To Mr. Mullican, language has a curious life of its own, apart from the things it describes.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life that sleep is not the most important thing.

A curious life, he thought, when he always cared most for whatever he was losing.

Then at last Ish realized that in this his curious life, he had now come close to the last stage of all.

It is a curious life, that of a Long Island commuter.

There it was going on in the background, for all those thousands of years, this curious silent unrepresented life.

And the interrogation of a civil employee with a curious domestic life is presented as a nasty martial inquisition.

Walton had led a curious life to that point.

To many who read him and observed his work, Mr. Louis often seemed as if he led a curious professional double life.

The son of a waitress and a photographer for the adult-film industry, Mr. Kirk, 31, has had a curious life.