| 单词 | oddments |
| 例句 | A few were clad in stolen steel, dinted oddments of armor looted from the corpses of fallen rangers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘Only some bundle of oddments, perhaps, after all,’ he thought with a strange sense of relief; but he did not put the bundle down again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Catelyn had ordered garments sewn to her measure, handsome gowns to suit her birth and sex, yet still she preferred to dress in oddments of mail and boiled leather, a swordbelt cinched around her waist. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He had to make do with oddments assembled from Lord Lefford's wagons: mail hauberk and coif, a dead knight's gorget, lobstered greaves and gauntlets and pointed steel boots. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The temporary lodger, in his turn, stood and bowed to them, then returned to his pack of wooden oddments, sorting, arranging and polishing. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Some dressed in fine soft furs, some in boiled leather and oddments of armor, more in wool and sealskins, a few in rags. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The smell of a rainy Alabama night, the succession of sexual oddments turned me suddenly sick with dread at what this stranger would want. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Earnestly and endearingly am-dram, they end up with wardrobe oddments, scraps of script and a string of lights, stranded on the strange island that is the theatre stage. Candoco Dance Company - review 2010-10-12T21:15:00Z Others are cobbled from castoff jerseys, salvaged silks and oddments of lace or organdy trim. Beyond ‘Queer’ Fashion 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Like some kind of industrious magpie, the designer Anna Sui has spent decades assiduously gathering up shiny oddments from the pop culture landscape and shaping them into a singular career in fashion design. Anna Sui, Fashion’s Favorite Daughter, Gets Her Day in the Sun 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Together these wide-ranging collections gather stories, essays, book reviews, journalism, poems, playlets, recipes, comics and numerous other Sladekian oddments. Review | Beyond George R.R. Martin: A critic’s pick of science fiction and fantasy 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z His spirit lives on in our enduringly crazy world as Gerken and colleagues deck out the Castlefield with art oddments and oddities. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-19T00:05:56Z Wedged in among the cheerily printed short shorts and assorted oddments of New York Men’s Day, there it was, at Sundae School, a year-old brand with the most targeted of sales pitches. New York Men’s Fashion Week: The Mixtape 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z As is typical with Weimann and Maclise, they researched the décor firsthand, scavenging for authentic vintage elements and salvaging architectural oddments. Lots to like at Capitol Hill's Poquitos 2011-10-13T20:11:05Z The armchairs were deep, the bathtub capacious; there were books and paintings and oddments scattered about, collections of silver cigar cases, stuffed birds and precious porcelains. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z Lawrence wrote to a British major in Cairo: “I’m afraid you will be delayed a long time, cleaning up all the messes and oddments we have left behind us.” What America can learn from “Lawrence of Arabia” about Iraq 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z In magpie fashion, she began amassing the shiny cultural oddments that would define her work as a designer. Anna Sui Gets a Degree, and Her Due 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z And there are those, like this reporter, whose magpie ambition is to collect random shiny conversational oddments like the one above. Leonardo DiCaprio Impersonators and a $40,000 Radio at Frieze 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z “Why poets write poetry and the birds sing, and the world was beautiful, and god made men and women and little oddments like that. It was like being at the beginning of the world.” Beauty amid the horror of war 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The Mütter Museum, a 19th-century repository of medical oddments and arcana at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, attracts as many as 160,000 visitors a year. A Museum of ‘Electrifying Frankness’ Weighs Dialing It Down 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z “For eight dreary decades they plodded along in near‐obscurity, mere oddments in the game of baseball’s great geometric design,” Wells Twombly wrote. The DH once threatened pitchers’ pride — and their manhood. Now it’s universal. 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z From the A Western Harvest Field By Moonlight EP, another grab bag of early lint-covered oddments, Lampshade has one of Beck’s first truly indelible melodies. Beck's greatest songs – ranked! 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z And in crazy quilts, oddments of fabric rub up against each other to the point of dizziness. How to write a Booker contender – by Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and others 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s easy to become beguiled by the quirky stories of these often disputed oddments of land. The world’s powers have to resolve their remnants of empire | Martin Kettle 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The “bricoleur addresses himself to a collection of oddments left over from human endeavours”, said Lévi-Strauss, and his motto, according to the critic Gérard Genette, is: “That might always come in handy.” Bob Dylan is not the first songwriter to win the Nobel prize for literature 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s remarkable how little the gamble and oddments of the gamble rely on the qualities that anchor Frahm’s other collaborative work: the delicate melodic ideas, the preternatural grasp on space and pace. nonkeen's new music captures the joy of lifelong friendship 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Sitting side by side, they combed desultorily through oddments dusted with memories — his school yearbooks, clippings resurrecting high school baseball feats, a cassette tape of the “Star Wars” Christmas album. Fraying at the Edges: Her Fight to Live With Alzheimer’s 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z The bond is inevitably looser than the real thing, generally fleeting, and yet there is something telling about the random oddments of criteria that contribute to the choice. How to Find Your Replacement Team for the Playoffs 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z The Collyer panel is not destined to become the cornerstone of his trove of psychiatric oddments. Once Part of Hoarders’ Famous Collection, a Clock Resurfaces 2013-12-25T22:41:15Z With the strange bearing of the lion’s whip-like tail cut off at the rump, we may end the list of these oddments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z When he caught a fish, he slipped it into his pocket, where it tangled itself with his handkerchief and oddments in its dying throes. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z As it was he had to put up with Anatole France, and oddments of Swift and Wilde; nor do I forget his justifiable disgust on discovering too late that our Gulliver was a nursery version. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z My tie was a made-up four-in-hand of crimson satin—not too new, my suit of very serviceable check with large side-pockets, purchased second-hand, together with other oddments, from a shop in Covent Garden. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z Gradually, in oddments, other men came to the place. The Sweep Winner 2011-06-24T02:00:21.067Z There were filthy bandages and other oddments about the floors. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z She crouched lower among the bushes, and presently began to munch some of her oddments of food, while still she watched the family she meant to adopt. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z He received his own present very graciously—a curious collection of oddments it seemed to the unlearned; but he had marked what he wanted in a catalogue, and his sister had obediently bought as directed. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z We hastily gather up books and precious oddments, and hurry off with them to my den, where we take refuge till the whirlwind is past. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z The kitchen-garden is not very large, but it is a straggling sort of place, being, in fact, the oddments of ground left over when the tennis-court was made. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Some tools were ranged against the walls; twine and canvas and common oddments lay there, a small enough show of garden store, and of fuel a pile pitifully low. The Unknown Sea "That?" answered the Viscount yawning, "merely a few of my clothes, sir, and trifling oddments——" "God bless my soul!" Our Admirable Betty A Romance By four o'clock the last load had left—a miscellaneous mass of oddments that puzzled Bindle how he was ever going to sort them out. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle I did not dare to untie the bundle—which was folded up very carefully—but I could feel bits of candles, and a basin among the oddments it seemed to contain. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. The little round boxes were decorated with such oddments as boar's tusks and coke bottle caps. The Golden Skull At a little distance, three officers, one of them Mirakoff, were talking together, and beside them, thrown on an outspread coat, was a heap of oddments, chiefly papers, revolvers, and “killers.” The Red Symbol There are hundreds of poor clergymen’s families to whom a few old garments or any household oddments are as great a charity as to any of the poor under their charge. Kept for the Master's Use Sometimes, not often, when a man, who on the river corresponds to the sneak thief ashore, is caught red-handed stealing rope or metal or ships' oddments there is resistance. Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police This frame, of oddments is composed,-- In mind, the number fix,-- Of long and short and thick and thin, Two hundred just, and six. Mother Truth's Melodies Common Sense For Children All around—it hung in a sort of little glade—were small piles of stones and bits of oddments that only children get together, like the little magpies they are. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon Pack-saddle and tent, with a number of other oddments, had come with us from across the Queensland border; first, by rail, and thence by numerous devious coach routes to Werrina. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography "What on earth is the use of an extra set of faked documents and oddments—" The Lost Kafoozalum In a corner of one room in Scotland Yard is piled a miscellaneous heap of thieves' equipment—jemmies, chisels, scientific safe-breaking implements, and other oddments. Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police A broken door served as a table; various oddments, as chairs and the soup-copper, stood in the centre of the table. How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. The handiness of the troopers had made it comparatively habitable with oddments of furnishing, and a partition, which left an inner room for sleeping quarters. The Law-Breakers But a far worse thing happened shortly afterwards, when my wife pawned some plated oddments belonging to our landlady. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Chris knew it well, for times without number he had pressed his nose to the square Georgian panes of Mr. Wicker's window to gaze at the strangely fascinating jumble of oddments that were displayed. Mr. Wicker's Window There was a lace spread upon her toilet-table, on which her little oddments of silver made a brave show. The Master Mummer They brought a few oddments, a little looking-glass, a mattress on which they slept upon the floor of the room near the kitchen, and a few cooking-pots and pans of their own. In the Tail of the Peacock Trading in sundries, machinery and oddments, loaded out at Kingston, Jamaica, and now for the West Coast to take in palm oil. Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop Only the few little oddments that no woman can prevent. Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts "Here are some oddments of magic that may prove their usefulness," he remarked. Mr. Wicker's Window So we put our oddments in our pillow-case, rolled up our bedrooms into a convenient bundle and trekked. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 2nd, 1914 The window of the shrine was tied with a hundred scraps of rag and dead flowers, bits of wood, and paper and oddments of all sorts. In the Tail of the Peacock Next time I do this sort of thing I'm going to have a row of pegs on my back and an extra storey in my head-gear for oddments. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914 You might let me see the little oddments—— Dolly. Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts The furniture of the library is full of interest, for a quaint writing table, bureau, or desk full of oddments is an exceedingly prolific field of research. Chats on Household Curios And on the bench, set up under the windows, stood a few oddments of appliances of a scientific nature. The Heart of Unaga There's locusts, and wild honey, and unleavened bread—I made out a list of oddments one time. Shining Ferry Patrolman Willis worked painstakingly with amplifiers on what oddments could be picked up in space. A Matter of Importance I say, Doll, I mean to get those oddments fixed up to-night. Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts Leaving the workmen to carry out the necessary decorations at Pastimes, Charmion and I adjourned to London to buy carpets and curtains, and a score of necessary oddments. The Lady of the Basement Flat Rupert and Rumple fought and struggled to throw off the mattress and the canvas and the oddments of clothing in which they were entangled. The Adventurous Seven Their Hazardous Undertaking Presently, after much persuasion, we got one of them to come to the tent and accept a present of needles and other oddments, the delight of womankind all the world over. Southern Arabia Never mind if you have left some oddments behind; Elsie can send them on. The Fortunes of the Farrells So saying he thrust me and the ribbon into a pocket crowded with all sorts of oddments, and walked on more rapidly than ever. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch The drawers were littered with pretty rubbish—oddments of ribbon, old gloves, crumpled flowers, and the like. The Lady of the Basement Flat Ramicourt was eventually reached by oddments of A, C and D Companies, the remainder of the Battalion having got too far left, and passing through its Northern outskirts. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion Of course your bed will be filled with brushes and boots, and any hard oddments they can find lying about. The Jolliest School of All Then he strove to close the grip tucking in the projecting oddments of silk-lined cloth without the least consideration for their well-being. The Forfeit He had a small heap of oddments on his left, and a silk handkerchief in his right hand. Foe-Farrell And there was the habit, too, and little things—oddments. The Lady of the Basement Flat Currin collected all the oddments who had wandered to his Headquarters, and sent them forward under Major Robinson to push the enemy out of the clearing between B and C Companies. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion They had a queer collection of furniture—a table for dressings, and some oddments of chairs, including two carved oak dining-room chairs. Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 The upward course was an application of the principle that made the screen of tin cans and oddments remain about the Platform. Space Tug It is a mere conglomeration of twigs, grass, rags, bits of paper and other oddments. A Bird Calendar for Northern India Look out your oddments and let me see what I can do.” The Lady of the Basement Flat Before commencing any piece of it, it is better to accumulate all the oddments of ribbons, plush, velvet, silk, and satin lying in the piece-drawer from dress trimmings or sent as patterns from shops. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. These two sleeping berths likewise were not conspicuous by any superfluity of scientific oddments, for Meares's work took him outside of the hut as a rule, unless he was engaged in making dog harness. South with Scott "Tell me, what's become of the rugs and oddments of furniture from that little room opposite?" The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton Now, whatever you may think about it, I for one am not prepared to be scrapped and to become part of a dump of oddments waiting instructions for removal from a Bolshevist Disposals Board. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 To and fro she padded, closely examining every inch of the place, and dragging out into the open scores of bones and other oddments which told of its long occupancy. Jan A Dog and a Romance Well," said her lodger, seating himself upon the bed, "if I remember rightly, there are shirts, and socks, and pajamas, and a few other oddments of the sort. The Definite Object A Romance of New York There's a novel taking shape—and other oddments. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Belgium's claim to Dutch Limburg and other territorial oddments must likewise be allowed. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference There's nothing there except lists of securities and pictures and a few oddments—passports and so on. The Great Adventure She tells me, in conclusion, of a milliner's shop where she goes for oddments, and where the young ladies sometimes give her a bit of trimming for her bonnet. The Bed-Book of Happiness The viscera, scraps of fat and oddments tried out in fiery furnaces, appear in the form of pungent snuff-like powder, a much-sought fertiliser. The New North It, too, was crammed with scientific reports, oddments of out-of-the-way lore, and travels. The Flying Legion In Srinagar one can buy native trunks—or yakdans—which are cheap, strong, and portable; and the covered creels or "kiltas" serve admirably for the stowage of kitchen utensils, food, and oddments. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil It contained the officer's bed, the day's newspapers, the telescope, a few oddments hung on pegs pushed into the earthen walls, and, of equal importance with the telescope, a telephone. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front In addition to this oddments have been arriving all day—instruments, clothing, and personal effects. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I When I had completed my investigations and turned over all the oddments lying about to see if there was anything else of use to us, I started off on the return journey. Bullets & Billets That finished my stock of paper, and I left the record of the oddments overheard of the conversation for a later time. Mr. Standfast The attempt met with violent opposition, and though resumed by Titus, was finally crushed by Domitian, who issued an edict recognizing all oddments of land thus held to be private property. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 In the House of Commons, a few last votes and other oddments of the now dying session were being pushed through to an accompaniment of empty benches. Sir George Tressady — Volume II Well, to begin with, he thinks it necessary to have Miss Williams, to housekeep and chaperon, and to do oddments generally—as if I couldn't run the show myself. Roden's Corner Once, indeed, chancing on a copy of the torn inscription, I spent an idle hour in trying to fashion the oddments into a possible connected whole. The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions And the Americans and the boys from the machine-gun school and all the oddments we had commandeered! Mr. Standfast Before her was a sewing-machine, and the floor of the room was littered with oddments of black calico. The Mischief Maker Just before leaving, however, I watched a wonderfully tasty hash being compounded with oddments of rabbit and banana flour. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917 A mirror, pictures of the German Kaiser's family, and a crucifix hang on the walls of the living room; in one corner are two shelves with oddments, including a hymnbook and a book of sermons. Look Back on Happiness Her attire is nondescript, and seems to consist of oddments bought solely because they were cheap and bearing no relation whatever one to the other. A Girl Among the Anarchists She had spent some of the rather large pay she drew upon coverings of French blue for the plush furniture, upon a dainty yellow porcelain tea-set, upon little oddments of decoration. Hidden Creek They sat down to the square table in the middle of the room crowded with oddments of furniture, including a desk which George Cannon had appropriated to his own exclusive use. Hilda Lessways The absence of reindeer-hair and other oddments made everything taste quite strange, though the basis was still the same old ration with a few remaining "perks." The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 He has made—a doll," he said, "carved it out of a piece of wood and dressed it in oddments from his ties. The Tempting of Tavernake Accustomed chiefly to fish, herbs, and roots, the succulent beef had charms which outweighed surprise, and another night was spent in feasting on the "oddments" of the fresh killed beef. Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland When they're flitting, they lug about their chests of records, their tables, their registers, and all the dirty oddments they need for their writing. Under Fire: the story of a squad In the ground room lay a fine assortment of oddments, including old bedsteads and servants' furniture, and what looked like ancient discarded deerskin rugs. Huntingtower Shelves were chipped out at a moment's notice for primus stove, spirit bottle, matches, kerosene and other oddments. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 The room was essentially feminine, being filled with Indian stuffs, with silver oddments, with flowers, and with other trifles. The Green Mummy But in the case of Joan the recollection of these twin “oddments” might have saved her disappointment. All Roads Lead to Calvary I meant to pick up a few oddments in the village. The Vanished Messenger He took off the lid and picked up three small oddments of ivory—a priest with a beard, a tiny soldier, and a draught-ox. Huntingtower Around and above the stove hung oddments like wolf-skin mitts, finnesko, socks, stockings and helmets, which had passed from icy rigidity through sodden limpness to a state of parchment dryness. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Among curious oddments of information contained in the report, it is mentioned that the children of widows generally show superior physique. London's Underworld In another instant of time the pot was back in the locker among the other oddments while I was back in the cabin hard at work at my sermons. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger Then, as the warrior eats, he literally hurls certain oddments over his shoulder, which are promptly pounced upon by the wives and children in waiting. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont |
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