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Sentences starting with odd

Odd things strike you at every turn. [4]
Odd as it may seem, the Misses Merrill lived amicably enough with Cynthia. [9]

Sentences ending with odd

The other chair was for the Chevalier de la Darante, one of the oldest and best of our nobility, who pretends great roughness and barbarism, but is a kind and honourable gentleman, though odd. [11]
In money we took L60 odd. [5]
He dropped me the idea his own self, and that's odd. [5]
The Master was sympathetic, for had he not in his fingers at that moment a bill for a hundred and twenty livres odd? [11]
It seems very odd. [4]
They're hauling a long ladder up onto the Sphinx's back--now ain't that odd? [5]
Go and ask him for three hundred dollars and odd? [5]
Her voice must have sounded odd. [9]
It is odd; but the freaks of mental telegraphy are usually odd. [5]
I've just arrived at a position where I shall be able to make a good deal of money, and later on--" "It isn't the money, Hugh," she cried, with a vehemence which struck me as a little odd. [9]

Short sentences using odd

How odd it was! [4]
What an odd sound! [5]
Truly 'tis another odd one. [5]
What an odd idea! [6]
Odd, too. [5]

Sentences containing odd two or more times

His very name--Farquhar Fenelon Cooke--had an odd sound which somehow betokened an odd man, and there was more than one bit of gossip afloat in the town of which he was the subject, notwithstanding the fact that he had never honored it with a visit. [9]

More example sentences with the word odd in them

You 'll find yourself a very odd piece of property after you 've been through these experiences. [6]
By some odd whim of the weather the wind had backed around into the east, gathering the clouds once more. [9]
The telescope through which he was fond of watching the heavenly bodies, and the movements of which had been the source of such odd fancies on my part, is now the property of a Western College. [6]
These dreadful chromos which he takes for old masters; these villainous portraits--which to his frantic mind represent Rossmores; the hatchments; the pompous name of this ramshackle old crib-- Rossmore Towers; and that odd assertion of his, that I was expected. [5]
The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust. [12]
The next morning, when I sallied out to hire a conveyance, I was an object of interest to the entire population, who seemed to think it very odd that any one should walk about and explore the quiet streets. [4]
In the bottom were a few odd garments, above was the hat with the purple feather, now shabby and discarded, on the hooks a skirt and jacket Lise wore to work at the Bagatelle in bad weather. [9]
His letters from Washington are more occupied with the odd characters he met than with the measures of legislation. [4]
I began by washing windows, and doing odd jobs for the professors' wives. [9]
The odd thing was that he should have bowed to Clark, who was dressed no differently from Bowman and Harrod and Duff; and the man's voice trembled piteously as he spoke. [9]
The way I was looked upon was odd, but it was natural. [5]
Her next exclamation was an odd one, showing how the mind works at such a time. [9]
Probably these odd volumes had not been considered worth any considerable bid at the auction. [4]
There is something very odd, though, about this mechanical talk. [6]
But, what was very odd, that gentleman apparently thought the contrast was to the advantage of this poor, dear Helen. [6]
There was one very odd thing about it. [6]
There is a very odd prejudice against pie as an article of diet. [6]
It was a very odd case, indeed. [5]
And in it, upright, blinking at the light, were two odd Frenchified figures in tasselled nightcaps. [9]
He will go upon the recommendation of two gentlemen of taste and travel whom we met at Baddeck, residents of Maine and familiar with most of the odd and striking combinations of land and water in coast scenery. [4]
Next we hunted up our boots from odd nooks among the mail-bags where they had settled, and put them on. [5]
He only strapped up my cut, and informed me that it would speedily get well by the "first intention,"--an odd phrase enough, but sounding much less formidable than cutis oenea. [6]
You mustn't be unjust because he seems odd to you and of limited intelligence. [4]
His crooked mouth twisted to and fro in strange contortions, not a muscle of his coarse face was till, and this looked so odd and yet so horrible, that Ruth could not help laughing, and the smith asked what ailed him. [10]
If this be true, the inference is that the collecting agents pocketed the odd $20,000. [7]
He had risen, too, and stood, with a smile on his face, gazing at the lawyer with an odd scrutiny. [9]
They had come to-day from many mysterious (and therefore delightful) places which Honora knew only by name, and some had driven the twenty-five odd miles from the bunting community of Banbury in coaches and even those new and marvellous importations--French automobiles. [9]
It seems odd to write that he is not responsible, since he never has been,--his condition is so queer that I am at a loss to describe it. [9]
We have had to run ashore for shelter every time it has rained heretofore, but Joseph has been putting in his odd time making a water-proof sun-bonnet for the boat, and now we sail along dry although we had many heavy showers this morning. [5]
Now he has to pick up odd jobs where he can. [8]
In a note to Mr. Rogers he said: "To put in my odd time I am writing some articles about Paul Bourget and his Outre-Mer chapters--laughing at them and at some of our oracular owls who find them important. [5]
It never occurred to General Cass to call his discovery by the odd name of popular sovereignty. [7]
It seems odd to find myself interested in an election. [5]
But I forbear to dwell on the odd beings that were congregated together in one hotel. [4]
We sat down to an impromptu meal, which was an odd affair indeed. [9]
At times my throat pained me, an odd symptom in a warm climate. [9]
The others soon thought him an odd, arrogant fellow, with whom no friendly ties could be formed, and left him to his own resources. [10]
By one of those odd coincidents which sometimes start one to thinking, the Celebrity was the subject of a lively discussion when I reached the table that evening. [9]
The courteous Dr. Thompson will let me tell here an odd coincidence, trivial, but having its interest as one of a series. [6]
Come--can't you tackle this in the odd hours of your vacation? [5]
Power, I remember thinking, chooses odd houses for itself. [9]
Some of the things he has told me have suggested several odd analogies enough. [6]
This kind of thing sounds odd now, and impossible, but it seemed a perfectly natural thing to do. [5]
What an odd thing memory is, to be sure, to have kept such a triviality, and have lost so much that was invaluable! [6]
The truth is they both had lots of odd ways,--family traits, I suppose, but were just different enough from each other to figure separately in two different stories. [6]
It is odd, these sudden jumps from season to season. [5]
Do you think there is anything so very odd about this idea? [6]
He says that the world is more complex, varied, and a thousand times as interesting as it was in what we call its youth, and that it is as fresh, as individual and capable of producing odd and eccentric characters as ever. [4]
The fact that the words were mocking and brazen made no difference; it would have been odd had they not been so. [9]
Cross currents of the strange events of the day flowed through her mind: Peter's arrival and its odd heralding, and the discomfort of Mr. Grainger. [9]
He had lost the old sense of comradeship, of easy equality; and he had the odd feeling of dealing with a new man, at once familiar and unfamiliar, who had somehow lifted himself out of the everyday element in which they heretofore had met. [9]
So we had the odd spoon, and dropped it in her apron-pocket whilst she was a-giving us our sailing orders, and Jim got it all right, along with her shingle nail, before noon. [5]
And then came the odd reflection,--how strange that that same Sunday had been so fateful for herself and Lise! [9]
He gave Janet the odd impression that he understood her. [9]
This visit to the Observatory is going to bring us all, or most of us, together in a new way, and it wouldn't be very odd if some of us should become better acquainted than we ever have been. [6]
We wandered about the grounds, spoke with the great people, stared at the odd ones, and said to ourselves,--at least I said to myself,--with Hamlet, "The air bites shrewdly, it is very cold. [6]
It was not the first time he had been ushered into vice-regal presence, but his was an odd position. [11]
The dwellings of the English residents are spacious and comfortable and commodiously furnished, and surely it must be an odd sight to see half a dozen guests come filing into such a place and dumping blankets and pillows here and there and everywhere. [5]
Later he became the editor-in-chief of the thirty odd volumes which make up the collection entitled "The World's Best Literature. [4]
As I contemplated the Brecks odd questions suggested themselves: did honesty and warm-heartedness necessarily accompany a lack of artistic taste? [9]
I say, then, that, if these odd sounds coming from the Little Gentleman's chamber sometimes make me nervous, so that I cannot get to sleep, it is not because I suppose he is engaged in any unlawful or mysterious way. [6]
It was odd that, as Ingolby became thinner and thinner, and ever more wan, she, in spite of her ceaseless nursing, appeared to thrive physically. [11]
I can't say that there is anything odd about his manners or his way of talk. [6]
It was odd that the vanished boat, three days lost to sight in that vast solitude, should appear again. [5]
Isn't it odd that she should be in love with him? [9]
It is odd that even to this day Americans still observe that immortal benefaction through English and other monarchical eyes, and have no shred of an opinion about it that they didn't get at second-hand. [5]
It seems odd that anybody should look to the house of Hapsburg for liberality. [4]
We were told that Albany is the capital, instead of New York; it's so odd, you know. [4]
The odd thought struck the clergyman that this man had made his own Tower of London, had built with his own hands the prison in which he was to end his days. [9]
How odd, and strange, and grotesque every action, attitude, movement, gesture would be. [5]
As I lay staring upward, odd little bits of the past came floating to the top of my mind, presently to be pieced together. [9]
All the strange spasmodic movements, the chokings, the odd sounds, the wild talk, the laughing and crying, were in full blast. [6]
People from further South find this an agreeable summering place, and a fair hotel, with odd galleries in front and rear, did not want company. [4]
She feigned all sorts of odd symptoms, and showed a wonderful degree of cunning in giving an appearance of truth to them. [6]
But there are some very odd things any anatomist can tell, showing how our recent contrivances are anticipated in the human body. [6]
Oh, not disagreeably so, quite normally--that's the odd thing about you. [9]
They soon became so, and in the weeks that followed he grew to have the odd sense of a guiding hand on his shoulder,--such was his instinctive interpretation of it, rather than the materialistic one of things ordained. [9]
There was something so odd about the extent and limitations of his knowledge, that I suspected all at once what might be the meaning of it, and waited till I got an opportunity.--Have you seen the "New American Cyclopaedia? [6]
There is a slight touch of satire in his discourse now and then, and an odd way of answering one that makes it hard to guess how much more or less he means than he seems to say. [6]
I am a single man--" "Yell not need to go on," answered McCrae, with an odd mixture of sternness and gentleness in his voice. [9]
His daughter was short, plump, and fresh-colored, with an effect of liveliness that did not all express itself in her broad-vowelled, rather formal speech, with its odd valuations of some of the auxiliary verbs, and its total elision of the canine letter. [8]
And the landlord shook his fist at us and shouted back, who was to pay him his four pounds odd, which included two ten-shilling dinners and a flask of his best wine? [9]
She smiled, but she had an odd desire to cry. [9]
Certainly the eyes she bent on, the odd little figure were less severe. [4]
But presently I shall have to explain to you an odd phenomenon. [4]
While my sisters sewed, I sketched; and, as Ludo found no pleasure in that, she sometimes had him cut figures out; sometimes--an odd fancy--execute a masterpiece of crocheting, which usually shared the fate of Penelope's web. [10]
It suggested a selfish enjoyment of the odd or the melodramatic side of other people's difficulties. [11]
Washington's hair did seem such an odd part of an outfit for a journey of this kind. [4]
Edward, doesn't it seem odd that the stranger should appoint Burgess to deliver the money? [5]
But doesn't it seem a little odd, Mr. Crocker," she continued, appealing to me, "that a man should take the pains to advertise a trip to Europe in order to gratify a whim of this sort? [9]
Janet was the second stenographer, and performed, besides, any odd tasks that might be assigned. [9]
What an odd revelation, and what an unforeseen and unpleasant surprise to a small community, the very existence of which you had not suspected, until the sudden dismay and scattering among its members produced by your turning the old stone over! [6]
And one odd result of the scarcity of what the English are pleased to call "petrol," by which they mean gasoline, is the reappearance of that respectable, but almost obsolete animal, the family carriage-horse; of that equally obsolete vehicle, the victoria. [9]
He did not resent it, but felt an odd thrill of commingled pity and--fear. [9]
The mouth was rather small, thick-tipped, and put in at an odd angle; the brown eyes were large, and from their habit of looking up at one lent to the round face an incongruous solemnity. [9]
He threw in quotations galore, in Latin, and French, and English, until the captain began casting me odd, uncomfortable looks, as though he wished himself well out of the entertainment. [9]
It will be perceived that the snakes are not much interested in cattle; they kill only 3,000 odd per year. [5]
As the months passed, and letters in Grafton's scroll hand came from the Kent estate or from Annapolis, my misgivings were confirmed by odd remarks that dropped from Mr. Carvel's lips. [9]
They stood boldly out by themselves, and made a fascinatingly odd spectacle. [5]
The most of our companions were Tories, for, odd as it may appear, they retained their principles even in Castle Yard. [9]

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