Young children are naturally curious about the world and everything in it.

I was ſo curious likewiſe as to goe to the place, where it is ſaid the great tower of Babel was built, being about halfe a days iourney diſtant; where I ſawe nothing but a high mountaine of earth in the midſt of a plaine where in digging you may finde certaine bricks, whereof it is ſaide the tower is built.

Jack Bradshaw, the leader of the Owl Patrol of the Redscar Scouts, strode to the dry stone wall bounding the cliff path, and drew from between the stones a ball of crumpled paper. He was curious as to why it had been placed there—where it could not have lodged accidentally—and he smoothed it out. He found it to be pencilled over with figures, like a scrap that had been used to reckon on.

George is a little monkey, / and all monkeys are curious. / But no monkey / is as curious as George. / That is why his name is / Curious George.

I know that not everyone feels like they are naturally curious—or bold enough to ask about someone's shoes. But here's the secret: that doesn't matter. You can use curiosity even if you don't think of yourself as instinctively curious.

The platypus is a curious creature, with fur like a mammal and a beak like a bird.

1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter xxxi, leaf 232v
Thenne at the mete cam in Elyas the harper & by cause he was a curyous harper men herd hym synge the same lay that Dynadan had made
"Then at the meat came in Eliot the harper, and because he was a curious harper men heard him sing the same lay that Dinadan had made"

Abundance of Samphire, and a curious bulboſe Plant, creſted with little Flowers ſtriped with white and Cinnamon colour.

"But the curiousest thing a'most as I ever see at sea," resumed the mate, with an air of abstraction, and filling himself another glass of grog—"a'most the curiousest thing I ever see was when I was a coming home from Quebec in the old Jane— …"

What was the curiousest thing he had seen? Well! He didn't know. He couldn't momently name what was the curiousest thing he had seen—unless it was a Unicorn—and he see him once at a Fair.

There are many curious varieties of cirrus, some common and some rare. They have strange movements, at times shooting out long streamers in a direction quite different from that of the drift of the cloud itself across the sky.

It's not what I'm used to / Just wanna try you on / I'm curious for you / Caught my attention

… For he that is curious of his time, will not eaſily be unready and unfurniſhed.

A pious woman [i.e., Catherine of Aragon] … little curious in her clothes, being wont to say, she accounted no time lost, but what was laid out in dressing of her; …

[T]he Water was very thick, and naſty; … however it ſerv'd our Purpoſe, for at that Time we were not very curious.

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