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They glanced at him, shamefaced, yet in their eyes was an odd, triumphant defiance.

Amanda: It just seemed like an odd coincidence that it had to happen today.

in the dusk she had not noticed it before , and would hardly have noticed it now but for an odd fancy that the effigy moved.

Ned: You were strangled to death with a plastic sack. It's probably an odd telling to hear - I wasn't sure how to sugarcoat it.

Recently, the UFO seems to visit earth more frequently. The latest report said that in the sky of the Britain, there is an odd light circle.

So they would have been an odd man out, you know, in a situation when everyone is coming.

IT OCCURRED to me recently that in an odd sort of way visiting hospital is a bit like going to a rock concert.

"And these, " said the chief, as two of his tribesmen dragged an odd-looking crate into the hut.

you know? It's an odd position, 'cause you guys are still a young band, but to look back, retrospectively, on your career. . .

It was an odd name, Lily thought, like every thing else about him.

Though she was smiling as she spoke, a few keen observers detected an odd hesitation in her voice.

"Sure, " I said. An odd request, but no harm would come of it. As the old woman was leaving, I called out, "Goodbye, Mother! "

It was an odd play for you to vacation in Thailand, you don't even like to swim.

This may sound like an odd tip but I have seen charismatic people do it quite a bit.

Such a thread is an algorithmic realization of an odd line, which is the only topological defect in glass or amorphous condensed matter.

"I'm glad to hear it, " Mandy said. This Cal was an odd bird. "What's your background? "

So to attack. And for here it's actually a bit of a close run thing, but in an odd sort of way.

But this evolution being unknown, there was an odd sense of ambivalence on the plane back from Beijing.

His translator was an odd little man with a moustache and a dapper suit, whose cell phone kept ringing.

The amount of money may be unusual for that lottery draw. $18 million is an odd amount of money and may be a rare event.

On the face of it, Bouygues SA's decision to share the risk with the brothers was an odd one.

He said: 'The smoke seemed to have an odd bloom to it at the base of the column that was streaming south of the city.

It shouldn't be in there but this cute baby has decided to make the best of an odd situation by trying to eat his way out of a watermelon.

I wondered why he held his head motionless at an odd angle, as though he were in meditation.

If the point is within the polygon, the line will intersect the edges of the polygon an odd number of times.

His head still hurt, but there was also an odd sense of numbness, as if ice had been laid on an injury.

It seems like an odd title for an article written by an Asian Supremacist, but there are very good reasons why I hate many of my own kind.

But Humpty Dumpty used words in an odd way, and that made him a master of gobbledygook, not a master of language.

He took him to be an odd fellow, a little soft in his head.

It was an odd way to greet a complete stranger who had invaded her home, but it was all she could think of to say.

Out of his pocket he took an odd-shaped, ornamented brass whistle, on which he piped a series of complicated trills.

He was dressed in an hussar's jacket with gold buttons, shiny leather boots and an odd-looking wooden cloak sticking out of his back. '

To Malfoy's left, his wife made an odd, stiff nod, her eyes averted from Voldemort and the snake.

When Google launched the Nexus One in January, the company hit on an odd bit of marketing to distinguish the new phone from its rivals.

That seemed like an odd question, but I felt fine and told him so.

Diego: "us" ? You two are a bit of an odd couple.

And using renewable energy to make fuel might seem like an odd thing to do, given that it could power electric cars directly.

It is an odd time for us and we must try to get out of it, looking ahead to Wednesday and Maccabi Haifa.

Look at these rather strange onions . Never tasted and do not know why they are in such an odd shape.

"US" ? You two are a bit of an odd couple.

he was looking at her with an odd , flickering smile , faintly sensual and appreciative.

About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator.

Then the hall is filled with an odd green light born of the double shell of the sky and the sea.

He often behaves in an odd way as if controlled by something invisible.

This makes "horoscope" a bit of an odd word.

This was partly because it had an odd typing mechanism where the whole screen moved with each tap on the virtual keyboard.

For the first time I began to realize an odd consequence of the social effort in which we are at present engaged.

In an odd but real way, my five-mile runs up Abu Nawas Street made me wonder what the war in Iraq was all about.

As my index finger ran up and down the phone book pages, I felt an odd sense of power.

The Nanny Diaries is something of an odd-duck movie.

FOR a country that prides itself on its "peaceful rise" , it was an odd way to celebrate a birthday.

In another email, he appeared to respond to the death of a climate sceptic with the words "in an odd way this is cheering news! " .

It was an odd combination of elegant old wooden buildings and new three-story reinforced-concrete buildings.

Mr. Pengnian Yu, bored in Hunan province, came to Hongkong for a living at the age of 26, and found an odd job in a company.

After her performance, Gaga spoke to the press on the red carpet in an odd ensemble that made her look like a pearly queen.

As marriages go, they are something of an odd couple.

Arafat in an odd way won now as Israel is pressured into creating a Palestinian state and backing out of their settlement endeavors.

special flavor types: rice as the raw material, rich in an odd number of composite aroma fragrance, humorous, lingering finish.

They're an odd pair of friends, Sylvia always bubbling over with nonsense and Polly as sober as a judge.

Amid all the economic gloom, I do not think I am alone in feeling an odd excitement at the sense of living in uncertain and historic times.

But in fact the English masculine form is an odd choice when it refers to a female member of such a group.

Notice again Jesus withdraws in the face of danger but the withdrawing in a sense increases the ministry in an odd paradoxical way.

When he turned, intending to untie the rope from the pine across the road, he heard an odd gnawing, swishing sound behind him.

It was an odd, florid challenge from someone who called himself "Muhammad the Prophet of God. "

QUESTION: I have been encouraged to make my papers more "charming. " That seems like an odd word to use in describing an academic paper.

If you found the bug with an odd case, take the time to reproduce it with a more obviously common or compelling case.

What's more, they have figured out a way to flourish within an odd triumverate that I thought would have fractured long ago.

It's a strange fish like a big salmon, with an odd head that looks as though it's on upside down.

On the other is an odd coalition composed of George Bush, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and a confessed killer.

He got used to being an odd man out at Oxford University, which he attended on a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.

In contrast to the stacked-concrete-boxes syndrome, not one section of this residence sticks out over anything, nor jut in an odd angle.

Nitrogen uptake intensity of Wancan 2 enhanced gradually, and that of Zea mexican presented an odd peak curve.

I think that she's really undefinable; I know that sounds quite - like an odd thing to say, but it's very hard to figure out what she was.

Calling was a new mother, frantic after spotting an odd mark on her baby daughter.

those without a black point and in an odd number like a five or seven will say the baby is a girl.

Dogs that lose a limb due to injury are forced to develop compensation strategies that allow them to walk with an odd number of legs.

This struck me as an odd choice of idiom in an era when demented mortgage practices have triggered worldwide economic catastrophe.

His brothers gave a laugh and clambered on board. It was an odd, sardonic laugh.

Durant also had an attempt to win the game in regulation, but Bryant forced him into an odd angle for the 20-foot attempt.

The first day I had my hearing aids, I was startled by an odd series of sounds that seemed to follow me: step, scrape, step, scrape.

That seems like an odd path to choose with all of the obvious risks involved.

She looks up at him Is she blushing? and an odd grimace crosses her mouth and vanishes.

The number of members of a collegial panel shall be an odd number of three or more.

Marina, in her turn, reported an odd phone call from Rose, demanding to know what was holding up Marina's and Demetrio's divorce.

She's a bit of an odd bod.

There is an odd familiarity to all of it, seeing the prospective descendants of modern creatures twisted into new and bizarre forms.

In an odd quirk, new research suggests the commission's plans could benefit those countries most opposed to it.

In an odd way, However, it is the educated who have claimed to have give up on have give up on ambition as an ideal.

He then told me that 101 was an odd number and 1 million was an even number, etc.

An odd-job man by day, he operates in Kent during the week and in London on weekends.

He took an odd route to the pinnacle of fashion.

The general rule is that an even number of fermions make up a composite boson, whereas an odd number make up a composite fermion.

We know that the world is a stage, the world is an odd-looking cover, the world is all, etc.

I'm glad you're back. What's the matter? You have an odd look on your face.

In an odd twist, the Senate bill passed with an amendment on gun rights tacked on by Republican Senator Tom Coburn.

If you want document chapters always to begin on an odd page or on an even page, use the Odd page or Even page section break option.

The number of a collegiate panel must be an odd number.

As an odd mixture of liberalism and conservatism, neoconservatism will become a long term factor influencing American foreign strategy.

In an odd way, however, it is the educated who have claimed to have given up on ambition as an ideal.

A thread can be imagined to pass through odd rings (rings containing an odd number of atoms) without passing through even rings.

WITH people heading for cities as never before, it may seem an odd moment to be announcing their impending demise.

Before we reexamine the assumptions that led physicists down this dead-end street, let us pause to consider an odd aspect of this result.

this device allowed threads, even ones of an odd-number, to be engaged and disengaged without error.

"She was an odd one, " Stephanie said.

The number of the component members of such commission shall be an odd number.

FOR an ocean-loving nation, Japan has an odd way of showing its affection for the sea.

Then an odd thing happened. Suddenly four rivers formed, springing out from beneath the mountains and spreading across the whole country.

Rambutan is an odd fruit that looks like a furry strawberry from the outside, and much like a lychee on the inside.

Cricket is an odd team sport, in that the domestic game makes no money, and would collapse without subsidy from international competitions.

This may sound like an odd thing to consider if you are leaving your job on unfavorable terms.

He is an odd boy, so adult, the relatives tell his mother.

But in family after family, case study after case study, the simple roll of the birth-date dice has an odd and arbitrary power all its own.

The Mark Sanford who emerges from Mrs. Sanford's book and in conversation, is, to put it charitably, an odd duck.

Perhaps not, but it is an odd thing to have to worry about these days in the European Union.

S&P has chosen an odd moment to blame the lack of political action on the long-term deficit for making its move.

UNTIL January 13th visitors to certain parts of the website of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries received an odd message in Japanese and English.

That's an odd, new way of thinking among China's peasants, and increasingly, across the developing world.

What an odd discipline autobiography turns out to be.

For a country with an envious unemployment rate of 4. 9%, it seemed an odd change in priorities.

That's an odd business decision for a company who reported that the number one camera used on their site is the iPhone.

As an odd combination of fear and exhilaration settled over him, Langdon knew he had no choice.

That said, working with the non-Google apps was an odd experience.

with oil and gas prices high and a flood of revenue imminent , it is an odd time for the three owners to reduce their shareholding.

BIG-STATE, social-democratic Sweden seems an odd place to look for a free-market revolution.

The General was opening with an odd attack .

Generally, the private sector is de-leveraging. . . but in an odd, uncertain, hesitating kind of way.

IT MAY seem an odd time for China's risk-averse officials to be talking about political change.

It was an odd experience to know that you're going to get sick.

If he was interested in going to Clinton, he was certainly taking an odd way.

Where the politically powerful and wealthy managed to survive, those who prayed, and the Church, were wiped out - an odd moral to the story.

When they formed a line up -- there was an odd man out.

I sensed an odd mix of fatalism and optimism, which both run counter to my own views.

"Topological insulator" is an odd name for a wonder conductor.

If are looking for an odd size bag or are looking for a used bag we have many in stock.

"Is it an odd speech, papa? " said Eva, whisperingly, as she got upon his knee.

The ratio works out to an odd number. It worked out that everyone left on the same train.

BRITISH supermodel Naomi Campbell has sent pal Oprah Winfrey an odd gift - a voucher for a Brazilian wax.

IT'S an odd happenstance when chocolate cake inspires a recipe for deviled eggs, but so it went a few weeks ago.

An odd business cycle makes it hard to gauge what has happened to America's underlying rate of productivity growth.

This may seem like an odd painting to mark the founding of Niew Amsterdam.

Above all, and this is an odd thing to say of words on a page, the book feels like handcrafted work.

We don't eat animal products for sufficient nutrition, we eat them to have an odd form of malnutrition, and it's killing us.

Olfactory (Ol): An odd but familiar odor brings to mind a brief mental flash of a memory long buried .

Clarins is not alone in portraying its brand in an odd light to Chinese consumers.

The previous logo which was trite with an odd color choice for a service provided in the sky.

She was four feet ten and spoke an odd combination of Polish, Yiddish, French, and English.

The graph of an odd function has the general appearance of Fig 4. 1b.

But in an odd way, the artificial evolutionists still pursue the dream of connectionism .

With a look of absolute certainty and an odd smile on his face he scanned the room.

placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot.

It masks an odd kind of stability that has made Thailand a favoured destination for foreign investment and foreign vacations alike.

When I woke up in the morning, I only find an odd shoe on the floor.

Given the freedom to create a new character, Lucas devised Yoda as an odd, ancient and incredibly wise mystic.

They're an odd couple in every sense but a monkey and a pigeon have become inseparable at an animal sanctuary in China.

They're an experience that the kids of today will never know, an odd combination of movie - watching, social event, and parking lot .

For there were those in the ranks of the counter culture who sought to work an odd variation on the futuristic theme.

Great. Human Resources certainly has an odd sense of humor.

Even double-tapping to zoom in on a section of a Web page has an odd slow motion feel.

In an odd number division, it does not retain the decimal part; this is why it can be used to test for an odd number.

With an odd number of cuts, things start to get more complicated.

The playoffs got off to an odd start when the league experimented with a round-robin format in the first round.

In a slice of the right material one atom thick, Kane and Mele showed, this would have an odd consequence.

Since government money is so fungible, the distinction is an odd one.

That's an odd motivation for the heirs of Karl Marx, and in practice it's led to lots of cronyism and corruption.

The acute detective discovered an odd glove and a lid of jar on the dusty straw mat.

And thanks to an odd way of judging schools, more than 80% may be labelled as "failing" this year.

It was an odd stance, but not inexplicable.

THIS may seem an odd moment to make the claim, but Britain is a country in the grip of a modernising frenzy.

When p16 pushes a cell into senescence, the cell does not just stop multiplying. It also begins producing an odd balance of proteins.

Thus you can imagine my amazement, at sunrise, when I was awakened by an odd little voice.

Hedda Gabler is an odd choice for an evening with a client. Or a colleague.

The policeman walked off with his prize, with an odd mixture of feelings.

This might seem an odd conclusion, since President Reagan is a conservative hero who won two presidential elections.

An odd beneficiary of this squeeze has been the dollar, since orders are increasingly being settled in cash.

He was short and tubby and amiable with an odd little toothbrush moustache .

The aircraft's interior emergency lights were still functioning, the fuselage tilted at an odd angle.

As I exited yet another gas station without getting gas, she asked, "Because it has an odd number of pumps? "

After you have done FreeRice for a couple of days, you may notice an odd phenomenon.

and crossword puzzle diagrams are almost always an odd number of squares on a side.

The United States called the rejection an odd stance that raises questions about Mr. Ahmadinejad's motives in the confrontation.

The new findings are more than just an odd appendage to the rubber-hand illusion, though.

The entrepreneur is an odd mix: part dreamer, part brutal realist and pragmatist.

There's an odd red accent line running through the tile on the wall.

Even to this day, there is an odd romanticism associated with New York's Italian crime families.

Just before moving, I'd apparently developed an odd endocrine disorder that makes people tired, achy, surly, weak.

As the world begins recovering from the worst financial crisis in 70 years, an odd couple of winners have emerged: stocks and gold.

ZHANG Haifeng, a 19-year-old medical student at Lanzhou University, has an odd habit when it comes to breaking up with his girlfriends.

In fact, it's not just an "odd" decision - it was a bad one.

It is an odd but stirring interlude, at least at first.

That may seem an odd question, given that the proposal is seen widely as serving two Chinese purposes.

She assembles an odd collection of acquaintances for Friday coffees and has trouble curbing her tongue.

This only works for flags with an odd number of rows.

The teacher asked an odd question by his students last Friday is here.

His appearance, in short , presented an odd mixture of the bedraggled and the ferocious.

There was, indeed, an odd orderliness about many of the presentations, not least in the way they dealt with cars.

If you have an odd number of affiliations, the final affiliation will be centered on the page; all previous will be in two columns.

the other day they seized an odd man, who goes by the name of CountSt. Germain.

The first dressed my wound as before, while Hoseason looked me in my face with an odd, black look.

The dusty tome on a pedestal, with an odd-looking cover.

The slump in the building trades in the past six months contrasts with an odd perkiness earlier.

He is wearing an odd pair of stockings.

An odd boast, I thought, considering the circumstances.

Acumen is an odd mix of charity and traditional investment fund.

The judgment is an odd number and so does the target, then the second player is the winner and same principle applied to even number.

Thetest asked people to identify an "odd man out" object in a briefly displayedfield of two dozen otherwise identical objects.

I needed something that wouldn't clash with my house color (an odd blue) so my flowers are mostly white, blue or lavender.

In the 2000 years since Qin and Han Dynasties, ancient China was in an odd periodic cycle.

Suppose I believe that there are an odd number of galaxies in the universe and in fact there are.

It's more commonly called U Thant Island, though, and the reason why is an odd story.

As an odd addition to the game, there is a must-like adventure sequences that you must also go through.

It's an odd feeling to have but is a normal part of grief.

RECENTLY, trash cubes have become an odd best-selling online New York souvenir, with prices running from around US$50 to as high as US$100.

And in an odd way they need each other, but it's not a love story in that sense.

In an odd turn of events my depression lifted finally.

The street is an odd element in France's Fifth Republic, very much part of the system.

The collegial panel shall be composed of 3 trademark reviewing officers or of an odd number above 3.

In any case, it's an odd position for a Presidential candidate.

In an odd twist, the tourist reportedly bit back.

But when it comes to the entertainment industry there's an odd dynamic at work.

Culturally, however, the two airlines remain an odd couple.

The annual London Frieze Art Fair kicked off this week at an odd time for the art market.

She bore an exotic beauty and wore an odd headdress draped with organic tentacles.

Maybe it is just his explorations that make his painting an odd in this era but exactly the right thing.

And the public funds have an odd habit of flowing towards politically connected projects.

On the face of it, that is an odd question.

And at some point, she says, the advantage of an odd or unexpected name will wear off.

It's odd, but then the royal family does act in an odd way.

Einstein was considered an odd man by the neighbours' kids.

An archaeologist, an odd bird of passage who turns up there every three or four years or so.

e. g. Found the antique shop in an odd corner of town.

Gao Guangsheng has an odd sense of timing.

She is such an odd maid that it mid zet her against him, or against going there, even now.

There's an odd fascination when you see 10 strangers enter your world.

THERE is an odd crowd on my late-afternoon flight from London to Barcelona.

Many of us grew up never eating a fresh vegetable except the occasional raw carrot or maybe an odd lettuce salad.

Monday is not everyone's favorite day, it's just an odd choice.

This may seem an odd choice, since the dynamism in China's economy is mostly generated by non-state firms.

This is an odd way for Germany to push its universities into the top tier.

Use an odd form of transport: a kayak, or a unicycle.

After an odd accident, they got assistant from an mysterious lady, which made the plan become true.

One more than any even number is an odd number.

We are left with an odd and possibly fictional story: what we see, after all, is a plain old fruit pit.

Sometimes you might get lucky and find an odd discontinued bag that everyone else doesn't already have.

How did such an odd tradition begin?

The fund is an odd private-public mixture.

An odd thought came: Get ready for a hug.

I can barely believe such an odd story.

It's an odd thing to look back on the world, to watch those I left behind.

This can be an odd concept if you are used to testing after you have finished coding, but there is a lot of sense in this approach.

An odd name, but it is actually quite useful if you choose to use any of the widgets from the library in your code.