curiosity

Consider, for example, the dodecahedron, a favorite object in many mathematical cabinets of curiosities.

I noticed a picture of her daughter, who was my classmate, and out of curiosity visited her page.

In fact, I publicly vowed to abstain from The Ball in 2012, but professional responsibilities and curiosity got the better of me.

I remember being appalled that he killed off Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop.

However, several probes—most recently the Curiosity rover—have measured methane in the Martian atmosphere.

“Curiosity cabinets are really a 16th century thing of trying to understand the world,” Wynd says.

Sam sat opposite him in perfect silence, waiting, with eager curiosity, for the termination of the scene.

She had never had this curiosity in relation to George Cannon--she had only wondered about his affairs with other women.

Miss Thangue sat forward with the frank curiosity of the Englishwoman when inspecting a foreign specimen.

Her directness had made all possible 'buts' seem ridiculous and futile, and had made the expression of curiosity seem offensive.

She had done with little things, and Isabel, with young curiosity, wondered in what convulsion the last of them had gone down.