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Though the wedding took place from their house, all the preparatory muddle happened here, and it will take days and days to go through Kathie's rooms alone, and decide what to keep, what to give away, and what to burn outright The drawers were littered with pretty rubbish--oddments of ribbon, old gloves, crumpled flowers, and the like.

—The Lady of the Basement Flat

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a motley assortment of things

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I'd packed our clothes into various cloth bags, some of the shawls from the bed, towels, oddments, and, in some curious superstitious urge, the three then currently complete chapters of this. — Tanith_Lee_-_The_Silver_Metal_Lover3
‘Only some bundle of oddments, perhaps, after all,’ he thought with a strange sense of relief; but he did not put the bundle down again. — The Lord of the Rings
They're sending a big sled for the serious casualties, and Kaarvan'll sail the Venturer down to pick up whatever cargo we can save Eb looked out at a sea once again calm; oddments could be seen bobbing to the surface or floating in on the tide. — The Chronicles Of Pern: First Fall
Among Blake's oddments are fervent quatrains boosting the greatness of Fuseli. — FSF,September2006
They faced a substantial collection of oddments: bits of string, pebbles, sand, flower petals, fragments of pottery, a paperclip, a Mundane penny, a fragment of colored glass, and so on. — Golem in the Gears