| 单词 | tenpenny nail |
| 例句 | Cowan’s Roosevelt slashes the air with his right hand while making key points; he clips his words with a speaking style that one contemporary likened to biting off tenpenny nails. Why party bosses can’t contain Trump 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z It is said, that, on one occasion, a tenpenny nail was thrown in to him, as if he were a wild animal. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z Like Thoreau, I believe I could live on a tenpenny nail, if it comes to that. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z I was fit to bite a tenpenny nail off, when I see you come in with that lapful last night. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z Macpherson, a long-headed Scotchman, as hard as a tenpenny nail, and about as emotional as a brickbat, came next. A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z "Well, in the first place you are sewing with a needle as big as a tenpenny nail and who ever heard of whipping on lace with thirty-six thread?" Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z It was labelled 'Tom Clark, as he is!' that is to say, it looked as if abundantly capable of feeding on tenpenny nails, dining on files, and supping upon pigs of iron. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z He pulled, but it wouldn't come, and he says, says he: ''Pears to me that dod-rotted tack must be a tenpenny nail—it holds on so.' The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z In fact, I had a worrying night, and got up feeling as if I had been feasting on tenpenny nails and roasted flat-irons. Phemie Frost's Experiences The neck makes nothing of the domino difficulty, or the tenpenny nail difficulty, or the door-knob difficulty, or the broken bottle difficulty—which are not difficulties to the camel-goose. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Nails driven through the palms of her hands,—tenpenny nails,—under the hypnotic suggestion that she wasn't being hurt. The Faith Healer A Play in Three Acts I’m a good mind to toss up this tenpenny nail and salt codfish business and get back to the sawdust once more.” Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 They were nailed—nailed with tenpenny nails, to the floor of my closet; they are totally ruined. Peggy They would not know how to exaggerate a broom-stick; for the life of them they could not exaggerate a tenpenny nail. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens A whitened human skull, fastened to a post by a rusty tenpenny nail, served as a signboard and notified the passing traveler that he was about to enter the limits of Skull, New Mexico. Kid Wolf of Texas A pipe and a spoon and a tenpenny nail Stole a tin dishpan and went for a sail. The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes There’s an old saying, Tommy, ‘It’s folly to kick against tenpenny nails;’ and that every officer does who kicks against his superior. Percival Keene Haven’t got a couple of tenpenny nails in your pocket, have you? To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze This embellishment carries an odd appearance, and has occasioned strangers sometimes to ask us pleasantly, “whether we fastened our walls together with tenpenny nails.” The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 But what was his surprise, on reaching his tiny cottage, to find the shutters all closed, though it was early afternoon, and the front door held fast on the outside by two great tenpenny nails. Jerry's Reward She could cook anything on earth or in the waters underneath the earth, and she proved it by trying to mix tenpenny nails with the baked beans. You Should Worry Says John Henry By way of making up for the candy failure, we gave them each two common tenpenny nails, and two sticks of hardwood the size we burned in the stove. Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' Besides," said Lord Crosland, "the Admirable is as hard as a tenpenny nail as it is. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World In one little town iron became so scarce that tenpenny nails were used for money. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict And with that he took out the two tenpenny nails with his fingers just as easy as if they had been put in by women. Jerry's Reward Once Rugg was seen to bite a tenpenny nail in halves. Famous Stories Every Child Should Know The channel was not very deep, only enough to receive 57 a tenpenny nail with the head projecting half-way above the sides. The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island Like bad eggs, salt, and tenpenny nails biled in bilge water. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 At the close of the war tenpenny nails were used as five-cent pieces and currency in North Carolina. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict Will you sell pounds of soap and pennyworths of tin tacks, or whole bars of saponaceous matter, and great tenpenny nails?' Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages I don't call it just the thing to drive a tenpenny nail square through a lead pipe, pull it out, and say nothing about it. Homes and How to Make Them She then put the tenpenny nail sometimes used to fasten the window down, in its place, as if to say, "Come in, if you can." The End of the World A Love Story The ostrich is supposed to be capable of digesting such dainties as broken bottles, and tenpenny nails, but that voracious fowl is evidently not "in it" with the "Agricultural community" of America. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 11, 1890 A tenpenny nail would purchase a large fish. The Long White Cloud Forward the Light Brigade, and so on to where glory and an express train were waiting, or would be waiting, before you had time to knock a tenpenny nail on the head twice. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890 When left in the dark he will quiver and quail; And Vulcan has arms that would snap like a carrot, Before he could drive in a tenpenny nail. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan They are natives of this soil; literally so; and if planted would grow as surely as a crowbar in Kentucky sprouts tenpenny nails. Life and Letters of Robert Browning I chained up the gate, gave the key to Mrs. B. to lose, loaded the gun halfway to the muzzle with tenpenny nails and resolved to hold the fort by main strength. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 He looked cross enough to bite a tenpenny nail in two. The Under Dog They scowled at him as if they were mad enough to bite off the heads of tenpenny nails. Welsh Fairy Tales Then he took a tenpenny nail, a birch-pin, and a waxen taper-end in his pocket, and rowed across, and walked up and down before the Troll's cave, looking stealthily about him. Popular Tales from the Norse But what subtle power is this, residing in but a bit of steel, which might have made a tenpenny nail, that so enters, without knocking, into our inmost beings, and shows us all hidden things? Redburn. His First Voyage Cullen—he was the boss—he was well out of sorts, I tell you, before the sun came out, and cross enough to bite a tenpenny nail in two. Men, Women, and Ghosts Nothing was visible but a small, ragged puncture, bluish about the edges, as if the rough point of a tenpenny nail had been forced into the flesh, and withdrawn. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War "Shilling shockers" are sold at ninepence, which is as comical as selling "tenpenny nails" at sixpence. Without Prejudice But Boots stuck out his tenpenny nail, and she cut at it. Popular Tales from the Norse Then as for his appetite, father declares it is most delicate, he only wants a little fruit and grass, and a few stones and tenpenny nails to help his digestion.' Swiss Family Robinson Will you sell pounds of soap and pennyworths of tin tacks, or whole bars of saponaceous matter, and great tenpenny nails?’ A Changed Man; and other tales He used a tenpenny nail and a hammer in the good old way to which he was brought up. The Mutiny of the Elsinore |
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