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Meanings of curious business in English

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Usage of curious business in English
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It's a curious business; the dinner, the mask, the veil, the mystery.
The Lure of the Mask
2
And there was that curious business of the keys and watch.
Desperate Remedies
3
It was curious business, this work of the radio secret service.
Curlie Carson Listens In
4
He has a curious business code and will not abandon it.
The Pride of Palomar
5
GROWING up, as I did, in Limerick during the Joy Division years was a curious business.
The Irish Times
6
It is a curious business, and adds yet another strange element to this strangest of lives.
Indiscreet Letters From Peking / Being the Notes of an Eye-Witne...
7
At last he remarked, 'Well, it is a curious business if what you say is true.
With Zola in England: A Story of Exile
8
Damned curious business the whole thing!
And Then There Were None
9
There is some curious business.
A Little Girl in Old Detroit
10
And Mifroid repeated, "Curious , decidedly curious business!"
The Phantom of the Opera
11
Alone in the library, she read to him, in French, those curious business documents which came so often by registered post.
The House of Whispers
12
'I say,' he went on, 'my mind is a curious business.
The Pomp of Yesterday
13
"I'm afeard you will think I have come on rather curious business-like-forme."
Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman
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"It's a curious business, certainly," said Isbister.
The sleeper awakes
15
"It is a curious business," said Sievers.
Vivian Grey
16
'Tas a most curious business.
The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
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