Which preposition to use with odds
Have you ever thought what an exciting game it is, Lester, to defy society, to break the law, to know that the odds against you are a thousand to one, and yet to come out triumphant?
She still lingered, seeing something odd in his manner.
Having no learning himself and being at odds with those of better opportunity, he twisted the pattern of the house.
Do you not think it will make some odds to these children that they were brought up under the Maples?
Betting favored him by the odds of two to one.
And, although Lord Howard would himself have gone into battle even against such odds as that, yet the other commanders were greatly opposed to so rash an enterprise; and the master of his own ship said he would rather jump into the sea than conduct her Majesty's ship and the rest to be a prey to the enemy.
"It is the spirit that has carried the British flag to victory against overwhelming odds on many occasions.
There was something so odd about the love story of the Parasangs that it always interested me.
Nothing truly would be quite so odd for her case as aid proceeding from Mr. Pitman; unless perhaps the oddity would be even greater for himselfthe oddity of her having taken into her head an appeal to him.
"I hear that the Master will scale a hundred and sixty odd at the ring-side.
I have myself had various adventures, but I know of no experience more odd than that of an old schoolmate of mine named John Appleman.
Some letters, like the foregoing, are odd from their extraordinary rudeness.
There is great difference between the standing puddle and the running stream, yet both water: great odds between the adamant and the pomice, yet both stones, a great distinction to be put between vitrum and the crystal, yet both glass: great contrariety between Lais and Lucretia, yet both women.
BURNETT, W. R. Odds against the girl.
MEYNELL, LAURENCE W. Odds on Bluefeather.
This would split up the banddecrease the odds by perhaps one half.
"BUT YOU CAN'T GIVE THOSE ODDS WITH ONLY TWO RUNNERS.
Your life hasn't been one perpetual struggle against overwhelming odds like mine."
You have fought against odds before now.
And though some part of France and Ireland, Great Britain, half the cantons in Switzerland, and the Low Countries, be Calvinists, more defecate than the rest, yet at odds amongst themselves, not free from superstition.
[i.e., Sir CHARLES SEDLEY], "who, to my knowledge, are already so provided, either way, that they can produce not only a Panegyric upon the Victory: but, if need be, a Funeral Elegy upon the Duke, and, after they have crowned his valour with many laurels, at last, deplore the odds under which he fell; concluding that his courage deserved a better destiny."
It seems so odd after so many years of continuous and often hurried work, to be using days for walking, and little things that since I was a grown woman have been crowded into odds and ends of time, or omitted for want of enough of it.
The two Italian deserters, while they acknowledged the valour of the Portuguese in the late action, represented that it would be impossible for them to continue to bear up long against such vast odds without reinforcements, and recommended the frequent reiteration of assaults, under which they must necessarily be at last overthrown.