There are often heaps of old local and world maps and postcards crying out to be framed, old-fashioned children's toys and books, mirrors, jewellery, candlesticks and all sorts of curious bric-a-brac that might just turn out to be treasure.
Even if bears aren't regularly found in the area you're hiking, it's important to protect yourself from all sorts of curious animals, who might want to sneak a bite.
A problem that shouldn't exist is forcing people to conduct business in all sorts of curious, and economically irrational, ways.
The walk which is between high trees on the market side which are shops full of all sorts of toys, silver, china, milliners and all sorts of curious wooden ware besides which there are two large coffee houses for tea, chocolate etc. and two rooms for the lottery and hazard board (i.e. for gambling)." —Celia Fiennes, 1697.
The notion of using favors as a sort of currency is a curious one, but we'll soon see if these guys can make it work.
Most of me didn't want to see that, but there was a tiny bit of me that was sort of curious and I'm disturbed that part is in me.
But when a trusted friend told me Game of Thrones was based on a series of popular fantasy novels he'd become addicted to, I got sort of curious.
But as one who has always viewed American English as a sort of junk shop, stacked with bins of curious rules and tools useful mostly to journeyman quantum mechanics, I saw another way to look at the sentence.
"And I'm sort of curious.
I'm just sort of curious, why Serena?
