Sir Peter: "the whole secret of Kenelm's oddities is to be found in these words, my dear; he needs amusement.
Cousin John is not of the same mind as the Doctor, and thinks that Kenelm's oddities are fine things in their way, and should not be prematurely ground out of him by contact with worldly tutors and London pavements.
Day by day a thousand oddities and charms outline themselves tenderly upon consciousness, but it may be long before understanding comes with brush and colour to fill in the tracery.
The oddities of this person do not amuse us any the less because he happens to be ourself.
His oddities of manner, and uncouth gesticulations, could not but be the subject of merriment .
Johnson's oddities in the street must often have made people turn round to look at him.
The first thing he did was to remove his apparatus and oddities into a closet in the room.
You see this Fairy Land is full of oddities and all sorts of incredibly ridiculous things, which a man is compelled to meet and treat as real existences, although all the time he feels foolish for doing so.
The story knows Challis too well to attempt to make the oddities of his mind plausible; it can only vouch for them.
With all his oddities and crotchets, he always had a kind and warm heart beating in his bosom.
But Uncle Frank, you know, has got some oddities himself.
But there are a multitude of other people who are odd, and whose oddities cannot be accounted for in the same way.
Beyle is a difficult author to judge briefly, the contradictions, affectations, and oddities in him demanding minute examination.
Both had the same incapacity of unlaboured and forceless art, the same insensibility to passion, the same inability to rise above mere humours and contemporary oddities into the region of universal poetry.
It has its comic side too, and we are content to laugh at it, and at all the other oddities of this vaunted "Mail Line.
There is no limit to the oddities of the steam-ship "Kilauea.
The Ancren Riwle[91] has no oddities of this kind, and nothing particularly noticeable in its form, though its easy pleasant prose would have been wonderful at the time in any other European nation.
But that was probably due to his oddities as much as anything else.
His talents were undoubted and he got credit for many virtues, but his oddities detracted much from his usefulness.
Mr. Beckham's death was mourned as a public loss for, with many oddities of manner, he had all the qualities that go to make a lovable man and a good citizen.
His oddities tickled them every day] Peter wore no nightgown now.
His oddities tickled them every day, as if they were quite new, though it was really the birds that were new.
And in this pleasant manner these two oddities settled their conference, and went up to bed with arms wrapped round each other's shoulder.
My search for human oddities led me into strange places and made me acquainted with strange people.
I suppose that really no greater stroke of luck could possibly have befallen a student of the oddities of human nature than to have been born in that desolate Black Country sixty years ago.
In the "Arcadia," that museum of odditiesand beauties.
Yes, a shaving virtuoso; really a comical and strange character, and has oddities enough to compensate one for the debasement of talking with a man in his rank.
We can well overlook the oddities of the aged, and it must be trying to lie there all alone, with no one to give you a helping hand or a comforting word.
An immense Collection of the Funniest Jokes, Drollest Anecdotes and most Side-Splitting Oddities in existence.
There are fine passages in his essay, but it is intellectualized, bloodless, heedless of the trifling oddities of human intercourse that make friendship so satisfying.
The more a colyumist is out on the streets, making himself the reporter of the moods and oddities of men, the better his stuff will be.
He was full of big ideas in one way and little oddities in another.
I meant Cardie,' replied Olive, mildly, too much used to Chriss's oddities to be repulsed by them.
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