Use "peculiarity" in a sentence

1. He was employed on account of that peculiarity of his nature; as the substance of his dealings was more in the arena of corporate reconnaissance, rather than 'over the counter' business

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2. There seemed to be dozens of these huge constructs in regular intervals, as if an architect blessed with godly sight had deemed to place them all over the landscape which in itself was another peculiarity: as far as the eye could see the horizon was covered in shades of greenery, spotted in parts by yellow and red patches

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3. Q: What is the peculiarity of their teaching?

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4. the peculiarity of my toes

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5. sick, clothing and helping the poor, the peculiarity of each case being that

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6. That peculiarity, or is it oddity,

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7. that was another cultural peculiarity of the Galilean people

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8. It was the one peculiarity associated with these houses he explained

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9. her down that I understood the peculiarity of the event

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10. ‘There is also, ladies and gentlemen, another peculiarity of this case which makes it quite exceptional in my experience

11. It's a peculiarity of the way the Company works that the jobs where you don't have to get your hands dirty are the best paid

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12. However, it is a peculiarity of Piscador biochemistry that Piscadors require the essential oil of the fish, piscoline, to produce and maintain the fatty tissues of the brain

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13. The baseball was shining white, but was a peculiarity

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14. the peculiarity of it and the fact that the Keys of David

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15. The elevator stopped on the fourth floor, a peculiarity that Feltus immediately recognized given that their suite was on the third floor, and prompted him to dash up the stairs so as not to lose her, especially now that his suspicions were insurmountable

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16. Julian was thirty but Mrs Simanovicz must have been in her seventies; had that been the problem with their son? They thought him innocent, of course, didn’t every parent? But they had to admit to his peculiarity

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17. psychical peculiarity of human character

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18. An additional very important peculiarity arises here

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19. The peculiarity here is that the divisions are not made in equal uniform intervals but proportionate to the decrease of spring force [18]

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20. This is a peculiarity of the epoch in which

21. It is a peculiarity of parents, reflected Ingeborg, that they are always being justified

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22. A Shift that equals 328 quantum-holographous “displacements” per second is just an individual property of our brain and a peculiarity of our psychic state

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23. Despite this peculiarity, the house feels cosy, and I shall be sleeping downstairs

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24. A striking peculiarity of the line is itsflexibility

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25. I cannot define it or describe this peculiarity

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26. A peculiarity: the minaret, in the shape of a telescope has a spiral staircase on the outside circling around it

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27. the violent exploits in peculiarity that have been masquerading as originality lately

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28. Originality is more concerned with sincerity than with peculiarity

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29. And if he has not, it is a matter of opinion whether he is not better employed in working along the lines of some well-tried manner that will at any rate keep him from doing anything really bad, than in struggling to cloak his own commonplaceness under violent essays in peculiarity and the avoidance of the obvious at all costs

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30. And self-conscious seeking after peculiarity only stops the natural evolution and produces abortions

31. But the instant we say it is a real circumstance, they assume an immediate importance, and that importance grows greater in proportion to its peculiarity in said narrative

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32. But the instant we declare it to be a real circumstance, it becomes significant, and because of its unusual peculiarity it grows in significance, for the reason that anything out of the ordinary in a real circumstance, always receives the more attention, and comment

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33. After every deduction from the doctrine on the side of its Athanasian form; after stripping the statement of the article of every special ecclesiastical peculiarity, even those of the second and third centuries,— when, as Dr

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34. There is, further, a noteworthy peculiarity in the doctrine of Christ and His apostles respecting the 'sonship, of ungodly men

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35. ’ I desire to point it out as an appalling peculiarity of Christ’s teaching, that He represents, in the strongest manner, the refusal of God to, acknowledge the 'sonship’ of 'sinners,’ or to allow of the claim that He is their 'Father’ until they repent

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36. Highly exaggerated notions are entertained by some writers respecting the peculiarity of the Greek Testament idiom: No sooner is it demonstrated that the identical terms which are employed in the New Testament books signify in the pages of Plato, in a discussion on immortality, and in all other known classical writers, literal destruction or abolition of life, than you are met with the statement that New Testament Greek has its own 'spiritual and secondary meanings,’ and cannot be rightly understood if we take its words in 'classical’ senses

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37. Accordingly every year of growing apostasy witnessed the decline of the primitive peculiarity, which attributed our life eternal to the Incarnation

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38. All the special influences of Eastern and Western thought were vigorously at work from the very beginning of the gospel to contravene the chief peculiarity of the Christian Revelation,—its declaration that immortality is the gift of God, through the Incarnation, to regenerate men alone

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39. But the Immortality revealed by the gospel is its most signal peculiarity

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40. sonal peculiarity) down the point where the stretching arrived

41. Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse

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42. We may note in passing, one peculiarity in regard to all the final resolutions taken by him in the matter; they had one strange characteristic: the more final they were, the more hideous and the more absurd they at once became in his eyes

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43. There was a peculiarity in his manner of shaking hands, always to be seen in any clerk at Tellson's who shook hands with a customer when the House pervaded the air

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44. Stryver remarked upon the peculiarity as if it would have been infinitely less remarkable if he had said it with his head off

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45. There was one peculiarity in Maria's mind: she was more anxious not to

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46. First among the virtues found in the State, wisdom comes into view, and in this I detect a certain peculiarity

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47. I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me

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48. Another peculiarity of taste he had, which was to present me with a

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49. Again he climbed the rocky height he had ascended the previous evening, and strained his view to catch every peculiarity of the landscape; but it wore the same wild, barren aspect when seen by the rays of the morning sun which it had done when surveyed by the fading glimmer of eve

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50. Wopsle's great-aunt's, with the pleasanter peculiarity that it seemed to come through a keyhole

51. Noirtier possessed this peculiarity, he never projected any Utopian schemes which could never be realized, but strove for possibilities, and he applied to the realization of these possibilities the terrible theories of The Mountain,—theories that never shrank from any means that were deemed necessary to bring about the desired result

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52. He offered his hand to the baroness, who, descending, took it with a peculiarity of manner imperceptible to every one but Monte Cristo

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53. He was dressed with all the English peculiarity, namely, in a blue coat, with gilt buttons and high collar, in the fashion of 1811, a white kerseymere waistcoat, and nankeen pantaloons, three inches too short, but which were prevented by straps from slipping up to the knee

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54. “Where,” asked he, with a look askance at them,—for it was the clergyman's peculiarity that he seldom, nowadays, looked straightforth at any object, whether human or inanimate,—“where, my kind doctor, did you gather those herbs, with such a dark, flabby leaf?”

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55. Not more by its hue than by some indescribable peculiarity in its fashion, it had the effect of making her fade personally out of sight and outline; while, again, the scarlet letter brought her back from this twilight indistinctness, and revealed her under the moral aspect of its own illumination

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56. It would have been impossible to guess that this bright and sunny apparition owed its existence to the shape of gloomy gray; or that a fancy, at once so gorgeous and so delicate as must have been requisite to contrive the child's apparel, was the same that had achieved a task perhaps more difficult, in imparting so distinct a peculiarity to Hester's simple robe

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57. It was a peculiarity of hers that

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58. Another peculiarity of taste he had, which was to present me with a dozen pairs of the whitest kid gloves at a time: these he would divert himself with drawing on me, and then biting off their finger ends; all which fooleries of a silly appetite, the old gentleman paid more liberally for, than most others did for more essential favours

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59. When Levin went into the restaurant with Oblonsky, he could not help noticing a certain peculiarity of expression, as it were, a restrained radiance, about the face and whole figure of Stepan Arkadyevitch

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60. The muscles of both hind- and fore-legs were not very thick; but across her shoulders the mare was exceptionally broad, a peculiarity specially striking now that she was lean from training

61. Vronsky and all his comrades knew Kuzovlev and his peculiarity of ‘weak nerves’ and terrible vanity

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62. The latter peculiarity took the form of a dislike to being left alone, especially after dark

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63. One peculiarity was observed in him

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64. I have said that there was no personal property which might help to identify him, but it is true that there was one peculiarity about this unknown young man which was much commented upon at the time

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65. It seems to have been a special nest of these vermins, and the slopes were alive with them, all writhing in our direction, for it is a peculiarity of the Jaracaca that he will always attack man at first sight

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66. Dorothea could fancy that it was alive now—the delicate woman's face which yet had a headstrong look, a peculiarity difficult to interpret

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67. A preference for round windows, and even round doors, was the chief remaining peculiarity of hobbit-architecture

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68. Another peculiarity in the general position of preferred stocks deserves mention

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69. A prevalent feature in these compositions was a nursed and petted melancholy; another was a wasteful and opulent gush of "fine language"; another was a tendency to lug in by the ears particularly prized words and phrases until they were worn entirely out; and a peculiarity that conspicuously marked and marred them was the inveterate and intolerable sermon that wagged its crippled tail at the end of each and every one of them

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70. There is this peculiarity in criminals

71. But the chief peculiarity of his speech was its directness and appositeness

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72. Though it was impossible to say in what the peculiarity of the horse and rider lay, yet at first glance at the esaul and Denisov one saw that the latter was wet and uncomfortable and was a man mounted

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73. This legitimate peculiarity of each individual which used to excite and irritate Pierre now became a basis of the sympathy he felt for, and the interest he took in, other people

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74. A peculiarity one sees in very young children and very old people was particularly evident in her

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75. I don’t know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me

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76. Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures

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77. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which that which is pitiless—that is to say, that which is brutalizing—predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a ferocious beast

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78. Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing really infallible in a human creature, and the peculiarity of instinct is that it can become confused, thrown off the track, and defeated

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79. The peculiarity of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses into spectators

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80. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance

81. Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other the redoubtable talents of a convict

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82. It is the peculiarity of certain persons and certain professions, notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical occasions

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83. The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced

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84. It was a flood tide complicated with a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people adored both Napoleon and liberty

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