"He and I had had this peculiar acquaintance, without being aware of who the other was," said Mr. Putnam, who comes from a small town outside Boston.
Hardy said : "He combined a power of generalization, a feeling for form, and a capacity for rapid modification of his hypotheses, that were often really startling, and made him, in his own peculiar field, without a rival in his day.
At the same time we must remark, that however powerful and useful they may be as an instrument, they cannot be used with safety without considerable knowledge of the peculiar subjects, and without the exercise of great discretion in drawing results.
Skateboarding at the professional level is a peculiar enterprise, one without official rules and few contests that any skaters really care about — something that can happen anytime, anywhere.
The curators do not sanitize Degas, who was by all accounts a prickly and peculiar figure (even without getting into his known anti-Semitism or his suspected celibacy).
Soon afterward, she topped "Freeway of Love" with a gospel reprise, shouting, "Jesus!" It wouldn't be an Aretha show without peculiar moments.
The late start of the word "racism" has led some to think that the phenomenon itself must be relatively new; that it is, as Fredrickson summarizes the view, "a peculiar modern idea without much historical precedent".
In the story a sexual exchange unfolds between a couple whose way of showing affection is peculiar and not without pain, but, as we later observe through the eyes of the voyeur recounting the scene, it is also not without love.
The successful RF1 knockout in multiple strains indicates that RF1 dispensability is a general property of E. coli without peculiar requirements.
Without them he looked naked, peculiar, like a lorry cab without its trailer.
