Tis one of those odde tricks which sorow shoots Out of the minde Ant.
They haue other fiue odde dayes, whiche goeth by themselues, in the which they vsed to celebrate greate feastes of cruell and bloudy sacrifice, with much deuotion.
The two monographs were privately printed for issue to members of the Sette of Odde Volumes.
But ere I part with her, a good fellow, my friend, hauin writ an odde Rime of her, I will make bolde to set it downe.
There are yet missing of your Companie Some few odde Lads, that you remember not.
Telugus call the Oriya country Odra or Odde desam and Oriyas Odra or Odde Vandlu.
Coventry do tell me very odde circumstances about the fatality of his death, which are very strange.
Ingenioso, I lost by your last booke; and you know there is many a one that pays me largely for the printing of their inventions, but for all this you shall have 40 shillings and an odde pottle of wine.
They reached the hotel at Odde about midnight, but halfway to it they found help.
Odde is over there," he said, and Urquhart added that he knew whereabouts they were.
And it is pretty odde that the very first sum mentioned in the account brought in by Sir Robert Long of the disposal of the Poll-bill money is 5000l.
Mrs. Turner do tell me very oddestories how Mrs. Williams do receive the applications of people, and hath presents, and she is the hand that receives all, while my Lord do the business.
On returning from a walk, we heard a great noise proceeding from the Odde men who had meanwhile returned from work, and found the woman seated apart on a rock, and sobbing.
On another occasion, I caught hold of a ladle, to show my friend Dr Rivers what were the fragrant contents of a pot, in which an Odde woman was cooking the evening meal.
Your ordinarie rimers vse very much their measures in the odde as nine and eleuen, and the sharpe accent vpon the last sillable, which therefore makes him go ill fauouredly and like a minstrels musicke.
The halfe foote of the auncients was reserued purposely to an vse, and therefore they gaue such odde sillable, wheresoeuer he fell the sharper accent, and made by him a notorious pause as in this pentameter.
A staffe of fiue verses, is not much vsed because he that can not comprehend his periode in foure verses, will rather driue it into six then leaue it in fiue, for that the euen number is more agreeable to the eare then the odde is.
And euery meeter may be aswel in the odde as in the euen sillable, but better in the euen, and one verse may begin in the euen, & another follow in the odde, and so keepe a commendable proportion.
But this odde sillable in our meetres is not the halfe foote as the Greekes and Latines vsed him in their verses, and called such measure pentimimeris and eptamimeris, but rather is that, which they called the catalectik or maymed verse.
This sort of compotition in the odde I like not, vnlesse it be holpen by the Cesure or by the accent as I sayd before.
Eightie odde yeeres of sorrow haue I seene, And each howres ioy wrackt with a weeke of teene Qu.
Tis pittie of him: I feare the trust Othello puts him in, On some odde time of his infirmitie Will shake this Island Mont.
The Godagula workers in split bamboo sometimes call themselves Odde (Oriya) Medara.
The word Vodde or Odde is said to be a corruption of the Sanskrit Odhra, the name for the country now called Orissa, and the people are ordinarily supposed to have emigrated from the Uriya country.
A certain king wanted an Odde to dig a tank, which was subsequently called Nidimamidi Koththacheruvu, and promised to pay him in varahalu (gold coins).
Rivers what were the fragrant contents of a pot, in which an Odde woman was cooking the evening meal.
On returning from a walk, we heard a great noise proceeding from the Odde men who had meanwhile returned from work, and found the woman seated apart on a rock and sobbing.
When the work was completed, the Oddewent to the king for his money, but the king had no measure for measuring out the coins.
When as the gownes and hood were furred, he went to fetch them home, and said to the Alderman, I pray you let me see my charge: the bill was brought forth, and the sum did rise to sixe pound and odde money.
The wares were laid out and prized, and the sum came to sixe pound and odde money, then on the morrow Scogin did come to the Poulter, and asked if everything were ready.
For singularity, Christs calls for it, and presseth & urgeth it; What singular thing doe you, or what odde thing doe you?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "odde" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
