Oddity

Examples

• It's all of a piece with Casaubon's oddity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I may be a bit of an oddity in point of temper, but this is my temper--I can't let anybody have entirely their own way. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Mr. Bumble sat himself down; quite confounded by the oddity of Mr. Grimwig's manner. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• But you are such a little oddity! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The circulation, sir,' returned Bitzer, smiling at the oddity of the question, 'couldn't be carried on without one. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Why, heaven save us, man, exclaimed my guardian, surprised into his old oddity and vehemence, you talk of yourself as if you were somebody else! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He must be an oddity, I think, said she. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• There's an oddity in things, now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mrs. Welland agreed, as if allowing for an inherited oddity; and after that the question of Newland's unemployment was tacitly dropped. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• But there are oddities in things, continued Mr. Brooke, whose conscience was really roused to do the best he could for his niece on this occasion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Those words express another of his incomprehensible oddities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Shirley, in spite of her whims and oddities, her dodges and delays, has an infatuated fondness for him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Certainly, the exemplary Mrs. Garth had her droll aspects, but her character sustained her oddities, as a very fine wine sustains a flavor of skin. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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