| 单词 | swinish |
| 例句 | It was their confidence, maybe—their blissful, swinish ignorance, their bumptious self-satisfaction, and, worst of all, their hope. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Scarce had they drunk when she flew after them with her long stick and shut them in a pigsty— bodies, voices, heads, and bristles, all swinish now, though minds were still unchanged. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And his film's vision of the great patriotic war, with its noble, heroic Soviets and swinish Germans, will hardly be remembered for its even-handedness. Nikita Mikhalkov has been Burnt By the Sun of state patronage 2010-04-30T10:58:00Z The fundamental and most vicious, swinish, murderous, and unchangeable fact is that we totally misunderstand each other...we operate on alien wavelengths. Elizabeth Taylor releases love letters from Burton 2010-06-01T20:11:00Z In his early flowering in the mid-’70s, Cronenberg created and directed nightmare scenarios of ordinary people getting infected by a malignancy as invisible and pervasive as the most swinish flu virus. Cosmopolis: Rpattz, from Kstew to Jstew to Dcron 2012-08-16T15:44:46Z The 18th-century member of Parliament, who was a Whig, was one of the first to decry the revolt as the dangerous work of a swinish multitude. Freedom fighter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Wishing “good swill” to all nations in a kind of off-handed prayer, he savages “swinish politics” for wrecking his beloved Southwestern landscapes. President Trump, Please Read ‘Desert Solitaire’ 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z In any case, to the men deceived by the bed trick, whether swinish Bertram or the psychopathic puritan Angelo in Measure for Measure, the woman each desires is a conquest only. Bed tricks and broken women: Shakespeare's guide to love 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z "Be calm, my dearest Conrad, calm yourself; that beast of an Englishman will think you are drunk, like one of his own swinish people, if you talk so loud as this." The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Much that has been charged against the school in the form of swinish sensuality is the grossest slander. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z You might call it a marsh; but there was no mud, no dark slimy water, no stagnant scum; there were no rank yellow lilies, no gormandizing frogs, no swinish mud-turtles. Solomon 2012-02-29T03:00:26.127Z On the other hand, the Hessian mercenaries irritated all classes--it was the armed occupation of a conquered territory by a swinish conqueror. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Charles Howard, eleventh Duke of Norfolk, was not merely a bestial drunkard, like his father before him, capable of drinking all his contemporaries under the table; but was a swinish creature in every way. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z He caught the high-chinned courage of her unapologetic loyalty, even to swinish blood, and gamely bolted his food with mock relish. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z One by one they threw themselves back and fell into swinish slumber. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z They had eat such a monstrous supper that they were fit afterward for nought but swinish slumber, and the most of them lay where they were, never intending to stir until the morning. Palm Tree Island 2011-09-21T02:00:31.730Z "I will do so for you, though it would delight me to go against the Turk; for nothing disgusts me like that swinish nation which does not drink wine." Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z "Every one will do for himself what is best," said they; "but it is the custom of a swinish people not to meet face to face." The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z But we no longer hear workmen at election times referred to as the "swinish multitude" who can now send representatives of their own order into the House of Commons. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z He spends all; he contents himself with refuse; is more heathenish than the heathen themselves; swinish in his habits. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z In spite of the miserable food and swinish forecastle, the fresh crew worked well and peaceably. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z It is for this reason, seest thou, I suffer the hardened sinner below there to lie in such swinish plight. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z Unfortunately for poor Keimer, the kitchen lay between him and his bishobprick: and both nature and habit had so wedded him to that swinish idol, that nothing could divorce him. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z "No," says Doe, "a man who eats pork becomes coarse and swinish." Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z You have thrown the gems of your opportunity before your swinish desires. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z But the fundamental and most vicious, swinish, murderous, and unchangeable fact is that we totally misunderstand each other... we operate on alien wavelengths... Elizabeth Taylor, 1932-2011: Hollywood's Star of Stars 2011-03-23T18:15:00Z But his amiableness could be traced to the fact of his being conceited of the swinish selfishness of which he had been guilty. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil our addition. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z These were destroyed by turning large herds of swine upon it, and it is now, in compliment to its last conquerors and possessors, the swinish multitude, called Hog Island. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z Just think of it! those boors! those louts! that swinish herd of human cattle had dared to raise a cry of revolt against you! Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z You double-faced Mammon-worshipper, if it would mend matters I would gladly jerk you out of your bunk and stamp your swinish features into the earth. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Such mad reveling has been introduced by the evil spirit, and is called a brotherhood, whereas it is rather a debauch and altogether a heathenish, nay, swinish mode of life. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z And with regard to thy uncleanness and gluttony, are not these evidences of a swinish nature? True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Her pale wandering hero could never have laughed like that, and such an expletive as "swinish lot" would certainly not have come from his lips. The Undying Past Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails To sate the swinish appetite!” Rhyme? And Reason? And if, perhaps, the sentimental in British art and literature predominated, thank God it had not yet been tainted with the stark ugliness, the swinish nakedness, the ferocious leer of things Teutonic!” The Moonlit Way The “swinish multitude,” as a term of reproach, in these days of ours is gradually becoming less and less in vogue. Here and There in London Asked about it, he complained in loud and bitter terms that such things should be, and with swinish phrase Soiled their addition. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday These yards, whose heaps of dust and bone Breathe poison all around; These styes, whose swinish tenants grown Half human, with their masters own A common ground. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Men become swinish before women who are unconscious of their unlovely transformation. Captain Macedoine's Daughter He had a big grizzled beard and a thatch of matted hair, from which his little swinish eyes peered out with a leer. The Red Symbol His small, swinish eyes blazed, his brutal features twitched, and his hands clinched together as he brooded over the interview. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon Then came another swinish farce, described by Lancre and Boguet, in which some young and pretty wife would take the Witch’s place as Queen of the Sabbath, and submit her body to the vilest handling. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages The swinish multitude is respectfully informed by its own servants that it may see something it has paid for. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Many of the carriages were occupied by the swinish multitude, and others by a multitude of swine. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years The swinish feast in preparation re-echoes thoughts of ample provisions so vital to this distant land. The Land of Look Behind The creature wavered on its legs, looked at the unexpected enemy with dismayed, swinish little red eyes, and relaxing his hold upon Naida, dropped without making a sound. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 While all books delight in keeping up either the swinish demon of earlier times, or the griffin butcher of the second period, Satan has changed his shape for those who cannot write. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages It may, however, be justly suggested that much of the peculiar bestiality of the Huns is derived from their swinish addiction to beer. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Indeed, so beastly and swinish do they become, they lose all sense of either shame or honor; they have no modesty nor any human feeling. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent O swinish punch-gut god, say they, that smells rank of the sty he was sowed up in, and so on. In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts Fill your swinish skins with liquor, and trouble me no more this day. The Pirate Woman He was anxious to get on, to reach his Camberton rooms, where the Sunday forlornness was peace after this swinish atmosphere. The Man Who Wins When my king was driven away by the rabble 225 the ocean was not too broad to separate me from a swinish civilization. The Strollers He thought to see a Circe of picaresque Spain with her swinish rout about her. The Spanish Jade His furious little swinish eyes blinking through the blood which dripped over them, he hurled himself straight onward. In the Morning of Time Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 "You will take the pain all right and the consequences like a man, but you will never believe that swinish statement you have just made." The Man Who Wins He who would paint the conditions must portray something swinish. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost His pride becomes insolence, his tragedy hideous revolt, his impassivity swinish, his rock of sufficiency a rook of offence. The Spanish Jade The brutish passion of the man showed in the pendulous lower lip, thrust forward a little, in the swinish lifting of the wide-flaring nostrils, in the humid glowing of the inflamed eyes. Heart of the Blue Ridge When Dr. Faustus called to mind that his time from day to day drew nigh, he began to live a swinish and epicurish life. Mediaeval Tales “It's swinish, all this peasant foolery,” he murmured, moving away; “it's the game they play when it's light all night in summer.” The Brothers Karamazov The swinish Jews, however, show the impurity of their minds everywhere. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood There is also a rat-like animal with a swinish face, covered with ruddy coarse hair, that burrows in the ground—the bandicoot. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia His English and his front teeth were equally badly broken, and his taste in jokes was almost as swinishly gross as his appearance. The Message For it is difficult to exhibit the really pure and transparent words respecting the true light, to swinish and untrained hearers. Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries That's a swinish invention, and there was nothing of the sort. The Brothers Karamazov We are not the "swinish multitude" that Mr. Burke speaks of. William Pitt and the Great War They stood before me; she through all the herd Proceeding, with an unctuous antidote Anointed each, and at the wholesome touch All shed the swinish bristles by the drug Dread Circe’s former magic gift, produced. The Odyssey of Homer Yes, I am disgusted with myself, but only after my swinish desires are satisfied. En Route It may be a bit too intelligently selfish and harshly realistic, but it is assuredly not swinish. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind His little, swinish eyes fairly blazed in their sockets. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest They roasted an ox whole, devoured it, and then formed a procession, 10,000 strong, behind the French tricolour and a picture which represented Dundas stabbing Liberty and Burke treading down "the swinish multitude." William Pitt and the Great War It tries to hammer them to atoms, and trample them with swinish hoofs into the mire. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy And yet here they could carouse, and lose themselves in swinish indulgence! My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year Some of us pigsties, in which gross, swinish lusts wallow in filth; some of us shops; some of us laboratories, studies, museums; some of us amorphous structures that cannot be described. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Hate smoldered in the swinish eyes as, in the seclusion of the office, he glowered and planned and rumbled his throaty threats. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest Burke's unfortunate phrase in the "Reflections": "Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude." William Pitt and the Great War But now 'tis grief, that thy swinish slaver has soiled the pure love-kisses of our pure girl. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus But the swine being disturbed by this unusual outcry, and a general uproar taking place among the inhabitants of the stye, Mr. Schnackenberger's single voice, suffocated by rage, was over-powered by the swinish accompaniment. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg First of all came the death of the unhappy lad, Athalaric, in his eighteenth year, the victim of unwise strictness, followed by unwise licence, and of the barbarian's passion for swinish and sensual pleasures. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation The swinish eyes of the brutish man glared malignantly into the gray eyes of the stranger, in which there appeared no slightest flicker of rage nor hate, nor any other emotion. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest The titles are a take-off of Burke's phrase "the swinish multitude." William Pitt and the Great War And the pale, swinish eyes twinkled as they stared across at the dull sorrow of the old man. Riders of the Silences I caught only my reflection in the little swinish eyes. The Statesmen Snowbound She could love him, polluted and swinish in the low sinks of womankind. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life But when the "run of the mountain" was seized upon by many proprietors, the people were mentally, if not bodily, in a swinish condition. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. The mouth was a swinish snout from which lolled a purple tongue, though the rest of that gargoyle head was very close in color to the rock against which it half rested. Voodoo Planet I found the abhorrence to polyandry so great and so universal that all tribes that I came in contact with throughout eastern Mindan�o branded the practice as swinish. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir They are not suffering anything Is it nothing to become swinish, merely because you have your beautiful pen to live in? Our Unitarian Gospel To have sung hymns with the swinish brutal guards lounging around would have conveyed an erroneous impression. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Those that have been sordidly avaricious dwell in cells, and love swinish filth and such stenches as are exhaled from undigested food in the stomach. Heaven and its Wonders and Hell Switzerland is a curst selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals Polyandry is considered swinish, and concubinage is unknown. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Mr. Gifford says it was the name of Friesland beer; the meaning, however, was "to drink swinishly like a Dutchman." Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The possession of early, and afterward undisputed talents, acquired for me deference and respect; and I was soon tempted to desire the applauses of the swinish multitude, and to feel a thirsting after public distinction. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia This mean, stupid, selfish, swinish, and cowardly animal, universally known and despised as such, has indeed, except in one abortive attempt to elope, been perfectly neutral. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) It disgusted the Romans beyond measure to witness the swinish excesses of the Germans. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots Of this number is the explanation of that celebrated phrase, "the swinish multitude": an explanation which was uniformly given by him to his friends, in conversation on the subject. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) But, such was the virtue of the snow-white flower, instead of wallowing down from his throne in swinish shape or taking any other brutal form, Ulysses looked even more manly and kinglike than before. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) He even despised life and the pleasures and dissipations or swinish indolence which, in his judgment, characterized most men. Twelve Men But his snoring was rhythmic and swinish, so I gathered up my saddle and gear and stole over to my horse, which was picketed some yards off, and proceeded to saddle him up. Argentina from a British Point of View As some have called you the swinish multitude, would it be much wonder if they were to propose to serve you as families of young pigs are served? Political Pamphlets To translate these terms, "my foolish wife," "my swinish son," is incorrect, because it twice translates the same word. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic The diminutive size of these pigs awakened reflections upon the brevity of swinish life. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life But from being a warrior of great sense and spirit, he became a perverse-minded and piggish fellow, showing many of the characteristics of his swinish grafting. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I But the pig-headed, selfish, swinish—well, go on with your present plans. The Conqueror He founded his "little college" with the express object of training "theologians" "to defend the mysteries of the sacred page against those ignorant laics, who profaned with swinish snouts its most holy pearls." The Charm of Oxford The terms, "foolish," "swinish," etc., have lost their literal sense and mean now no more than "my," while the polite forms mean "yours." Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic For it is difficult to exhibit the really pure and transparent words to swinish and untrained hearers. Mystic Christianity The prolific mothers of several families of the swinish species, with their squealing progenies, gathered around us, in full expectation, doubtless, of the dispensation of an extra ration, which we had not to give. What I Saw in California They decided that I was no doubt a spy, and certainly and manifestly one of the swinish English, they said. Christine Such to me is the Bible, when the pragmatic prophecy-monger and the swinish utilitarian have toothed its fruits and craunched its blossoms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 Buried in swinish slumber, with window-curtains heedfully drawn, and shutters closely fastened, between us and it, we know nothing of the stately pageant spread outside our doors. Nancy When it is told that such phrases as "my foolish father," "my swinish son," "my awkward self," etc., are in current use, is not the answer clear enough? Bushido, the Soul of Japan In the Odyssey we read about the fair-haired goddess Circe, decoying the companions of Odysseus with her sweet voice, giving them drugs and potions, making them the victims of swinish indulgence of their appetites. Primitive Love and Love-Stories It is an inevitable law within whose attraction all must fall; yes, even the purest souls, cradled in their hope of heaven; and the most swinish, wallowing in the mud of their gratified desires. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life Wonderful religionists, forsooth, that thus break with foolish hands and trample with swinish hoofs the sacred vessels of divine dreams. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays And I—I—have condemned myself to the society of swinish, ignorant, stupid monks,—I must know no such divine souls, no such sweet communion! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 He holds his dominion over the forest, and its horned multitude of citizen-deer, and its swinish multitude or peasantry of wild boars, by right of conquest and force of arms. Maid Marian Such men are assuredly not tempted into the ranks, by the beastly inversion of natural laws, and the compulsion to live in worse than swinish foulness. The Uncommercial Traveller Ponder your proud destinies: Born were ye not like brutes for swinish ease, But virtue and high knowledge to pursue.' Poems The treating habit is making of us a swinish people and strengthening the hands of the Prohibitionists. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 He was homely, ugly even; except the noble curve of head and profile, not a trace of his former good looks—but at least that swinish, fleshy, fleshly expression was gone. The Cost Bah!" said Smith, "let my body lie stripped to the buff in swinish shame, If I can blaze in the radiant sky out of adoring stars my name. Rhymes of a Rolling Stone Further back, and overlapped by these, were perched huge-billed birds and swinish creatures as large as horses. A Pair of Blue Eyes In his tremor of rage and excitement his arms felt curiously weak, and his first thought was how impossible it would be to strangle that swinish neck. The Haunted Bookshop Plague on him if he be dead, Plague on him if he be alive— A swinish numskull To intrude his shade Always between me and my peace! War is Kind And the pale, swinish eyes twinkled as they stared across the dull sorrow of the old man. Riders of the Silences With the excusable pride that every worthy man takes in his work, he expounded the scientific achievements and economic efficiency of the swinish world over which he reigned. City of Endless Night These two watched the rest descend toward swinish unconsciousness; they saw, and waited coolly, and now and then glanced at each other with faint smiles of understanding. Harrigan Our general shook the rattling bladder in triumph over the heads of 'the swinish multitude,' and we followed in perfect security in his train into the town. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Imprimis—it was clear as the day that this swinish multitude were not to be driven by force. Villette It is said that he always knows which way the wind blows, quick as any of the four-footed swinish multitude. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Some of the most degraded, swinish, and abandoned of the human race. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 Working men think so; but what matter what "the swinish multitude" think? Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography They also grunt among themselves, without any external cause; but merely to express their swinish sympathy. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. He tells how a company of swine were offered all manner of dainty and refined foods, and how, with a unanimous swinish grunt, they answered that they preferred the warm, reeking 'grains' from the mash-tub. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah "La canaille," synonymous with the swinish multitude, an expression of contempt for which the Parisian nobility have since paid terribly dear. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 George Meredith made a dichotomy of his readers into "summer flies" and "swinish grunters." The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years This prodigal country of theirs had been exploited,—shamefully, rapaciously, swinishly,—and now that the first signs of exhaustion were showing themselves, the people's eyes were opening to the story of greed. The Web of Life These vile, bejeweled, befeathered women, these loathsome, swinish men—these are the people who have money to spend. The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow But it is high time to leave our swinish moralities behind us, and to jog on towards Antwerp. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents On all hands, the swinish multitude were seen luxuriating in unrestricted freedom. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States For body, he hath a swollen leg, a dusky and swinish eye, a blown cheek, a drawling tongue, an heavy foot, and is nothing but a colder earth moulded with standing water. Character Writings of the 17th Century Adj. gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing &c. v.; edacious†, omnivorous, crapulent†, swinish. avaricious &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases But the three men were far too deeply sunk in their swinish sleep for any voice to wake them. The Green Flag But, as I stood there, it came to me that there was sense and meaning to all those swinish noises. The House on the Borderland My beloved cats have been in the care of this swinish form. Once Aboard the Lugger "Is this a Court of Love?" he grunted, baring his yellow tusks in a swinish rage. If I Were King If there is one kind of meanness that disgusts average human-nature more than another it is a selfish, unthankful reception of kindness, a swinish return for pearls. Driven Back to Eden No doubt they both thought how inconvenient it was that railways could not be brought into existence without the aid of such revolting and swinish animals. The Old Wives' Tale "Why, we certainly don't pretend to all the Apuleian luxuries of Handicap Lodge; but we are ignorant enough to think ourselves comfortable, and swinish enough to enjoy our pitiable state." The Kellys and the O'Kellys I tell you, this stained rag of a cloak I wear is nearer to what it was first, than that tale will be after swinish mouths have chewed upon it a day. The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days Right art thou who wouldst rather be A doorkeeper in Love's fair house, Than lead the wretched revelry Where fools at swinish troughs carouse. Angel in the House We are all now under what Burke called "the hoofs of the swinish multitude." Man and Superman Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke For a company to sit silent and only cram themselves is, in good truth, swinish and almost impossible. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies A broken complexion, a swinish look, ungenerous acts and the want of due knowledge,—all blab. Essays — First Series And laugh at Nature's wanton mood, Which, thus a swinish thing to flout, Though haply in its gross way good, Hangs such a jewel in its snout. Angel in the House But observe, this aristocracy, which was overpowered from 1832 to 1885 by the middle class, has come back to power by the votes of "the swinish multitude." Man and Superman Their complexions, when not obscured with grime, are rather fair than dark, evidencing that their origin is low, swinish Saxon, and not gentle Romany.� Romano Lavo-Lil: word book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy language Their souls, if they have any to begin with, perish out of them, before their sluggish, swinish existence is half done. The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni To be excited or flustered by meat and drink was in their eyes something altogether swinish and bestial. Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus Good heavens! had we come out from among the swinish multitude for this? The Blithedale Romance I, however, say unto you: To the swine all things become swinish! Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none My friends write me from the Netherlands that our men are falling into a swinish trick of swilling like the Hollanders. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth But during calms the flies of idle aim Less put the spirit out, less baffle thirst For light than swinish grunters, blest or curst. Poems — Volume 2 Tribes that have swinish traits were destroyers there and will be destroyers here. The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it |
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