Comic Paul Riley entertains college in a funny way

Usage examples of peculiarly.

He also wrote of his feelings about the peculiarly alluring cave, and of his predictions of what he would find.

If Ambry starts acting peculiarly I can try to get him to snap out of the spell or, if that fails, call a doctor.

She was peculiarly assiduous in exhibiting the relics with which this, like all other celebrated shrines, abounds.

Its eastern portion includes the lower branches of the storm paths, and on this account is peculiarly interesting, especially in a barometric point of view.

When it heard a larva burrowing under the bark, it ripped off the bark with its teeth and plunged in a peculiarly long middle finger to hook the larva and deliver it to its gaping, greedy mouth.

Geneva and Lausanne I understood that a more than American exclusivism prevailed in families that held themselves to be peculiarly good, and believed themselves very old.

Schizophrenia, you know, was once thought to mean possession by devils, and hydrocephalic idiots were considered peculiarly blessed.

Surely, as we read, those that have already seen all or most things, those who at their first birth have entered into the life-germ from which is to spring a metaphysician, a musician or a born lover, the metaphysician taking to the path by instinct, the musician and the nature peculiarly susceptible to love needing outside guidance.

It was all the fault of the Metroland area between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, which is what the tourists see: a land whose drainage had been completed only in the nineteenth century, and whose sandy soil is peculiarly adapted to flowering bulbs.

The nose was both fleshy and aquiline and mediated well between the top and bottom halves of the face, but the mouth was a mismatch of left and right sides that left the lips peculiarly twisted.

A seaside resort in midwinter is always a peculiarly depressing place, and La Panne was no exception.

This he was prevented from doing by the hurried entrance from the adjoining bedchamber of Miss Augusta Penistone, who begged him, somewhat incoherently, not to trouble himself, since she considered the task peculiarly her own.

He was a man of peculiarly Spanish turn of mind, fond of the brutal and the bloody, picturing inquisition scenes, bull-fights, battle pieces, and revelling in caricature, sarcasm, and ridicule.

These reeds, again, grow in a peculiarly uncomfortable, quaggy bottom, which rises and falls, or rather which jumps and sinks when you step on it, like the seat of a very luxurious arm-chair.

He was a smooth, rosily fat man wearing bright clothes and with a peculiarly marked ring on his finger.