Oddment

Long craft were brought from the caves laden with every kind of oddment, iron kettles, anvils, transmitters, birdcages, treasure, and dark figures hauled them out through the surf. ❋ Baker, Kage (2004)

I believe he expected me to give him a receipt in round hundreds and take the "oddment," as we call it in ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Then there are houses where the people employed in the paper-works lodge, a recently-acquired home for the better class of men, which was once a mansion of the De Clifford family, and afterwards a hospital, and a store where every kind of oddment is sold by Dutch auction. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

One thinker that is deftly oddment about most of them is that each is as dumb and stupid as the next ❋ Kog Zadare (2010)

If you see an oddment available, email me at [email protected] and put the title of the painting you want in the subject line. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mrs. Babbit would bring a pot of the "Soup of the Day" from the adjoining diner for the maids to enjoy with whatever oddment they had brought from home to eat. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While puzzling over this funereal oddment, the movement of something overhead pulls his focus. ❋ Arbogast (2009)

He suddenly remembered Dumbledore's idea of a few words: 'nitwit', 'oddment', 'blubber' and 'tweak 1, and again, had to suppress a grin ... what was the matter with him? ❋ Rowling, J. K. (2005)

This section was an oddment, which General Clayton had seen in ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

And instead of saying "I would like to say a few words: Nitwit! blubber! oddment! tweak!" ❋ Baldanders (2001)

* English money was divided into pounds, shillings and pence, with the guinea as an oddment. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)

At any rate, as he watched the hard rod come down upon Radanan's buttocks, he thought it seemed unlikely that a woman small-minded enough to venture into dangerous territory in search of an oddment would benefit from so crude a tactic as flogging. ❋ Benford, Gregory, 1941- (1989)

As I hung about the house that mellow autumn, I fell, more than once, into musing laughter, as here and there some piece of furniture, some picture or dish or oddment brought back to me her uncounted, endless assaults on Margarita's simple, healthy and (to the orthodox English woman) baseless scheme of existence. ❋ Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (1918)

His game was, he picked out an oddment from the heap, polished it, fitted it more or less into the silly puzzle, and stepped back to eye it. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Footwell illumination provides a welcoming ambience on getting into the car and extra oddment storage has been created at the base of the centre stack - ideal for cellphone or iPod. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The brothers' disquieting art films are largely created with stop-motion animation, whereby the illusion of movement is achieved by painstakingly nudging each oddment - say, a puppet or a wood screw - within a scene. ❋ By FRANZ LIDZ (2010)

[Lady GaGa] is [the mother] of oddment. Or [father]. Or something. ❋ MadHattah (2010)

1. 'Stop Oddmenting you [NOOB]!' 2. [Greg] - 'Hiiii Oddmenttttttttt' Oddment - *Oddment Relines* ❋ LGreg (2007)