651 examples of oddly in sentences

And afterward the Pedlar murmured with an oddly twisted face: "Cat-eye, Joe.

Quite oddly, now that there seemed another man as powerful as Lord Nick or even more terrible, she felt for the big man more tenderly than ever; for like all women, there was a corner of her heart into which she wished to receive a thing she could cherish and protect.

Oddly enough, he looked at Donnegan, not at the girl, and this token of the beaten man decided her.

Oddly enough, the only figure that comes fairly forth to my mind's eye is that of a dowager, one of hundreds whom I used to marvel at, all over England, but who have scarcely a representative among our own ladies of autumnal life, so thin, careworn, and frail, as age usually makes the latter.

Oddly enough she has not herself asked for this protection, but it has been urged very largely by women not of the industrial class.

"The dreams of sleeping men," says this profound philosopher, "are all made up of the waking man's ideas, though for the most part oddly put together."

What she really gasped at was that, so oddly, he was ahead of her at the start.

It was all, clearly, a wondrous show for him, but his immediate surprise, oddly, might have been greatest for that.

Oddly enough at the very moment when we have thus had reimpressed upon us the uncertainty of our outward mechanical defenses against the elements, we have been making a curious addition to our knowledge of inner means of defense.

Dos Reis had undertaken the command of the naval side of the revolt; but oddly enough, he seems to have arranged no method of conveyance to his post of duty.

It happens, very oddly, that my own standing at Christ's was nearly corresponding with his; and, with all gratitude to him for his enthusiasm for the cloisters, I think he has contrived to bring together whatever can be said in praise of them, dropping all the other side of the argument most ingeniously.

For several years, due to West's good offices, the two oddly mated friends were successful in their ventures, and added to their capital.

And, oddly enough, our cousin's photograph in Court dress moved him as it had moved his wife.

"Oddly enough, I received no telegram from my wife, but under the circumstances I could do nothing else than return to my home at once.

Oddly enough, she is in love with me nowin earnest this time.

It was that of a man, or rather monster, with a huge chest, but narrow loins and oddly spindle legs, and with a white, dead face malignant of expression.

The next step in the inquiry was naturally to seek an interview with the magi, the three travelers from Persia who so oddly showed their belief in the supernatural nature of what has occurred, but they were found with difficulty.

Oddly, neither Nibbles nor Tweaty felt the slightest tinge of fear at the sight of the cat.

The ad captandum part of the argument, oddly enough, fell to the share of the minister of the church; while the intellectual, discriminating, and really logical portion of the subject, was handled by one trained in garrisons and camps, with a truth, both of ethics and reason, that would have done credit to a drilled casuist.

As she stood in the doorway watching the two ladies out of sight, a just indignation grew within the breast so strongly fortified outside, so vulnerable within; and without even waiting to call her giggling young ladies to order, she pinned on her hat and departed to send Mrs. Coombe's postal note to the Detroit druggist, who, oddly enough, was not a druggist at all.

She felt oddly uncertain.

Then, turning away from talk with three or four workmen, standing at his office door, he saluted the two apparitional figures, so oddly passing along the muddy morning road.

How oddly right my absurd instinct had been about thatand, shall we ever forget the unearthly beauty of the evening which brought us at dark to the quaint little operatic-looking village, deep and snug among the solemn, sleeping hills?

"Oddly enough, mine's begun.

The free seats are very fairly patronised, and sometimes very oddly.

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