curus

This animal was from Poland, and was called a 'curus'; it was a kind of ox, though much larger than an ordinary ox, with a mane like a lion, horns rather short and somewhat curved, and enormously large at the base.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

This animal was from Poland, and was called a 'curus'; it was a kind of ox, though much larger than an ordinary ox, with a mane like a lion, horns rather short and somewhat curved, and enormously large at the base.

Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895

This animal was from Poland, and was called a 'curus'; it was a kind of ox, though much larger than an ordinary ox, with a mane like a lion, horns rather short and somewhat curved, and enormously large at the base.

Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete Louis Constant Wairy 1811

Cicero, Plutarch, and others — that the atom of Epi - curus was endowed with a so-called clinamen of his invention.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

It must surprise the modern reader to observe that Epi - curus supported his doctrine of freedom by a strict atomic materialism.

FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY AUSTIN FARRER 1968

A curus way to git relief; but my diversions, them times, was somewhat limited.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

"Colored people are curus folks," ejaculated Basset

The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

If you print em I wish you'd jest let folks know who hosy's father is, cos my ant Kesiah used to say it's nater to be curus ses she, she aint livin though and he's a likely kind o lad.

Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans Sherwin Cody

But Captin, 'I'll tell ye, she's a curus leetle critter as ever ye see.

Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage

And I think yet my mind was some expanded by that experience, -- it driv me to such curus devices.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various