Hester was sometimes oddly stupid for a moment as to the intent of those she knew best.
For the world very oddly prizes the form whose informing reality it despises.
That he should behave oddly seemed natural--not that he should knowingly intend to do so!
If, on the other hand, the men and women in the concert-room were as oddly distinguished one from another as these different fishes, you would prefer going with your brother.
Do you know, Mr. Gramont, that oddly enough there were no pin holes in that paper?
The tower is square and immensely massive, and might have supported a very lofty spire; so that it is the more strange that what spire it has should be so oddly stuck beside it, springing out of the church wall.
Oddly enough, it seems to us, the slippers were not worn at meals.
The white hair tumbled on the pillow, and the long, beautiful hands that lay on the coverlet were oddly pathetic in contrast to the potency of the unconscious face.
The tall figure of Professor Fish, jumping from his compartment and turning to slam the door vehemently, struck her as oddly familiar; the man's personality stood in high relief from his surroundings.
Mingling oddly with a numb, gray misery, there was something else, a troubled light like a clouded dawn.
Oddly enough, considering O'Byrn's wide acquaintance since his brief stay in town, the two had never met.
Before the division of the treasure there arose a point of morality that, oddly enough, had not been considered before.
Night had begun to fall, and in the gray dusk I could not make sure, but again I was oddly struck by its resemblance to our engineer, Fleming.
An abrupt inaction, that was like desolation, made the great house seem oddly vacant.
He felt oddly moved, yet he could not have said why, perhaps even to himself.
Nevertheless, Charmian noticed that from time to time he regarded her with the oddly furtive look at which she had wondered before dinner.
His dark eyes were habitually slitted, and his mouth oddly off-center, always poised between a mirthless grin and a snarl.
The Barbarian passed over a length of steel as big as a short-sword, but oddly curved and sharpened down one side of the blade.
When he heard Geoffrey come out of the underbrush, the face he turned was white and oddly distended with shock, as though all the bones had drained out of it.
Either that or my conscience," he replied, "and oddly enough, I preferred the headache.
Oddly enough, his interest and desire did not go further.
We were all quite indignant with Bones--but, oddly enough, I think it was greatly tempered with our new pride in him.
It was a hearty laugh, and echoed so oddly in the little schoolhouse, and seemed so inconsistent and discordant with the sighing of the pines without, that he shortly corrected himself with a sigh.
He was hurt, wounded--yet oddly enough he was conscious now of a certain power within him to hurt and wound in retribution.
This first introduction was the Master Aeronaut, a man whose sun-tanned face contrasted oddly with the delicate complexions about him.
He thought of Bellamy, the hero of whose Socialistic Utopia had so oddlyanticipated this actual experience.
Very thick black and slightly sloping eyebrows that almost met over his nose and overhung deep grey eyes, gave his face an oddlyformidable expression.
I don't know how they managed this, but no one seemed to think that there would be any difficulty about it when the King mentioned it; and when people really make up their minds to do anything, difficulties do most oddly disappear.
He tried to stand up on his feet, but his shoulders were oddly heavy.
It was, most amazingly, a crystal cave, very oddly shaped like a railway station.
I am going to begin again with his Scarlet Letter and Seven Gables; which (oddly to myself) I did not take to.
It struck me oddly that--of all things in the world!
She was oddly sullen, and throughout the morning her gaze returned again and again half-fascinatedly, half-wonderingly to the neighbouring isle.
Oddly enough, I found that he knew me, or rather my work.
From this vantage point the oddly shaped vehicles were plain, and we could see they were, indeed, like the shell of the Nautilus and elfinly beautiful.
The shell swerved sickeningly; there was an oddly metallic splintering; it quivered; shot ahead.
A faint thrill passed through my hand and arm, oddly unfamiliar and as oddly unpleasant; as of electric contact holding the very essence of cold.
The scene in front of us was oddly weird and depressing; in some indefinable way--dreadful.
I realized a clarity of mind, an interesting exhilaration and sense of irresponsibility, of freedom from care, that were oddly enjoyable.
A horny arm lifted me; two enormous, oddlygentle saucer eyes were staring into mine; my head rolled; I caught a glimpse of the Golden Girl kneeling beside the O'Keefe.
Thenceforth they hung about the cave and retained, practically, their place in the family, oddly enough showing particular animosity to those of their own kind who ventured near the place.
Failing that, she had turned to the person, who, oddly enough, had apparently comprehended her little complexities.
He read Whelpdale's letter aloud; it was facetious, but oddly respectful.
The girls looked oddly out of place in this second-floor sitting-room, with its vulgar furniture and paltry ornaments.
When they were done, the great room of Cedar House was an oddly charming sight, worth going far to see.
But she knew nothing of the wanderer’s existence, save that he had of late strayed into her own, and that he had seemed oddly attached to a man who was almost universally disliked without any well-defined reason.
The names of the witnesses were also given, and, oddly enough, they were persons quite unknown to any one concerned.
As she went something oddly like fear got hold of her, and her heart fluttered unexpectedly.
For they were like wood or stone, yellowish in colour, rough in shape, and yet oddly polished by time, as some old men’s hands are.
With a dignity oddly in contrast to this stammering confession, which was what it was, she rose to her feet as Mrs. Billing came back to us.
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