Local opinion ascribes these oddities on her part to the fact that she attended normal school for one year just before her marriage. Said one neighbor: "She does a lot of funny things.

But they are admirably framed for the purpose of exhibiting striking groups of eccentric characters, each governed by his own peculiar whim, each talking his own peculiar jargon, and each bringing out by opposition the oddities of all the rest.

Piero carried oddity to strange lengths.

'Tis impossible to describe the oddity of my situation at present, which, however, is not void of some pleasant circumstances.

He was "a self-made man" on a throne, and displayed all the oddities and want of breeding that usually mark the demeanor of persons whose youth has not had the advantages that proceed from good examples and regular instruction.

And yet he pitied her so much, and felt so unwilling to have a matter of such gravity disturbing the oddity of their acquaintance, that he thought, rather than receive fifty pounds down, he would have the Marchioness proved innocent.

And there is also this striking contrast between the novelist and the poets,that while the whole tendency of the age was toward realism, away from the extremes of the romanticists and from the oddities and absurdities of the early novel writers, it was precisely by emphasizing oddities and absurdities, by making caricatures rather than characters, that Dickens first achieved his popularity.

Every one was really a "character," and Uncle John's nieces, who all possessed a keen sense of humor, enjoyed the oddities of the Millvillites immensely.

If type could entrap one-half the pretty oddities of Aurora's speech,the arch, the pathetic, the grave, the earnest, the matter-of-fact, the ecstatic tones of her voice,nay, could it but reproduce the movement of her hands, the eloquence of her eyes, or the shapings of her mouth,ah!

That indeed was not very easy to discover at first; for Scoutbush felt so strongly the oddity of taking a pretty young woman into his counsel on a question of sanitary reform, that he felt mightily inclined to laugh, and began beating about the bush, in a sufficiently confused fashion.

" Curtness in letter-writing does not necessarily indicate oddity.

I know my father's little oddities, among which is a rooted dislike to telegrams.

" "Kitty Tolbridge," said Miss Panney, solemnly, "whatever happens, don't mind that woman's oddity.

They had observed the oddity before.

As he read them over with the dates, they looked at each other with surprise, and one of them very sensibly remarked, "If the Lord owns Father Moody's oddities, we must let him take his own way.

If a man were virtuously inclined to pirate in his religious nomenclature the oddities of old Carey, who coined that finely flowing word "aldeborontiphoscophornio," which is only a line ahead of that other stately polysyllable "chrononhotonthologos," why let him do so, for somebody with more madness or wisdom than yourself will some day end or mend him.

It would be endless to point out the oddities and incongruities which result from this classification.

and such inadvertence as the preceding almost warrants the oddity of his suggestion.

They were too much absorbed in their own sensations and in each other to realize the oddity of their appearance, floundering in the deep snow, looking eagerly in each other's faces, and talking in a breathless and disjointed way.

Eyes were turned towards me with that mild curiosity with which one remarks any innocent oddity or vanity of the streets.

" Johnson's society was, we may easily believe, very trying to a widow in such a position; and it seems to be true that Thrale was better able than Mrs. Thrale to restrain his oddities, little as the lady shrunk at times from reasonable plain-speaking.

She sees the oddities and foibles of people with the insight of the true humorist, and paints them with most dexterous cunning.