Sentence examples for odd volume of from inspiring English sources

"There is hardly a pioneer hut," he wrote, "in which the odd volume of Shakespeare cannot be found".

For something in the $90 to $125 range, you can't do better than the 19th-century plates and illustrations that dealers cut out of odd volumes of Harper's Weekly and similar titles.

Sojourning in a log cabin somewhere on the frontier, Tocqueville later admitted he had whiled away a few hours reading Shakespeare's Henry V. "There is scarcely a pioneer's hut," he casually remarked in the book he compiled from the journey, Democracy in America, "where one does not encounter some odd volumes of Shakespeare".

Camera Lucida is a distinctly odd volume to have attained, in the 30 years since its publication, such a canonical place in the study of photography.

The twenty-odd volumes of her works - dramas, folklore collections, journals - are not often disturbed.

I had trudged with my cross-country skis along Elinor M Brent-Dyer's winding Chalet School oeuvre (60-odd volumes of Alpine adventure and German vocab tests).

I only came across her name on a day, much later, when I sat down on the floor of a library to read the first thirty-odd volumes of Benjamin Franklin's published papers.

Denise writes: By 2004 Nick had thirty-odd volumes of the Chronicles (going back to 1978 officially; unofficially they were retrofitted back to 1973 with the rise of [Nik's band] the Demonics).

One of my favorite coffee-table books is an odd volume called "The Commissar Vanishes," a portfolio of doctored photographs from Stalin's Russia.

He was a member of the Tavern Club and the Club of Odd Volumes, amongst others.

Today a few kiosks in Paris, which all peddle the same glossy posters of semi-naked models advertising magazine articles about human sexuality, proffer odd volumes by Sartre or Habermas to court American tourists.