Jan Compagnie was a curious beast, seventeen al powerful men who did not know the East at firsthand, makin decisions that influenced half the world.

"See that curious little beast over there?"

This was to another curious beast that was straining towards him from the end of its chain.

Yet the curious beast flies!

A curious beast, it appeared half-fox and half-badger, but with the grace and virtue of neither.

But in practice, the New Musical Express at the end of the 1960s was a curious beast indeed.

The donkey was a curious little beast, and he was forever getting in my way.

Dagmar stared at the drow with amazement, much as a child might regard some curious, mythical beast who had inexplicably broken into song.

They are energetic, curious beasts, mostly black with an occasional splotch of brown.

What a curious, magnificent beast is "La Damnation de Faust."