`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` But that was war '', I said.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.

This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I felt certain it was self-appointed.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

Nevertheless I was curious.

That was a very absurd and annoying situation in which I was placed by W. M.'s curious methods of handling me.

As everybody is curious to see the battery of glass tubes I have invented, I have had quite a small one made here of four glass tubes ( in Copenhagen I used 30 ) and intend to carry it with me ''.

I was curious about the impact of this political assassination on Negroes in Harlem, for Lumumba had -- has -- captured the popular imagination there.

And I was curious about the African reaction.

Again there was that curious pause, and then her mother said, `` I guess I do.

As I walked by, people exchanged whispered remarks, and half turned to cast curious glances.

It appears to me, that the general conclusions established by Mesmer ’ s practice, with respect to the physical effects of the principle of imagination [...] are incomparably more curious than if he had actually demonstrated the existence of his boasted science " animal magnetism ": nor can I see any good reason why a physician, who admits the efficacy of the moral psychological agents employed by Mesmer, should, in the exercise of his profession, scruple to copy whatever processes are necessary for subjecting them to his command, any more than that he should hesitate about employing a new physical agent, such as electricity or galvanism.

“ It is a curious fact that with ‘ Looking-Glass ’ the faculty of making drawings for book illustrations departed from me, and [...] I have done nothing in that direction since .”

Then, in I Samuel 10 and the texts that follow, a curious thing happens.

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

Other variants may add a " U " for " unsure "; a " C " for " curious "; an " I " for " intersex "; another " T " for " transsexual " or " transvestite "; another " T ", " TS ", or " 2 " for " Two ‐ Spirit " persons ; an " A " or " SA " for " straight allies "; or an " A " for " asexual ".

I went home and vomited ," which prompted curious audiences to seek out the film capable of making Dreyfuss ill.

For Hadrian was in any case, as I have said, very keen on the curious arts, and made use of divinations and incantations of all kinds.

I still remember exactly, for I was curious to see what Grynszpan looked like.

On 434 ..., I had a curious intuition ...

Then, in I Samuel 10 and the texts which follow, a curious thing happens.

French philosopher Jean Guitton said that Pope Paul VI's intention was to assimilate the Catholic liturgy to the Protestant :" The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy — but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord ’ s supper ... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, in the Mass and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.

The lower parts of the hall are panelled with inset paintings of a curious selection of modern worthies, including Protestants such as Elizabeth I and William the Silent ; Catholics such as Philip II and Ambrogio Spinola ; the explorers Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan, and Muhammadans such as Bajazet and Mohammed II, Sultans of Turkey ; it is thought this scheme might be rather earlier than the other work and date from the time of Thomas Charnock MP, who died in 1648.

It was a curious operation which after World War I suffered increasingly bad losses until the New South Wales Government closed the system in December 1926.