Writers like Andersen and Grimm were a peculiar breed, and illustrators of their sick dreams were probably worse.

"You have to be a peculiar breed of cat to really enjoy it," he said.

Sinjon frowned and tilted his head to one side, squinting at her as if trying to identify a peculiar breed of butterfly.

This bar was a meeting place for 42nd Street hustlers, a peculiar breed of four-flushing, would-be criminals.

Patent lawyers are a peculiar breed, as comfortable with slide rules and periodic tables as they are with casebooks.

That is why all Hopp-Equation pilots are of a peculiar breed.

Ms. Hevener, who goes by the nickname Handy, is one of a breed peculiar to Washington.

They are peculiar breed!

Gus is that peculiar breed of creature-we're not sure if they're human or not- known as the 'news photographer.'

Editors are a peculiar breed; they don't know how to read a hand- written manuscript.