Then the oddity of the premature thanksgiving struck them both and they laughed.
She laughed at the oddity of her own comparison and added, still smiling: "Once upon a time I used to think Shakspeare a fraud.
In short, he was a man of considerable parts, with a great simplicity and oddity of character.
To the simplicity and oddity of character that Boswell shared with this learned historian, there was certainly added not a little impudence.
The man had at least had the frankness to own the folly which had brought him to these straits, and Lindo was inclined to set down the oddity of his present manner to the fear and anxiety of a respectable servant on the verge of disgrace.
Leslie to look after him until out of sight, and to say to himself as he walked up the esplanade over the rapids: "I thought that I was an oddity and a contradiction, but that fellow can discount me!
You do not make love like the lovers I have read about," she said, with an attempt at a smile, though she could not disguise the oddity of her position.
I HAVE heard that he is an oddity in mind as well as in body," said Mrs. Ramshorn.
She has her oddity of temper, doubtless, like all women.
The oddity of his doings and sayings may be perhaps more properly attributed to his having been a thorough German.
Most of all he was sure that the little hump-backed oddity had risen to its feet and was a veritable creature: an actual uncouth, shambling grotesque, instead of a mere flat blotch of shadow.
The infant grew into a bright little lad, but there was always a certain oddity about him, and he saw and understood more than he ought.
The irony of it escaped me; but later I did recall theoddity of congratulating someone who's just contracted a disease.
She had, withal, a certain oddity about her, which excited notice, but never ridicule; and this was exhibited in her dress and habits.
Nick exclaimed vaguely, rather embarrassed, reflecting on the oddity of a position in which the ground for holding up his head as the husband of a rich woman would be that he had accepted a present of money from another source.
The oddity was, however, that though both Mr. Carteret's aspect and his appreciation were still so fresh this relation of his to his late distinguished friend made the latter appear to Nick even more irrecoverably dead.
The oddity of this epithet made Peter laugh, and altogether, in a few minutes, which is perhaps a sign that he abused his right to be a man of moods, the young lady had produced in him a revolution of curiosity, set his sympathy in motion.
There was an oddity in his helplessness; he appeared to wish to persuade her and to satisfy himself that she sincerely felt how worthy he really was to treat what had happened as an injury.
So much for one oddity which may stand as a sample of many others.
The long straight vista from the Foscari to the Rialto, the great middle stretch of the Canal, contains, as the phrase is, a hundred objects of interest, but it contains most the bright oddity of its general Deluge air.
All the company laughed at the oddity of Whittington's adventure; and Miss Alice, who felt the greatest pity for the poor boy, gave him some halfpence to buy another cat.
In spite of the oddity of the situation, and of occasional anxiety when he considered the possibility of Mr. Poodle finding him out, he was very happy.
He saw only too well that, by the humiliating oddity of chance, they were going to take the road that led exactly past his own house.
The amiable oddity of the lay reader's demeanour as priest had added a zest to churchgoing.
There was nothing so strange about the sound in itself, only the oddity of hearing it under such peculiar conditions.
The oddity of the name impressed the boy, and he asked what there might be about the said Jem to give them any cause for uneasiness.
And with all the curiosity, and variety, and oddity and richness of the Strand, it had the while a manner of snug homeliness and cosiness and comfort about it which was quite inimitable.
I suspect it was the oddity of the shape, the extreme squabness of the volume, that first took my fancy, and then I open the pages--and I have never really closed them.
