"Eccentric person" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... off. Cousin Julia was certainly absurd! She had always been regarded, indeed, by the California Pritchards as a singular, eccentric person, rather wanting in refinement and careless of social amenities—one from whom they were quite content to be separated by the "breadth of our great American continent." She had taken after her mother, who came from Nebraska—or some such place—and the family had considered it a pity ...
— Elsie Marley, Honey • Joslyn Gray
... woman, supposed to be his daughter. They had been living here several years—from before the time, indeed, that the portier had occupied his present position. In all these years the old man was known to have been out of his room only twice. He was certainly an eccentric person, and was said to be a miser and extremely wealthy. The portier further averred that his property—except such small portion of it as was invested and on the income of which he lived—was realized in the form of diamonds and other precious stones, which, for greater security, ...
— David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales • Julian Hawthorne
... to employ him. He had also been a trustee of the Doughty estates, but had been compelled to resign that position, at which he had expressed much chagrin. Hopkins had an acquaintance named Baignet at Winchester, an eccentric person of an inquisitive turn. Both these began at this time to busy themselves greatly in the matter of the Tichborne Claimant, who, on his next visit to Alresford, was accordingly invited to stay at Mr. Hopkins's ...
— Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton • Anonymous
... went to hear a lecture at the Mechanics' Institute, delivered by a very eccentric person, who styled himself the Hon. James Spencer Lidstone—the Great Orator of the West. My astonishment may be guessed better than described, when he gave out for the subject of his lecture—"Great women, from Eve down to Mrs. M—-." Not wishing ...
— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie
... I met with that amiable but eccentric person Mrs. Opie. Though a "wet" Quakeress, she continued to wear the peculiar dress. I was told that she was presented in it at the Tuileries, and astonished the French ladies. We were also acquainted with Mrs. Fry, a ...
— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville |
