But in the case of Joan the recollection of these twin "oddments" might have saved her disappointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Roads Lead to Calvary] Reference

"oddments" of appeal which sometimes make more or less inferior books readable and readable again -- fresh acquaintance, after a long time, is dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

He quotes oddments from all over world literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Frost: A Life] Reference

He threw the head and some other oddments to the dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]

I had to take a lot of oddments as well, like the marble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Longshot]

Among the other oddments is a dish of nice-looking plums.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference

Garen Miq was a seller of oddments, but he was also a spy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference

He had kept the regulation knife and pouchful of oddments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ensign Flandry]

I am leaving everything to him, of course, except a few oddments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

In the shed he had also uncovered two or three crates of oddments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exile's Honor]

I stacked up the notebooks and began on that last pigeon-hole full of oddments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Cert]

The place was crowded with all sorts of oddments, even more so than the tiny window.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lark And The Wren]

Evidently the Umlaut and Surprise of this reality shared it for oddments of interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stork Naked]

There was a shed housing the truck and the utility and a mass of oddments of machinery.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Town Like Alice]

I then bent to examine the small bowl of assorted oddments that had arrived with the drinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]

A rifle was a barrel and a lock and a stock, plus such oddments as sight and ramrod and bayonet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guns Of The South]

There were only a few personal oddments and an envelope containing some press cuttings about doping.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Kicks]

During these argumentative hours various oddments of traffic, mostly vehicular, passed along the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

The oddments were very odd indeed and, unlike the things needing mending, had been packed carefully away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exile's Honor]

A few oddments of tableware could be seen in out-of-the-way places, shadow-hidden from the cleaning squad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Decision at Doona]

Col. Currin collected all the oddments who had wandered to his Headquarters, and sent them forward under Major.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference

On the walls were pictures from illustrated papers, and on the floor oddments of raiment and a mattress of bags.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference

Eb looked out at a sea once again calm; oddments could be seen bobbing to the surface or floating in on the tide.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Fall]

Actually I was resuming my quest for knowledge, searching out oddments along the way, adding to my growing collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Question Quest]

It did not, in fact, take much time to secure the sparse furnishings in the shuttle, nor to pack oddments in the sleds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Survivors]

She took two long steps and seized the marlinespike, yanking it off the desk in a shower of rubbish and clanging oddments.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference

He knew something about hypnosis: bits and oddments of information such as a man will collect over two hundred years of watching tridee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ringworld]

‘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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

The storeroom was just that; it contained chests, boxes and jars, two bolts of linen, rolls of paper, a few oddments, all on wooden shelves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joust]

This was the room where the family usually assembled; that was evident from the arrangement of the furniture and from the oddments lying about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Reluctant Witness]

He almost overlooked her entirely, she was so small, and was tucked up so invisibly in the shadowy corner where he kept oddments of harness and a pile of leather scraps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiddler Fair]

She smiled tentatively but Lavery ignored her and pushed past into the cabin to begin sorting through the oddments which had accumulated during his years of arctic flying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]