Sentence examples for old peculiar from inspiring English sources

He is more concerned about the difficulty of finding a decent beer in California,'They have micro-breweries and all that sort of stuff out here,' he says, 'but it's not the same as a pint of Old Peculiar.' It's one of the few downsides of living in San Francisco, where Nash now promotes and coaches schools cricket.

Elizabeth Phelps Sneden, who is deceased, told younger relatives that her great-uncle was a "cranky old man, peculiar in his ways".

Considering he is only eight years Pellegrini's junior, the choice of "old" seemed peculiar but, as Martin O'Neill knows, Pardew has previous when it comes to clashing with his managerial peers.

Mr. Sloan's romantic appreciation of the tech-free life is expressed through Clay's fascination with Mr. Penumbra, the peculiar old bibliophile who addresses him as "my boy".

He knew that these were the thoughts of a peculiar old man, marginalized and dismissed for years, acerbically pronounced upon by his daughter.

Harding, who investigated Chappelow's background for his book, remembers him as "the peculiar old man" who lived down the street.

The mayor dismissed the fund-raising letter as old news, a peculiar stance from someone who's so keen on not forgetting.

Their Deco diamonds were nice — they looked like they were mined from the top of the Chrysler Building — but what really grabbed me was a very old, and very peculiar, signet ring in rose gold.

Set mainly in small-town and village Hungary, the stories have many of the adornments of fairy tale: mysterious houses, roads curling off into the distance, peculiar old women, pigs.

On that day, according to my diary, a dream woke me up around 4 A.M. In this dream, I was standing on the muddy bank of a stream that I recognized, because of a peculiar old slammed-together split-rail bridge crossing it, as being the central stream running through Old Field Swamp, a cypress swamp near my home in North Carolina.

The heartbreak at the core of this supremely entertaining novel is the way "that" becomes "this", the way that gorgeous young girls become peculiar old women, and the way that the next generation - Polly's twins, Calypso's Hamish, Max and Monika's horrible Pauli - cannot know, nor care quite enough, about their parents and their extraordinary lives and loves.