#peculiar

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

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C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#certain #development #group #like #lot

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

#half #human #peculiarly #phenomenon #poet

I live and love in God's peculiar light. ↗

— Michelangelo

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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cabin #children #cold #comes #dawns

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#fear #kind #peculiar

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#bohemian #certain #elements #fault #found

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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