Broad as the prairies and free in thought as the winds that sweep them, he is idiosyncratically opposed to loose and wasteful methods, to plans of empire that neglect the poor at the gate.
"Edison, His Life and Inventions"
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
These colours were chosen perhaps more idiosyncratically in this case than in the others.
"Goblins and Pagodas"
John Gould Fletcher