5006 examples of odds in sentences

Give you odds.

But other than the odds and odds usually to be found in a man's pockets there was nothing to interest the searcher.

But other than the odds and odds usually to be found in a man's pockets there was nothing to interest the searcher.

My life on't Hee had been o'th' Better side, And where hee found false odds, (through Gold or Sloath) There brave Mardonius would have beat them Both.

The personal intensity of the author, which is felt to pervade this book, is present again in Jude the Obscure (1895), that record of an aspiring soul, struggling against hopeless odds, heavy incumbrances, and sordid realities.

All sorts of odds and ends were hanging over the side, and about the rigging; the yards were not properly squared, and so forth; tillas old sailors would saythe ships had no more decency about them than so many collier- brigs.

I likewise; but betwixt us there was no more than some French pennies and a few odds and ends of no value at all.

" "Why, what odds does that make, Señor?" cries Jack.

"Life itself is a game," says he, "in which the meanest stroke may not be won without some risk; but, played as I direct, the odds are in our favour.

" He hurried up the road, and Jim, with the set face of a man going into action against heavy odds, followed him.

To-day it was here, giving a good account of itself against tremendous odds, spending itself in driblets to give the Allies a chance to get up.

From the houses the French had replied until driven out by heavy odds, and then they ran across the fields, leaving many dead and wounded behind them.

If they abhor, dislike, or distaste, once settled, though to the better by odds, by no counsel, or persuasion, to be removed.

All longed to have a brush with the mutineers, and help our comrades in the fort who were fighting against such odds.

The action had commenced in earnest when we arrived on the ridge, and the brave defenders of Hindoo Rao's house were holding their own against enormous odds.

For he felt, besides, at odds with Heaven itself, in that he had not been able to attain his goal in an undertaking of so great magnitude, involving the overthrow of Nero and the liberation of the Romans.

Besides what's the odds, if you come to think of it?

"I thought the odds were even.

" "And if he knows anything he hasn't told, the odds are on him to know a whale of a sight more.

She did not know what she was undertaking, nor how far she might be led in the attempt to do good against great odds of evil on all sides; but she was not discouraged, and she had no intention of drawing back.

A few minutes before, well armed, and with a brick wall between him and them he had dared a hundred men to fight; but he felt instinctively that the desperate man confronting him was not to be trifled with, and he was too prudent a man to risk his life against such heavy odds.

She was accomplished and amiable, dressed in good taste, and had for her father by all odds the richest colored manthe term is used with apologies to Mr. Clayton, explaining that it does not necessarily mean a negroin Groveland.

The odds seem to be on Switzerland, but Mr. Punch recommends Denmark.

They were at odds just now.

You are giving odds, man!"

5006 examples of  odds  in sentences