For dearer to me than all the rest of my curios are my. From Wordnik.com. [The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891] Reference
The amount of "curios" and souvenirs brought aboard would fill a museum. From Wordnik.com. [A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"] Reference
A tiny china tea-set and various little "curios" are found in the best boats. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World] Reference
This would have been comparatively practicable, were it not that I carried with me an indispensable bag of "curios," and. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals] Reference
In contrast with the Pickwickian method of comic rambles in search of human "curios," Dickens introduced some darker effects and persons of a more or less sensational kind. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Early Victorian Literature] Reference
Exports -- commodities: fruits, vegetables, curios. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
They have an art gallery and rooms full of curios, just like a museum. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference
"These baskets have the air of a collection of curios behind the glass.". From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
Antiquity itself is only a recommendation if we are collectors of curios. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit and Music] Reference
Eastern and Western curios her father had brought home from various voyages. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
One such place I have often visited for the sake of meeting with live curios. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
Also a complete collection of grapes and many other horticultural curios rarely seen. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference
A new archive contains some wonderful curios and documents how far technology has come. From Wordnik.com. [Nasa Commons: 50 years of photos from the space agency] Reference
"I hardly knew what to send you, and then I remembered you once said you liked curios.". From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
But, Mollie, I was endeavoring to tell you about the wonderful curios they have in their house. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference
Sedd-el-Bahr, revolver in hand, to look for curios when there was yet great danger from snipers. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
"Just the thing!" declared Hal, who had a great regard for things that hang up and look like curios. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
Commissioners and owned a large number of Chinese curios gathered by him during his life in the East. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Said I to a Tommy of Hamilton's column, as I took a handful of cartridges, "These will do as curios.". From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
After all it was her job to chose exquisite things, cull and display, amass curios from around the world. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke and Mirrors] Reference
The Library has during its century collected many curios which should really have been given to a museum. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the Chief Librarian for the Year Ended 31 March 1958: Special Centennial Issue] Reference
The learned James Basnage, who republished this work of Canisius with curios additions and , has added the. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
"An 'I've had enough of ghosts," growled Paddy, as they staggered down the road with their load of curios. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
In the city of Chennai (formerly Madras), Spencer Plaza offers ethnic stores selling local handicrafts and curios. From Wordnik.com. [Mall Rush?] Reference
The mantelpiece was crowded with an odd mixture of china and other curios, all looking as if they had just been unpacked. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
These curios were piled indiscriminately everywhere, and there were boxes and barrels piled with no regard whatever for regularity. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference
With them they had their mascots and their War Brides, their trophies and curios, their hopeful good humor and healthy play spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
Chinese pictures and shells and curios which he picked up in all sorts of outlandish places, bringing them home after his various voyages. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
Its displays of photographs, police reports and curios — including letters the Ripper allegedly sent the police — fill more than 6,000 square feet. From Wordnik.com. [You Don’t Know Jack] Reference
Besides these occupations we have another very serious one, namely, rummaging among the mass of curios which he heaped up together in the lumber-room of the château. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
The elder sons and daughters attended to the wants of those who fancied any of the curios displayed in the long showcase that extended from the door to the rear of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference
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