Oman do not offer much to the curio-hunter. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
Sandy, then on light duty, opened up a business as a curio agent. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
For Elfrida it had an intrinsic beauty and interest, like a curio. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
But she said, laughing, "Is it not just like a curio-dealer's shop?". From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference
Many families in each neighborhood will be able to contribute some curio. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades] Reference
Out of date, foolish, faddy, and sech like, is kept like old curio stock. From Wordnik.com. [Punch Among the Planets] Reference
Border businesses like dental offices and curio shops have been struggling. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico's Drug War Hits Historic Border Cantinas] Reference
While on tour, The Mars Volta bought an Ouija board at a Jerusalem curio shop. From Wordnik.com. [Unwelcome Spirits Haunt 'The Bedlam in Goliath'] Reference
"Ask of him that is in that house," said Leh Shin, pointing to the curio shop. From Wordnik.com. [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference
One morning we devoted to visiting two cloisonné studios and some curio shops. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
If you ride down Seventh street in a horse-car, you are in a psychological curio-shop. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
That hat of his would fetch something in an old curio shop, and so would his breeches too. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
Everywhere he heard of Mhtoon Pah's shrine, and of the great holiness of the curio dealer. From Wordnik.com. [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference
In essence all this very much resembled the way an Algerian curio merchant conducts a bargain. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
With her replies sometimes went a snake skin, a brass tray, a miniature paddle, or other curio. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
A stone from the wrecked tomb, bearing the name ÆLFRED, was carried off to Cumberland as a curio. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Paradise Street looked at the sky with great misgiving, but the curio dealer refused to be alarmed. From Wordnik.com. [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference
"" They come here for two hours, they are taken to a curio shop and then they go back to Jerusalem. ''. From Wordnik.com. [O Little Town Of Bethlehem, How Grim We See Thee] Reference
Bill ejaculated something unprintable and dropped a hot piece of shell he had intended to collar as a curio. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
The police had discovered nothing whatever, and he had received another visit at his house from the curio dealer. From Wordnik.com. [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference
At one corner of the upper end of the street was a curio and china shop owned by a stout and wealthy Burman, Mhtoon Pah. From Wordnik.com. [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference
He had bought this sealed curio from Paul a year ago for fifty dollars -- souvenirs that came from so far were expensive. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
Indeed, he appeared so like a carved idol in a curio shop that Flora was a little startled to find that he was looking at her. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
I am a curio, often nearly smothered by hands covered in a gooey mess, and whisking round and round with no end possible. From Wordnik.com. [Where is Love?] Reference
When he found himself on Pennsylvania Avenue near Four-and-a-half Street he entered the tea, spice, and curio emporium of Quong Lee. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
In the curio shop in Paradise Street Mhtoon Pah waxed fat and studied the table of returns, and in the garden of the house where Leh. From Wordnik.com. [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference
Charming were their afternoons among the curio shops, and their return, laden with loot too precious to wait over night for delivery. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
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