The word eccentricity was not interpreted by the cadet, of course, as the Sep meant it should be, but in the sense we use it when we speak of the eccentricity of an orbit for instance.英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
A mother? What did it all mean? Even the madness of the English could scarcely be so pronounced as to make such a proceeding as this quite a commonplace manifestation of the national life and eccentricity. He could not believe that. He stepped into his boat. As the sailors rowed it out from the Pool-- the wind had gone down and the sails were useless--he looked earnestly up to the windows of the Casa del Mare, longing to pierce its secrets. What was Emilio in that house? A lover, a friend, a bad genius?英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Lord Uxmoor stared a little at this sudden sally, for he was unacquainted with Vizard's one eccentricity, having met him only on county business, at which he was extra rational, and passed for a great scholar. He really did suck good books as well as cigars.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"It is too late to think of that, Harrington. The mischief is done, and you must plead your eccentricity. Why should I bear the blame? I never approved it."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
I wonder, would a negative be found enticing? for, from the negative point of view, I flatter myself this volume has a certain stamp. Although it runs to considerably upwards of two hundred pages, it contains not a single reference to the imbecility of God's universe, nor so much as a single hint that I could have made a better one myself. - I really do not know where my head can have been. I seem to have forgotten all that makes it glorious to be man. - 'Tis an omission that renders the book philosophically unimportant; but I am in hopes the eccentricity may please in frivolous circles.英文原著 · 《An Inland Voyage》
I DOUBT if any New England town ever turned out so many eccentric characters as Portsmouth. From 1640 down to about 1848 there must have been something in the air of the place that generated eccentricity. In another chapter I shall explain why the conditions have not been favorable to the development of individual singularity during the latter half of the present century. It is easier to do that than fully to account for the numerous queer human types which have existed from time to time previous to that period.英文原著 · 《An Old Town By The Sea》