idiosyncrasy

• They chatted volubly over this idiosyncrasy, and even laughed at it, but quite decorously so that our feelings might be spared. —  A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route
• That he never cultivated an exclusiveness or built about himself barriers of idiosyncrasy is a distinct credit to his common sense. —  The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
• He does not suggest that the Catholic Church is permanent because it possesses truth: but, rather, because men's ideas of truth are a matter of idiosyncrasy or digestion. —  Studies in Early Victorian Literature
• This duty is to make you heir to my house and estate and to certain accessory funds which will enable you to keep up the place You may regard this act, possibly, as the idiosyncrasy of an unbalanced mind; it is certain that some of my kinsfolk will do so. —  The Stolen Singer
• Schumann composed songs, cantatas, operas, and symphonies, but it is in his works for the piano-forte that his idiosyncrasy was most strikingly embodied, and in which he has bequeathed the most precious inheritance to the world of art. —  Great Violinists And Pianists

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