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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
— Alfred Russel Wallace
With Clinton, of course, the term "world stage" was peculiarly literal: he had a fading vaudevillian's desperation to be loved.
— Mark Steyn
Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.
— Ichabod Spencer
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.
— Kenneth Grahame
They wanted to rock, they wanted to roll, they wanted to feel the peculiarly human feeling of having a perfect night in an imperfect world.
— Rebecca Wells
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
— Chinua Achebe
The comfort was peculiarly chilling.
— Shannon A. Thompson
In one sense, (Duchamp's) "The Large Glass" is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.
— Robert Hughes
Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England
— Washington Irving
There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.
— Cassandra Clare
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
— Yehudi Menuhin
THAT SCAR. SHE DREW HER EYES FROM IT BUT THEY DESCENDED AGAIN AND YET AGAIN UNTIL SHE FELT PECULIARLY DROWNED IN THE GUILTY MARK.
— Rachel Heffington
Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
— Isaac Barrow
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.
— Jeanette Winterson
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.
— Albert Pike
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
— Lionel Trilling
Modern economic thinking ... is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
— E.F. Schumacher
Time took on a peculiarly viscous quality.
— Julie Anne Long
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
— W.G. Sebald
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
— P.G. Wodehouse
An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.
— Charles Baudouin
Despite their displays of bravado, young boys can be peculiarly susceptible to atmosphere
("Between Four Yews") — Reggie Oliver
("Between Four Yews") — Reggie Oliver
Time was a peculiarly elastic measurement. It was an empty space, given meaning only by what it contained, and afterwards distorted in memory.
— Anne Perry
My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
— H.P. Lovecraft
And so the greatest of American triumphs ... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.
— Robert M. Gates