The emperor Vespasian attempted to reclaim for the state small oddments of land (subseciva) which were held by neighbouring owners to whom they had never been definitely assigned.
The attempt met with violent opposition, and though resumed by Titus, was finally crushed by Domitian, who issued an edict recognizing all oddments of land thus held to be private property.
Every effort is made to enrich the patches by the use of gold thread, spangles, gold lace, and silk cords, and when the work is faithfully done, no one could guess it was devised out of oddments and produced at a nominal cost.
I say, Doll, I mean to get those oddmentsfixed up to-night.
Only the few little oddments that no woman can prevent.
He said that nothing among the oddments left by your father had been preserved, but that you were welcome to anything you desired, if you would let them know at the Hall.
The sight of Peter's plain little oddments made me feel solemn.
And the Americans and the boys from the machine-gun school and all the oddments we had commandeered!
That finished my stock of paper, and I left the record of the oddments overheard of the conversation for a later time.
But I must beg you not to picture the wood-house as the home of the miscellaneous collection of nondescriptoddments so indescribably dear to every masculine heart.
Ramicourt was eventually reached byoddments of A, C and D Companies, the remainder of the Battalion having got too far left, and passing through its Northern outskirts.
Currin collected all the oddments who had wandered to his Headquarters, and sent them forward under Major Robinson to push the enemy out of the clearing between B and C Companies.
Mrs Garnett said as she laid the rejected dainties on one side and proceeded to pack the oddments which had been required for the meal in one small basket, placing layers of paper in those left empty.
The window of the shrine was tied with a hundred scraps of rag and dead flowers, bits of wood, and paper and oddments of all sorts.
Chris knew it well, for times without number he had pressed his nose to the square Georgian panes of Mr. Wicker's window to gaze at the strangely fascinating jumble of oddments that were displayed.
The furniture of the library is full of interest, for a quaint writing table, bureau, or desk full of oddments is an exceedingly prolific field of research.
The drawers were littered with pretty rubbish--oddments of ribbon, old gloves, crumpled flowers, and the like.
Look out your oddments and let me see what I can do.
However, we lay perfectly still and flat, hands covered and faces down, and as long as you do that all the flares in the world won't give you away much, in ground as full of oddments and unevenness as that is.
Behind our line you have graves and crosses, and comparatively friendly things of all kinds--rubbish, you know, and oddments discarded by fellow humans no longer ago than a matter of hours.
Roll up all oddments in soft, clean muslin with tape or label attached, on which is written a list of the trifles to be found within your treasury.
The woman who can utilize oddments and make things with her own hands is the woman who will be making money, as she will be supplying one of the most expensive items of modern times—personal labour.
Oddments of casement cloth, linen, cotton poplin, print, can all be saved, and a real economy can be effected by this method of using them.
Around and above the stove hung oddments like wolf-skin mitts, finnesko, socks, stockings and helmets, which had passed from icy rigidity through sodden limpness to a state of parchment dryness.
The absence of reindeer-hair and other oddments made everything taste quite strange, though the basis was still the same old ration with a few remaining "perks.
Never mind if you have left some oddments behind; Elsie can send them on.
She had just laid on the ground her knife and a few oddments when, throwing in spite of herself a nervous glance around, she noticed a slight movement in the bushes on her right--the direction in which she had come.
