We carelessly rambled along, enjoying the balmy freshness of the air, the picturesque scenery of the neighbouring mountains, the beauty or fragrance of some vegetable productions, and the oddity of others, until, having passed through a thick wood, we came to an extensive plain, which was covered with rose-bushes.

He was simply an oddity in a country where oddities draw small attention.

She had never heard the curate preachhad heard talk of his oddity on all sides, from men and women no more capable of judging him than the caterpillar of judging the butterflywhich yet it must become.

Then at least we might have got rid of such oddities as the stanzas for steps up to the church-door, the first at the bottom of the page; of the lines shaped into ugly altar-form; and of the absurd Easter wings, made of ever lengthening lines.

thingsthat is she liked fairies, and princes, and kings, and knights with golden swords, and all oddities like that.

He was, without exception, the greatest oddity for a soldier that our army has ever seen.

Piero carried oddity to strange lengths.