Sentence examples for peculiar fellow from inspiring English sources

Henry David Thoreau was a peculiar fellow.

It's true your husband, he's a peculiar fellow, but think it over.

He was born in Devon, and was the nephew on his half-Irish mother's side of George and Kit Barker, the former being the supreme bohemian of modern English letters ("a most peculiar fellow", in TS Eliot's words), fathering 15 children and an equally impressive body of verse.

It is a long, yellow woolen number, and Jimmy, being one of those peculiar fellows common in Times Square, sometimes wears it when the temperature is well past 60 degrees.

PM found him in a bar in Union City, N.J., and made much of the fact that he was unshaven and seedy in appearance (quite unlike Calvert's Men of Distinction), thinking it peculiar that a fellow like Kopf should be publicized as an endorser of Calvert's.

That's a peculiar posture for a fellow with Klein's recent archive.

So peculiar did Piero's fellow artists find his work that Giorgio Vasari, an art historian writing a couple of decades after his death, padded his sparse knowledge of the painter's life with a host of speculative eccentricities.

Evans, who was recently named a 2016 Guggenheim fellow, captures the peculiar state** **of enforced relaxation that long-distance travel imposes.

When the gunman loomed over him, pointing the muzzle at his face, this fellow did the most peculiar thing.

"There will be more panic than is justified because it was more peculiar to her," said Representative Barney Frank, a fellow Massachusetts Democrat.

It was easy not to be serious about the old fellow, for he was that peculiar creation which ignorant people laugh at a - genuine maestro.