Walters was very earnest of mien, and very sincere and honest at heart; and he held sacred things and places in such reverence, and so separated them from worldly matters, that unconsciously to himself his Sunday-school voice had acquired a peculiar intonation which was wholly absent on week-days.
It consisted in a peculiar bird-like turn, a sort of liquid warble, produced by touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth at short intervals in the midst of the music—the reader probably remembers how to do it, if he has ever been a boy.
He had seen the crocodile pass by without noticing anything peculiar about it, but by and by he remembered that it had not been ticking.
And after they had gone a good many miles, one of them found peculiar footprints near the edge of a river; and they knew that a pushmi-pullyu must be very near that spot.
Researchers Discovered A New State Of Matter: Liquid Glass: Glass is truly a peculiar material.
Look, his English accent is peculiar.
The pagodas are not only peculiar buildings, but also a huge exquisite carving.
Perhaps they have a lisp, or they have a peculiar accent or pitch of voice.
If you are a Westerner traveling to China for the first time, there may be a few Chinese customs or ways of life that you may find peculiar.
The Cardinal Virtue of Prose Prose of its very nature is longer than verse,and the virtues peculiar to it manifest themselves gradually.
It sounds like a very mean and undemocratic thought, trading off the peculiar glamour that isolation has in a Romantic culture – in order to gain an oblique sense of superiority and perhaps pass off an absence of social skills as a virtue.
" She and I shared the peculiar frustration of judging a debating competition for secondary schools, supposedly on a motion about fake news.
Perhaps they have a lisp, or they have a peculiar accent or pitch of voice.
That's a peculiar distinction, given that the seven biggest malls—typically defined by gross leasable area—are all in Asia, with four of them in China.
While travellers might attribute Spain's late mealtimes to the country's laidback Mediterranean attitude, the real reason is a little more peculiar.
She said: "It is a bit peculiar because it looks like it's the Five Pounds that's speaking and not Winston Churchill.
I watched him taste the peculiar foods and float down a massive man-made lake, clustered with locals trying to find dinner.
" And then he began chirping his peculiar melancholy song, from which we have taken this history; and which may, very possibly, be all untrue, although it does stand here printed in black and white.
Antique shops exert a peculiar fascination on a great many people.
US corporate taxation is especially peculiar and hard to grasp and is painfully dysfunctional.
