Although sensuality was very general, it was less obtrusive, and unnatural and eccentricforms had become rare.
How he had been sorely perplexed in what way to make a decent retreat, until the baron's goblin stories had suggested his eccentric exit.
When left to itself it runs loosely and wildly, and delights in everythingeccentric and licentious.
The mirth of the company was greatly promoted by the humors of an eccentric personage whom Mr. Bracebridge always addressed with the quaint appellation of Master Simon.
Then an eccentric English country gentleman, Henry Winstanley, who dabbled in mechanical engineering upon unorthodox lines, came forward and offered to build a lighthouse upon the terrible rocks.
This eccentricnobleman bequeathed it to his son, Sir David Erskine, at whose death in 1837 it reverted to the Buchan family.
And she doubtless in her fifty eccentric years had given extravagantly to no end of people who had proved themselves the stingiest sort of receivers!
All the oddities of trade seem to have found their way thither and made an eccentricmercantile settlement.
A longitudinal missile must rotate with its axis coincident with its line of flight as it leaves the barrel, or else every rotation will throw the point into wider circles, until finally it becomes moreeccentric than a round ball.
Certainly it was very pleasant to be with Mary Datchet and to become, directly the door was shut, quite a different sort of person, eccentric and lovable, with scarcely any likeness to the self most people knew.
Mrs. Lewson, from the very eccentric style of her dress, was almost universally recognised as Lady Lewson.
This eccentric person died at the great age of 96, and was for half a century, physician to Chelsea Hospital.
Mr. Day, the eccentricfounder of Fairlop fair, had a housekeeper, who had lived with him for thirty years, and was equally eccentric.
And the kind missionary and the eccentric money-lender, they had high expectations of what he should become.
For the latter they depended principally on the father's rifle; but as he was apt to take wide and eccentric tramps over the prairies, there would be long intervals when but little game from his gun made savory the family cooking.
This is done in order to take up any lost motion there may be in the eccentric straps, in the eccentric rod eyebolts, or other working parts or joints between the eccentric and the slide valve rod or spindle.
If the link block does not come opposite the end of the eccentric rod when the reverse lever is in the end notch of the sector, the length of the reverse rod is wrong and should be corrected.
The position of the valve being thus determined, the eccentric must be moved upon the shaft until the valve spindle will connect with the rocker arm without being moved at all.
It is presumed that the lengths of the eccentric rod, reverse rod, and other parts are correct, and they are properly connected and oiled so as to be in working order.
In moving the eccentric round on the shaft, it is necessary to move it in the direction in which it will turn when in operation.
If the link block comes right, under the above conditions, for the forward but not for the backward eccentric rod, the notches in the sector are not cut in their proper positions, or the link hanger is not of the proper length.
General Valencia made his escape with the lancers in an eccentric direction, and was afterwards heard of at Toluca.
In consequence of thiseccentric route, and his animals having been much pushed, they came in exceedingly jaded, although he started with the best train of the whole party.
In boyhood, from his addiction to strange devices of sticks and string, he had been counted the most eccentric of the family.
For his friend Skip was the victim of the eccentric scientist's de-astralizing experiment, and faced a fate more hideous than death.
For His Friend Skip Was the Victim of the Eccentric Scientist's De-astralizing Experiment, and Faced a Fate More Hideous than Death.
He sold an absurd shawl for six thousand francs to Mistress Noswell, an eccentric Englishwoman.
As Picot was decorated late in life, his marriage to a wealthy and eccentric Englishwoman of forty was correspondingly late.
Originally he was precentor to the Margrave of Anspach; he had known Hoffman, the eccentric writer of Berlin, in whose memory he afterwards had a cat named Murr.
That opportunity business had been queer, but still it had been quite like Anthony in his eccentric moments--but this continuation of the queerness was bad!
Last night I thought you were off on one of your eccentric spells, but you were crazy like a fox, you were!
Intellectual countenance alight, the mildly eccentric Anthony--really the sanest and most delightful of men except when these abstract notions came to him--was wholly absorbed in the newcomer.
The new king was an eccentric but good-natured old sailor.
He used the personal influence which he had acquired over the eccentric autocrat of Russia, to endeavour to stir up trouble for England in the north.
But he had been hitherto more notorious for his eccentric and gorgeous dress, and his curious high-flown and bombastic novels, than for any serious political doings.
Russia had already withdrawn from the coalition, for the eccentric Czar Paul had conceived a great admiration for Bonaparte, and did not object to a despot though he hated a republic.
He had also a devouring ambition and the best-disciplined army in Europe, an army which his eccentric father Frederic William had spent a whole lifetime in organizing.
The Earl was a man of powerful talents, but withal most eccentric in his manners; and during the last few years of his life was obliged to withdraw altogether from society.
MARCH—An eccentric fellow at Droitwich cut his throat, having previously left some most singular instructions respecting his funeral, which were obeyed to the letter.
Among other eccentric persons we remember to have seen here, was an accomplished scholar named Churchill, who had travelled much in the East, smoked and ate opium to excess, and was full of information.
Among the frequenters of the Salutation was William Cussans, or Cuzzons, a native of Barbadoes, and a most eccentric fellow, who lived upon an income allowed him by his family.
One of its proprietors was, it is believed, John Ellis, an eccentric character, and a writer of some reputation, who died in 1791.
Gay characterized this literary and eccentric beau as "Honest, hatless Cromwell, with red breeches;" it being his custom to carry his hat in his hand when walking with ladies.
I have served under many admirals, one more eccentric than the other.
He made frenzied attempts to drag him away, and only interrupted them to try the seductive power of the most eccentric of dancing steps which he performed before him.
For our own age, when all that is picturesque in society is being levelled by a dull utilitarianism, this vein of eccentric imagination has a special charm, but the taste is likely to be a transient one.
Led by her sympathies, and also by the hope of thawing the reserve of the eccentricold astronomer, she resolved to go and ask if she could be of any help.
All the people of the inn and many of the villagers gathered round to see the great sight, and Aunt Mary consoled herself by showing off her somewhat eccentric French to the landlady and her family.
As for Jimmy, it was easy to see that he didn't like the idea at all; but he had jarred himself a good deal in his eccentric fall, and evidently funked another tramp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eccentric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
