All 11 Uses of
eccentric
in
Around the World in 80 Days
- If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.†
Chpt 1
- If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.†
Chpt 1
- The hasty departure from London soon after the robbery; the large sum carried by Mr. Fogg; his eagerness to reach distant countries; the pretext of an eccentric and foolhardy bet—all confirmed Fix in his theory.†
Chpt 8
- How did this eccentric personage pass his time on the Mongolia?†
Chpt 9
- The brigadier-general was free to mentally confess that, of all the eccentric persons he had ever met, none was comparable to this product of the exact sciences.†
Chpt 11
- Phileas Fogg had not concealed from Sir Francis his design of going round the world, nor the circumstances under which he set out; and the general only saw in the wager a useless eccentricity and a lack of sound common sense.†
Chpt 11
- Aouda did not quite know what to make of him, though Passepartout had given her some hints of his master's eccentricity, and made her smile by telling her of the wager which was sending him round the world.†
Chpt 16
- He certainly would not have recognised Passepartout in the eccentric mountebank's costume; but the latter, lying on his back, perceived his master in the gallery.†
Chpt 24
- Three days before, Phileas Fogg had been a criminal, who was being desperately followed up by the police; now he was an honourable gentleman, mathematically pursuing his eccentric journey round the world.†
Chpt 36
- You know that Mr. Fogg is very eccentric.
Chpt 36 *eccentric = unconventional or strange
- The eccentric gentleman had throughout displayed all his marvellous qualities of coolness and exactitude.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits