| 单词 | tricksy |
| 例句 | ‘The tricksy lights. Candles of corpses, yes, yes. Don’t you heed them! Don’t look! Don’t follow them! Where’s the master?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But it’s in Paradise Lost that he’s to be found in properly blistering form—first as the defeated general rallying his troops in hell, and later as the tricksy serpent in the Garden of Eden. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She gives me a tricksy grin, full of secrets. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "The black crow is a tricksy bird. I trust him not." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This is one of the many ways that Shriver is so skilful, so tricksy. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver: foreword by Kate Mosse 2010-06-09T08:51:00Z This description of Atkinson's looping, metamorphosing narrative inevitably makes it sound tricksy, almost whimsical. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – review 2013-03-06T08:01:01Z "Polar Bears seems to offer little more than facile despair and tricksy dramatic technique," is the Telegraph man's given reason. Can't bear it 2010-04-08T11:37:00Z It's all about the record: From Me To You remains an authentic distillation of sheer euphoria, with powerful harmonies, strange chords, tricksy changes, bluesy vocals and the first appearance of those startling, camp "ooh"s. The best No 1 records: the Beatles – From Me To You 2012-05-31T20:50:00Z She keeps the Polaroid picture of herself and her friends, taken by a tricksy hitchhiker in the 1974 film, on her dashboard visor. Forget the final girl, “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” We're ready for the final woman 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z When Everett's tricksy wisdom and wit rub against the right subject matter, the product is no ordinary spark. Vanished Years by Rupert Everett – review 2012-10-05T21:54:01Z The tricksy nature of actors – suckers for a killer line – is not lost on LaBeouf. 'It was like lighting yourself on fire': how Shia LaBeouf's co-star changed his life 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Its most irritating feature is the tricksy title – from historian Niall Ferguson, who coined the word in The Ascent of Money. Chimerica; Race – review 2013-06-01T23:06:18Z Right up next to him, also at 9/2, is a rather more surprising choice, given the Booker's usual aversion to anything remotely tricksy or experimental: Tom McCarthy. Put the bookies' Booker choices to the test 2010-08-06T11:18:00Z But Bombshell also fits into a wider pattern of ripped-from-the-headlines political stories told in a tricksy, almost comic style, and usually with a liberal slant. Why films such as Bombshell aren’t hitting their right-wing media targets 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z “I’m trying not to make it too tricksy,” Mr. Hunter said. Pull Up a Seat. Two Plays, Dinner and Western History Are Served. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z It does a lot of cool things, things I probably take for granted, but it’s tricksy and sometimes downright cruel. My year of anxiety: How my worries took control, and how I’m taking it back 2014-01-26T21:00:00Z This may be true, but delivered in this tricksy, overdetermined way, it’s likely to elicit a pot-calling-the-kettle-black response from overwhelmed viewers. Review: Climate Change and Conflicts in ‘The Age of Consequences’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z But, is the design just a bit tricksy? Samuel Wilkinson's low-energy lightbulb wins Design of the Year 2011-03-15T17:28:49Z Suddenly traditional easel painting seemed merely to trade in tricksy illusionism, and many modern painters turned their pictures into workmanlike, three-dimensional objects. Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy - review 2011-01-15T00:05:50Z Exams are a tricky and tricksy business at the best of times. Lucy Mangan: Don't stop with Steinbeck – let's can all of Eng Lit 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z This is unfortunate in an otherwise meticulously calibrated production, exquisitely lit by David Finn on a tricksy set whose surface transforms from water to stone to wood, not a whit of it digital. ‘The Hunting Gun’ Review: Letters to Burn After Reading 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z He's shameless in going for the pop jugular at times – see the brazen key change on Be Mine Tonight – but there's a tricksy intelligence at work here too. Twin Shadow: Confess – review 2012-07-07T23:05:11Z Seidel is among the rare poets who’ve become noticeably better — nervier, more tricksy and electric — as they’ve slid into old age. This Dark Prince of American Poetry Writes With Glittering Malice 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z On Damage Done she proves she knows how to put a song together, where to add the tricksy, twinkly detail that captivates. New band of the day ? No 796: Spark 2010-05-27T15:00:00Z Far from accessing some sort of higher truth about the real Bob Dylan, its tricksy devices serve only to distance it from its subject. Dylan biopic I'm Not There: a ragtag and Bob tale 2012-12-05T13:57:00Z A tricksy Lotus Flower is the opener, and it virtually roars with real-time musicianship, not mere harnessed technology. Radiohead – review 2012-10-13T23:06:12Z As readers of Kundera’s essays know, he greatly admires Sterne, Diderot and other practitioners of those tricksy meta-fictions that make little pretense of being “real.” Milan Kundera’s new novel feels so very French 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z What you make of an ending that casts what has come before in an entirely fresh light may depend on your ability to justify a tricksy dramatic conceit that, in my view, doesn’t pay off. Review: ‘The Children,’ in London, Offers Hints of an Apocalypse 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Instead, it gets relentlessly tricksy treatment that often obscures the action. Pieces of Vincent 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z It’s right there in the script of Francis Beaumont’s “The Knight of the Burning Pestle,” a tricksy, loopy, wildly self-referential 1607 play that parodies both city comedy and chivalric romance. ‘The Knight of the Burning Pestle’ Review: Wielding His Trusty Kitchen Tools 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Instead there’s a tricksy buffoon named Sganarelle, a servant who impersonates a doctor — and then the doctor’s brother, too. Review: ‘The Flying Doctor by Molière (over and over and over)’ Revels in Repetition 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z But these days he seems to specialise in ambitious, highly compressed novellas, which address the reader in an unusual and slightly tricksy fashion. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-03-28T08:00:02Z The stunt cinematography of “Mother”—which is done mainly in one very long take—is too tricksy for the standard but clever suspense story that it conveys; it’s broadcast-ready. My 2019 Oscars Predictions 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z It sounds tricksy, but there's never a feeling that Lively is showing off. Booker club: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively 2010-03-19T10:19:00Z They share an interest in maze-like melodies and tricksy time signatures – but they don't let their music's intelligence furrow either their brows or the audience's. Jim Hart/Ralph Alessi 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z His 1972 play “Jumpers,” she argues persuasively, is both “showbiz incarnate: tricksy, hilarious, flamboyant, startling,” and a grieving depiction of a doomed marriage that opened two days after Stoppard’s first divorce. Review | ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life’ documents the professional successes and glamorous social life of a storied playwright 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z There are big issues lurking within the play but the tricksy structure never gives them sufficient room to breathe. Theatre review | Behud (Beyond Belief) | Belgrade, Coventry | Michael Billington 2010-03-31T01:35:00Z The idea is that it will also learn to understand tricksy human traits such as irony, jokes and puns. Meet Watson, the computer set to beat Jeopardy's champions 2011-02-06T00:05:33Z We can only wonder what tricksy technology is going to do to punctuation between now and next year’s National Punctuation Day. Five Ways Punctuation Is Changing! 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z In a way it's commendable that Beukes hasn't softened the violence, but it doesn't sit well with the tricksy, jigsaw quality of the story. The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes – review 2013-05-01T08:59:01Z It's by no means perfect; there's almost nothing for the female characters, played by Olga Kurylenko and Abbie Cornish, to do, and it may all be too self-consciously tricksy for some. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-04-13T04:59:02Z As well as these thematic connections, there are other tricksy narrative links. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-11T13:22:00Z Taken together, these titles arguably stand for a bold new wave of British filmmaking: cinematically confident, generically tricksy, compelled by disturbing, ambivalent subject matter. Katherine Butler: the gambler behind Film4's low-budget features 2012-08-30T16:02:14Z It doesn't feel over-clever or tricksy; not only is it an interesting way of doing things, but it also feels like a very natural one. TV review 2011-07-12T21:39:00Z They had previously toured Yorke's 2006 solo album, The Eraser, recreating its tricksy laptop manoeuvres with wood and skin and metal strings. Atoms for Peace – review 2013-07-27T23:05:19Z Then there's the structural innovations of the Pin, who combine their sketches into a tricksy narrative that has you trying to connect the dots between different elements. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: the sketch show has left the pet shop 2012-08-13T10:54:54Z Besides being a deliciously sardonic tale of reversals and comeuppance, “Ezra Slef” pays deft homage to Nabokov, Borges, Flann O’Brien and numerous other tricksy writers. Review | What to read in April: A critic’s pick of books that aren’t on the bestseller list 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Disparate styles still crash together, rhythms are fidgety, time signatures are tricksy, and at times Longstreth appears to be singing a different song to the one the band are playing. Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan – review 2012-06-28T14:29:01Z And in writing a text so near to unlearnable as Not I, with its exhaustively tricksy repetition and countless interjections to be spoken at such speed, he gets it. Beckett's Not I: how I became the ultimate motormouth 2013-05-08T18:30:01Z Psychological coherence takes a back seat to tricksy plotting. Review: In the Ahmanson's '2:22 - A Ghost Story,' poltergeists are more believable than people 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z The slight, tricksy wingers of the 1970s were dying out, with powerful speed merchants replacing them. The Joy of Six: football's wing wizards | Gregg Bakowski 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Take the song I Don’t Want To Discuss It – it has tricksy funk drumming allied with a flat-out northern beat, with Richard relatively restrained, but it works perfectly. Little Richard: an ultra-sexual force of anti-nature 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z This book explored the tricksy question of our cosmic significance, or lack thereof, but through the lenses of exoplanet discoveries, evolutionary biology, Bayesian statistics and cosmology. One Decade, a Lot of Writing 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z The festival’s high-profile commitment to VR is a major statement that it is no longer regarded as a tricksy twist on a venerable medium, but as a different, compelling medium altogether. Why it is significant that Venice Film Festival put VR on the bill 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z As I've written about before on these pages, of all the 'Big Questions' in science, the issue of those slippery, tricksy quantities we call consciousness, awareness, and intelligence is one of the most challenging. Chasing Consciousness, and the Information Revolution 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z But “difficult” writing, filled with cultural references and tricksy wordplay hasn’t vanished at all: it’s taken up residence in rap lyrics. Beyond Bob Dylan: authors, poets and musicians pick their favourite songwriter 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z And on Friday his name trended worldwide, with hundreds of thousands of people sharing gifs, memes and jokes about his tricksy ways and supposed third escape. No, El Chapo has not escaped from prison a third time - BBC News 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z He thought he was a tricksy hobbit who had figured out how to bamboozle the press. Trump’s campaign of innuendo: Like many Republican pols before him, Trump’s arguing through insinuation 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z There are changes to Capital Gains Tax and tax on dividends which are tricksy for Holyrood. Budget 2016: the productivity and prosperity puzzle - BBC News 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z And it suggests a cathartic, ongoing wrestling match with the show’s own tricksy position, drawing a line between this coarse and manipulative Ilana and the endearing hustler whom fans love. The Slapstick Anarchists of “Broad City” 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z James has a tricksy manner, but his purpose in his memoirs is touchingly transparent: to say how the big moments of his life felt exactly as they happened. The Peculiar Radiance of Henry James’s Memoirs 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Should Arsenal fail to complete the deal, they will simply find another tricksy attacker of unspecified position and questionable composure under pressure. Football transfer rumours: Real Madrid to sign Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling? 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z On one hand, it might have been deliberate; a classic tricksy mind game designed to unsettle a side that had briefly threatened to halt Germany’s progress for good. The strangest, saddest and funniest moments from the World Cup 2014 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Fine in theory, but all a bit overly tricksy. Sunderland v Stoke – as it happened 2013-05-06T20:54:00Z Most people are guessing that Moses will fit in on the bench, and it is hard to see how it might be otherwise, but he is more of a tricksy winger than a playmaker anyway. Theo Walcott's pace is still an asset but No10s have the greatest currency 2012-08-29T12:27:27Z I've heard tell of them all my life, I know, and of their tricksy ways. Fairies Afield 2012-03-18T02:00:20.790Z Nor could Voltaire have done his had he not been a tricksy spirit. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Moreover, the days when one gets up early for pleasure, especially in August, September, and October, are precisely the days on which the tricksy spirit of the mist chooses to make herself manifest. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z The plane's broad plates of weather-beaten gold Lie shrunk and sodden in the miry way, Never around the dappled trunk to play Again with tricksy beams, and breezes bold. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-17T03:00:35.863Z Luck had proved so tricksy a sprite that the most trivial object might well take its fancy and overset the balance of its favours. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z In childhood and boyhood this "palace" was inhabited by a tricksy sprite. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The tricksy sprite did erst assist At hushed Verona's moonlight tryst; Sweet Capulet! thou wert not kissed By light winds only. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z Was it the tricksy play of the moon among the clouds, or did a shade of disappointment flit across her face? The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Getting money back from tricksy distributors isn't a job for amateurs. Best and worst of Britain's subsidised film-makers revealed 2011-07-29T16:44:41Z Even in this form he retains something tricksy and enigmatic, the survival perhaps of earlier ideas; or, again, it may be the result of a more or less conscious symbolism. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The spirits are of all orders; and many, perhaps most, are tricksy, undeveloped, and delight to deceive. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Modern society, concerning which you have bid me discourse to you, is this tricksy spirit, many-featured and many-gestured, coming in a questionable shape, and bringing with it airs from heaven and blasts from hell. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z When the tricksy girls were all absent, when men alone stood guard over and were with this prisoner, she became invisible by them. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z The latter were light and tricksy spirits, on whom not even a magician could depend. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z There was, besides, an elusiveness and an ethereality about him—as Carlyle expressed it—“a fine tricksy medium between the poet and the wit, half a sylph and half an Ariel ... a fairy fluctuating bark.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z A teasing, tricksy expression put her burdened seriousness to flight. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z Generally, this is the sort of film that is praised because it is not as wacky and tricksy as Michael Moore. Inside Job ? review 2011-02-17T14:59:01Z At the tender age of 19, lightning fast and tricksy, he had earned himself the right to be known countrywide as "The King of Dribblers". The Joy of Six: Scott Murray recalls great dribbles 2010-10-15T09:33:00Z Chile were superb in their first game against Honduras, their full-backs attacking with vim and vigour, their midfielders tricksy and direct. Chile v Switzerland ? live! 2010-06-21T13:12:00Z There is only one love-affair discoverable, and even that is of such a mild academic variety that it is doubtful whether that tricksy jade Venus and her dimpled son had any concern in the matter. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise She was a most disconcerting, baffling creature—a tricksy, elfish spirit, that delighted in malicious fun. Life on the Stage This, which meant originally an airy tricksy sprite, is now applied not only to fairies and goblins in general, but also to every kind of supernatural apparition. Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series And now they throng the moonlight glade, Above, below, on every side, Their little minim forms arrayed In the tricksy pomp of fairy pride! Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 I drew some nourishment out of my restored arteries into my brain cells and yelled, "Siddy, I know I'm a tricksy trull and the High Vixen of all Foxes, but what the Hell is Peterhouse?" The Big Time Let the tricksy sprite Puck pop suddenly into the middle of them! The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. The capricious elf, the tricksy sprite, was melting away in the immortal soul, and the deep pathetic power of a noble heart was being born. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine Once, when she suddenly touched the brands, she fancied she saw the tricksy little thing tumbling about in the sparks; another time she missed catching it in a rose. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages It was only when Evan started to question her that she showed what a tricksy spirit inhabited the solid frame. The Deaves Affair As soon as I got the Maintainer unsnarled and looked around and saw your sweet old face—" "Back, tricksy trull! The Big Time Art is a tricksy quantity and like quicksilver is ever mobile. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Madame von Marwitz now looked at her and as she looked the tricksy light of malice again grew in her eye. Tante He sees that the tricksy little elf makes the fortune of the house. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages They were tricksy, capricious, peevish, easily offended, malicious if not wholly malevolent, and dangerous alike to trust and to thwart. The Balladists Famous Scots Series He told me that he believed a folletto or tricksy spirit talked with him here and promised him that if he came again he would find here both love and fame. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) But the tricksy god of irony has decreed that, if he lasts long enough, every anarch will end as a conservative, upon which consoling epigram let us pause. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Between them and their ‘laddies’ I reckon I shall have less peace than from the wildest of tricksy Molly’s capers.” Dorothy's Travels Thine essence, that was heavenly sweet, Has flown upon the tricksy air: Fate's hand is on thee; drop thy leaves, And go among the things that were. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Her horns bedecked with ribbons gay, And garlanded with rosy may,— A tricksy sight. The Book of Humorous Verse Grandpapa Jerome, in a very foreign costume and a bald head which he tried to keep covered with a black velvet cap, had two extremely tricksy sprites for grandchildren. A Little Girl in Old New York Even the tricksy old Missouri is contributing somewhat to irrigation, but in the queerest possible way. Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas And a right "tricksy spirit" it proved indeed. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War The room seemed to swarm with tricksy Pucks. The Shadow World “Some fairies,” he supposed, “Puck, or such like tricksy goblin, had been in her wardrobe, and carried off whatever was fit for wearing.” St. Ronan's Well The rosy apple's bobbing Upon the mimic sea— 'T is tricksy and elusive, And glides away from me. The Book of Hallowe'en Momus is dead, and e'en that tricksy imp Preposterous Puck hath too much native grit To take the taste of Osrick turned a wit. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893 Yes, it was your tricksy self, Wicked-trickèd little elf, Naughty Caroline! The Bon Gaultier Ballads But he had been snared by the same tricksy sprite of blood and youth that had inflamed Milly. One Woman's Life I tried many experiments with the moon, when it was full, to see if I could not outrun the bright and tricksy traveller. Confessions of Boyhood Cupid was naturally a very popular god, yet his tricksy ways caused him to be looked upon with suspicion. Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation The humour in the following is of a lighter and more tricksy kind— Written in a Young Lady's Album. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 That gave the zest of transgression to her excess, mixed with dismay; for the tricksy spirit in her was not a domineering spirit, but was easily abashed by the moods of others. A Chance Acquaintance This was another magic quality that the girl possessed,—especially feminine, a tricksy gift of the Gods, quite outside the moral categories and therefore desired by all—charm. One Woman's Life Life was all a lyric song Set to tricksy meter. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar There again, as in the early days, he watched the orioles building their nests and listened to the tricksy catbird's call. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. I am deeply thankful that I could never find it in my heart so to pervert truth as to call the smart villages with the tricksy shadow of their maple avenues—the Country. Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons Wasn't I born on a Easter Sunday, wid the power to see the good people, an' the little people, an' all the tricksy tribes? The Harbor Master It has been said that "his good characters act from impulse, not from principle," and that he shows "a tricksy spirit of fantastic exaggeration." McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Mr. Moore's Muse is another Ariel, as light, as tricksy, as indefatigable, and as humane a spirit. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution Having a mint of phrases in his own brain, well might he speak with the contempt he does of those "fools who for a tricksy word defy the matter;" that is, slight or disregard it. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. He has most abounding faith in the tricksy panoply that he has wrought out of the metal of his Classics. Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons But what could he expect from such a tricksy sprite of a girl? The Palace of Darkened Windows We know what a tricksy sprite she is. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week Ah, delicate Ariel, tricksy sprite, the only way to get you is to burn up the solid body. Among the Forces To seek such a pair his 'tricksy spirit,' Puck, has ranged in vain through the world. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers Blown with rude winds, and beaten down with rain, How can the roses dare to trust again The tricksy mistress whom they once adored? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891 Flash and flutter to a tricksy Fickle meter; And you foot it like a pixie— Only fleeter! Shandygaff This is the reason for the vogue of musical comedy, with its pretty girls, and gaudy shifts of scenery and lights, and tricksy, tripping melodies and dances. The Theory of the Theatre The answering melody, with more of sentiment, though always in graceful swing with tricksy attendant figures, has a longer song. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies His tricksy fancies peeped out in his correspondence, and several of his old friends in England thought no literary man of his time had a better epistolary style. Yesterdays with Authors My tricksy spirit, commit these gentlemen to the care of bold Thomas Tiller, while I confer with the merchant. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas I perceive, from her gestures and glances, that our tricksy hostess is plotting some scheme with him. The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance "You tricksy wretch!" muttered the grandmother to herself. Kincaid's Battery For he never displayed a single trace of the merry, tricksy, elfish fun of the terriers and collies that we all know, nor of their touching affection and devotion. Stickeen I don't mind the ghost Pegler fancies she saw—but, good heavens, the place now seems full of tricksy spirits! From out the Vasty Deep Sometimes a tricksy, half-provoked desire to break through the barricade of his stoicism tempted her. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Before his eyes, as swiftly, as unaccountably, as utterly as an April day shifts its moods, she had changed from radiant, rosy wood-goddess to saddened mortal and thence on into tricksy, laughing elf. The Bent Twig Led by this wandering tricksy being, I came to a spot where the trees were very large and the damp dark ground almost free from undergrowth; and here the voice ceased to be heard. Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest The crowd now watched the dancing pair, And marked the tricksy witching fair; They rush, they whirl! Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist His mind was full of tricksy devices for eluding this task of serious thought which he sought to impose upon it. The Damnation of Theron Ware The gnats "Their murmuring small trumpets sounden wide:"—SPENSER. and here and there the little musician of the grass touches forth his tricksy note. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827 It seemed to grow on even when a tricksy gleam shot through it as she replied, "Yes, our acquaintance dates from Gallatin." The Cavalier And I had nothing to fear; my independent investigations had made this much clear to me; the voice might proceed from a very frolicsome and tricksy creature, full of wild fantastic humours, but nothing worse. Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest Nay, nay," replied the tricksy fay, With swift caress, and laughter gay, "There is another saw well-known, Time enough, my grannie dear, to love some later day! Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist As his mind swam along with the gliding, tricksy phantom of a tune, it seemed as if he too could see these visions—as if he gazed at them through her eyes. The Damnation of Theron Ware There they encountered his hand, holding the coffee spoon, the little finger standing out from the others in a tricksy curve. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Marry, sir, now is master Jacob trim indeed, That is all tricksy and gallant, so God me speed! A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 Striking instance and illustration of the tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom even with the comparatively wise. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge I do not know to which kind Willie's "Ratto" belongs, but I have heard many stories of his clever tricksy ways, and of how well he knew his name, and obeyed his master. Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation What nice appreciation of the right touch of the tricksy garlic! In and out of Three Normady Inns A moment he stood still, as if holding silent commune with the spirit of music, the tricksy Ariel imprisoned in the old wooden case; then he began to play "Rosin the Beau." Melody : the Story of a Child This was soon done, and clapping her hands with delight the "tricksy spirit" began to dance and frolic anew. Captain January But in the distance to which the olive forests stretched they lost this effect of tricksy familiarity. Roman Holidays, and Others In my forgetfulness, or my ignorance, that Manchester was the mother of this tricksy master-spirit of English prose, who was an idol of my youth, I failed to visit either house. Seven English Cities But here the miller and the collier come, With Parson Makebate and their tricksy girl. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 So still he tries, and still he fails; still searching long he lingers; And every time the tricksy things go slipping thro' his fingers. Apocolocyntosis But don't begin counting your chickens too soon—these Australian diamond- mines are tricksy things; you never know how they are going to pan out. The Happy Adventurers While we lounged on at our indebted ease: Instead of which, a tricksy demon Sets her at Titus or Philemon! Christmas Eve But how many such tricksy ways, pretty or vexing, she was to show some of us in the years to come did not yet appear. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker I am really touched for this Ariel, this tricksy sprite of speech when I know that it must do the bidding of those who can never fit its airy felicity to any worthy purpose. The Potiphar Papers She's looking after them, that elf, that sprite, that tricksy scrap, that sunshine thing. This Freedom Ruth had been more tricksy than usual that day, and in a flow of spirits quite inconsistent, it would seem, in a young lady devoted to grave studies. The Gilded Age, Part 4. What is perhaps the oddest characteristic of the tricksy spirit is that it often chooses moments of intense discomfort and fatigue to master some scene, and take its indelible picture. At Large Some tricksy spirit called out with your voice and he heard and pulled rein, and so they came on to us and overwhelmed us, though without hurt as it chanced. The Lady of Blossholme And now they throng the moonlight glade, Above, below, on every side, Their little minim forms arrayed In the tricksy pomp of fairy pride. Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier The Brazen is partial, one-sided, tricksy, misleading, immoral; serving personal and interested purposes and contemptuously forgetful of every obligation which an honest and honourable pen owes to the public and to itself. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 O my son, verily yon tricksy Jew hath cheated thee and laughed at thee, this platter being pure silver and virginal. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 The conduct of the earlier dynasties of classical gods towards each other was as notoriously cruel and loathsome as their behaviour towards mortals was tricksy and capricious. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 Those quick wits of hers would enjoy lessons if they were rightly directed, and what is now a tricksy midget would soon become a busy, happy child. Little Men Yet still the honest man went forward without suspicion, and grew rich, while I still continued tricksy and cunning, and was poor, without the consolation of being honest. The Vicar of Wakefield The forest felt a change, for tricksy nymph had proved a mortal love, and put off her fairy phantasms for the deep consciousness of humanity. Gala-days House-Mastiff seeing itself neglected, driven to its hutch, for a tricksy Ape dressed out in ribbons, who gets favor in the drawing-room. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 It's a tricksy world, that realm of intuitions. The Trail of the White Mule Harald looked a trifle flurried, it is probable; but held in his wrath, and did no damage to the tricksy Englishman. Early Kings of Norway The tricksy spirit of creation must have incited him to attempted expression and then have sat hilarious among the white-hot sands of the valley, watching its mischievous work. Roads of Destiny The fool hath planted in his memory An army of good words; and I do know A many fools that stand in better place, Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy word Defy the matter. The Merchant of Venice Aloud she dared not speak the word, lest some tricksy breeze carry it to him and fill him with; anger because she had betrayed his friendship. The Heritage of the Sioux |
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