curio

• “There is one good feature of this minor appendage, however, which is the inside back cover, "Archive: a curio from the vaults of The Times".”

  Spy master Eric Ambler in The Times archive

• “Andy Baio of Waxy. org shares a curio from the past — Computability, in which Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows explain the concept of home computing to the layman of 1984.”

  2008 September : Scrubbles.net

• “I mean if you look at the issues that face the next papacy and you look at them from the perspective of this curio, which is very Euro-centric, most of the cardinals are European.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2005

• “The curio is my own property, and I will do just as I please with it.”

  A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta

• “The centre will also have a "lapa" for the staging of traditional dances, a small lodge to house tourists overnight and tourist-orientated businesses such as curio shops and safari companies to serve surrounding private game reserves.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “a hundred men each, with a centurion to command it; a priest called curio, to perform the sacrifices, and two of the principal inhabitants, called duumviri, to distribute justice.”

  Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome $b to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. $c By Wm. C. Taylor.

• “Upon Mr. Arbuthnot admitting that he studies Shakespere merely from a "curio" point of view, and that for the poetry he cared nothing,”

  The Life of Sir Richard Burton

• “Yüan-ming Yüan, or the "Bright Round Garden," to give it its proper name, had been laid out by the Jesuit fathers on the plan of the Trianon at Versailles, and was packed with valuable porcelain, old bronzes, and every conceivable kind of curio, most of which were looted or destroyed by the infuriated soldiery.”

  China and the Manchus

• “This is the species so often collected as a "curio," and on account of its very white under surface is much used for etching various figures.”

  Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.

• “I saw first one of our men and then another emerge from the crowd, go to the boat, and carefully deposit something -- probably a "curio" of some kind -- in her sternsheets, and then rejoin the laughing, gesticulating throng.”

  Turned Adrift

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