| 单词 | tatterdemalion |
| 例句 | They perched on fence posts, on the roofs of vans, in tatterdemalion back yards. Review | ‘The train was moving mournful slow’: Exhibit shows haunting photos of Bobby Kennedy’s final journey 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Arriving two weeks before the release of “Bones and All,” Luca Guadagnino’s tatterdemalion drifter romance, the director’s “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” surveys a more refined coupling, not of people, but of pumps. ‘Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams’ Review: For the Heel of It 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Off it flaps on tatterdemalion wings to wreak much CG-enabled property damage on downtown Philadelphia, where the picture is set. ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ review: There’s no saving this joyless superhero movie 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z He, like Putin, is losing leverage and his tatterdemalion posturing looks daily more threadbare. Putin, Erdogan, Saudi Arabia: The Balance Of Power Is Shifting 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Who, indeed, could not be spellbound, beholding that countless changing tatterdemalion caravan go by? Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z A French general of division does not give audience to every tatterdemalion who picks up a prisoner on the high road.” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z Where such crowds of forbidding tatterdemalions could have sprung from I cannot understand. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z He speaks of them as "a set of tatterdemalions, almost naked, with fierce looks." The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z Clare rode by Charles to hear the judgment of Paris upon his tatterdemalion Venus. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z As far as could be seen in the uncertain light, all were poorly clad, most were in rags--a tatterdemalion crew, the sweepings of the streets. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z You are a good for nothing, very ungraceful, very tactless, very tatterdemalion. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z Freude, the tatterdemalion, has been asleep for some time on her chest, in her corner between the stove and the wall. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z The boy was but a little tatterdemalion to have ventured thus abruptly into the presence of the Countess of Castlemaine; still it was with some touch of a page's grace that he bowed before her. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z From the trenches before Petersburg in the last days of the war he had led his little band of less than five hundred ragged, half-starved, tatterdemalions in a mad charge against the line in front. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z It was as though some tatterdemalion had thrust himself into a gathering of dandies. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Meanwhile the little tatterdemalion had scuffled along to Trevlyn Farm—a very moderately-sized house with a rustic porch covered with jessamine, and a large garden, more useful than ornamental, intervening between it and the high-road. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Every rock hides a waiting mendicant, and every tuft of broom stirs as we approach with a lurking tatterdemalion. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z On his entrance, Pythagoras was stunned, bruised, and thrown down by a lot of tatterdemalions, who were running and crying: "Well done, he fully deserved it." Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z A more tatterdemalion outfit than a band of these pauperized savages form it would be difficult to imagine. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z She quit work, and beamed upon her frowzy, tatterdemalion progeny, proud as if each had been a world conqueror instead of a dirt-enameled midgit of ignorance. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z He was bloated, blear-eyed, a tatterdemalion, with just enough whiskey in him to make him thick-spoken, reckless, and irresponsible in the eyes of his liquor-loving companions. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z And so the tatterdemalion led the way from St. Paul's, and Shakespeare followed him. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z But the only army he found consisted of about thirty tatterdemalions, mounting guard with umbrellas for fear of the sun. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z On one hand a guttered slope of marl and pebbles covered with a tatterdemalion forest—on the other acre upon acre of burnished grain. The Valiants of Virginia The room was a tatterdemalion rococo barbarized more completely by gothic embellishments that nevertheless gave it the atmosphere of the fantasts with whom Michael had identified it. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The Irish adventurer, who had led men under half a dozen tatterdemalion flags, smiled sarcastically. The Key to Yesterday Nothing to fear!" said the tatterdemalion, "nothing to lose! William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z With a threat unfinished on his lips the leader of the "flying squadron" crumpled to the floor, and with swift transition from bravos to fugitives his tatterdemalion gang left on the run. The Tempering And the tatterdemalion slowly dropped his wistful hands, sighing dutifully, "Yes, m'm." Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road If you 're not ashamed of the tatterdemalion that comes back to you, it's more than I deserve. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Look at that tatterdemalion, and think how came he by such notions.' Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier Such a crowd of tatterdemalions as stood in front of my show-window the first day I made my display of Parisian fancy goods, baffles description. Every-Day Errors of Speech A subaltern's guard of grenadiers, divided into small parties, did duty in the garden; and it was striking to mark the contrast between these bronzed and war-worn figures, and the reckless tatterdemalion host around us. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune They were "the bitten;" gaunt-eyed starvelings; tatterdemalions who might have posed for Rip Van Winkle or The Ancient Mariner. Seeds of Pine The coachmen, the guards, the ostlers, the horse-keepers, the harness-makers, the farriers, the various workers in the trade of coach-builders, and the crowd of tatterdemalions who performed all sorts of offices,—where are they? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 One of the rascally tatterdemalions coming close to him made a grab for his hat—it was a fashion they had of helping themselves to the head-gear of everybody they passed—but missed it. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 Soon the tatterdemalions reached the spot, and extended their lines on both sides to the end of the train. A Castle in Spain A Novel A French general of division does not give audience to every tatterdemalion who picks up a prisoner on the highroad.' Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune "Who are those little tatterdemalions, Bunny?" she asked, with a suggestion of a frown upon her brow. Mrs. Raffles Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman Then let them starve, said I, for I have no sympathy with tatterdemalion pride. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI No, gentlemen, you can not answer us by shaking in our faces that tatterdemalion of a State's rights scarecrow.... The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Oh, a raggedy gang to the piper danced, Of tatterdemalions all, Till the corpulent butler drove them off Beyond the manor wall. A Castle in Spain A Novel The master was away, and a noisy rabble of boys ceased their games or their studies to question the tatterdemalion, and to make fun of his Lithuanian accent—his s's for sh's. Dreamers of the Ghetto What are you talking about, you infatuated tatterdemalion? Hidden Hand To drop metaphor, the young woman sat upon the hillock, with the half dozen tatterdemalions round her in various stages of amorous enchantment. The Spanish Jade The other company, the tatterdemalions of the town, was called "the flood-wood." Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 At the gate stood some armed tatterdemalions, whom the priest recognized as having formed part of the gang that had stopped the train the day before. A Castle in Spain A Novel When the rich man, entering his club, sees some wretched tatterdemalion, slouching on the pavement, there, he may say, goes Sir Gorgius Midas, but for—what? Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies The rebel army are in so wretched a condition as to clothing and accoutrements, that I believe no nation ever saw such a set of tatterdemalions. From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services That they are Indians, their tatterdemalion dress of coloured blankets, leggings, and mocassins would indicate; but their race is even recognisable in their mode of march. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness The sun-burnt humour of many queer tatterdemalions warms us, as we read him, into a fine indifference to nice points of human distinction. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations And in effect Whaup and Strachan now walked into the counsel's apartment, demure, shaven, and well dressed—altogether two very different looking individuals from the tatterdemalions of yesterday. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 The Turkish promenaders whom from a distance I had taken for richly attired merchants, proved to be a set of miserable tatterdemalions with ragged turbans. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 From these reeking little dens a score of foul tatterdemalions had issued, charged with malicious fury. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West "Who's yon tatterdemalion flinging by the newspaper and bawling, 'The country's going to the dogs?'" A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time With a stern glance Stonor kept the tatterdemalion crowd at bay. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] Does not everybody know that your father was a tatterdemalion, and your mother no better than she should be? that you murdered your brother and are guilty of other execrable crimes? Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Cassius more filthy than the vilest and most base tatterdemalion of the stews, and with him rare Cethegus, a senator in all his bravery! The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 St. Martin looks round, first, deliberately; becomes aware of a tatterdemalion and thirsty-looking soul of a beggar at his chair side, who has managed to get his cup filled somehow, also—by a charitable lacquey. Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens The foreman appeared, ran his eye over the group, and engaged the whole of them for the day,—all, except one dazed, drunken-looking tatterdemalion of sixty or so, whom he warned off by name. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols Thus Falstaff describes his tatterdemalion recruits as— "Ten times more dishonourable ragged than an old-faced ancient." The Romance of Words (4th ed.) But look here, how comes it that you, who are evidently a gentleman, are taking sides with that beggarly scum of tatterdemalions who have taken up arms against their sovereign?” Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story On the criminal side it resembles hell's tatterdemalions let loose. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century The inference is that some day our accursed tatterdemalions will be sleek angels. The Book of the Damned I demurred at first, for I had no mind to be publicly embraced by the tatterdemalion patriots I had seen in the crowd that morning. In Direst Peril And even the steadfast Washington, with his tatterdemalion army reduced to three thousand effectives, wrote that if new troops could not be raised without delay "the game is nearly up." Beginnings of the American People She was no longer the red-haired tatterdemalion who had romped over the rocks and quarreled with the boys of the Silent City. The Secret of the Storm Country The spirit of this new army was not that burning love of liberty which had animated the armies of the early republic and turned its tatterdemalion legions into paladins. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo "Any particular reason for wanting to know?" asked Ted quizzically, smiling up at the tatterdemalion of a cowboy. Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur Simultaneously the door of Kayak Bill's cabin opened and the owner, a tatterdemalion figure, stood for a moment on the doorstep. Where the Sun Swings North He scowled on the gaudy and tatterdemalion color of the native city. The Lighted Match I saw M. Radisson passing fife, piccolo, trumpet, and drum to the two tatterdemalion lads of our army. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade A few more days of such unremitting war, and we should have vied with the glorious tatterdemalions of the armies of Italy and of the Sambre et Meuse, as Raffet paints them. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry When Reynolds was in Rome, aged twenty-one, he fell in with a tatterdemalion, who proffered his service as guide. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters It was superb, and the horses were good, though the saddles and bridles were rags and ends of rope, and the men mere tatterdemalions. Letters from Egypt He found no refusals for the tatterdemalion vagabonds who pattered alongside to thrust their violets over the carriage door. The Lighted Match Walking-cases were sent off first—generally a tatterdemalion crew, hobbling and shuffling along the platform, and, at one stage of the war, with trench mud still clinging to their clothes. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital We were a sorry looking crowd gathered there on the main deck, before the cabin, a tatterdemalion mob, with bruised bodies and sullen faces, and with hate and fright in our glowering eyes. The Blood Ship Even Rome, the synonym for antiquity of culture, might still be an obscure village inhabited by a band of tatterdemalions under the leadership of an upstart Romulus. The Runaway Skyscraper "Now, you young wretches—" and the words froze on his lips, for in the place of two tatterdemalion boys he saw a young girl holding his line limply and smiling with much nervousness. The Half-Hearted On the 28th of May he set out at the head of his tatterdemalion band from the village of Boughton, and proceeded to Fairbrook. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Foolish fellow! why didn't you be one of those fortunate children, well fed, rosy, and bright, instead of a starved and stupid tatterdemalion? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 All his insults to humanity became suddenly typified in these five hundred jumping tatterdemalions—the way in which he had plundered the world of its youth, its cleanness, its decency. Out To Win The Story of America in France The retrogressive Doctor Hanchett had been quite an exquisite in the matter of apparel compared with this tatterdemalion. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 But its tatterdemalion presence relieved her, and her face jerked up scarlet. A Daughter of the Snows When he reached a group of tatterdemalions, seated in the shade of some baskets of charcoal, a broad-shouldered and stupid looking boy rose to meet him. Twenty-six and One and Other Stories He is most likely tending some helpless tatterdemalion, and moving about like a clever nurse. A Dream of the North Sea The tatterdemalion mob of beaters was descending into the nullah; and soon the wild din broke out once more. The Jungle Girl My dear, what do you think a tatterdemalion gipsy is going to do to me? The Lamp in the Desert The gipsy women dare not come within gun-shot, and every tatterdemalion of a boy has been frightened from the park. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists And now, see! tatterdemalion, beggar, that you are! Twenty-six and One and Other Stories I crept from my nest, and scrambled through a hedge into a neighboring field, where I went to work to make a tatterdemalion of myself. Tales of a Traveller She was kind and charitable, but she did not love beggars and vagabonds, and this half-naked female tatterdemalion offended her sense of decency and probity, and her pride of sex. The Waters of Edera In all, except our order, deportment, and arms, we might have been mistaken for a procession of tatterdemalions, or a tribe of Nomades from Tartary. What I Saw in California Then we sat down and waited for hours before the order came to march, while regiment after regiment passed by, varied by bands of tatterdemalion Cuban insurgents, and by mule-trains with ammunition. The Rough Riders Naturally it had not occurred to him that an immense and serious effort for the general weal was going to be blocked by a gang of tatterdemalions. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Old London seemed to wrap itself up unsociably in its mantle of brown smoke, and to offer no encouragement to such a couple of tatterdemalions. Tales of a Traveller Of course we were in full view of the consular flags of a dozen different nations; but that did not seem to bother the ringleader of this tatterdemalion mob…. Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated And now and again in his course of fraud did he not turn a wistful eye towards any reckless tatterdemalion, if only the vagrant lived in freedom and in truth? Robert Browning In their place we found hundreds of Cuban insurgents, a crew of as utter tatterdemalions as human eyes ever looked on, armed with every kind of rifle in all stages of dilapidation. The Rough Riders It was a pair of worn-out tatterdemalions that Captain Jones of the Mounted Police welcomed and fed, and he afterward averred that they possessed two of the most tremendous appetites he had ever observed. Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews The Battalion, headed by their tatterdemalion pipers, stumped into the town in due course, and were met on the outskirts by the billeting party, who led the various companies to their appointed place. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand This tatterdemalion crew of mine is all there is left of my cohorts. The Precipice They were to have been vagrants, tatterdemalions, but I needed some dress the change of which would change their whole appearance in a moment, and there came to mind the chimney sweepers of my childhood. New Irish Comedies One dusky tatterdemalion wore a pair of boots from which he had removed the soles, his bare, spur-clad feet projecting from beneath the uppers. Through the Brazilian Wilderness So in truth it was a tatterdemalion crew that limped and straggled and wandered back into Barnesdale that day. Robin Hood Fish-hawkers were crying their wares, and there was a tatterdemalion piper making the night hideous at a corner. Mr. Standfast For the same reason the kings of Europe could not resist the tatterdemalion soldiers of the Convention. The Psychology of Revolution Then let them starve, said I, for I have no sympathy with tatterdemalion pride. Merry Men But when we lived in it for three months--in its half-finished and tatterdemalion condition--it was Romance pure and simple. A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 The tatterdemalion crew had, after the curious habit of Africans, cast aside its garments, and sat forth in a bronze and savage nakedness. The Leopard Woman To obtain the prettiest view of this charming, albeit tatterdemalion, little city, we follow a walk bordered with venerable willows to the railway station. The Roof of France At the end of it all marched a plentiful crew of tatterdemalions, a few bleared white men, and the rest negroes. In the Arena Stories of Political Life The corps was advancing, supported by a tremendous artillery fire, to crush them—and the tatterdemalions defied and laughed at them. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee I wonder, said Epistemon to Panurge, what pleasure you can find in talking thus with this lousy tatterdemalion of a monk. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 The ragged safari, carrying its loads, plunged again into a forest path, walking single file, a tatterdemalion crew. The Leopard Woman A fierce, brawling, tatterdemalion this, that erstwhile tramped in company with long-legged ribald—a froward jesting fellow. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn I am sure if it could be reduced to the size of that tatterdemalion Horace that he carries about, the poor little Horace would be quite supplanted. Friends in Council — First Series The tatterdemalion of the treble fiercely demanded my passport, while the "army" quickly degenerated into a ragged rabble loafing in the shade. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Away they went, clattering over the road, with the whole tatterdemalion population of Macroom after, shouting for "ha' pennies." A Terrible Secret The War Office Notes, under my hand, speak of these months as the "tatterdemalion stage." Towards the Goal The men staggered or lay prone, either as gigantic silhouettes or as tatterdemalions painted by the light. The Mystery They were tatterdemalions in appearance, but heroes at heart. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 "What does that mane, Mike?" queried one of the army of ragged, blear-eyed tatterdemalions of his mate. From Wealth to Poverty Providence has reserved a fairer future for this noble country than to be possessed by this horde of tatterdemalions. History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition Out upon the moor, where he was now, no shelter of any kind encouraged him; no mantlet of bank, or ridge, or brush-wood, set up a furry shiver betwixt him and the tatterdemalion wind. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale By this time Betty was ready to weep over the child, with his knowledge of shabby vice, and his fresh young faith in those old tatterdemalions. The Prodigal Judge With something like astonishment, Richard came to recognise that the garrison was of the most contemptible and tatterdemalion description. Demos From Salii to Templars is not after all so 'far a cry' as from the glittering golden-armed Maruts, and the youthful leaping Kouretes, to the grotesque tatterdemalion personages of the Christmas Mumming Play. From Ritual to Romance He was not gone a hundred yards, when my friend Oregan came up in order to rescue me, with two tatterdemalions, whom he had engaged for that purpose about the purlieus of St. Giles's. The Adventures of Roderick Random In the lower valley of the Inn a tatterdemalion effigy is carted about the village on Midsummer Day and then burned. The Golden Bough But were he a mere native tatterdemalion, inclined to be truculent, Borrow's coat was off in a moment, and the challenge to decide there and then who was the better man flung forth. The Life of George Borrow With pikes, and with shouts, and with torches March'd onwards our dusty battalions, And we girt the tall castle of Louis, A million of tatterdemalions! Ballads Worse than this, the outskirts of the clearing were sometimes haunted by blanketed tatterdemalions with whom she had mysterious confidences. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories It was a pair of worn-out tatterdemalions that Captain Jones of the Mounted Police welcomed and fed, and he afterward averred that they possessed two of the most tremendous appetites he had ever observed. Lost Face Sprawled out on the hatch were five or six men, among them Larry, the tatterdemalion who had called him “old stiff” earlier in the afternoon. The Mutiny of the Elsinore Thus, too, we have the woman social reformer, trailing along ridiculously behind a tatterdemalion posse of male utopians, each with something to sell. In Defense of Women |
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