170 examples of at odds in sentences
Time was when science and religion were supposed to be at odds; to-day the intellectual phalanxes are sweeping Christward with an impetus that is sublime!
A plump little man whose sober habit, smacking of things ecclesiastic, was at odds with his face that beamed forth jovial and rubicund from the shade of his wide-eaved hat: a pilgrim-like hat, adorned with many small pewter images of divers saints.
the voice was sweet to hear as note of merle or mavis; these eyes were long and deeply blue beneath their heavy lashes; eyes that looked up, brimful of tenderness, ere they closed slow and wearily; eyes so much at odds with grim bascinet and close-laced camail that Beltane must needs start and hold his breath and fall to sudden trembling what time Sir Fidelis lay there, pale and motionless, as one that is dead.
Then, though at odds wi' a' the warl', Amang oursells we'll never quarrel; Though Discord gie a cankered snarl To spoil our glee, As lang's
You wish me to believe you simply assume I am at odds with Captain Monk and his friends.
The owner of the runit was called Salisbury Plainspoke a word of warning, and I tried to pull up, tried to take to the work again, and forget myself in it; butah, well, dearest, thank God you would not understand that you cannot know what a man is like when he is at odds with fate, and is bed-fellow with despair!" "Do I not!"
'Tis told me, Master Lusam, that my son And your chaste daughter, whom we match'd together, Wrangle and fall at odds, and brawl and chide.
The black ox treads not yet upon thy toe, Nor thy good fortune turns her wheel awaye; Thy flocks increase, and thou increasest so, Thy straggling goates now mild, and gentlely; And that fool love thou whipst away with rods; Then what sets thee, and joy so far at odds?
he resumed, without losing anything of his gaiety, "we are still at odds, it seems.
[6066]Lis est cum forma magna pudicitiae, beauty and honesty have ever been at odds.
See how the devil rageth: those at odds, or differing among themselves, some for Ali, some Enbocar, for Acmor, and Ozimen, those four doctors, Mahomet's successors, and are subdivided into seventy-two inferior sects, as Leo Afer reports.
bastante, sufficient, enough, sufficiently, rather, considerable; lo , sufficiently, enough. bastar, to be sufficient; baste, let that suffice; enough. batallar, to disagree, battle, be at odds. batir, to beat, strike, clap; el cobre de firme, to be most diligent; las palmas, to clap the hands; subst., beating; refl. to fight a duel.
On the theatre they were equally at odds, for while Undine had seen "Oolaloo" fourteen times, and was "wild" about Ned Norris in "The Soda-Water Fountain," she had not heard of the famous Berlin comedians who were performing Shakespeare at the German Theatre, and knew only by name the clever American actress who was trying to give "repertory" plays with a good stock company.
He was, in fact, greater than the twins would ever be, because he was not at odds with his material: he found such stuff as his dreams were made of ready to his hand, in the great heart of the publicthe last place where the twins would have thought of looking.
Or, more distinctly, they are at odds with universal law, and, knowing that to them it can come only as judgment and doom, they, not daring to denounce the law itself, fall to the trick of denouncing its agents as visionaries, and its effects as premature.
9 Such talk soon set 'em all at odds; And, had I Homer's pen, I'd sing ye, how they drank like gods, And how they fought like men.
THE BOOK-WORM. Come hither, boy, we'll hunt to-day The book-worm, ravening beast of prey! Produced by parent Earth, at odds (As Fame reports it) with the gods.
For that is a treasure for a sultan's daughter, and this fillette of mine (forgive me) is of no great beauty or worth " "In saying that, Sidi Hadji, thou sayest a thing which is at odds with half the truth.
This first and last of joys, This sweetener of annoys, This nectar of the gods, You call a kiss, is with itself at odds: And half so sweet is not, In equal measure got At light of sun as it is in the dark: Hark, happy lovers, hark!
In particular, my two nearest neighbors were much at odds as to which had better claim to nurse me; so that one day Mrs. Walters, able to endure it no longer, thrust Mrs. Cobb out of the house by the shoulder-blades, locked the door on her, and them opened the shutters and scolded her out of the window.
In short, plain as they think the matter, they are much at odds.
Destiny and I have been at odds ever since I was a schoolboy.
His affection for this "husband" was no light inclination, but a serious matter and a firmly fixed passion, so much so that he did not become vexed at any such harsh treatment, but on the contrary loved him the more for it and actually wished to appoint him Cæsar;he threatened his grandmother when she interfered, and chiefly on this man's account he became at odds with the soldiers.
They are merely the inhabitants of a town which has long been at odds with the neighbouring towns of the province.
" In this way they would have the requisite number of syllables; but they would be wholly at odds with the dictionary of the good actors of the Théâtre Français.