All 7 Uses of
eccentric
in
Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
- Nevertheless, as he was in many ways a most valuable person to me, and all the time before twelve o'clock, meridian, was the quickest, steadiest creature too, accomplishing a great deal of work in a style not easy to be matched—for these reasons, I was willing to overlook his eccentricities, though indeed, occasionally, I remonstrated with him.†
- So that Turkey's paroxysms only coming on about twelve o'clock, I never had to do with their eccentricities at one time.†
- Poor fellow! thought I, he means no mischief; it is plain he intends no insolence; his aspect sufficiently evinces that his eccentricities are involuntary.†
- Nay again, whatever might be his eccentricities, Bartleby was an eminently decorous person.†
- These sad fancyings—chimeras, doubtless, of a sick and silly brain—led on to other and more special thoughts, concerning the eccentricities of Bartleby.†
- —of pallid haughtiness, say, or rather an austere reserve about him, which had positively awed me into my tame compliance with his eccentricities, when I had feared to ask him to do the slightest incidental thing for me, even though I might know, from his long-continued motionlessness, that behind his screen he must be standing in one of those dead-wall reveries of his.†
- I then assured the functionary that Bartleby was a perfectly honest man, and greatly to be compassionated, however unaccountably eccentric.
*eccentric = unconventional or strange
Definition:
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(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits