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Certain it is that easy divorce enlarges the opportunities for its gratification, and to be "fancy" and "free" is no longer a charm peculiar only to "maiden meditation."
"Merely it's our personal belief that our emotions and sensations and ways of thought are peculiar to ourselves, individually, that sometimes makes the game seem worth the scandal."
There was one preacher whose manner and matter were so peculiar, that I took the liberty of immediately writing down a part of his discourse as a specimen.
They found, however, on repeating their visit to this place, that the occasion in question had been one "of peculiar benefit and encouragement."
The subject was so plainly full of a peculiar pain for him, he was so ill at mind on this point, that I could not find it in my heart to pursue it further at the cost of his feelings.
The great question of all time pressed upon his mind with peculiar force, "What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
We have before attempted to show that the human race is liable to a peculiar and constant waste from the development of the nervous system, and that the body has to answer for the labor of the mind.
Each of the two paths has its own peculiar advantages and detriments; and the chief difference between them is that actions are fleeting, while works remain.
He knows all the lands for miles round, and the peculiar soils and products of all the villages far and near.
Now I must remind you at the beginning that my mother and I had lived in that little house for two years; and in the whole of that time there had not been a single peculiar happening to worry us.
I come now to the end of the captain's ghost play; and to the difficulty of trying to explain the other peculiar things.
Among the requirements of the form which has to be filled up is one asking the applicant, in the interests of identification, to specify any peculiar skin marks.
The acknowledged merit of the officers and the peculiar fitness for the offices to which they were respectively appointed must preclude all objection on that head.
At this moment Henri, who had been at some distance engaged in the killing of one of the other bears, came rushing forward after his own peculiar manner.
These classes, each of which formed a distinct body within the State, carried on an existence peculiar to itself, and presented in its collective capacity a separate individuality.
Even in connection with these very parties there were tendencies peculiar to themselves, which could not fail in the end to mitigate the force of their own contentions.
From this consideration it is evident, that every man is his own peculiar love; yea, that he is the form of his love.
Of the peculiar fruits of this law, which we shall here distinguish by the general term mental pleasures, it is our purpose to treat in the present discourse.
The people of the region, cultivating this special product through generation after generation, seem to have developed a peculiar instinct for its treatment.
I say indulged; for he often, down to the last time that I ever saw him, came back to this subject, and seemed to take a peculiar pleasure in it.
He was therefore obliged to take for his guide a modern author, who had made this history the peculiar field of his researches.
He began by describing what they had done, and had completed two pages before he had said a word of their peculiar circumstances in regard to each other.
It is generally supposed that the extensive search after, and diffusion of, knowledge, is in a great measure peculiar to these present times.
To have a text corrupt in many places, and in many doubtful, is, among the authors that have written since the use of types, almost peculiar to Shakespeare.
It is with peculiar interest that we look upon the spot where the illustrious Cook cast anchor after his discovery of this Bay.
I had already noticed that it was of a dull gray color, but now, when I came to look at it more closely, I found the color so peculiar that I took it to the window and examined it with a lens.
And I think in her own peculiar way she realized that I was giving her all I had of strength and good will.
A pleasurable and excited state of mind, associated with affection, is exhibited by some dogs in a very peculiar manner, namely, by grinning.
It is a peculiar circumstance with regard to these creatures, that they never swim separately, but always either in pairs or larger companies.
For the mass of the people, little versed as they were in the estimate of such shades of difference, they had peculiar terrors.
She did not know whether the speaker gave a peculiar emphasis to that word, or whether it only sounded so to her ears.
This quality in him caused him to be exceptionally susceptible to the peculiar influences of the people among whom his lot was cast.
It was on her account also, he said, that he himself had descended, to free her from the chains they had laid upon her, and to offer to men salvation through a system of knowledge peculiar to himself.
This chap here, Alec Sands, has a peculiar old aunt in the city who is anxious to buy just such a quiet retreat as this place, where she wouldn't hear a sound, for she's got a case of nerves, you see.
His characters, though hailing from a world but little known, and often extreme and extremely peculiar, are on the whole normal.
Suddenly and seemingly without cause, he withdrew his army; and this peculiar action of his has been the wonder of historians ever since.
Hamilton, of Hull-House, whose long residence in an industrial neighborhood as well as her scientific attainment, give her peculiar qualifications for the undertaking.
Having tied the horses to a rail he knocked at the closed door, and Seth touched his master to warn him and draw his attention to the fact that the knock was peculiar and had a signal in it.
All the virtues peculiar to the sect to which she belonged shone in her, but she seemed to be unconscious of her merit.
In one corner was a travelling family, a large one: thence flowed into the common stock the peculiar sickly smell of neglected brats.
She has been ill, but was well last time I sent; but you know she has a peculiar pleasure in refusing her friends.
"It's a peculiar thing, too, for if he was hit hard enough to knock him down the bullet must have entered his body!"
The tunnel was a peculiar one for telephone wires; it was about eight feet high, and with a level floor nearly as wide.
The Fern Owl, showing the greater length of the middle claw, and its provision for the peculiar posture of the bird.
There could be no mistaking the all-metal body nor the peculiar wing spread, even at that distance of close to half a mile.
As I have elsewhere shown, this passage has a private and peculiar application to the apostles, and not to the world of mankind.
Having never before felt a passion like this, or of the gentle power, so peculiar to women, that, hard as I worked all day, I could not sleep at night for thinking of this almost angel in human shape.
Above all he wanted to know why he had succeeded, what peculiar gift had brought him out of obscurity, and had given him the ability to use men and circumstances as if they were tools in his hands.
"It is very strange to me that I noticed nothing peculiar in the boy's speech or manner at the time," added the principal.
The points of view in which he and his wife were contemplated by the little public about them were peculiar, but clearly distinct.
Amy was in a peculiar mood this morning, such as sometimes came upon her and made Peter say she was a chip of the old block, meaning the Colonel, who he never for a moment doubted was her father.
It was one of his peculiar merits, that, although open to conviction, and ready to try a new path which seemed to offer itself, he was also ready to turn from it when he found it leading him astray.
Probably the phenomenon is not peculiar to music, and shows itself more or less in other arts; but in no other art is it so dangerous, for no other has roots less firmly fixed in the soil of France.
On the tower are scrolls and images of peculiar meaning, and of large characters in gold and ravine metal, ornamented with transparent stones.
And she would say all through the list of her favorite heroines, and asked me if I minded their being peculiar, and I said of course not, why should you mind what women do who don't belong to you?
The Indians walked with the long rapid stride that is peculiar to them, and which the white man finds hard to simulate, and good traveler though he was Bob had to adopt a half run to keep their pace.
I shall always have a peculiar feeling to that dear kind Miss Bayley for what she has been to him these latter months.
It was very dark, and when it fell into her eyes she used to give her head a peculiar shake and toss, so that half of it fell the wrong way, and there was a parting at the side, like our partings.
It struck Harriet as peculiar that Tommy was able to sit on the water with nearly half her body out of the water.
They used spells and magic to keep it from being entered or found by anybody, for there was a certain mark upon it made by a peculiar rock that stuck out of it, which signified what there was below.
I was in my boat one day fishing for whiting, when I heard a peculiar noise behind me, and looking round, saw a huge monster rise from the sea about a hundred yards off, and make straight for me.
As we came in sight of the house, we were struck by the peculiar hush about it, and there were no lights in the windows.
I have always watched curiously new arrivals in Venice, for no other city in the world can be entered with such peculiar emotion.
It was the peculiar merit of this man that he was not vain, though much was done to him to fill him with vanity; and as the idea crossed his brain, he hated himself because it had been there.
Once in a while a dog will be found that no matter what color bitches he may be mated with, he will mark a certain number of the litter with the peculiar color or markings of some remote ancestor.
The carbon, the hydrogen, the nitrogen, the oxygen, and the lime, sulfur, iron, etc., in a living body are in no way peculiar, but are the same as these elements in the rocks and the soil.
This group of cascades is peculiar in that the steep of the fall is made not by the stream itself, but by the action of a greater river or of a glacier which may have some time taken its place.
It was at this colony, whose members were all strangers to me, that I learned in a peculiar way of the visiting habits of wood mice, and at the same time another lesson that I shall not soon forget.
Sammy Jay was so surprised that he couldn't find his tongue for a minute, and he didn't notice anything peculiar about that tree.
It is evidently the general interest that every individual in society should be employed in that peculiar work which he can best perform.
He uttered a peculiar noise and before Billie could imagine what it meant, he felt himself seized from behind by a pair of hairy hands.
In the procession of the swift-winged hours there is for every man one and another which is big with fate, in that they bring him peculiar opportunity to lose his life, and by that means find it.
Aunt Margaret was not one to tolerate the comings of any strange young man, and she had a peculiar dislike to the police.
In adding the new roof Langley raised the walls above the arches to carry it, giving a somewhat peculiar effect to the interior.
Eva, the beautiful Eva, had stood listening to her mother, with that expression of deep and mystic earnestness which was peculiar to her.
An excellent example of his peculiar method occurs in what is in some respects the most perfect of his works, the 'Scarlet Letter.'
He learns when and how long he is expected to sleep, when and how much to eat; he very soon finds out the peculiar touch and vocal tones of this person or that, and acts upon these distinctions.
When Apollo and the bull locked horns, after the latter had again gained his feet, his tremendous bulk pushed Apollo back, at the first onset; but they noticed a peculiar tactic on the part of Apollo.
By the union of these two ancestral strains a new personality is formed, a new individual is created, with its own peculiar characteristics.
Engagement brings its peculiar challenge, and again demands are made that surge with emotions and need to be dealt with consciously and practically.
As a host my father had a peculiar charm: the presence of visitors excited him, and made him appear to his best advantage.
And, with this very peculiar mode of dismissal, my father gently forced me out of the room, and closed the door upon me.
The last of these had charge of a small basket, which he now and then glanced at with a grin of peculiar satisfaction.
There is a peculiar quality of superiority which comes from dealing with realities that we do not find in the superficial city conditions.
At the top the man turned and stared at him for a few moments, with a peculiar look in his eyes; and the trees between them and the falls shut off much of the deep, booming noise.
If the scene on board the Zodiac appeared terrific during daylight, much more so was it when darkness added its own peculiar horrors.
They gave him as much encouragement as, under their peculiar circumstances, he could dare to wish for, or she could venture to intimate.
We say these are peculiar, for we believe that the faithful preacher and teacher carry special burdens of care and anxiety that tax not only the body and mind, but weigh most heavily on the heart.
When they at length laid him down in his tent, his mother, although obviously anxious, maintained a stern composure peculiar to her race.
We had thought that the love for these old mountains was peculiar to us who had grown up among them; but the cheer of the Creoles who had been with us under Jackson was as hearty as our own.
As the rush came he blew the whistle three times in the peculiar arrangement of long and short blasts that is the special police call, and swung the chair down with all his force on the leading man.
They would take hold of two of the ropes that were a little distance apart with their hands, and then, curling their legs round them in a peculiar manner below, they would mount up very easily.
Within experience mind is found in constant and definite association with that highly complex and peculiar disposition of matter called a living brain.
Here you look back on a very peculiar spot; it is a parcel of rocks which cross the lake, and form a gap that opens to distant water, the whole backed by Turk, in a style of the highest grandeur.
The merchant ships met with the average of accidents; but the transports were supposed, by the curious, to be under a peculiar destiny.
Not that we are still under the sway of that peculiar cult which beset us in the earlier part of the nineteenth century.
That, indeed, was one peculiar attraction of the town itself; it was old, and it seemed old, much older than it does now.
Then all at once there came the peculiar cry which had awakened him, and it had hardly died out when it was answered from the edge of the forest beyond the opening, at one side of which they lay.
There was a lowering, sullen look in his eyes and a certain displacement of their symmetry which was peculiar to them when troubled.
The foundation of his fortune was soon laid by his integrity and enterprise, but it was largely augmented in a most peculiar manner.