Some tools were ranged against the walls; twine and canvas and common oddments lay there, a small enough show of garden store, and of fuel a pile pitifully low.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
Among the other oddments is a dish of nice-looking plums.
"Peeps at Many Lands: Japan"
John Finnemore
And onward I did pass, and I do mind me how that I saw the lower fires of that Country to burn very fierce; and this I set to the richness of the air; but yet with no surety of knowledge; and do but tell the same that you shall see the oddments of thought that went oft across my brain, and so have so much knowledge as I, concerning this and that.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson