Scotch friend and I stepped ashore with the intention of visiting an Indian curiosity-shop. ❋ Unknown (2007)
We made several purchases at an Indian curiosity-shop, where we paid for the articles about six times their value, and meanwhile our driver took the opportunity of getting “summat warm,” which very nearly resulted in our getting something ❋ Unknown (2007)
I say she died that night: and he — he, the heartless, the villain, the betrayer, — you saw him seated in yonder curiosity-shop, by yonder guillotine, with his scoundrelly head in his lap. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It was a jumble of tavern and curiosity-shop; and though there was nothing there remotely suggesting the cult of the Monkey, it is, of course, possible that some of its images or talismans were in such a place. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And while the old man totters into the little back parlor, and, giving way to his emotions, throws himself upon the bosom of his fond daughter, to whom he discloses his troubles, Mr. Hardscrabble puts locks and bolts upon his curiosity-shop. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Therefore, it was not until I had been soothed with an excellent lunch, and the contents of a very long tumbler, that I felt strong enough to take an intelligent interest in the contents of the Maharana's curiosity-shop! ❋ T. R. Swinburne (N/A)
_, I may was well jot down two more odd sayings from the same old curiosity-shop: -- "As proud as old COLE's dog which took the wall of a dung-CART, and got CRUSHED by the wheel." ❋ Various (N/A)
Reader, have you in your house a _vivarium_ or _aquarium_, or any other variety of animal curiosity-shop, under care of the younger members? ❋ Various (N/A)
The tide is out, and the huge black block of compact limestone called God's Rock, with its almost perpendicular strata, lies all uncovered in the morning sun -- a vast curiosity-shop where children clamber about and search for strange creatures of the sea. ❋ Various (N/A)
Rome, as you must some day, you will always harbor a small canker-worm of immitigable grief, that you did not purchase one stone you saw and thought too high-priced; and will pass thenceforward no curiosity-shop without looking in the windows a moment, in the hope of finding some gem strayed away into parts where no man knows its value. ❋ Various (N/A)
The long-looked-for hour has arrived, and Crusoe and Friday emerge from their "den," as Miss Verne contemptuously designated the curiosity-shop. ❋ Rebecca Agatha Armour (N/A)
In one of the side streets of a city which fronts on Long Island Sound is to be found a curiosity-shop whose show-window challenges the attention of all lovers of the quaint and queer by its jumble of cracked and ancient porcelain, old-fashioned brasses and small articles of more or less valuable bric-à-brac. ❋ Various (N/A)
You will find there revolutionists like boorish Ribalta, who is ending in a curiosity-shop a life more eventful than the most eventful of the sixteenth century. ❋ Various (N/A)
"My name is not Snowball, and this ain't a curiosity-shop," replied Kinch. ❋ Frank J. Webb (N/A)
What on earth can the most stay-at-home of British artists have to do with that out-of-the-way old curiosity-shop of the American continent? ❋ Various (N/A)
The whole aspect of the place is shabby and dingy, and the antique furniture has no chance of showing either its worth or its dignity amid such surroundings; yet the traffic which goes on in this "curiosity-shop" has already brought a respectable fortune to the owner, and promises, if the rage for revivals of ancient fashions continues, to make him a capitalist. ❋ Various (N/A)
You've made an old curiosity-shop out of your stomach. ❋ Unknown (1924)
I thought the remark rather delicious, as also his other remark when one day in a curiosity-shop we were looking at another chair, which the dealer declared to be Norman. ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)
I haven't seen the curiosity-shop for some time. ' ❋ Arthur Machen (1905)
