Office workers, people chatting on cell phones, tourists - they all hang over the side of bridges to stare, take pictures and ask where they, too, can rent the curious contraptions.

Globalization: it's a curious contraption of a word, a noun built on a verb, globalize, built on an adjective, global, built on a noun, globe.

That small room, where the most important books and magical apparatus were kept, was a windowless place having a single worktable and a tier of shelves holding curious contraptions, some protected by glass covers.

On a desk by the far wall was a curious contraption, a box, grey on three sides but with one black side facing towards a chair.

Hovering over his head was a curious contraption of metallic construction, which was vaguely similar to an ultra-violet lamp, but in its true nature it was considerably different.

Just beyond the tree stood a curious contraption.

Then he noticed a curious contraption at the far end of the court and forgot Nnanji's troubles for a moment.

THE curious contraption The Shadow had already noticed was wheeled in front of the projector.

The work was as old as dragonkind and showed, among other things, a man on foot, carrying upon his back a curious contraption.

This was much smaller than the fire control room, and it held only one machine--a curious contraption, completely unknown to Kirk.