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Sentences ending with eccentric

He was a very charming man, but very eccentric. [5]
I had an old great-aunt, who was a tip-top eccentric. [6]
His master's way of life was peculiar,--in fact, eccentric. [6]
Quite eccentric! [12]

More example sentences with the word eccentric in them

The intellectual interests were first with her, but she might be equal to sacrificing them; she had the best heart, but she might know how to harden it; if she was eccentric, her social orbit was defined; comets themselves traverse space on fixed lines. [8]
The book sold well, and the eccentric personage was voted a novelty. [6]
Of Bolkonski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife with his eccentric father. [2]
Among his companions was a young French officer and an eccentric, garrulous doctor from America. [4]
The artist said to himself, "I think he is a little eccentric, perhaps, but that is all. [5]
For all that, their operations may be as essential as the other, in which the will-power sometimes gets into a deadlock, and sometimes telegraphs the most eccentric and incomprehensible orders. [4]
He says that the world is more complex, varied, and a thousand times as interesting as it was in what we call its youth, and that it is as fresh, as individual and capable of producing odd and eccentric characters as ever. [4]
There was, in the lower House, a young man by the name of Harper, a lawyer from Brighton, who was sufficiently eccentric not to carry a pass. [9]
He pushed the table nearer the window, and the singing of the choir in the church came in upon him as his pen seemed to etch words into the paper, firm, eccentric, meaning. [11]
Again the steward shook his head; this vast, unexpected inheritance did not seem to make half so deep an impression upon the eccentric blind man as the news received a short time ago that his trivial debt to the goldsmith Chello was already settled. [10]
For the solid sciences I had no particular fancy, but with mental modes and habits, and especially with the eccentric and fantastic in the intellectual and spiritual operations, I was tolerably familiar. [4]
The letter, I say, had taken a different aspect, but still its language was eccentric and avoided the issue. [5]
We are always on the lookout for the odd, the eccentric, the whimsical. [4]
I do not, of course, know what they thought of me, but I believe most of them expected me to come out in a more marked, eccentric, striking light. [14]
It is very natural, and I do not say it is not very proper, to hang such eccentric persons as this; but it is not clear whether his vagaries produce any more sensation at Headquarters than the meek enterprises of the mildest of city missionaries. [6]
Amasis himself retains more affection than he likes to acknowledge to us, for this absurd and insipid religion--a religion which appears doubly sacred to its adherents simply because it has existed in this eccentric land--unchanged for thousands of years. [10]
But though I may seem strange, may seem eccentric, I mean to refrain from punning upon the name of this club, though I could make a very good one if I had time to think about it--a week. [5]
It did not make him eccentric, but it was not a thing usual with the naval man. [11]
I do not know what criterion newspaper notoriety is of social prestige, but Mrs. Rodney Henderson's movements were as faithfully chronicled as if she had been a visiting princess or an actress of eccentric proclivities. [4]
And perhaps he had other reasons for this eccentric conduct. [4]
We have eccentric friends overhead, Kit, and we mustn't ask questions or talk too much--you understand? [12]
It might at first glance seem quixotic, eccentric, but was it unnatural that the prisoner should choose silence as to his origin and home, rather than have his family and friends face the undoubted peril lying before him? [11]
Observe what this eccentric river had been about: it had built up this huge useless tow-head directly in front of this town, cut off its river communications, fenced it away completely, and made a 'country' town of it. [5]
Yet that somewhat eccentric prince could not resist his inclination to make cheap jokes at Strauss's expense. [10]
Janet was seized by a sudden and rather absurd desire to retreat, but Canal Street being empty, such an action would appear eccentric, and she came slowly forward, pretending not to see her employer, ridiculing to herself the idea that he had noticed her. [9]
I confess to being eccentric, you know. [9]
If Richard had been accounted eccentric before, there was far greater cause for the term now. [11]
Detricand read page after page, more often with a smile than not; yet it was the smile of one who knew life and would scarce misunderstand the eccentric and honest soul of the Reverend Lorenzo Dow. [11]
Many and many a time I have said, after glancing at the back of a letter, "This comes from an insane asylum, or from an eccentric who might well be a candidate for such an institution. [6]

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