1 And as for the exotic viands the Irish ate at the siege-- personally I'd as soon eat a nice juicy rat as some of the victuals they've been serving me recently at the hotel.
2 Lamb chops were as exotic as sharks' fins.
3 She remembered the feeble exotic quality to be found in the first-generation Scandinavians; she recalled the Norwegian Fair at the Lutheran Church, to which Bea had taken her.
4 But if I could put through all those reforms at once, I'd still want startling, exotic things.
5 What once was a large garden was now all grown over with weeds, through which, here and there, some solitary exotic reared its forsaken head.
6 Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.
7 It gave me the notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence.
8 Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
9 There is something tropical and exotic about her which forms a singular contrast to her cool and unemotional brother.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson 10 The thick, warm air of the conservatory and the rich, choking fragrance of exotic plants took us by the throat.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 11 Amid the scattered property and the crowd on the open space, she, in her rich satin cloak with a bright lilac shawl on her head, suggested a delicate exotic plant thrown out onto the snow.