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    1. He appeared to view Sam as a peculiar species of alien, and so he failed


    2. "Rafa!" The big man lumbered into the room bringing his peculiar body odor with him


    3. We both knew that this relationship was peculiar to our situation, that neither one of us would or could wish it to continue beyond the walls of confinement


    4. “He is quite intelligent, and has a most peculiar sense of humor


    5. called because of the peculiar physical sensation that


    6. A Peculiar Priest and his or her


    7. “Someone told me once that the muscles in the calves of the legs are peculiar


    8. The light had that peculiar, almost


    9. The market town of Sarlat is one of those peculiar towns


    10. children – peculiar to that land of unbridled passion

    11. I visited the peculiar looking Church of the Crusaders


    12. Everything that was peculiar and displeasing in them--that Kay knew how to imitate: and at such times all the people said, "The boy is certainly very clever!" But it was the glass he had got in his eye; the glass that was sticking in his heart, which made him tease even little Gerda, who loved him completely


    13. walk in a peculiar wisdom that is out of this world


    14. Almost every class of artificers is subject to some peculiar infirmity occasioned by excessive application to their peculiar species of work


    15. If it is not complied with, the consequences are often dangerous and sometimes fatal, and such as almost always, sooner or later, bring on the peculiar infirmity of the trade


    16. High wages of labour and high profits of stock, however, are things, perhaps, which scarce ever go together, except in the peculiar circumstances of new colonies


    17. with the ancient profit in that species of industry which is peculiar to them


    18. It is with such vineyards only, that the common land of the country can be brought into competition ; for with those of a peculiar quality it is evident that it cannot


    19. This flavour, real or imaginary, is sometimes peculiar to the produce of a few vineyards; sometimes it extends through the greater part of a small district, and sometimes through a considerable part of a large province


    20. Gold, too, is much more liable to be smuggled than even silver; not only on account of the superior value of the metal in proportion to its bulk, but on account of the peculiar way in which nature produces it

    21. I shall only observe at present, that this rise in the value of silver, in proportion to that of corn, has not been peculiar to England


    22. the steady gaze of the peculiar little man must have


    23. A weaver cannot apply himself entirely to his peculiar business, unless there is before-hand stored up somewhere, either in his own possession, or in that of some other person, a stock sufficient te maintain him, and to supply him with the materials and tools of his work, till he has not only completed, but sold his web


    24. This accumulation must evidently be previous to his applying his industry for so long a time to such a peculiar business


    25. But the easy terms upon which the Scotch banking companies accept of repayment are, so far as I know, peculiar to them, and have perhaps been the principal cause, both of the great trade of those companies,and of the benefit which the country has received from it


    26. the expenses peculiar to a bank consist chiefly in two articles: first, in the expense of keeping at all times in its coffers, for answering the occasional demands of the holders of its notes, a large sum of money, of which it loses the interest; and, secondly, in the expense of replenishing those coffers as fast as they are emptied by answering such occasional demands


    27. As the quantity of stock to be lent at interest increases, the interest, or the price which must be paid for the use of that stock, necessarily diminishes, not only from those general causes which make the market price of things commonly diminish as their quantity increases, but from other causes which are peculiar to this particular case


    28. The law which secures the longest leases against successors of every kind, is, so far as I know, peculiar to Great Britain


    29. It was a peculiar feeling, the sense that he could trust this stranger


    30. Holland is the country in Europe in which they abound most, and which, from peculiar circumstances, continues to prosper, not by means of them, as has been most absurdly supposed, but in spite of them

    31. But though the carrying trade certainly deserves no peculiar encouragement, though the motive of the institution was, perhaps, abundantly foolish, the institution itself seems reasonable enough


    32. But that degradation in the value of silver, which, being the effect either of the peculiar situation or of the political institutions of a particular country, takes place only in that country, is a matter of very great consequence, which, far from tending to make anybody really richer, tends to make every body really poorer


    33. The rise in the money price of all commodities, which is in this case peculiar to that country, tends to discourage more or less every sort of industry which is carried on within it, and to enable foreign nations, by furnishing almost all sorts of goods for a smaller quantity of silver than its own workmen can afford to do, to undersell them, not only in the foreign, but even in the home market


    34. It is the peculiar situation of Spain and Portugal, as proprietors of the mines


    35. Spain and Portugal, therefore, could suffer very little from their peculiar situation, if they did not aggravate its disadvantages by their political institutions


    36. A boat-fishery, therefore, seems to be the mode of fishing best adapted to the peculiar situation of Scotland, the fishers carrying the herrings on shore as fast as they are taken, to he either cured or consumed fresh


    37. The enumerated commodities are of two sorts ; first, such as are either the peculiar produce of America, or as cannot be produced, or at least are not produced in the mother country


    38. Of this kind are molasses, coffee, cocoa-nuts, tobacco, pimento, ginger, whalefins, raw silk, cotton, wool, beaver, and other peltry of America, indigo, fustick, and other dyeing woods; secondly, such as are not the peculiar produce of America, but which are, and may be produced in the mother country, though not in such quantities as to supply the greater part of her demand, which is principally supplied from foreign countries


    39. This second way of encouraging the colony produce, by bounties upon importation, is, so far as I have been able to learn, peculiar to Great Britain: the first is not


    40. It has, in all cases, forced some part of that capital from the trade with Europe, and with the countries which lie round the Mediterranean sea, to that with the more distant regions of America and the West Indies ; from which the returns are necessarily less frequent, not only on account of the greater distance, but on account of the peculiar circumstances of those countries

    41. Tommy was a most peculiar boy in some ways, and this was one of his peculiarities


    42. The subjects of our case histories were unique - they were all in their thirties, very sexually aware, and very determined to fulfil their passionate needs in their own peculiar manner


    43. Our woollen manufacturers, in order to justify their demand of such extraordinary restrictions and regulations, confidently asserted, that English wool was of a peculiar quality, superior to that of any other country; that the wool of other countries could not, without some mixture of it, be wrought up into any tolerable manufacture; that fine cloth could not be made without it ; that England, therefore, if the exportation of it could be totally prevented, could monopolize to herself almost the whole woollen trade of the world; and thus, having no rivals, could sell at what price she pleased, and in a short time acquire the most incredible degree of wealth by the most advantageous balance of trade


    44. Restraints, either by prohibitions, or by taxes, upon the exportation of goods which are partially, but not completely manufactured, are not peculiar to the manufacture of leather


    45. Chris was having a most peculiar dream


    46. It is the wisdom of the state only, which can render it for his interest to give up the greater part of his time to this peculiar occupation ; and states have not always had this wisdom, even when their circumstances had become such, that the preservation of their existence required that they should have it


    47. This time it was by recommendation of the chief medical consultant who’d treated him for injuries from some peculiar accident, citing possible psychological abnormalities (not that she could define what normal is, or look to herself as an example these days)


    48. The members of the committee of nine being all merchants, and the governors and factors in their different forts and settlements being all dependent upon them, it is not unlikely that the latter might have given peculiar attention to the consignments and commissions of the former, which would establish a real monopoly


    49. There was a peculiar translucent white shimmering around him, like a morphogenic aura; this must be some kind of deflector field


    50. Almost every different congregation might probably have had a little sect by itself, or have entertained some peculiar tenets of its own












































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