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unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits
- He is very clever but eccentric, and a bore.Book One — 1805 (4% in)
- Anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had told him to expect.Book Three — 1805 (25% in)
- 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.Book Four — 1806 (22% in)
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