That's the nature of reality, and it seems peculiar that different people with their senses intact would experience it subjectively.
The local people have a peculiar habit ,They dislike visitors.
A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage--a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks.
Even as he did so, he reeled, put his hand to his throat, stood swaying for a moment, and then, with a peculiar sound, fell from his whole height face foremost to the floor.
My profession is literature; and in that profession there are fewer experiences for women than in any other, with the exception of the stage--fewer, I mean, that are peculiar to women.
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct.
He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.
" After explaining the peculiar qualities of each, the princess continued: "It was a Mussulman devotee who told me all this, and where they might all be found.
When his years were over, the master said, as you have conducted yourself so well, I give you an ass of a peculiar kind, which neither draws a cart nor carries a sack.
While they were both in pleasant mood, wending their way homewards, and the uncle whistling the tune of a song he had learnt in his young days, they suddenly heard a peculiar sound which seemed to come from the top of the mountain.
" We hear what is called the "Wester-wow-wow"—the peculiar roar of the North Sea as it breaks against the western coast of Jutland.
Alfred again spoke of Italy, and of the glorious colors in Italian scenery; the purple hills, the deep blue of the Mediterranean, the azure of southern skies, whose brightness and glory could only be surpassed in the north by the deep-blue eyes of a maiden; and he said this with a peculiar intonation; but she who should have understood his meaning looked quite unconscious of it, which also was charming.
' This was a view that might be taken, and I don't think it quite a peculiar one; but for all that, the fir tree looked very well: it was like a little poetry in the dust-heap; and truly there is dust enough in the streets on moving-day.
There was a peculiar fragrance about them all, for they were incense vessels, which had been swung before the altars in the temples by the Christian priests.
There it lay empty, and without a cork, and it had a peculiar feeling, as if it wanted something it knew not what.
Her hair was black as ebony, her eye dark as night, yet full of light and brilliancy so peculiar to the daughters of the east.
It was in a large house with dark windows and empty rooms, in which a peculiar stillness reigned.
" The old man, who was indeed Death himself, nodded his head in a peculiar manner, which might have signified either Yes, or No; and the mother cast down her eyes, while the tears rolled down her cheeks.
Persons often give their servants finer cloth for their liveries than for their own clothes, and so I have dressed out my shadow like a man; nay, you may observe that I have even given him a shadow of his own; it is rather expensive, but I like to have things about me that are peculiar.
Large rocks, covered with moss of various hues, were lying about; the fresh spring water rippled forth with a peculiar sound.
