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From what Emma has told me over the years, the vicar is something of an eccentric … well, free thinker is probably more accurate
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His mother was always an eccentric, from then until now
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Between the two of them, everything is worn with an eccentric disregard for the conventions of the day
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Mother is a natural aristocrat – slightly eccentric and fears no-one
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” Aaron answered without apology for the eccentric preoccupation
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He was always interesting and she actually wound up becoming friends with the ancient eccentric even though he claimed to be older than any religion she knew of
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It seemed to sum up the eccentric
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I still think Mother just wanted to be eccentric
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The man was about what he and others could expect from Morthal, that quietly eccentric town in the marshes
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He knew he had spent the vastly greater portion of the previous evening drinking with the eccentric man, as well as imbibing before and after they simultaneously gulped down full tankards
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Monty was an erudite eccentric, self educated man who appreciated intellectual stimulation in conjunction with the act of physical and emotional debasement of his submissives
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There were auxiliary neural enhancements available, favoured by the wealthy and eccentric
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Provided ample opportunities to self-destruct, that child soon acquires disagreeable habits that, reinforced by common attitudes, establishes the rocky foundations of a society populated by lingering, single-minded adolescents who, guided by their own (―exceptional‖) rules of conduct, acquire self-centered and perhaps anti-social points of view devolving into a collection of interchangeable parts reflecting the questionable character of that society‘s lowest forms that must negatively impact its social, cultural and political institutions including schools, churches, political organizations, judicial system, the news media, corporations, all! A free and open society should never impose arbitrary limits or draw uncertain conclusions as to how an individual should (otherwise) think or act however eccentric or unconventional such attitudes may appear; although that society, by example, should seek to broaden exemplary manners and customs essential to the maintenance of proper form if that society hopes to function effectively
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Police say the professor may have gone on a walkabout, for which the popular, yet eccentric teacher of journalism at Lennox College of Applied Arts and Technology was noted
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I honestly felt we were going to some sort of Halloween party, or maybe one of those extravagant dinner parties held by eccentric rich folks where nothing was ever considered over the top
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Whoever built this thing would be indeed quite an eccentric if any door would be cryptically lying in an obscure, random position
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He still found it difficult to understand how eccentric a machine of such awesome power could be, resolving to ignore most of what it said from then onwards
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The only thing keeping it together seemed to be this eccentric, half-crazed machine
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He was very eccentric but, by jove, his food was jolly good
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Actually, his behavior in jail was somewhat eccentric, or bizarre might be a better description, let alone the story about the gun
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Unappreciated at the time, and costing as little as the cheapest mass-produced furniture, my purchase of these apparently odd items had marked me out as eccentric After the restoration process that came with these purchases, they were appreciated by everyone else and approached the category of antiques
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“Patient is eccentric …” – a euphemism they used for unstable or hypochondriac
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The villagers considered him eccentric; his singing in the fields proved that he was crazy
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A certain Doctor William Price from England was the first person to perform a “legal” cremation according to his eccentric religious beliefs
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sheer wonder at the fact that this eccentric man had simply
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Last days? Was that what her grandmother said, last days? Over the years, Jesse had occasionally heard the words, end times, apocalypse, last days, but she had brushed them aside as some eccentric fringe thinking without ever considering the implication
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That was the kind of eccentric talk Harry knew and had grown up with—the paranoid scientist
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Room 366 one time substituted as a studio lounge after an eccentric man vouched for its authenticity by rarely leaving and tipping his hat forward
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To indulge his eccentric urge they would brave the icy blasts of night
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Many of the Nazarite brotherhood became believers in Jesus, but the majority of these ascetic and eccentric men refused to accept him as a teacher sent from heaven because he did not teach fasting and other forms of self-denial
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There can be sudden changes of social plans, sudden romantic opportunities, and eccentric behaviour on the part of the beloved
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An eccentric looking guy — obviously American judging by his accent — towered over me
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She said after she caught her breath, “Coming from you, Joey that sounds pretty eccentric
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Much puzzled by my eccentric behaviour, she left and I realised that I was now back to where I had started- desperately in need of help and unable to leave my patient for long enough to find it!
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At first she had thought him highly eccentric, but now knew better
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That kept him amused enough and he felt that he had enough social contact with his patients to prevent him from becoming too eccentric
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we’re wrong about all of this? Suppose the mother is just eccentric
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Of course, oftentimes one man’s misfortune is another man’s success as was the case here for several years ago he had inherited the extensive fortune of his eccentric aunt who had been in the upper class of the city
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Who knows? I’ll pawn him off as an eccentric hipster type
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have very eccentric orbits indeed, approaching very close to the Sun and out
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However eccentric he might be, I’m very grateful he’s caring for me now
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and unassigned symbolic tenacity with eccentric criticism
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She had googled the castle after Stefan selected this spot for their meeting and learned it had once been the home of an eccentric stage actor who gained fame playing Sherlock Holmes in the early 1900s
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The ‘cottage’ was actually a large Victorian house in an eccentric Tudor style: white
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But when voters pulled him out of the kursi for his eccentric governance, he made prohibition his political plank to regain power; that’s about the immorality of our politicians as the public memory being short; that’s how A
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The rack 12 is engaged with the gear 13 at the axle of which an eccentric 14 is installed and connected to the arm of a ratchet clutch 11 which in turn is engaged with the ratchet gear 10 of the spring drum 9 having a friction spiral spring 8 of an ordinary clock mechanism in it
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It moves the rack 12 and via 3 – the gear 13 and the eccentric 14 – the ratchet 11, which winds by means of the ratchet gear 10 the clock spring 8
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The bottom end of the rod 16 is hinged to bar(s) 2 via which it is connected to the drum of the spring of the clock 1 using the connection shown on Figure 4 (by means of a gear rack, eccentric and ratchet clutch)
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He had never given much thought to the fact that the company did have an owner, especially one as eccentric as this
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"Oh no, no," she protested, smiling as though she were humouring a spoilt and eccentric child, "such a thing could never be permitted
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Back at the Aladdin, the guard turned the eccentric old woman and her companion loose
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And now, just as she had so cleverly contrived this hour with Hildebrand for getting at all those intimate details of his life that a mother loves but does not care to talk about before her husband, this hour for hearing about his children, his meals, his money, his dear wife's success in society and appearances, thanks to her having married into the nobility, at Court, his own health, his indigestion--that ancient tormentor of his peace, _armer Junge_--and whether he had seen or heard anything of poor Emmi, his eldest sister, who had miserably married six thousand marks a year and lived impossibly at Spandau and could not be got to admit she did not like it--just as she was going to be satisfied on all these points came that eccentric and pushing Frau Pastor and spoilt it all
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She had in one week created quite a number of disturbances of a nature fruitful for evil in that orderly village; and when on the Tuesday she and Fritzing moved into Creeper Cottage they were objects of the intensest interest to the entire country side, and the report of their riches, their recklessness, and their eccentric choice of a dwelling had rolled over the intervening hills as far as Minehead, where it was the subject of many interesting comments in the local papers
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David, Linda’s eccentric friend would be one of the signatories, and the man who would “give her away”
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He could be a rather eccentric millionaire
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Living with a mild eccentric, she soon developed a functional list of taboos, those subjects guaranteed to drive one's partner into a sulking fit, if not a rage
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The planet's orbit had rapidly become more eccentric
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Yet he spent the last years of his life as a lonely miserable eccentric: walking around in his huge mansion: turning off all the lights; just to save a few pennies
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Just as Howard Hughes became a lonely, miserable eccentric when he became too rich and too old
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Was it her purple eyes? Were they too eccentric? He began nervously
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Rich people who are crazy are called eccentric and are enjoyed for their special outlook
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Such transparency would occur in despite of the fact that any event pertaining to Christ may have been, or might be perceived as being considered as eccentric, extraordinary, ordinary or even damaging
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more than the delusions of an eccentric old priest
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As the vehicle continued to accelerate, Loofah noted with alarm that her driving technique was even more eccentric than before
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But of course, naturally everything changed, for now the eccentric creature laid kaput on a mangy thatched carpet
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on electric eccentric chucked-up flames, wild-alive
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I as usual suffered that eccentric feeling of sorrow which haunted me al night, the sorrow of leaving this place behind and also of the overwhelming attraction towards Pihu
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Though Pulcheria Alexandrovna felt that the young man was really too eccentric and pinched her hand too much, in her anxiety over her Rodya she looked on his presence as providential, and was unwilling to notice all his peculiarities
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He had spoken the truth, moreover, when he blurted out in his drunken talk on the stairs that Praskovya Pavlovna, Raskolnikov's eccentric landlady, would be jealous of Pulcheria Alexandrovna as well as of Avdotya Romanovna on his account
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It appeared afterwards that on the same evening, at twenty past eleven, he made another very eccentric and unexpected visit
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Of course it was strange that he was wet through, but Englishmen, for instance, are even more eccentric, and all these people of high society didn't think of what was said of them and didn't stand on ceremony
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"Besides, it doesn't matter, they still know nothing," he thought, "and they are used to thinking of me as eccentric
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He had that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a certain contempt for social conventions, that seduces or exasperates them
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I walked respectfully round and round a lot of machines of all kinds, and the more I looked at them the more I felt somehow that for all the effect they produced on me they might have been so many land-vehicles of an eccentric design
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Would I ever learn the nationality of this eccentric man who had boasted of having
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Was this eccentric man ill? Did he want to change his plans concerning us?
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What a shame! I liked him better eccentric than insane!"
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Then I began to wonder if this eccentric individual was even on board
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THE WAY HE SAID THIS, the unexpectedness of this scene, first the biography of this patriotic ship, then the excitement with which this eccentric individual pronounced these last words—the name Avenger whose significance could not escape me—all this, taken together, had a profound impact on my mind
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"In reality," observed Albert, "he seemed to me somewhat eccentric; were he at Paris, and a frequenter of the theatres, I should say he was a poor devil literally mad
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He thought several times of the project the count had of visiting Paris; and he had no doubt but that, with his eccentric character, his characteristic face, and his colossal fortune, he would produce a great effect there
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"He was an eccentric being, and did not believe in the existence of gratitude
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The recent events, the solitary and eccentric position of the count, his enormous, nay, almost incredible fortune, should have made men cautious, and have altogether prevented ladies visiting a house where there was no one of their own sex to receive them; and yet curiosity had been enough to lead them to overleap the bounds of prudence and decorum
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Put the case that, at the same time he held a trust to find a child for an eccentric rich lady to adopt and bring up
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Next the Scotchman was the place assigned to Costello, the eccentric, while at his side was seated in stolid repose the squat form of Madden
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STEPHEN: (Gabbles with marionette jerks) Thousand places of entertainment to expense your evenings with lovely ladies saling gloves and other things perhaps hers heart beerchops perfect fashionable house very eccentric where lots cocottes beautiful dressed much about princesses like are dancing cancan and walking there parisian clowneries extra foolish for bachelors foreigns the same if talking a poor english how much smart they are on things love and sensations voluptuous
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The arrangement was considered eccentric rather than scandalous by the sophisticated Florentines
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I would only observe that there is a certain method in the gentleman's eccentric proceedings
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And at last, to avoid the incessant difficulties of costume caused by the anxious lenders, he had assumed a disdain of military trappings, an eccentric fashion of shabby old tunics, which had become like a second nature
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The other bounded round in an eccentric circle with shrill, wailing cries, and then lying down writhed in agony for some minutes before it also stiffened and lay still
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Almost from the day I met her, I had known that she was more than she appeared to be, that the eccentric things she often said would in fact prove to be the plainest truth if only I knew who and what she was and could consider her words in the context of her identity
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There were of course the Catholics themselves, but these came seldom into the little world Julia had made for herself; those who did were her mother's kinsmen, who, to her, seemed grim and eccentric
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They wore eccentric clothes, smoked pipes, and took on airs
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Once we had a title and had settled on the letter as our lyrical form, the variations came to us very easily: a child’s note, a postcard from a regretful lover, the reply of an eccentric aunt to a begging letter from scheming relations
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He might with equal probability have been an eccentric landowner or a gentlemanly ploughman