Perhaps the most curious anomaly of experience is that of the child of the London slums who goes "hopping" into some of the loveliest parts of Kent, in early autumn.

The same idea is applied to the explanation of a similar anomaly in the Fauna of the Aegean: "In the deepest of the regions of depth of the Aegean, the representation of a Northern Fauna is maintained, partly by identical and partly by representative forms....

And in such a world, a being feeling ever towards or somewhat beyond what he can weigh and measure, and looking up to find above himself that which is too high for him to understand, would be an anomaly as lawless and incredible as the wildest fabled monster, the Minotaur or the Chimera, the Titanthe Sphynx itselfnay a more delirious riddle than any that in dreams it proposes to us.

He was a strange anomaly at the capital.

With respect to our present English, I know not whether any other improvement of it ought to be attempted, than the avoiding and correcting of those improprieties and unwarrantable anomalies by which carelessness, ignorance, and affectation, are ever tending to debase it, and the careful teaching of its true grammar, according to its real importance in education.

Mosaics and other anomalies among ants.

A moderate Jew is a more confounding piece of anomaly than a wet Quaker.

The Central Park is an anomaly to those who have not deeply studied the tendencies of popular governments.

The bridesmaids should include the unmarried sisters of the bride; but it is considered an anomaly for an elder sister to perform this function.

A child growing up without school learning would be an anomaly with us.