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  • These latter and their like form a group at the beginning of the nineteenth century of those we may call the Eccentrics: they gather round Coleridge and his decaying dreams or linger in the tracks of Keats and Shelley and Godwin;

    The Victorian Age in Literature 1905

  • OMG - Richard Pryor was the ventriloquist of the "Eccentrics"!

    August 2009 2009

  • OMG - Richard Pryor was the ventriloquist of the "Eccentrics"!

    Television 2009

  • OMG - Richard Pryor was the ventriloquist of the "Eccentrics"!

    incipit vita nova 2009

  • Eccentrics aside, even soldiers like Sir John Glubb made their career among the Arabs—he served in the Middle East for three decades beginning in the 1920s—partly because that world offered a stark and war-riven setting in which they could cut a fine military figure.

    The Disloyal Opposition William Anthony Hay 2011

  • Eccentrics always make you wonder: Are they being eccentric for crafty and strategic reasons?

    Overnight and Underage Wayne Curtis 2012

  • "Eccentrics, misfits, sociopaths and outright criminals populate the cosmopolitan (Dutch-born, now Scottish) author's sleek, disturbing, gruesomely funny short stories."

    Vanilla Bright like Eminem by Michel Faber: Book summary 2010

  • Eccentrics grew like beautiful weeds in the crazy old America before the Civil War, as the 19th-century lawyer and historian A.

    A Pro-Growth Strategy Bill Kauffman 2011

  • In 2008, Eccentrics and Bus Stop accounted for 25% of sales.

    Robin Hood of Indian Retail 2010

  • Two of them, Eccentrics and Bus Stop, are already in his stores.

    India's Retail Robin Hood 2010

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