| 单词 | truckling |
| 例句 | Instead, it meant to skewer the tone of TV news, by turns omniscient and truckling, in the production of what the show called "genutainment." 'Four Lions' Review: Finding Comedy in Suicide Bombers 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z Lesser invests Matt with plenty of naturalistic authenticity, but cannot prevent his character from coming across as a gutless wonder whose unfaltering deference towards his wife seems more truckling than tender. 'Dirty' takes on the slippery slope of compromise 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z This is a party for people to demonstrate truckling, abject personal loyalty to former president Donald Trump! Opinion | Quiz: Are you still welcome in today’s GOP? 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z By the end of the 2000s, the era of autocrats truckling to the liberal powers had come to an end. Opinion: The strongmen are back. And we have no idea how to confront them. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Trump will be remembered as the president who tear-gasses women and children while truckling to tyrants. Opinion | How Trump is making the world a very dangerous place 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Ensuring that staff members work on real issues and problems rather than truckling to royal whims would improve any organization. Hillary Clinton’s email mess is a result of obsequience to power 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z He told stories very well, particularly those against his own race; and though Sylvia was a little scornful of this truckling self-mockery, she could not help laughing at the stories. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Come on, if you dare to strike a blow, you peddling, truckling, huckstering knaves! Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Loving him as she did, she strove not to perceive his truckling ways. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Well, without going to extremes, it would be a joy to guide him just a little, to prevent his truckling too glaringly to Castle influence. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z He can exact no truckling homage where every member of the tribe is a blood relation. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Charles Townshend, Pitt's Chancellor of the Exchequer, a vain, truckling statesman, coalesced with Grenville, the father of the Stamp Act, in the production of another scheme for deriving a revenue from America. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z Some of Carlile's weaker-kneed friends did not hesitate to accuse him of some unworthy truckling to those in power in order to gain his liberty. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z Such senators as Benton, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun, and later on Douglas, Seward, and Sumner, fairly towered above presidents like the obscure Southerners, Tyler and Polk, or the truckling, timeserving Northern politicians, Pierce and Buchanan. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z But, to any one acquainted with the truckling arts of Mr. Canning, such conduct was no more than might have been expected. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z Are a few years of truckling, and helping the devil's hand, and feathering your own nest pretty comfortably, to be weighed against a lifetime of honest service? Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z Principles are now arrayed against our institutions, and not by truckling nor by temporising, not by oppression nor corruption, but by principles they must be met. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Once for all, what is “truckling to an audience”? Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z A feeble truckling to virtue is often all that is required to reduce a tragedy to the common-places of everyday existence. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z A home or friends to be gained only by subserviency and truckling, she did not covet. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z For its truckling concessions to the slave power, the Whig party merited defeat, and defeated it was, and that, too, in the most decisive and overwhelming manner. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z And it elicited a reluctant but still truckling apology. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z The obsequious, truckling lie was odious to her. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z Notwithstanding the most thorough honesty in every activity of life and the absence of every hint even of truckling of any kind to popular or royal opinion, he had been the favorite of all classes. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z The young man, fully recognizing the disability under which he labored in the eyes of his cowardly and truckling superiors, wrote pathetic letters from his hospitals, regretting his fatal millions. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 It's that sloppy sentimental truckling to them that's at the bottom of all the trouble. The Head Girl at the Gables No more truckling to Liberalism, no more faith in the false prophets of Freedom. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life He was the scourge of truckling magistrates, and a thorn in the side of those petty tyrants whom our peculiar system allows to flourish in rural districts in the degraded robes of justice. The Queen Against Owen It would, he felt, be base; it would be cowardly; it would be a vile piece of truckling to an enemy, who would exult over it to the end of his days. A Castle in Spain A Novel We had all seen bandits standing at a corner of a wood truckling for copper halfpence, and after their benefactors were gone spitting out injuries and curses. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) There must be no truckling even with Fifth Form girls. The Head Girl at the Gables The fatuous ignorance, the bigoted conceit, the nauseous truckling to “the Old Man,” the debased intellect. An Ocean Tramp But it is especially saddening to see our constitutional liberties threatened by this Bureau of Health bill, and by the Government’s constant truckling to the Church of Rome. Carmen Ariza The King himself is loth to strike, since no man in the land could get him together such another truckling Parliament as can Privy Seal.' The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court But this implies a certain truckling to popularity, and the best editors will chafe under such restrictions. Commercialism and Journalism When I saw him truckling to low-bred adventurers who are not worth sixpence beyond what they can wring from their dupes, I thought it time to change my course. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule There must be no truckling to foreign despots and foreign priests: the bold Protestant policy of the country must be maintained. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge A hireling ministry will be a feeble, a timid truckling, a time-serving ministry, without faith, endurance, and holy power. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity There is no man like him for calling of truckling Parliaments. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court Whatever the thoughts and words of truckling people in other places, here the tolling bell spoke unmistakably to all who heard, the sorrow of those mourned the death of the Great liberator. John Brown: A Retrospect Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884. England is a big bully, crushing the weak and truckling to the strong—truckling to the weak, even, when fairly taken to. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule No practical reform, no——' 'No truckling to the masses, I suppose.' The Convert Above all, the man had organized and developed his companies without the aid of the "System" or without truckling to its votaries. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Clement V himself and the ecclesiastical judges were both unfortunately guilty of truckling in the whole affair. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church Mill was imputing motives too easily, and assuming that the Reviewers saw the abuses in the same light as he did, and were truckling to public robbers in hopes of sharing the plunder. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill There is too much truckling to the ruffian element, not only by Mr. Morley, but by most Unionists resident in Ireland. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Of the Romish faith himself, he would have no hand in plots against his lawful Queen, and no truckling to the cruel bigot who sat upon the throne of Spain. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea This hateful truckling to misguided power, Combined in palace, temple, hall, and bower, To crush an outcast Queen, with evidence By facts refuted, ridiculed by sense?— The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers But for our political alliance with the North we of the South would have to be one of the most truckling of nations. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist It is a base and disgusting truckling to allies between whom and themselves there is nothing but mutual hatred and contempt. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) A sordid, truckling, cowardly, compromising spirit, is everywhere seen. No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York But I don’t call truckling to the enemy honour.” The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale Yet he was no vulgar demagog truckling to the caprices of mankind, nor was he a tyrant who pitted his will against the many and subdued by a show of arms. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Mr. O'Brien states that "the truckling truculence of a mock-modest monster of meretricious mendacity cannot be allowed to prevail against a policy of sober and sympathetic silence." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 It would be a mistake, let us remember, to regard the anti-abolitionist temper at the North wholly as apathy, friendliness to slavery, or the result of truckling to the South. History of the United States, Volume 3 It is not a suggestion but an order, a fiat, a command, so we see this free nation really truckling to or dominated by a class of tradesmen. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Miss Lentaigne also condemned the government, though less for its incurable habit for truckling to the forces of disorder in Ireland, than for its cowardly and treacherous treatment of women. Priscilla's Spies He who had been their trusted companion was now loudly reviled as a false and truckling traitor. Benjamin Franklin If they disavow him, they must give offence to his friends, encounter the shock of his popularity, and have the appearance of truckling to Spain. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. The fear that a clergy supported by the free gifts of the people would prove subservient and truckling to the hand by which it is fed has been proved groundless. A History of American Christianity This proposition was deemed by the immense majority of those present to have a truckling character, and consequently met with no favor. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters He had been able to do without them, defied their laws, scorned their truckling to public opinion—but now? The Emigrant Trail It is by such a course that error and superstition reign, that truckling conformity, intellectual disloyalty, moral indifference, vice, and infidelity, abound. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life He would be accused of "truckling" to a Forsyth, which, just then, was likely to bring contempt upon him. Red-Robin It was with profound grief that he witnessed the decline of Webster's political career, owing to his truckling to the Southern proslavery element, and to his increasing intemperance. The Last Harvest Certainly the prevailing attitude of the Northern to the Southern politicians was that of truckling. Abraham Lincoln At last she had met one who was not intent on truckling for place and pelf. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters How has the Visconti obtained this truckling, which neither King Robert, nor the Pope, nor the Emperor, could ever obtain? The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch It is said to involve an ignoble degree of truckling to foreign nations. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 He protested against that spirit which had crept into the Christian Brotherhood, truckling to the rich, and despising the poor. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Subsequent events acquit Douglas of truckling to the South at this time. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics He was, in fact, two men in one: a dishonest, truckling politician, and a large-minded and truth-seeking philosopher. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Lord Stanley, in hatred to Mr. O'Connell and his country, abandoned the Government, which he charged with truckling to the great demagogue's will. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 His very loyalty to the forms and fabric of English life kept him fatuously content with the mean truckling and meaner domineering of his position of butler. The Promise of American Life He was accused by one party of truckling to the new court, by the other of being too much attached to revolutionary methods and republican institutions. France in the Nineteenth Century Mr. Biglow's remarks treat chiefly of the Mexican war, and subjects immediately connected with it, such as slavery, truckling of Northerners to the south, &c. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 But Roughsedge's contempt for his brilliant and successful neighbor--on the ground of selfish ambitions and unpatriotic trucklings--was, in truth, much more active than anything Marsham had ever shown--or felt--toward himself. The Testing of Diana Mallory Hamilton by no means was blind to the pettier side of human nature, but he despised it; instead of truckling and manipulating, he would scatter it before him or grind it to pulp. The Conqueror A hireling ministry will be a feeble, a timid, a truckling, a timeserving ministry, without faith, endurance, and holy power. The Revelation Explained With many commendable points, there is, in that work, much ignoble truckling to the dominant and influential few, and a deal of shabby sophistry in defending abuses that the few were interested in upholding. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics I felt through all the speeches at that gilt-gingerbread place, that it was a monument of my truckling to expediency. The Three Brides He was a truckling politician, and an ambitious priest. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 1 The man had nailed it high up in an apple tree, that they might not mistake his attitude of truckling disloyalty to his own country, hoping so to save his home. In the Claws of the German Eagle Principles are now arrayed against our institutions; and not by truckling nor by temporizing—not by oppression nor corruption—but by principles they must be met. The Grand Old Man A truckling California legislature unsuccessfully tried to fasten his name upon Lake Tahoe. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert Benjamin kept up his running fire against the truckling representatives of the British government, including ministers who were not outspoken against oppression and the censorship of the press. From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin As a part of his truckling to Spain, he caused Sir Walter Raleigh to be executed. Outline of Universal History "That's about the case with all the musical rowing we've been having for the last year or two; every musician has been in a fever lest he should be thought to be truckling to somebody." The Pagans He expects you to go to Congress—possibly to the Senate, and he figures that he wants to be dead sure you'll not get to truckling to decency on the liquor question. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors Side by side with this truckling to popular favour was a genuine attempt to preach the simple truths of morality and religion. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Roberts, basely truckling to him: "It was certainly a ludicrous position." The Albany Depot : a Farce But there was one crime to which he was unforgiving--the truckling to slavery. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form He warned against the truckling, time-serving, and cotton- speculating manifestations in this war, and also the influence of Southern women in sympathy with the rebellion. A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Appointed Public Orator, or showman, of his university, Cambridge, he spent some years in enjoying the somewhat trifling elegancies of life and in truckling to the great. A History of English Literature The foreign policy of Great Britain was suspicious and irritating, for it was secret, busy, and meddling, insolent to the weak, conciliatory, even truckling, to the strong. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 There are many who would have been very glad to have taken up the matter, for his truckling to these knaves has greatly displeased all save the men who are mere creatures of his. At Agincourt He had to excuse himself as recognizing that the general was the Whigs' best candidate, and as the Whig National Convention agreed with him, the apparent truckling was condoned. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form Such truckling is called virtue by the base Hucksters of sophistry, the priest and friar,— Gilt claws of tyrant brutes,—who lie for hire, Preaching that God delights in this disgrace. Sonnets He will perhaps listen more favourably to a blunt and unvarnished defence than a truckling and time-serving judge might do. Old Mortality, Volume 1. There should be no sympathy with that servile truckling to popular sentiment which speaks of our brave Volunteers indiscriminately, as if they were all good and all equally well instructed. History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition If they forbade it, they feared the public indignation that would be aroused against such a truckling, unjust course. The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 I will none of such truckling, disgraceful to the dead perhaps as to the living. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Knowing this, William H. Vanderbilt made a studious policy of standing in with his father, truckling to his every caprice and demand, and proving that he could make an independent living. Great Fortunes from Railroads With characteristic treachery, the truckling and pusillanimous reptile, Crippled-Speech Trollop, has gone over to the enemy. The Gilded Age, Part 5. While all hypocrisy and truckling to the majority opinion is ignoble, the blunt announcement of disbelief may do much more harm than good. Problems of Conduct He seemed to himself to have fallen downwards through a long series of lines of ever- lessening beauty—fallen downwards from the mansions of eternity into this truckling and hideous life. AE in the Irish Theosophist He admitted to me that Jim wasn't of the sort that can be got over by truckling, and accordingly he took care to show himself as a man confronting without dismay ill-luck, censure, and disaster. Lord Jim We thought that there would have been truckling to the newspaper editors and supposed fire-eaters who were crying out for retaining the prisoners at all hazards. The Contest in America Anything would be better than a mean, truckling subservience to the imperious mistress of Aylmer Park. The Belton Estate But so long as they are subject to the struggle for existence which, necessitates their truckling to parties, to advertisers, and to public prejudices and passions, so long their influence will be largely unwholesome. Problems of Conduct The government is truckling to the false hierarchy of Rome. The Kellys and the O'Kellys Yes, sir," said Robinson, truckling, "of course I know I am a great sinner, a desperate sinner, not worthy to be in your reverence's company. It Is Never Too Late to Mend To what miserable inconsistencies and rubbish this truckling to opposite opinions leads the great generaliser! More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 O you crawling, truckling, self-confessed lackeys and parasites! The Book of Snobs It was, perhaps, more dangerous; but less shameless, and less like truckling. Susy, a story of the Plains We have been accused of truckling to Irish agitators. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Come on! if you dare to strike a blow, you peddling, truckling, huckstering knaves! Under the Red Robe He wants America to enrich him quickly at the expense of the old Spaniard, and that is the reason for so much truckling, so much psalm-singing and so much nobility! The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids, conformity goes to the fourth-remov'd, I wear my hat as I please indoors or out. Leaves of Grass |
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