In a curious device, repeated for each of the incidents, the omniscient narrator never actually shows us the details of the incident.

It was nearly thirty feet long and rolled on two curious devices which were not caterpillar treads, but not exactly wheels, either.

Inside, there was a brown glass bottle, and a curious device whose purpose eluded him.

Mounted against the far wall was a curious device, curious even by gnomish standards.

What's more, there was a curious, ancient orbital device at the equator, which the podia might find useful later.

A few curious devices hovered or tumbled in place, like tools abandoned in zero gravity.

For many years, and not so long ago, these curious devices were very nearly as common as typewriters.

Tom looked up blankly from the curious device which he was assembling on a workbench.

That was rather quick, she thought, looking steadily up at the curious device drifting over the stadium.