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"She hates you she hates you," he observed with the oddest quietness to Mrs. Beale. His quietness made her blaze. "And you back her up in it and give me up to outrage?" "No; I only insist that she's free she's free." Mrs. Beale stared Mrs. Beale glared. "Free to starve with this pauper lunatic?" "I'll do more for her than YOU ever did!" Mrs. Wix retorted. "I'll work my fingers to the bone."
"It was a fantastic coincidence," reflected Horne Fisher. "It's extraordinary what coincidences do sometimes occur. By the oddest chance in the world, by one chance in a million, it so happened that another sword of exactly the same shape was in the same garden at the same time.
Think of Sarkie as Mrs. Linton! They'll be the oddest couple! I wonder if she'll get tired of perpetual music, and if he'll rage round his own drawing-room and ruffle his hair when he feels annoyed, like he does with his pupils!" "Perhaps she'll break him off bad habits! I could trust her to hold her own." "Oh, she'll be the gray mare, don't you fear! But honestly I'm glad!
"He must be the oddest man that ever lived," said Mrs Grantly, "not to have known where he got the cheque." The archdeacon shook his head, and rubbed his hands as he walked about the room. "I suppose too much learning has upset him," said the archdeacon. "They say he's not very good at talking English, but put him on in Greek and he never stops."
"Quarrelling?" said Sonia sharply, with a sudden uneasiness in air and eyes and voice. "Yes; quarrelling. And they said good-bye to one another in the oddest way." "But surely they shook hands?" said Sonia. "Not a bit of it. They bowed as if each of them had swallowed a poker." "Why then then " said Sonia, starting up with a frightened air; and her voice stuck in her throat.
They were the oddest creatures in the Laundromat, dancing the sangfroid to a cassette recording of Evard Grieg's Peer Gynt with bread and cream cheese gushing in their mouths as they waited for their laundry to dry. One day they went downtown to pay utility bills and afterwards they walked around the campus of Cornell University.
Gallilee proceeded, speaking in the oddest self-contradictory voice, if such a description is permissible a voice at once high in pitch and mild in tone: in short, as Mr. Le Frank once professionally remarked, a soft falsetto.
At last the injury to my sight passed away, and after a few weeks I again trusted myself to steal along the few streets between my house and the Opera, to satisfy my anxiety for the continuation of the rehearsals. People here had indulged in the oddest ideas, and seemed to have assumed that I was as good as dead.
His head was scarred with the records of old wounds, a sort of series of fields of battle all over it; one eye out, one ear cropped as close as was Archbishop Leighton's father's; the remaining eye had the power of two; and above it, and in constant communication with it, was a tattered rag of an ear, which was forever unfurling itself, like an old flag; and then that bud of a tail, about one inch long, if it could in any sense be said to be long, being as broad as long, the mobility, the instantaneousness of that bud were very funny and surprising, and its expressive twinklings and winkings, the intercommunications between the eye, the ear, and it, were of the oddest and swiftest.
" Nobody ever goes to Nuremberg but Americans," said a cynical British officer at Chamouny; "but they always go there. I never saw an American who had n't been or was not going to Nuremberg." Well, I suppose they wish to see the oldest-looking, and, next to a true Briton on his travels, the oddest thing on the Continent.
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