He imagined the cook in the kitchen discussing his talent with a rolling-pin in her hand, Charmian's maid musing over his Oddities, with a mouth full of pins, and patterns on her lap.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
It was known, and possibly he had set any Oddities of behaviour towards himself down to that.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions
Those legal Oddities, the public had seen over and over again, but they had passed unnoticed till this clever observer set to work and noted them.
"Bardell v. Pickwick"
Percy Fitzgerald