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.
All that was peculiar or disagreeable in a person he would imitate directly, and people said, "That boy will be very clever; he has a remarkable genius.
We know it, we know it," and the flowers nodded with their heads in a peculiar manner.
Over everything lay a peculiar blue radiance, as if it were surrounded by the air from above, through which the blue sky shone, instead of the dark depths of the sea.
