"A highly eccentric elderly gentleman," added her companion Alice B Toklas.
Marchant's presence in the city is reminiscent of the eccentric Victorian gentleman scholars who travelled the world during the colonial era.
A ramrod-erect military figure with a bristling moustache, spectacles, thinning hair, a loud laugh, flamboyant waistcoats and the skills of an amateur conjuror, Harris had the manner of a mildly eccentric Edwardian gentleman.
The New Yorker, December 15 , 1945P. 109 Description of a so-called "eccentric Southern" gentleman of 25 years ago who actually respected negroes and tipped his hat in reuturn to their greeting.
Dr. Selwyn, for instance, appears at first to be an eccentric English gentleman — at one moment, he fires a rifle from the window of his house, a rifle, he explains, that he needed in India when he worked there as a young surgeon.
It's about the powerful 30-year relationship I had with Edward Theodoru, a delightfully colorful, wickedly eccentric Romanian gentleman and scholar.
Because everyone who loves grocery shopping as much as I do has their favorites: like Colleen, a spunky woman who manages to scan each item right the first time; or Charles, the exuberant, eccentric older gentleman who relies on alliteration heavily to get through the day ("Lemon LaCroix for the lovely lady!").
An eccentric English gentlemen, he has conducted The Last Night of the Proms several times.
