The effect of the Xenia was to set literary Germany agog with curiosity.

Some days later the house was agog with curiosity.

She paused, realizing that Mrs. Bendish, under her mask of scepticism, was agog with curiosity.

The country people who knew the story came, agog with curiosity, to ask news of Toine.

Rory, agog with curiosity, ignored him.

Hugh was agog with curiosity.

Here, it would appear, was one of those friendships between man and woman that occasionally set the world agog with curiosity and scepticism.

An uncalled-for piece of information which has only the effect of setting the bucolic mind of the local porter agog with curiosity and wonderment.