Sentence examples for eccentric lord from inspiring English sources
Fermor's great friend Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, known as Debo, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, now 90, is the youngest (and last surviving) of the endlessly fascinating Mitford sisters, the six daughters of the eccentric Lord and Lady Redesdale.
The glacial Diana's A Life of Contrasts merely added to her own sinister froideur, but Decca's Hons and Rebels turned the mildly eccentric Lord and Lady Redesdale (he took his mongoose to work to catch rats; she wouldn't countenance anything made from pork) into braying grotesques.
An eccentric lord and avant-garde composer has been commemorated with a blue plaque.
He enjoys relating the story of the eccentric Lord Grimthorpe, whose last words were reportedly, "We are low on marmalade".
The cliff-side Mussenden Temple is a folly that was modelled on the Temple of Vesta in Rome and built for the Earl Bishop of Derry (one of Lord Bristol's eccentric forbears), in 1785.
A question you may never have thought to ask yourself is, "What do Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes have in common?" Until recently, you would have been right in assuming that there was little to link the Time Lord with the eccentric, logical sleuth – but there is soon to be a permanent connection and his name is Andrew Lane.
Hathaway was a financially troubled widow with six children when she succeeded her eccentric father, William Frederick Collings, as feudal lord of Sark, one of the small Channel Islands.
Its humour and quality – and the hunt for a pygmy hippo by the eccentric son of a Mexican drug lord – ensured it caught their imagination.
Paradise Lost is at its heart a far more eccentric and offbeat work than, say, The Lord of the Rings.
Here, then, is a final chance to hang with the Time Lord before he morphs into another thin eccentric with an eventful forehead (ie, Matt Smith).
The mastermind behind the Process is a poker-faced eccentric named Ezequiel (João Miguel), who seems to have studied "The Lord of the Flies" for leadership tips, and has fastened with fervor onto the power and prestige of his position.
