What killed the cat, in a saying

Usage examples of curiosity.

It was the first time he had got abovestairs, but I think he might have quelled his curiosity.

Once, for no reason other than intellectual curiosity, Adams rode to Windsor to call on the famous English astronomer Sir William Herschel, whose crowning achievement had been the discovery of the planet Uranus.

VISITORS CONTINUED to call out of curiosity or genuine friendship, and Adams took pleasure in nearly all.

On her second day home, Elizabeth had gone with Nathaniel to call on her father and brother, but a very grim-faced Curiosity had told her that the judge and Julian had just left for Albany, on business they would not name.

From allover the island people came to give honor to the new battle chieftain and to gaze with curiosity upon the foreign-born berserker who could wield the shapeshifting magic of their ancestors.

It was fortunate for me that I did not procure these volumes till I had heard them very generally spoken of, for the curiosity I felt to know the contents of a work so violently anathematised, led me to make enquiries which elicited a great deal of curious feeling.

Fitzpatrick looked with bemused curiosity at the aquarium on the inner wall, where angelfish flitted back and forth in an endless exploration of their small world.

The police posted a guard on the highway, in case the Angels got restless and tried to get back to town, but there was no way to seal the camp off entirely, nor any provision for handling local innocents who might be drawn to the scene out of curiosity or other, darker reasons not mentioned in police training manuals.

It must be remembered that limits of space have forbidden satisfactory discussion of the cases, and the prime object of the whole work has been to carefully collect and group the anomalies and curiosities, and allow the reader to form his own conclusions and make his own deductions.

He followed, his whiskers aquiver with an intense rush of curiosity he could not quite subdue.

With a gallant show of anticipation, a sprig of geranium in his lapel, he set out for the train on that fateful morning, while Little Arcady awaited his return with a cordial curiosity.

It sometimes tricked him, however, for passers occasionally kept looking at the huge Ashanti through curiosity.

Bullen slunk away when it was extended protectingly above him, but the warriors now gazing at it were evidently animated only by a respectful curiosity.

Tawtry House not only offered a ready welcome and bountiful hospitality to the occasional hunter, trader, or traveller tempted by business or curiosity into that wild region, but to the Indians who still roamed the forest at will and had established one of their villages at no great distance from it.

Recognizing the bottle of Barolo to be one of the pair her father had rescued from Fiamma dTnfer, Pandoras curiosity grew exponentially.