These fellows, knowing the extravagant gullibility of the age, set their wits to work in the imagination of improbable possibilities - of
odd accidents, as they term them; but to a reflecting intellect(like mine," I added, in parenthesis, putting my forefinger unconsciously to the side of my nose,) "to a contemplative understanding such as I myself possess, it seems evident at once that the marvelous increase of late in these '
odd accidents' is by far the oddest accident of all.
She has perfect confidence in Miss T.; it is only a pity she has such an
odd name.
He was a powerfully-built man, as I have said, with a fine forehead and rather heavy features; but his eyes had that
odd drooping of the skin above the lids which often comes with advancing years, and the fall of his heavy mouth at the corners gave him an expression of pugnacious resolution.
an
odd adventure!" I said to myself, as I stepped along in the spring morning air; for, being a pilgrim, I was involuntarily in a mediaeval frame of mind, and "Marry!
Colonel," said she, with her usual noisy cheerfulness, "I am monstrous glad to see you--sorry I could not come before--beg your pardon, but I have been forced to look about me a little, and settle my matters; for it is a long while since I have been at home, and you know one has always a world of little
odd things to do after one has been away for any time; and then I have had Cartwright to settle with-- Lord, I have been as busy as a bee ever since dinner!
It was a very muddy boot, and may introduce the
odd circumstance connected with Mr.
Aunt Juley, incapable of tragedy, slipped out of life with
odd little laughs and apologies for having stopped in it so long.
Then they had passed a church and a vicarage and a little shop-window or so in a cottage with toys and sweets and
odd things set our for sale.
The letter was written in an
odd, upright hand and signed "Edward Hyde": and it signified, briefly enough, that the writer's benefactor, Dr.
But the vacancy did not occur, nor did a steady job; and I employed the time between
odd jobs with writing a twenty-one- thousand-word serial for the "Youth's Companion." I turned it out and typed it in seven days.
The
odd superstitions touched upon were all preva- lent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story -- that is to say, thirty or forty years ago.
'Top off!' cried the mouse, 'that is a very
odd and uncommon name, is it a usual one in your family?' 'What does that matter,' said the cat, 'it is no worse than Crumb-stealer, as your godchildren are called.'