| 单词 | vulturous |
| 例句 | Major Danby pressed forward avidly with a look of vulturous well-meaning. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z This sordid, vulturous, diabolical old man reminded Nately of his father because the two were nothing at all alike. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Stasey’s sexual candor occasionally feeds right into the vulturous appetites of the tabloids and their blogging brethren. The many layers of Caitlin Stasey: 'A lot of people think I'm a really angry person' 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z We get a brief glimpse of a land ravaged by banking foreclosures and vulturous brokers dealing away even more fiscally irresponsible sub-prime mortgages to buyers with highly questionable financial qualifications. If you liked “The Big Short,” you might not love “99 Homes” — but you should watch it anyway 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Spears had the misfortune of breaking down as the vulturous tabloid culture of the mid-aughts reached its peak when a lucky paparazzo could make hundreds of thousands of dollars off a single celebrity snapshot. Why the #FreeBritney movement is bigger than Spears 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z The majestic, though vulturous, California condor is once again soaring above the wilds. Editorials from around New York 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z One flower upon his grave, Who in his dying could, alas! not save His country from the vulturous maw of men. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation Man's History, was it not always even this: The cookery and eating-up of imbecile Dupedom by successful Quackhood; the battle, with various weapons, of vulturous Quack and Tyrant against vulturous Tyrant and Quack? Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. I could tell you of the siesta of the new Prometheus, when, perched on the Mount Caucasus of a bleak chain-cable, he gave himself postprandially, in full livery of seisin, to the vulturous sun. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Their vulturous appetites rendered them regardless of all else. The Boy Hunters The riot spirit, so early and so frequent in that town, reposed upon such vulturous and self-conscious social pests as he, ever claiming to be the public tone of Maryland. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times The cancerous disease of jealousy had dropped its first seed in the blood of her, and the vulturous growth began to spread its lean, clutching fingers about her heart. Sally Bishop A Romance I saw a hand which was a claw, a strong, shriveled thing with long, dirty nails and a vulturous suggestion. A Man and a Woman If he is selfish, that is, if he interprets the self that is in him as vulturous, then the whole outer world and his fellow-men fall for him into the category of carrion, or not-carrion. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher But only men can discern it; mere building beavers, spinning arachnes, much more the predatory vulturous and vulpine species, do not discern it well!— Past and Present Unchecked by battles, undaunted in lonesome spaces, ever unwearied by the vulturous years, the warriors of Camorak held on; and Arleon's inspiration led them still. A Dreamer's Tales That such an epithet should be employed to describe the withering pang, the vulturous, gnawing torture in her bosom—and that fiery fang which thought, like some winged serpent, was momentarily darting into her brain! Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky Man's History, was it not always even this: The cookery and eating up of imbecile Dupedom by successful Quackhood; the battle, with various weapons, of vulturous Quack and Tyrant against vulturous Tyrant and Quack? Past and Present |
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