oddes

Of all the stranger things that ever not even in the hundrund and badst pageans of unthowsent and wonst nice or in eddas and oddes bokes of tomb, dyke and hollow to be have happened!

Finnegans Wake 2006

So that if a man at this day compare the nombre of them that are by him seduced, with the other that remaine in the doctrine of faithe: he shal easeli perceiue the great oddes, ware it but herin.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

So our men hailing spent all their pouder vpon them in attempting to land, and not being able to preuaile at so great oddes, returned frustrate.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

French men, all which (notwithstanding the great oddes of the number) they tooke, and slew, and sunke so many of the Mariners, that France was thereby (for a long season after) in maner destitute, both of

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Such oddes I finde twist those, and these which are,

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT WEISINGER 1968

_Trocheus_, fewer the _Spondeus_, fewest of all the _Pirrichius_, because in him the sharpe accent (if ye follow the rules of your accent as we haue presupposed) doth make a litle oddes: and ye shall find verses made all of

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

O but I feare the fickle freakes (quoth shee) 2 Of fortune +false+, and oddes of armes in field.

The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

Heroick or Lyricke, wherein it shall please her Maiestie to employ her penne, euen by as much oddes as her owne excellent estate and degree exceedeth all the rest of her most humble vassalls.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

This happened because the good old Knight made no difference betweene an Oration or publike speach to be deliuered to the eare of a Princes Maiestie and state of a Realme, then he would haue done of an ordinary tale to be told at his table in the countrey, wherein all men know the oddes is very great.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

"But three nights runnin 'I've had the oddes' dream!"

Shehens` Houn` Dogs 1907