It is one of the more curious quirks of the publishing business that famous authors' advances frequently rise in inverse proportion to the sales of their books.

And the next minute they were laughing, laughing over some curious quirk in the dead person's character.

Pomponia did, however, have one curious quirk.

Leetch escaped punishment, a curious quirk of jurisprudence.

But as non-believers, by a curious quirk in Arab and Moslem thinking, they were not liable to the ultimate penalty for most offences.

Doug was looking at that space, wondering if by some curious quirk he had replaced the thin volume there.

Tregarth had been often brought up short in his estimation of these peoples by just some curious quirk such as this.

The real time function is not without some curious quirks.

But then he looked up, and a curious quirk came and went she had not seen in years.

Clarence, by some curious quirk of fate that again linked the Mowbrays with the royal family, had been arrested on the day following Anne's wedding and subsequently judicially executed.