curio
curiosity **

For a month I heard no more about the curio.

We may never find out just how and why this curio came to be.

This man of his put it in the curio room.

The kind that knows nothing about anything and just wants a curio to take home.

He went out by the door to the curio shop.

Such a set of documents, if for no other reason, had value as a curio.

He felt that the matter of the curios had been settled.

I opened the door between the bedroom and the curio room.

They were, thought Curio, very much the same kind of man, at least physically.

He pulled back the curtain behind some of the curios.

"He needs a gun to help protect this house while the curios are here."

Far from being a curio for scholars, however, this book is a major event.

He picked up a small statue of the fire god from among his curios.

My grandmother used to keep one in the curio cabinet.

These are sometimes used as canes or to make curios.

Once the curio had been removed from its context, most of the information it held was lost.

They were further exploited to provide curios for the tourists.

The curio cases scattered on the floor were antiques themselves.

Two such curios, seen together, were worth a prolonged survey.

The approaching person was coming to the curio dealer's office.

But the features of the room were the fireplace, the books, and the foreign curios.

She could make out only a few shadowy shapes of curios.

I turned down the street of the dealers in artifacts and curios.

It's quite a curio now, but I'm sure you can find it online somewhere.

Great markets sell everything from second hand curios to live snakes.

Curiosity finally gets the better of me and I turn around.

You might want to know what's going on simply out of curiosity.

More than 5,000 people in 31 states worked on Curiosity.

His curiosity was beginning to get the better of him.

He turned to look at her then, curiosity on his face.

She was only a woman, and curiosity got the better of her.

I asked, out of curiosity more than for any other reason.

Still no curiosity about where I had heard of them.

She was brought to me as a sort of local curiosity.

She did not even think of curiosity as to why.

But his curiosity was not all a matter of reason.

I knew his curiosity would get the better of him.

Would I ever view a country and a culture with more curiosity?

An American office staff would have looked at him with curiosity.

They looked at me with curiosity, but asked no questions.

She could sense his curiosity about her, but nothing else.

But his own curiosity was getting the better of him.

The interest and curiosity to the world around us is gone.

I had the curiosity to go and look at the place for myself.

They looked at him with open curiosity, but said not a word.

After the first day he had no curiosity at all.

Curiosity got the better of her, though, and she finally had to know.

My curiosity was strong, but one could not ask questions.

"Just out of curiosity, what might look good on a person who has had several children?"

I'd thought the way she looked at me sometimes was nothing more than curiosity.