All 4 Uses of
eccentric
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Some smiled indulgently and called it an artistic eccentricity, others looked upon it as a wise provision, in view of the many events which were crowding thick and fast in Paris just then, but to all, the real motive of that climax remained a puzzle and a mystery.†
Chpt 6eccentricity = unconventional or strange behavior
- Enough, she married him, and "the cleverest woman in Europe" had linked her fate to that "demmed idiot" Blakeney, and not even her most intimate friends could assign to this strange step any other motive than that of supreme eccentricity.†
Chpt 6
- These nightly drives after balls and suppers in London were a source of perpetual delight to Marguerite, and she appreciated her husband's eccentricity keenly, which caused him to adopt this mode of taking her home every night, to their beautiful home by the river, instead of living in a stuffy London house.†
Chpt 16
- This creature will only think that I am an eccentric Englishwoman
Chpt 22 *eccentric = unconventional or strange
Definition:
unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits