For his family, grandpa's one idiosyncrasy of talking too much was hard to bear. From LearnThat.org.
What has been termed idiosyncrasy must also be borne in mind. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884] Reference
"So it retained its idiosyncrasy, which is almost unheard of.". From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Seins Off] Reference
It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Chat Hobbit With Fans « FirstShowing.net] Reference
I know that instead of using the obnoxious word "idiosyncrasy," I should have said that Mr So-and-so had "a list to port in his ideas.". From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
That idiosyncrasy was never really about "nothing.". From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Seins Off] Reference
Or was this merely a madman's strange idiosyncrasy?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
It is higher up that the idiosyncrasy has its seat. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference
The mother's idiosyncrasy was always to do "the correct thing.". From Wordnik.com. [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference
This idiosyncrasy had a striking exemplification when our travellers met. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference
With this assumption the idiosyncrasy of New York may be viewed in full. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
Each individuality has to be dealt with in all its mysterious idiosyncrasy. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis] Reference
Circumstances aggravated, rather than diminished, this Landorian idiosyncrasy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
Shakespeare's creations cannot be bounded by the limit of another idiosyncrasy. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
She knew every idiosyncrasy of the hooks and buttons of her well-worn afternoon frock. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Each physical feature and habitual idiosyncrasy will abide in his redeemed personality. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives] Reference
This is perhaps an idiosyncrasy, but many persons share it, and they are not to be ignored. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
It was not this idiosyncrasy that troubled Boase; it was the social questions that hunting evoked. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
Age, idiosyncrasy, tolerance, and disease, all exert modifying influences on the action of a poison. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
The long engagements of Rossetti and Tennyson are often quoted as exemplifying this idiosyncrasy of poets. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Now, everybody knew at the time that it was but the idiosyncrasy of an unbalanced mind, and that the United. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
Faculty, which under ordinary circumstances would have been regarded as the personal idiosyncrasy of a great man. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Michigan] Reference
An idiosyncrasy may be of such a character as altogether to prevent an individual following a particular occupation. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference
He will not rely too insistently upon idiosyncrasy; the failure of this we have already seen, in the post-impressionists. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
In modes of interment some nations have been distinguished by an idiosyncrasy almost incredible from their inhumanity. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850] Reference
Her poetical idiosyncrasy, calculated by epochs, would make the most natural points of reference in woman's autobiography. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
Her poetical idiosyncrasy, calculated by epochs, would make the most natural points of reference in a woman's autobiography. '. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
They chatted volubly over this idiosyncrasy, and even laughed at it, but quite decorously so that our feelings might be spared. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference
Curious manner of speech, of which evidently he is unconscious, partly native English accent, partly temperamental idiosyncrasy. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
This probably depended partly on personal idiosyncrasy, partly on the size of the vessels which had been implicated in the track. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
In administering a remedy, a wise physician has regard to the idiosyncrasy of the patient as well as to the nature of the disease. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
This defect in character is more generally the result of vicious or improper habits of mind, than any constitutional idiosyncrasy. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
That he never cultivated an exclusiveness or built about himself barriers of idiosyncrasy is a distinct credit to his common sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison] Reference
Thus, upon one occasion I was consulted in the case of a lady who it was said had an idiosyncrasy that prevented her drinking water. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference
The ideas and images associated with a work of art depend very largely on the education, experience, and idiosyncrasy of the spectator. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
All true artistry is self-contained and never relies upon outer physical stimulus or inward extravagance of phantasy, or of idiosyncrasy. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Moreover, being conscious of the idiosyncrasy of the human mind, I have every use for the various communions if no man is to be excluded. From Wordnik.com. [What the Church Means to Me A Frank Confession and a Friendly Estimate by an Insider] Reference
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