| 单词 | stone-dead |
| 例句 | Trump had put attitudes that should be stone-dead back at the heart of the national conversation. As political discourse descends into rage, thank god for Michelle Obama | Will Hutton 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z It's the one genre I can think of where bands can undergo immense lineup changes that would kill a mainstream rock band stone-dead. Metal bands: Ignored but still angry 2012-06-08T20:31:01Z Had Amos taken another step, or raised his hand to strike, I know he would have dropped stone-dead upon the spot; for Bannister, at such a moment, would have counted his own life as nothing. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z "Mr. Hobson's stone-dead, sir," said he, extending his hatchet, on whose flat blade lay, black and limp, a long thin snake that looked like a slimy shoe-string. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Thud! went the conical Paradox ball right on the point of his shoulder, and he pitched forward, stone-dead, in the water. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Who rides in triumph with her victorious chariot over the tenderest and dearest, and presses them stone-dead into the deepest furrows of the earth.... Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z The idea would be killed stone-dead within the eurozone itself, with none willing to end the sovereignty over tax-and-spend policies bestowed on national parliaments. No, EU talk of economic governance does not herald the Fourth Reich 2011-08-18T11:50:11Z And there he lay, full in the red moonshine, upon that tropic night, huddled and stone-dead--the black, bragging fool who had claimed to be our captain. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z My ears are stone-dead to this idle buzz, and my flesh as insensible as iron to these petty stings.’ Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z They passed within shot, but I refrained; wheeled round the pool, and headed straight in; there was no mistake this time—the geese were not twenty yards off, and two of the three fell stone-dead. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The Major then laid his third shot stone-dead for a four. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z Was there ever a stouter heart than that of the aviator, wounded to death and still planing downwards, to be found seated in his place and grasping the controls, stone-dead? Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z Another report, and the fierce warrior falls, this time stone-dead, leaping nearly against the barrel which at point-blank had sent a full charge of “loopers” straight through his heart. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z And I crept down by myself to the beach, and came to where he had fallen, and there I found him stone-dead. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z The bear was tottering now, and another blow on the back of the head from the Indian behind brought him down, stone-dead. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z Remember the "Jeremy Clarkson effect", when the middle-aged denim wearer killed jeans stone-dead, from a fashion point of view, for several years in the 1990s? Double denim is back 2010-03-17T00:52:00Z They laid the body of the great bird, which was stone-dead, at his feet, and then looked at him wonderingly, as if to say, “What next?” Real Gold A Story of Adventure What, Lord, would I not give to shift my cares and lie Enfolded in Time’s arms, stone-dead, eternally? Satan Absolved So silent and so fatal is thy task We haste to catch thee, bring the camphor forth, To kill thee quite stone-dead is all we ask, Thou little quiet woollen-loving moth! Harper's Round Table, April 30, 1895 Next second Jack was struck senseless to the ground, and lay there motionless, almost smothered by the huge limp animal lying stone-dead upon him. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War And there, surely enough, we found her, stone-dead by the side of the skeleton. Tales of South Africa As he came out, he stumbled over the dog and fell down stone-dead; and his daughter died too: and so now they're both chiselled in stone in the church, and the dog beside them. Black Forest Village Stories But crash—stone-dead fell the tiger, and its skin is a hearthrug on which I stood to hear this tale. The Woodlands Orchids I drew a careful bead between his eyes, and dropped him—stone-dead! With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 He must have been stone-dead before he reached the ground. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) He fell forward and lay there in the sand without another motion, stone-dead. Tales of South Africa One of them, clinging desperately to the high pommel, but reeling in his saddle, urges his willing pony down the slope; the other has plunged forward and lies stone-dead upon the sward. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. I never knew what too late meant, till I saw that splendid great bush lying stone-dead on the ground when we came home from the Adirondacks last year. A Bookful of Girls Too late a bit we were, but we found him, just stone-dead like, and brought him round. Somehow Good You would not think the fall could have hurt him, but he is stone-dead. Love of Brothers Then home he went and left the Hart, stone-dead, With breathless nostrils stretch'd above the spring. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets Once more lift up this stone-dead heart, And leap to find thee where thou art! Path Flower and Other Verses He fell without a groan—dead, stone-dead at my feet. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf On examining the tracks of the Indians to see what other murders they might have committed, we found a little boy, and, a few steps forward, his father, both scalped, and both stone-dead. The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief He was killed in the charge, poor fellow; but he had filled his bugle so full of wind, that the music did not cease till full five minutes after he was stone-dead.” The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer Five fell at once; the other two staggered on a few paces and then fell also, all seven being afterwards found stone-dead. The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Jack clung to the reins; the wretched horse staggered out into the stony street, fell, and rolled over stone-dead. Lorraine A romance Then he dropped down stone-dead, and Mr. Murchison read the funeral service.' Despair's Last Journey In the bush they found his wife and child stone-dead. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood And in the light of this thunderous broadside Captain Salt rose slowly, lifted his arms, swayed and dropped forward, striking the table with his brow; then slid down upon the floor, stone-dead. The Blue Pavilions He was stone-dead when I turned him over; and judging by the terrible emaciation of his body he had died of protracted starvation. With Our Army in Palestine While I was gazing, he let go, pitched headlong, fluttered his wings in the death-struggle, yet in air, and struck the ground close at my feet, stone-dead. Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago When he was sentenced to several years in prison, after a sensational trial, he contrived to hang himself, and was found stone-dead in his cell. Set in Silver As if this were not sufficient, at the execution the mother of one of the prisoners, when she saw her son's head fall beneath the knife, gave a loud scream and fell down stone-dead. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma The man's eyes rolled, and he fell, like one stone-dead, his dirk sticking in the sidewalk. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times He pushed back the flap of a tent and stooped over a man lying stone-dead in his blood, with an open lancet clinched in his right hand. The Four Feathers In the early morning the youngsters noticed that Jim seemed rather stiff, and he had exceedingly good reasons, for he was stone-dead, and doubled up. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary A man might be convicted as a conspirator, and yet afterwards live; he might put the matter into other hands, and go on with his information; nothing less than stone-dead would do the business. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) The oldest directed his steps to the closet, singing, as he peered round among the eatables: "Eggs, cheese, butter, bread,-- Stick, stock, stone-dead." Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way But the buffalo was stone-dead—a great bull with an immense boss between the bend of his sharp horns. In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa There he lay among the ruins of his faith—dead, stone-dead, killed outright. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation In one battle When death so nearly missed my ribs, he struck Three horses stone-dead under me. The Noble Spanish Soldier You all know the rest; he was shot stone-dead bekaise he loved that mother. The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two I jumped worse 'n 'f I 'd been shot stone-dead. Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop There it lies, stone-dead for all a man's eyes can see! Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Within this was found a Boer lying on a table stone-dead, with a shrapnel bullet in his skull. With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train He fainted stone-dead before he was there five minutes. The Baronet's Bride He found the beast stone-dead, a rill of blood from beneath the fore-leg showing where some one’s bullet had done the business. The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne Mrs. Comstock, going to bed at night in perfect health, was found in the morning stone-dead! Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Exact definition of desire and a simple strength of purpose from which all aims of others bound back stone-dead: what brilliance of genius or quintessence of mother-wit can hope to outdo this immortal combination? V. V.'s Eyes I was awakened by hearing a shot, and there lay Thompson, stone-dead, a bullet in his forehead, and the naturalist with a smoking revolver in his hand, and trembling like an aspen leaf. In the Wrong Paradise One good dose of "perfect love" will kill him stone-dead. Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians It was the man whom he had killed stone-dead with his own hand. The American Baron To conclude, my ears are stone-dead to this idle buzz, and my flesh as insensible as iron to these petty stings; and after what I have said, I am sure yours will be the same. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) Frank raised his gun to his shoulder, and, as soon as they came within range, he pulled the trigger, and brought down two geese—one stone-dead, and the other with a broken wing. Frank, the Young Naturalist When we came home on that dreadful Sunday night, my lord, we went in the back way; and hearing a noise, I went up stairs, and found poor Wilson stone-dead on the floor. The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney As for selling them, it is not so easy to sell nineteen volumes of a stone-dead author, particularly if you live three miles from a railway-station and do not keep a trap. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays But for my own part, I must confess I was so dissatisfied, that I was sorry the poet had saved Andromache, and could heartily have wished that he had left her stone-dead upon the stage. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield But for my own part, I must confess, I was so dissatisfied, that I was sorry the Poet had saved Andromache, and could heartily have wished that he had left her stone-dead upon the Stage. The Spectator, Volume 2. There was a sharp report, and the animal fell from his perch stone-dead. Frank, the Young Naturalist He looks healthy and robust enough and nobody touches him, yet down he drops, without a word of warning, stone-dead, in the middle of the floor—he always dies in the middle of the floor. Stage-Land Right in the midst of the nave the bridegroom lay stone-dead, pierced by two black arrows. The Black Arrow The messengers came at full speed, and found the guards apprehensive of nothing; but on opening the doors, they saw her stone-dead, lying upon a bed of gold, set out in all her royal ornaments. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans He's the kind of wicked that don't cease from troubling till they're stone-dead. Mr. Standfast Twice he said aloud: "An' I tell you thar wouldn't a one of 'em have said a word if I'd been killed stone-dead." A Knight of the Cumberland Those are stone-dead eyes in the picture...The loneliness must have been awful, if even Owen couldn't keep her from dying of it. The Reef The electing board is the whole club, and a candidate is stone-dead at the first blackball; but no stigma attaches to him for that. Captivating Mary Carstairs There lay the count, stone-dead, White as my apron. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 In this manner I came within full gun-shot of them, pitched upon one of the fattest, shot him at the extremity of the shoulder, and brought him down stone-dead. History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing The leather's stone-dead!—It's the rarest thing to see a volume bound in russia, of which the joints are not broken, or at least cracking. There & Back Le Compte was found stone-dead at the cabin-doors, having been shot in the forehead, just as he put his foot on the deck. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale She was stone-dead, and her muzzle, with its coarse long hairs, was resting on the quarters of her daughter. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea For an instant he remained standing, then a mortal pallor overspread his face, his arm loosened its hold, and he fell to the ground, stone-dead. The Companions of Jehu Notwithstanding this fearful wound, shewing the tremendous effects of the Express bullet, the tiger had gone on for the distance I have mentioned, after which it must have fallen stone-dead. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter Than to perceive his manly blood run red No greater joy can unto me be given; But at one kick to kick him down stone-dead— That, that is heaven, Lehigh Burr. Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse He had previously described her voice to me as "a full choke, warranted to kill stone-dead at sixty yards." Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch In a gay humour, but stone-dead and cold. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III "Yes, and little Billy has killed an Indian stone-dead—too dead to skin," said one of the men, who had approached nearer than the rest, and had almost stumbled upon the corpse. The Life of Hon. William F. Cody Known as Buffalo Bill the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide He was shot stone-dead, and for a time no vulture ventured near. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter The huge beast rolled over like a shot hare, stone-dead. Here, There and Everywhere It was an Indian, stone-dead, with a musket-wound in his side. The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism His went hurtling after, straight at the back of the tossing head, and the great deer fell in a heap, stone-dead. The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages “Yes, and little Billy has killed an Indian stone-dead—too dead to skin,” said one of the men, who had approached nearer than the rest, and had almost stumbled over the corpse. The Great Salt Lake Trail This gave me time to run up and give him a final shot, and with a deep roar he fell back full length on the grass, stone-dead. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures I fired exactly below the nose, and the tiger simply rolled upon its side stone-dead, the bullet having completely raked it. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 He was stone-dead, with a bullet in his brain, his face all blackened with the grime of battle; but he stood erect in the path, wedged somehow in a bit of trench. Now It Can Be Told Without a sound he fell upon his face and lay stone-dead upon the grass, the one short white plume between his dark shoulders to mark where Death had smote him. Sir Nigel At the bottom of the wet mess of hair and red and flesh was old Shep, stone-dead. Bob, Son of Battle His forehead rested on the table, his arms hung at his sides; he was stone-dead! Villa Rubein, and other stories The sister lay back stone-dead in her chair, while the two brothers sat on each side of her laughing, shouting, and singing, the senses stricken clean out of them. The Adventure of the Devil's Foot Wid dat de man tuck a stick and lam down on de maul so hard dat he kill Brer Fox stone-dead. Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings My second rifle was beautifully handed, and I made a quick right and left at the temples of two fine elephants, dropping them both stone-dead. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs There is above us, and around us, and beneath us, and within us the eternal world, and we are all sound asleep; we are all stone-dead in the midst of it. Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) At the same instant he uttered a loud cry, clutched wildly at his own throat, and fell stone-dead upon the floor. The Adventures of Gerard But ah, too late came ale and bread, She found the poor soul stretched stone-dead. Country Sentiment |
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