| 1. | How did this eccentric personage pass his time on the Mongoli. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 2. | Grimwig, which that eccentric gentleman cordially reciprocated. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | These were very remarkable, but as eccentric as all his other accomplishments. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | This was no longer an eccentric young fellow with a habit of falling off trees. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 5. | Rochester is an amateur of the decided and eccentric Grace is eccentric at least. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 6. | Browlow was no less surprised, although his astonishment was not expressed in the same eccentric manner. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | The eccentric gentleman had throughout displayed all his marvellous qualities of coolness and exactitude. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 8. | This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 9. | After a hard contest with that eccentric action of thought which had last perplexed him, he had got the better of it. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |