pecooliar

Rock seems to have what I may call a pecooliar destiny.

The Story of the Rock 1859

When Big Jim Belden ventured the apparently innocuous proposition that mush-ice was 'rather pecooliar,' he little dreamed of what it would lead to.

The Men of Forty Mile 2010

When Big Jim Belden ventured the apparently innocuous proposition that mush-ice was 'rather pecooliar,' he little dreamed of what it would lead to.

The Men of Forty-Mile 2010

That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

Great Expectations 2007

They're a pecooliar people, a darned pecooliar people, else they wouldn't staff all the menial and indecent occupations on the globe.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

'I have given some thought to the pecooliar psychology of the great German nation.

Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

"He certainly does, now, have pecooliar views," agreed the doctor.

Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch Helen Reimensnyder Martin 1903

Now that there was a man "-- the doctor settled himself comfortably, preparatory to the relation of a tale --" that there was a man that was so wonderful set on speculatin 'and savin' and layin 'by, that when he come to die a pecooliar thing happened.

Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch Helen Reimensnyder Martin 1903

That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

Collected Essays 1900

When Big Jim Belden ventured the apparently innocuous proposition that mush-ice was 'rather pecooliar,' he little dreamed of what it would lead to.

The Son of the Wolf Jack London 1896