The fact is, the business is very simple indeed, and I make no doubt that we can manage it sufficiently well ourselves; but then I thought Dupin would like to hear the details of it, because it is so excessively odd.

" Sir Roger is looking at me again with an odd smilenot disagreeable in any waynot at all hold-cheap, or as if he were sneering at me for a simpleton, but merely odd.

He did not know how charmingly odd the mode of its make was, since Ruth's little hands had planned it out of her own pretty head in enchanting ignorance of the fashion.

Do you think she'd steal letters for him?" "It does seem awfully odd," said Agony, "the fuss she always made about wanting to be an American.

" Now, as I knew (or believed I knew) by heart every specimen in the collection, this suggestion struck me as exceedingly odd; but reflecting that his brain might well have suffered some disturbance from the general engorgement, I followed him without remark.

If Miss Slade, alias Mrs. Marlow, is a member of the gangif there is onewhich killed and robbed James Allerdyke, it's a decidedly odd and queer thing that she should frame the victim's portrait and hang it where she'll see it last thing at night and first thing in the morning.

There was an air of gravity and importance about the garb of the person, and something indescribably odd, I might say awful, in the perfect, stone-like stillness of the figure, that effectually checked the testy comment which had at once risen to the lips of the irritated artist.

He was a simple country gentleman; rather odd, noisy in voice and slow in action, rough but not malicious, hospitable, and devoted to coursing.

It is notably odd, by the way, that those who accuse Hamlet of inaction, are mostly the same who believe his madness a reality!

* Going back to the beginning of the year and looking over the contest for the National League championship of 1912, it is not uninteresting, indeed it is of much interest to call attention to the remarkably odd record which was made by New York to win the pennant.

And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

Three persons that night had specially odd stories to tell.

You see, they might think it a trifle odd if they found you herewith me.

Absurdly odd as it may sound at first to foreign ears, it can not be so very foreign to students of Shakespeare, who puts these words in Brutus' mouth"Thy (Caesar's) spirit walks abroad and turns our swords into our proper entrails."

How vaguely odd was this beauty, he reflected, too; how alien in its effect to that of any other woman in sturdy England, and how associable it was, somehow, with every wild and gracious denizen of the woods which blossomed yonder.

Yes, H.F., so they arevery odd I should not have remarked them.

Never was Paris so disconcertingly odd.

Wotan was not a happy choice: But even super-Germans are wont at times to nod, And to borrow Wotan's aegis was indubitably odd; For dark decline o'erwhelmed his line: he saw his god-head wane, And his stately palace vanish in a red and ruinous vain.

They have only two wheels, placed behind, so that the horse has to bear the weight of the vehicle as well as to draw it; and there is something so inexpressibly odd in the whole arrangement, that it put me in mind of the equipages brought on the stage in a Christmas pantomime.

"Why," said Jarvis, rather humbly, "I am sensible, Mr Moseley, I was very wrong as regards your sister; but don't you think it a little odd in a soldier not to fight when properly called upon?"

Mighty odd The wind should pipe a little, while we stand Cooling our heels in this way!I'll begin And count the stars.