I perceived the Fellow stared upon him at the oddness of the Message, and was going to be saucy; upon which I ratified the Knight's Commands with a Peremptory Look.
But the oddness of such an encounter--its gaucherie--would be all upon his side?
The oddness of the style did not remain long a puzzle.
No one knew better than the doctors of Hospital Earth that oddnesswas the rule among the various members of the galactic civilization.
Calumet stood in silent appreciation of the oddness of the situation--he had come like a thief in the night--until he remembered the cigarette in his mouth; that its light was betraying his position.
But then, as the oddness of the situation struck him he laughed again.
Instead of the oddness of a Creole song, or a negro "roustabout," it was the oddness of the ethics and religious superstitions of the genius of a remarkable people.
There is a little head cut in an onyx that I take to be a very good one, and the dolphin is (as you say) the better for being cut less; the oddness of the figures makes the beauty of these things.
She was so melancholy, that all Miss Pelham's oddness and my spirits could scarce make her smile.
I dwelt not on the oddness of its contents, thoroughly characteristic of the writer.
As I looked at this man, I saw that there was a strangeness about him, independently of the oddness of his attire.
Tis her oddnessas much as her loveliness took my fancy; but if her oddness ends in her being an old maid, that'll mean a good deal of my time wasted.
My wife, at this, fell into a violent disorder; and I must own I was a little discomposed at the oddnessof the accident.
No thought had the boy of the oddness of the monk's words, nor of his questions.
And as we have recounted, though all were struck by oddness and meanness of the stranger's clothes, yet only Sir Kay made point to taunt him.
This impression of indescribable oddness in Stephen's touch culminated in speech when she saw him, at the taking of one of her bishops, push it aside with the taking man instead of lifting it as a preliminary to the move.
Oh, I was merely thinking about your story, and the oddness of my having a fancy for the same woman afterwards.
It was not what the boy had said so much as the impression of oddnesswhich affected that worthy man.
This whisper was helped into circulation by many trivial eccentricities of manner, and by the unaccountable oddness of some of his transactions in business.
But waiving the discussion of age, he was odd, though not with the oddness that he who reared him had striven to produce.
His oddness came out in this way--although the thing had really a great success, from that day to this he's never painted another life-size picture of a policeman blowing his whistle.
Strong enough not to misunderstand his silence, his--his oddness in the whole business?
There was an oddnessin his manner she could not understand.
Now, of course, if Pia could see some even possible reason and excuse for the oddness of his behaviour, it must be a great comfort to her.
It was just that,--the oddness of little things, and their immense importance in life, and simply because of the influence they have on the human soul.
He was odd and gentle in many ways; to his mother his oddness was both frightening and endearing.
The village might have been named in prophecy of his advent, with such extraordinary oddness did he conduct his household.
But waiving the discussion of age, he was odd, though not with the oddness that he who had reared him had striven to produce.
The oddness of his behaviour, his alternate talkativeness and sullenness, and the anxiety he had manifested to come by this route, made me at last suspicious.
He would never tell her where he went or attempt to explain the oddness of his conduct, but when pressed by her would merely say: "It is a habit.
I was aware that the oddness of Cousin Tryphena's manner still persisted even now that we were alone.
