We made anodd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
Jena Janovy is a strange bird—a college basketball player who is a) female and b) short (5 feet 3 inches) and, perhapsoddest of all, lets neither of those things dampen her rabid enthusiasm for the game.
2012, Will Schwalbe,The End of Your Life Book Club, Knopf Doubleday,→ISBN:
Did Mary (I thought it wasodd that they always called her Mary even though her name was Mary Anne, andodder that Mom refused to correct them) have time for some questions?
2003, Kenneth Rubin, Andrea Thompson,The Friendship Factor, Penguin,→ISBN:
[One of them would] say, 'Hi, Mother.' This might be Chrissie with the purple hair and black lipstick, or Adam, who usually woreodd leather stuff. Sometimes 'Hi' was all I heard; other times they'd stay and talk for a minute.
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2009, Sam O'Connor,Tales of Old Las Vegas: Inside are a Few Stories Set in the 60's, where There was More to the Action Than the Games, AuthorHouse,→ISBN, page187:
"Here, I have someodd change that should make things easier." As Tish turned and reached for the cigarettes, Eric took some loose coins from his pocket and placed the change from the twenty into his other pocket.
2010, Chris Thomas,The Rockefeller Fraud, Xulon Press,→ISBN, page24:
Third was my college loan of five thousand dollars and someodd change.
As she ran on her numerous errands Jessamy found that if she did not stop to think, she knew all kinds ofodd little things that the other Jessamy must have learned, such as where the nutmeg grater lived, and which was the potato peeling knife.
1998, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley,Five Plays, Oxford University Press, USA,→ISBN, page148:
There areodd bits of green here and there in patches, but no continuous stretches. The elk, swans and woodgrouse are no more. The old hamlets, farmsteads, hermitages and mills have vanished without trace.
1879,Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening, page262:
Theodd horse will now be employed in carting couch grass on to pasture land, carting hay, &c, to sheep in the field, carting roots, straw, &c, for feeding cattle in the boxes or dairy cows in the stalls or yards, and in various odd jobs on the farm ...
1894, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons,Sessional papers. Inventory control record 1, page57:
At about 14 he rises a step by getting the 'odd' horse and cart, and does all the small carting work about the farm.
1912, John Burleigh,Ednam and Its Indwellers:
There is also the “orra man who, like theodd horse, is kept busy on odd jobs.
In their original article, Messrs Christie and Schultz found that in 70 of the 100 most heavily traded stocks, Nasdaq dealers avoided quoting prices inodd eighths of a dollar. Buyers were far more likely to quote shares at 28 1/2 or 28 3/4 than at 28 5/8.
1886,Walter William Skeat,The Wars of Alexander: An Alliterative Romance Translated Chiefly from the Historia Alexandri Magni de Preliis, page 120, in (modern English) notes about the Middle English text:
He goes to Phrygia, and sees Scamander. "Happy are all," he says, "who are honoured by thatodd clerk. Homer." In Macedonia, he finds hie mother.
I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at someodd times.
Odd in theEncyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)