I felt a mild and childish curiosity about my surroundings but no fear.

This was her childish curiosity in operation, perhaps foolish, but quite compelling.

I was surprised myself, and I felt a childish curiosity to see what would hap- pen next.

But childish curiosity to see what adults did when children were not about was marking foundations on which adolescent, and later, adult consciousness would stand.

They are built differently from most of us: Their precious childish curiosity, a reporter's greatest asset, never flags with age.

It must have started as childish curiosity and advanced to something else.

She causes trouble, although this is a result of childish curiosity.

She picked it up, and examined it with childish curiosity.

Still he felt, through all his alarm, a kind of childish curiosity to see the result of the pursuit.