| 单词 | unswept |
| 例句 | But now the village was unswept, the water polluted, and the countryside littered with plastic bags and wrappers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The yews sprawled, yellowish and ungainly; the stone steps had the grimy, unswept look of a city institution. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Mackage seems synthetic and intergalactic; Fjallraven is natural and earthbound, with dried leaves lying unswept, perhaps by design, at the entrance. Critical Shopper: Mackage and Fjallraven — Critical Shopper 2012-12-04T17:13:55Z Once on the roof, amid unswept gutters and frosty tiles, Nigel's lines quickly got posher and more significant, as if he was drunk on family tradition. The Archers: Ambridge does disaster 2011-01-02T21:01:28Z But for reasons that I’ll perhaps never understand completely, I cannot abide an unswept floor. My anger and the mighty broom 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Local government housing programs get 70 percent of the unswept trust-fund revenue. Editorial Roundup: Florida 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z THE AD A Hispanic family smiles and shares a box of cereal around a table, but they quickly fade from the scene, leaving an unswept table and dirty dishes. New Hillary Clinton Ads Look to Expand Lead With Hispanic Voters 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Its streets are unswept from one year’s end to the other. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z The dirt of the unswept streets, never removed, has raised the grade of Cairo from age to age. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Below this is the celebrated mosaic called Asarotos, representing an unswept floor after a banquet. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z They took up their abode in two small rooms in an Italian house which had an unswept stairway and a constantly open door. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z And: "I must see Walterson!" she told him loudly, looking down on him, and instinctively keeping her skirts clear of the unswept floor. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Let us peep for a moment into the home; it is a middle-class one, and presents the usual untidy, slovenly and unswept appearance that is characteristic of every such one in the country. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z I was so surprised both by her appearance and the opening of the door, that I stood tongue-tied, staring at her and at the bare, dusty, unswept hall behind her. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z His room was unswept, the door unlocked, articles of clothing left lying about, all evidence of a hurried departure. The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west 2011-07-03T02:00:11.037Z On that floor were many unswept things of horror. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z The pathway was unswept, the clove pinks streeling over the neat box borders. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z New York has a habit of devouring its young, leaving the bones in the unswept street and moving on. New York Story: The Max Fish Magic: Will It Travel Well? 2011-01-15T01:28:25Z Meanwhile children die by the thousands; contagious diseases take toll of hundreds; back alleys remain foul and the streets are unswept; school-houses are unwashed and danger lurks in the drinking cups and about the towels. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z The once polished floor was sadly marred, and appeared to have remained unswept for years. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z It had a neglected appearance, for the porch was unswept, the walk a mass of weeds, and grass grew high over the graves. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life The hearth was unswept, the fire out, the beds unmade as he had left them. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Now that love is old, Shall we leave the floor unswept And the hearth acold? Later Poems It was one o’clock, P.M., but she attempted an apology for the unmade bed, the unswept room, the unwashed breakfast dishes, and the untidy appearance of everything. The Witches of New York If dust is to be raised from the unswept parlour, you may be sure it will “fly abundantly” in the picture. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers "It is the first thing they will see," she thought despondingly, as, with the expected guests in her mind, she looked from the ragged grass to the unswept path, and thence to the untrimmed bushes. Anxious Audrey Being undrained or unswept by the winds, these walled-up tracks are either dust-beds or quagmires, according to the season; for us, the autumn rains had converted them into the latter. Across Asia on a Bicycle The stairs were dingy and looked unswept, and a pane of glass in the door of the untenanted suite across the landing from the Judge's was broken. The Wishing Moon Suppose Mrs. Ford should come back and find her in an unswept room, pallid and insane? or suppose she should die of her troubles? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Not a thought of Ellen poking through her half-cleared house, finding unswept hearth and unmade beds and unwashed dishes, came to trouble her joy. Cloudy Jewel There were no corners left unswept in the rooms of the palace, no plates unwashed, no failure in the supply of cans of hot water for Donovan’s bedroom or the Queen’s. The Island Mystery But if we have come there when it is all unswept and ungarnished, may we not the more certainly rely on what it indicates? Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems The main staircase and parlor hall were unswept because of the absence of the regular scrub-woman. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel He does not now occasionally take refuge in a public-house, to get out of the way of noisy children, an unswept hearth, and a scolding wife. The Grey Woman and other Tales It was supposed to represent an unswept hall, on the pavement of which the crumbs and remains of the repast which fell from the table still remained. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life The kitchen fire was out—the floor unswept; the coffee he had knocked over when he had built the fire this morning lay where it had fallen: the room was full of its pungent odor. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 She toiled up the three long flights of stairs—her dainty soul revolting at their unswept dinginess. Captain Jim So these other forms of life, weather-beaten, smoke-begrimed, subdued to the hues of the dusty roads they travel, and the unswept spaces where they sleep—over these the eye glides unseeing. The Convert He didn’t know what was the matter—the poor wretches don’t, but he was like a cat on an unswept hearth. How to Cook Husbands "Now remain the buckets standing, And the yoke is idly rattling, And the floor unswept remaineth, And unswept remains the planking, Empty now are all the pitchers, And the jugs two-handled dirty." Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes There were merely the plank walls of the storeroom with a single dangling light in the middle and an unswept floor beneath. Space Platform When she spoke some strange and curious note had come into her voice, as if a chord, long unswept and silent, had been suddenly thrilled by a passing hand. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 It is very active in its movements, and lives on blood clots, remaining on unswept floors of out-houses, or in the straw or bed of the animals they infest. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses The handful of dishes went dirty, the floor went unswept. Land of the Burnt Thigh My Lady’s bower yet unswept, by the Seven Sleepers! and ye lingering yonder as ye had leaden heels! The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel It was a large, square room in the fourth story, with an unswept, ragged carpet, and bare, white walls, smeared with soot and tobacco-juice. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 There was no ground unswept by fire on which to train. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 The carpet was littered and unswept, the chairs were at sixes and sevens, and a baby's crib, wherein a very new and pink infant reposed, stood in the middle of the room. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel As his handsome face lighted up, even Mrs. Hanway-Harley was not unswept of admiration. The President A novel It was an old-fashioned living room into which we entered, the floor unswept, the chairs faded and patched. Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune Timmons was alone in the office, playing with a shaggy dog, and the floor remained unswept, while a broken chair still bore evidence of the debauch of the previous night. The Strange Case of Cavendish It was dismally bare, and above all, it was abominably dirty, the dust lying thick everywhere, the floor apparently unswept for weeks. Beth Norvell A Romance of the West Restless I pace our lonely rooms, I play our songs no more, The garish sun shines flauntingly upon the unswept floor; The mocking-bird still sits and sings, O melancholy strain! The Raven He hated the musty odor of the place, the dusty, unswept hall, and the general air of desertion. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton The door sagging from one hinge, the grimy, cobwebbed windows, the unswept floor, and the litter of tin cans about the yard, stirred bitter memories in Pete's heart. The Ridin' Kid from Powder River "Take care of yourself," he said, huskily; and the next minute he was plunging down those three flights of unswept stairs to the street. The Vehement Flame Never before were there so many people living in unswept, unaired tenements. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Dark, cheerless, cold,—the long bars emitted no radiance; the hearth unswept, on which Growler once panted with heat and fatness. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 It's great for mental cobwebs, and my brain is disgracefully unswept. The Younger Set There was still sufficient penetrating the begrimed double window, however, to reveal the littered, unswept condition of the place. The Man in the Twilight The universe had an uncared-for, unswept appearance, like a house surprised at dawn, before the housemaids are up. Jaffery The house was dirty too: the smell of an unwashed, unswept interior came out of it, together with the wailing of a fretful baby. Nightfall The brown leaves fluttered about, unswept from the dreary avenues. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 The kitchen was a picture of squalid dirt and neglect; the walls and ceiling black with smoke, and the floor so crusted over with unswept refuse and litter that I thought it was not quarried. The Doctor's Dilemma Nobody spreads fever in blind alleys and unswept lanes. Thrift Still he went on; climbed the wide, unswept steps, crossed the portico, and rang the bell, and finally knocked. Gordon Keith Gaydon followed him into a bare passage unswept and with discoloured walls. Clementina One would think you might discover even amid the witcheries of the ball-room the sickening odors of the unswept, unventilated, and unclean domestic apartments. The Abominations of Modern Society P. 227Downes could not be everywhere at once: and Cheeky used to be caught at pitch and toss or marbles in unswept Museum Street. The Life of John Ruskin The meeting took place at ten that night at the Beth Hamidrash founded by Guedalyah, a large unswept room rudely fitted up as a synagogue and approached by reeking staircases, unsavory as the neighborhood. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People His world may be full of unswept rooms and unwashed men and women, but the presiding genius in it is the genius of gentleness and love and laughter. Old and New Masters There were rinks on the other side of the railway bridge, too, and here and there he noticed isolated black figures gliding along the unswept spaces outside the rinks. The Soul of a Child A stove stood in the southwest corner, but it was not black and shining; it was rust-red and ash-littered, and the ashes had overflowed the hearth and spilled to the unswept floor. The Long Shadow The streets are dirty and ill-constructed, the pavements unswept and often broken, the tramways thrown, rather than laid, down, the gutters neglected. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) Better hide your ideal in your heart than shatter it on the unswept hearthstone of the commonplace. A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters He found fat women hanging out of windows, their dishes unwashed, their beds unmade, their floors unswept. The Nine-Tenths But the difficulty had to be faced, and I walked in and took them by surprise as they were sitting smoking by the fire in the living room, which was dismantled, unswept, and wretched looking. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains The floors are unswept, and abound with filth and mud, and in their persons they are scarcely less vile. The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain The avenue was unswept and untended, and here and there boughs broken off by wind. The Shuttle If dust is to be raised from the unswept parlour, you may be sure it will ‘fly abundantly’ in the picture. Lay Morals His easy unswept hearth he lends From Labrador to Guadeloupe; Till, elbowed out by sloven friends, He camps, at sufferance, on the stoop. Verses 1889-1896 Wind had whirled the leaves in upon the temple floors, and they lay there unswept. The Lost Continent She took no notice of the unswept condition of the rooms and indulged in no explanations nor apologies. The Aspern Papers Pamela found the number at the end of an unswept stone passage. The Pawns Count Kolosov once compared him to an unswept Russian refreshment bar … a horrible comparison! The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories The large bare kitchen was unswept and untidy; the family dishes—soup, vegetables, olives, good white bread, wine—were placed on the table without cloth or table-cover. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Boxes and lumber filled it; old dresses draped its unstained wall—cobwebs its unswept ceiling. Villette Every-thing was damply streaked with the soot: the walls of the houses, inside and out, the gray curtains at the windows, the windows themselves, the dirty cement and unswept asphalt underfoot, the very sky overhead. The Magnificent Ambersons The town itself is a trifle unsavoury and unswept. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne He does leave much of these outward issues unswept away by His forgiveness, and the great law stands, 'Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Both rooms were smoke-dried to the colour of mahogany, unswept and very untidy, but the good woman seemed quite sensible of these disadvantages and apologized on account of narrow space. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" She hurried to find some lint and cobwebs in the dark, unswept corners of the attic. The Graymouse Family It was a mean-looking street, unswept and otherwise unkempt, with the usual yellowish or grayish buildings, rather low and rather new, as if prompted by a mistaken modern enterprise. Roman Holidays, and Others Instead of unswept, malodorous streets, and sordid riverside quarters, all was clean, trim, and cared for, one wholly uncommon feature lending especial charm. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne About and among the huts of the unswept and malodorous hamlet just above the shore there were fine trees, mango, tamarind, babool and bor, showing what might have been elsewhere. Concerning Animals and Other Matters Ah! there was the hearth unswept, and the fire wanted making up!—Still no supper! A Double Story He was not a model housekeeper at best, and ten o'clock of winter mornings often found him with breakfast dishes unwashed and the floor unswept. Uncle William: the man who was shif'less He looked towards the sidewalk and saw that he had left one step unswept. In His Steps Mavis followed the woman up unswept stairs to the first floor, where the landlady fumbled with a key in the lock of a door. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl They are cobwebs and trifling obstacles in an earnest man's path, it is true, and at length one even becomes attached to his unswept and undusted garret. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers The snow had drifted into huge piles at the sides; and, as they advanced, it lay unswept on their track. Maurice Guest Throngs of mules will have defiled our clean courtyard, and will be stabled within our shady retreat beneath the walnut-tree, which will remain unswept. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 The bottoms were half out of the chairs; the painted wash-stand stood on a square of chilly oil-cloth; the rusty grate and broken hearth were unswept of their ashes; the carpet patched and threadbare. The Fortunes of Oliver Horn The floor was unswept; not a dish had been washed; it was churning-day, but the cream stood in the jar in the dairy, not the butter in the pan on the kitchen-dresser. Sir Gibbie Upon this spot, which was as black as an unswept chimney, stood the ogre's house ornamented all round with the bones of the men whom he had devoured. Stories from the Pentamerone So Jacob followed his nose, which led him through unswept streets to the homes of the poorest. Strictly business: more stories of the four million Unclean sewers, filthy hovels, unswept streets, unwashed clothes, are therefore breeders of animalcules, many of which are perfectly visible without microscopic aid. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon A man could find some comfort in an unswept attic or an unwashed shirt. A Miscellany of Men Her ornaments were throwne out, her temples defaced, her pillowes and cushions torne, her ceremonies neglected, her images and Statues uncrowned, and her bare altars unswept, and fowl with the ashes of old burnt sacrifice. The Golden Asse The floor, covered with dried mud, torn papers, tobacco-dust, fragments indescribable, was like that of a boy's school-room, unswept for a week, on which a mound of things accumulate, half rags, half filth. A Daughter of Eve Rosemary she did not like and never would like, after their hidden feud of months over such small matters as the cat and the dog, and unswept floors, and the like. The Heritage of the Sioux It is, if you will, a monster camouflaged floating mine in the troubled sea of world peace, which the forces of reconstruction have left unswept. The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war |
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