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odds and ends
1. all the various odds and ends of stuff we tend to keep over the years, Mr Stevenson
2. Bunty’s childhood – built up from research into her family, Philip Stevenson’s conversation and the odds and ends in the file
3. rummaging though their lockers, sorting through the odds and ends
4. The cellar was packed to capacity with old furniture and other odds and ends that his parents had stored there over the years
5. A tiny grocery, little more than a shack beside the owner’s house, sold odds and ends of fresh and canned food
6. Derek started gathering odds and ends and handing them to the
7. He dug into his pockets and drew out the odds and ends that accumulated in his magister’s bag of tricks and pulled out a whalebone
8. They were full of odds and ends of mostly broken plaster models of body parts, human and otherwise, and of land formations
9. Upon returning to the taxi to pay the driver and collect the remaining odds and ends, Kara and her boy encounter a curious onlooker
10. Odds and ends
11. Whilst I’m on my soapbox just a few odds and ends about these people that I remember from my uni days
12. collector, gatherer of odds and ends allí
13. I picked up practically all the tools I had back home for a song: a big chest on wheels with every kind of wrench and screwdriver imaginable, a battery powered drill, a table saw, a voltage tester and the nice man threw in a big cardboard box filled with stuff he couldn't sell separately that had been set aside until a guy like me showed up: it had lots of sandpaper in it, electrical tape, some paint brushes, painters tape, just lots of odds and ends you end up with when you do chores around the house
14. There were a few more odds and ends including the heat pump and whatever
15. "Oh, just a few odds and ends that I've found quite useful in the past
16. areas of science, but there were stil a few odds and ends that they couldn’t quite
17. Sister Scholastica left, happy to have a very colorful bag for her odds and ends
18. For dinner we finished up the odds and ends of food that had accumulated in the fridge,
19. What he saw was endless shelves full of wires, tools, and other odds and ends used to repair the prison
20. Clothes, books, magazines, and other odds and ends covered every available surface, sometimes in layers of books on top of clothes, and sometimes the reverse
21. What do a few little odds and ends of girls matter in a man's life in the long run? And now you'd have had him to take care of you
22. In the corner was a high free standing frame of shelves with books and ornaments and various odds and ends placed in a disorderly fashion
23. My mother has traveled the world to fill her store with all kinds of odds and ends
24. other things, lots of odds and ends they desperately needed
25. Three hours later numerous satchels filled with metallic odds and ends were carried below the iron plated deck of Matt’s ship
26. Amy did not come, Meg went to her room to try on a new dress, Jo was absorbed in her story, and Hannah was sound asleep before the kitchen fire, when Beth quietly put on her hood, filled her basket with odds and ends for the poor children, and went out into the chilly air with a heavy head and a grieved look in her patient eyes
27. ‘Yeah, you know, just a few odds and ends
28. The sitting-room contained nothing but a collection of odds and ends of rubbish which belonged to Charley - his `things' as he called them - bits of wood, string and rope; one wheel of a perambulator, a top, an iron hoop and so on
29. There was mismatched silverware, and odds and ends of canned food, presumably bought with temporary enthusiasm, but never eaten
30. They marched in good order, jaunty for all their rags, their torn red odds and ends of rope and strips of rawhide
31. He went on listening, and gathered by odds and ends that it was conjectured at first that the boys had got drowned while taking a swim; then the small raft had been missed; next, certain boys said the missing lads had promised that the village should "hear something" soon; the wise-heads had "put this and that together" and decided that the lads had gone off on that raft and would turn up at the next town below, presently; but toward noon the raft had been found, lodged against the Missouri shore some five or six miles below the village—and then hope perished; they must be drowned, else hunger would have driven them home by nightfall if not sooner
32. Huck had slept there; he had just breakfasted upon some stolen odds and ends of food, and was lying off, now, in comfort, with his pipe
33. But, as before hinted, for some time there was a continual fetching and carrying on board of divers odds and ends of things, both large and small
34. Besides, now and then such unaccountable odds and ends of strange nations come up from the unknown nooks and ash-holes of the earth to man these floating outlaws of whalers; and the ships themselves often pick up such queer castaway creatures found tossing about the open sea on planks, bits of wreck, oars, whaleboats, canoes, blown-off Japanese junks, and what not; that Beelzebub himself might climb up the side and step down into the cabin to chat with the captain, and it would not create any unsubduable excitement in the forecastle
35. The whole length of the road to the Petrofsky Palace was littered with odds and ends of all kinds, especially with broken bottles thrown away by the soldiers
36. In her opinion he was not without abilities, he knew how to make an entrance and to appear to advantage, he understood how to listen and be silent with profundity, had acquired a quite distinguished deportment, could make a speech, indeed had even some odds and ends of thought, and had caught the necessary gloss of modern liberalism
37. Everything was displayed: two rags, a pair of socks, half a handkerchief, an old hat, several buttons, some old soles, and the uppers of a pair of boots, that is, all sorts of odds and ends, scraps, rubbish, trash, which had a stale smell
38. Petrushka ran up to gather together a bundle of linen, pillows, quilt, sheets, and all sorts of odds and ends, tied them up and rushed headlong out of the room
39. He felt greatly tempted, we may mention in passing, by that corner in the back entry of Olsufy Ivanovitch’s flat in which he had once, almost at the beginning of this true story, stood for two hours between a cupboard and an old screen among all sorts of domestic odds and ends and useless litter
40. ” They hired a teacher to cram them with odds and ends about art and politics and the “latest literature, heavy and light