| 单词 | wastrel |
| 例句 | Color was splashed through the woods as if it had been thrown about by some madcap wastrel who spilled out, during the weeks of one brief autumn, beauty enough to last for years. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z One week previously he had returned home, without any voice, unable to breathe, and almost skin and bones, with his wandering trunks and his wastrel’s accordion, to fulfill the promise of dying beside his wife. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I'm so pleased someone thought to cast Zoe Wanamaker as snarling Mrs Maclintick, who moans that her wastrel husband likes living in Pimlico. Your next box set: A Dance to the Music of Time 2012-10-04T15:00:01Z Jeanne learns that her husband is both miserly and chronically unfaithful, and her only son proves to be a spendthrift wastrel who depletes the family fortune, leaving her in near-poverty toward the end. ‘Une Vie’ Brings a Guy de Maupassant Novel to the Screen, at Last 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The stereotype of musicians is that they are juvenile wastrels who can't support themselves. Ask the indie professor: How many musicians does it take to plan a tour? 2010-09-21T12:38:00Z “Logevall artfully melds the biographical and historical approaches. Though crafted as a kind of bildungsroman, ‘JFK’ delivers something more than the traditional story of the callow wastrel’s maturation into the admirable adult.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The wastrel Sparrow ends up both overexploited and underpowered in this fourth outing. Yo-ho-hum for latest 'Pirates' 2011-05-18T21:10:00Z The Stones, improper Englishmen, breached the mainstream, creating an example for every rock wastrel, talented or untalented, that followed. Pop: The Rolling Stones at 50 Prepare to Tour 2012-11-08T16:00:00Z But he wants to shake the dust from the name of Getty: to show that the majority are not drug-addled wastrels but productive citizens. ‘Growing Up Getty’ Shakes the Dust Off a Family’s Aristocratic Name 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z El Henry is forced to decide whether to remain a wastrel or to join the fight to protect his family's standing in this urban jungle. Delightful 'El Henry' is a multicultural mash-up 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z He’s the archetypal rock guitarist: the genius wastrel, the unimpeachable riff-maker, the architect of a band sound emulated worldwide, the survivor of every excess. Keith Richards on ‘Crosseyed Heart’: It’s Solo Rock ’n’ Roll, but He Likes It 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z “Existing at the pleasure of the advertisers, to mulct the public, gratifying their stupidity, and render some small advance on investment to the owners, offering putative employment to their etiolated, wastrel sons.” Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Most of these roles run subversive variations on the wastrel charmer he played in The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Dallas Buyers Club: He Hated Gays, Got AIDS and Saved Lives 2013-10-31T21:00:41Z Glenn Ford plays Johnny, a wastrel who fetches up in a quaintly imagined Buenos Aires just before the end of the war. Gilda ? review 2011-07-21T21:09:00Z Though crafted as a kind of bildungsroman, “JFK” delivers something more than the traditional story of the callow wastrel’s maturation into the admirable adult. Groomed to Be President 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z No one asking what we're paying these wastrels for and why we don't go back to consulting chicken gizzards. If only weathermen were honest and said forecasts were just a bit of fun 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z A likable wastrel takes up with a beautiful woman, who offers him the choice of leaping from a precipice to his death or being licked by a pig, as ultimately happens. Review: A Japanese Writer’s Reveries Inspire ‘Four Nights of Dream’ 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z For this pumped-up movie version, Rogen's Britt Reid is the wastrel son of an LA newspaper proprietor, played by Tom Wilkinson. The Green Hornet ? review 2011-01-13T22:22:01Z Certain types — charlatans, wastrels and freeloaders, many of them Indian — accumulate troublingly, as does the kind of servant who pines for the good old days when they wore white gloves to serve dinner. The Unsentimental, Darkly Elegant Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “The copyrights of my works are his,” wrote the 19th-century author and feminist reformer Caroline Norton about her wastrel spouse, “my very soul and brains are not my own.” “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z Richie, a charming, handsome wastrel, is assisted along the way by friends, academics and acquaintances of his father. Justin Cartwright’s ‘Lion Heart’: a tangle of true quests 2014-02-19T20:13:56Z No surprise, then, that there are so many whiners and wastrels to be found on New York stages, from the meat-pie maniacs of “Sweeney Todd” to O’Neill’s Tyrones, abusing drugs and one another. Review: A Raucous Wake for ‘Our Lady of 121st Street’ 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Song often becomes their conduit to that unmapped place, and I shall never forget the fleeting transcendence achieved in his “The Night Alive” by four whacked-out wastrels dancing to Marvin Gaye. Review: In ‘Girl From the North Country,’ Rolling Stones Gather Regrets 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Her father thought modern artists were wastrels and refused to support her, so she joined classes where translators were needed for American students and received tuition free. Louise Bourgeois obituary 2010-05-31T21:50:00Z The two of them have a meet-cute at a convenience store and spend a whole magical day together getting stoned and being wastrels. Love: Judd Apatow deconstructs relationships in clever but odd romcom 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z There's a certain dour academic propriety to his reading of the man, and it's a little depressing to be told that Caravaggio was not a violent whoremongering wastrel but "an intellectual and sophisticate". Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane 2010-06-26T23:11:00Z But he knows his way around moguls and wastrels, so he is recruited to grill the gentrified suspects. Books Of the Times: ‘Vengeance,’ a New Novel by Benjamin Black 2012-08-13T21:47:45Z Out it pours: the song unloosed by her maddened craving for Fielder—by no means the first wastrel, in history, for whose sake a thing of beauty has been wrought. “Amy,” Back from Black 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z In one story, a hollow-eyed masseuse mourns the abrupt, outwardly random death of her son and the loss of her business to the pandemic as her wastrel husband dreams and schemes. Father Doesn’t Know Best at New Directors/New Films 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z As Kaplan points out — and as Jefferson knew — Virginia’s agrarian population had its share of “loafers, wastrels, alcoholics, gamblers, sexual adventurers, and abusive husbands.” Review | In the writings of Thomas Jefferson, clues to his inner life 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Don’t let me down you whiny woke wastrels! Talk TV: Piers Morgan attracts mixed reviews after network launch 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z He described his father as a drunk wastrel who chased women, squandered a fortune and sold off family treasures to pay for the minimum of essential renovations. In a run-down Roman villa, a princess from Texas awaits her next act 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z So for a while, Prince Andrew was just Classic Royal, maybe a wastrel and a gadabout in peacetime, but a standup guy in a war. The party prince: how Andrew got his bad reputation 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z “Long Island Iced Tea” is not so much a drink as a euphemism, a cheeky moniker given to an act of mixological atrocity favored by college students and wastrels. The randomly alcoholic Long Island Iced Tea might get a bad rap, but high-end mixologists can raise the bar considerably 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Tarantino cleverly exposes the dichotomous worlds of 1960s L.A.: a swinging, star-studded party at the Playboy Mansion serves as a cautionary mirror to the playboy Manson and his band of nubile wastrels. Review | Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ is a misty-eyed valentine to La La Land — with just a touch of B-movie gore 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z We don’t withdraw Social Security Disability Insurance from those who think that its other beneficiaries are largely wastrels. I Detest the N.R.A. What Should I Do With My Gun? 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The town’s infrastructure is falling apart, a plague is infecting residents, and the outskirts are filled with Joy-resistant “wastrels.” We Happy Few is a creepy, fascinating game that gets lost in its own ambition 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z To the end, as his mother takes up with an aggressive HIV-infected wastrel, we see the vivid excruciations of being the gifted misfit whose parent needs to be rescued. Glen David Gold’s new memoir is ‘a soiree of heart-wreck wised up by humor’ 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z For too long the male has been shoved out of the picture and labelled a cad, loser or wastrel. What if I Don’t Want to See the Child I Gave Up for Adoption? 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Later his father turned into a total wastrel, sponging off his son and dying in poverty. How France saw itself in Johnny Hallyday 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Grassley’s remarks suggesting that those of us not in the top 1 percent for income are spendthrifts and wastrels were deeply offensive. Estate-tax remarks: Disdainful 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z A torn suit in a fancy area reminds citizens that something is wrong, and a fancy suit in a wastrel district reminds outsiders of what they’ve lost. We Happy Few is a creepy, fascinating game that gets lost in its own ambition 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Jonathan Pryce is quite good in the role of a wastrel whose legal troubles forced a young Charlie to toil in a workhouse. Review | ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ looks at the birth of ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Prince Hal’s transformation, from wastrel prince to sober monarch, is doubtless one he would like to emulate. An action plan for Uber’s next chief executive 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The last remaining wastrels pontificating about the “scandal” formerly larger than Watergate are left with just one flimsy accusation. Anatomy of Fake News 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Their father, depicted throughout Truevine as a dangerous spendthrift and wastrel, was murdered by a husband who found him in bed with his wife. American freakshow: the extraordinary tale of Truevine’s Muse brothers 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z In “Cowboys and Friends,” Brooks plays a rodeo wastrel vividly examining his life of excess: “That beer on my nightstand will be breakfast for me,” he sings. Garth Brooks' aim is off on the too-safe 'Gunslinger' 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The wastrel himself, in a statement of apology, explained that he was physically and mentally burned out after a “long week” in Tokyo and “travel throughout the continent.” Column: Kyrgios shows sports’ misplaced faith in pure talent 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z “I was repeatedly punished for my wastrel ways,” he said. Botetourt County teacher writes about locavore life 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z There’s the millennial wastrel Todd, who moved into BoJack’s house, a modern monstrosity perched on a hill, five years ago and does nothing but eat breakfast cereal and smoke weed. The World According to ‘BoJack Horseman’ 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Depending on whom you ask, he was either the personification of a sophisticated and ambitious Canada or a socialist wastrel libertine. Trudeau’s Canada, Again 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z But are the bad guys the greedy, wastrel Greeks? Twilight of the Euro Welfare State? 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z The rich will gobble everything up and we’ll all be left as starving wastrels howling in the rubble of our once middle class civilisation. Don't Fear The Robots Even If They Do Take All Our Jobs 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Some of it decades upon decades of wastrel heirs. 175 Years Later, The Mellons Have Never Been Richer. How'd They Do It? 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Hanks, to his credit, soft-pedals his natural charm and creates an intelligent, well-rounded portrait: we see elements of the wastrel and the bully along with the dogged reporter. Lucky Guy: Broadway Debut for Tom Hanks 2013-04-04T08:35:00Z The Ingle gym in Sheffield used to be sent the yobbos and wastrels that social services could not handle. Saving Lamont Peterson is one thing, drugs in boxing is another 2013-02-03T22:00:01Z They were doctors, lawyers, business executives, professors and at least one wastrel who became a newspaperman. City Room: The Day: At Elite Schools, a Single Test Comes Under Review 2012-10-15T13:31:09Z Children and wastrels pursued him with their jibes in the street. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Based on a novel by Geling Yan, it tells the story of a group of Catholic schoolgirls whose lives were saved by unlikely heroes -- a dozen courtesans and an American wastrel posing as a priest. Pot-Smoking Kevin Bacon Wrangles With Car-Crash Addict Dad: Film 2012-02-15T00:34:25Z For all that, the business of the settlement could not be done by wastrels; and Harding felt that he could not secure a personal advantage by a breach of trust. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z For all you knew, I was an extravagant wastrel, and the police were on my track. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z He was going up, but he was no wastrel. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z They regarded me as a wastrel who had been kicked out of doors, who had ‘seen better days;’ but they continued to think me a gentleman and I myself felt a gentleman, a ‘toff.’ The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z It was true that the cast-off wastrel of two days ago was now one of the premier peers of England, hastening home to take possession of his fortune and estates. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z The owner of a thousand acres on the hill shall be our villain—a wastrel and a gambler. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Said I was cut out for a rich man’s wastrel or a tramp. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z Followed this wastrel, Gilbert more thrifty, who strove, but vainly, to restore the waning fortunes of his race. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z I one time knew a man, of a most decidedly humorous cast of mind, who was a great spendthrift, an A 1 wastrel. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z Lying awake at night trying to work out some way of getting over to-morrow, with the bills falling due—and now there's that pack of wastrels sitting up there. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z These cities are full of impecunious wastrels; I was one myself.” The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Some even argue that he is both impetuous and a wastrel. Vettel aims to show victory was no fluke 2011-03-25T17:44:45Z He was a black cat, not very large, with a decent roundness of feature, and yet with a suggestion of sinewy skinniness about him—the Skinniness of the wastrel, not of the poor starveling. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z Many businesspeople, for their part, assume that artists are a bunch of pretentious wastrels. Schumpeter: The art of management 2011-02-17T10:44:59Z Indeed it began to come upon him very strongly that she was altogether too good to be thrown away on a wastrel such as Gerald. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z "Then you are going to marry that wastrel?" The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z He suddenly saw Dad Griffith as the latter really was—a foul old man, a worthless wastrel of humanity, seemingly dead to all higher things. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z In the theatre—if there is anything of the kind—it is a case of a wastrel and a wanton who meet and part on perfectly equal terms, without deceit or false pretences. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z Charter whipped his wastrel tendencies one by one until on the fifth day his resistance hardened, and the brute within him was crippled from beating against it. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z He could only look back and vent his anger on those concerned in his career who had failed at length to come forward to the assistance of a wastrel. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z But I marvel to find that a writer of Mr. Lilly's intelligence and good faith is willing to father such a wastrel. Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions 2010-12-20T17:12:31.233Z The single currency crisis has triggered a torrent of aggrieved comment in the German media and complaints that thrifty German taxpayers are having to shell out to subsidise the wastrel habits of southern Europeans. Angela Merkel 'naive' over euro, claims European commission chief 2010-05-25T18:54:00Z Indeed, as I have said before, ambition was the one thing which kept him from being a wastrel. The Man Who Rose Again And by so doing you have turned various people who might have had self-respect and industry into worthless wastrels. The New Gulliver and Other Stories How could he, wastrel and pauper, have aspired to this queenly maiden, even if his soul had not been soiled by the memory of his infamous bargain? A Traitor's Wooing While anchored in the Hudson, he increased his company to 155 men, many of them the riff-raff of the water-front, deserters, wastrels, brawlers, and broken seamen who may have sailed under the black flag aforetime. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day The other a wastrel, a sot, a liar, the consort of evil women and disreputable men, a poor, paltry worm living in an oak tree's shade. The Riddle of the Night "Yet you propose entrusting both to me," said Diogenes with a mocking laugh, "to me, a nameless adventurer, a penniless wastrel whose trade lies in his sword and his wits." The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel It would be almost truer to say that everybody loves a wastrel. The Book of This and That How could he do otherwise, when by no possibility could the suit of such a penniless wastrel as himself be crowned with success? A Traitor's Wooing Take a wastrel like Frank and turn him out. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary "His son," said Cleek, and forthwith told her of that memorable interview with Harry Raynor after dinner, and of the typewritten letter he had abstracted from the young wastrel's coat pocket. The Riddle of the Night Two years seems a long time——" "As a matter of fact, Uncle Arthur was a bit of a wastrel you know. The Heart of a Woman According to this view, the wastrel owes his appeal largely to the fact that he is a fighter in a lost cause—the cause of those who have lifted hands against the universe. The Book of This and That A man who was worth all these rich young wastrels put together. The World with a Thousand Moons To them, he'd been a nice kid having fun; not a young wastrel wasting his father's money. The Beasts in the Void Up to this moment he had looked upon young Raynor as being merely a selfish, irresponsible wastrel, not as something vicious, something that had the courage or even the power to bite or to sting. The Riddle of the Night Financially, it means a mouth less to feed, seeing that the intending traveller is nearly always a wastrel at home. The Heart of a Woman But we are no good, neither you nor I. You're a wastrel and a stray. The "Genius" Usually, too, the civilized white man who degrades himself to mate with a savage woman is himself a wastrel, essentially evil, likely to beget nothing good. The Wilderness Trail A tattered wastrel wandered down the street, Clad in a seaman's jersey, staring hard At every sign. Collected Poems Volume Two Eldest boy does odd jobs, but seems a wastrel. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism The traveller being a wastrel never has any himself, and the family is invariably too poor to provide it. The Heart of a Woman Too many were wastrels, cutting adrift from a blighted past. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba It was known to everybody who knew him and his father that he was a wastrel, if not worse. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America Attorney Menard kept faith with river wastrels, floating nomads who are akin to gypsies, but who are of all bloods—tramps of the running floods. The River Prophet Whence came that undertone like the moan of a weary wastrel tortured with dreams of idyllic innocence long lost? The Light of the Star A Novel He was fantastic, self-indulgent, wastrel, braggart, what you will; but he had an exaggerated notion of the value of every human soul save his own. The Belovéd Vagabond Of course he was a prodigal, a wastrel, a spendthrift. The Combined Maze The man who throws life away before he has done with it, dear, is a wastrel. The Double Four Because the cultured man of science, the real M.D. of Cambridge University and owner of those other letters of attainment, was the drunken wastrel who had sunk low enough to serve as the impostor's ghost. The Dop Doctor Why, he was as like a traitor, and a wastrel, and every thing that was bad, as ever I saw man in all my life.” In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Through him the two men, the sentimental Cockney fishmonger and the wastrel Cambridge graduate, had become friends. The Rough Road Fletcher’s a low-grade wastrel, and anyway he ate most of them presents. Lorimer of the Northwest It is enough here to say that he was later tried and acquitted, thus closing the chapter of the wastrel’s tragic death. Brand Blotters A wastrel may woo and wed a waif, surely, without many questions being asked. The Dop Doctor Do any of you wish to have the brand of shame those wastrels wear? The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia A wastrel, a roisterer by night, a spendthrift, and a thief! The Pagan Madonna Why should that invertebrate wastrel have turned up to plague us so?” Lorimer of the Northwest I did not mean to waste any time in scouting around the road, either, when I knew just where my man would be sitting, with the half dozen wastrels he had probably scraped up. The La Chance Mine Mystery And yet ... the drunken wastrel had been a man of mark once, and earned his thousands. The Dop Doctor She saw with startling clearness of vision that Hilton, the schemer, and Robert, the wastrel, led selfish lives. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley As little interested in the gentleman as the gentleman was in him, the wastrel contemplated the river with grimly speculative eye. The Convert I am no longer a wastrel, no longer poor and obscure. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Yet for all his shocking physical condition, something in the wastrel Englishman appealed to Barry as no part of the man had done the previous evening. Gold Out of Celebes You get home, and just read his thirty-fourth chapter; and wed one o’ them wastrels at after, if ye can! Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall "Whoever he is he's a wastrel," said Davy. Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon He wasn't a pal of mine at all, as he had far too much money to chuck about—one of these rich young wastrels, he was. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France I expected nothing else of you than that it would be your dearest wish to be a wastrel. The Goose Man Their hands met, and in the grip each recognized in the other no mere wastrel of Eastern ports, but a man of energy, virility. Gold Out of Celebes He knew that he cut a poor figure compared with Trevanion, and that to Nancy he must seem a slacker, a wastrel. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War "It's like saying your prayers to a hornpipe, thinking of her and carrying on with them wastrels." Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon Moreover, Johannesburg drew to itself with a rush a huge number not only of honourable adventurers, but also of wastrels, representing every class and clime under heaven. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Years ago the respectable Abdullah had been no better than a sot and wastrel, having contracted the habit of drunkenness at Port Said, where he spent three years as porter in a small hotel. The Valley of the Kings And it is a good place, the only safe place for wastrels such as I, the only refuge from my enemy. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy In the frequent intervals during which the royal authority was in the hands of sottish wastrels, the chance of independence was no doubt seized. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir Poor wee thing, she had given herself t' some wastrel, no doubt! Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. But as the fame of the rich and ever richer finds went abroad, a cosmopolitan crowd of wastrels and adventurers poured in from the ends of the earth. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer The wastrel cast a wild look about him and fled. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales “Thomas,” protested Miss Jemima, “do you think it would be right to hand over uncle’s hard-earned money to that poor wastrel?” The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn In the last Act the other wastrels are collected together. Maxim Gorki I observed a few sorry wastrels leaning in maudlin helplessness upon the bar as I pressed in, still cleaving to their trough—but Geordie was not among them. St. Cuthbert's You would leave me for a young wastrel who has sung in your ears the song of a male siren. The Tyranny of Weakness His vague notion was that at such a moment of high crisis the two wastrels ought to have had the decency to refrain from wasting. Clayhanger You must try to realize that those men are not wastrels now, however they may have lived in England, Montreal, or the cities down Puget Sound. The Gold Trail Not a print of the wastrel loon, sir; but the lads will bide out the night. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story I would tell every wastrel, and every man who is rehearsing hell with his youthful follies, that he cannot eat his cake and have it. St. Cuthbert's A wastrel, probably, with more money than wit; he wore a black dinner suit edged with white. Wandl the Invader Ascalon was shut up; the howling of its wastrels was stilled. Trail's End Quite naturally our firm attracted a number of strange wastrels in the way of clients, all of whom were picturesque and many of them profitable. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Drumtochty admitted that this showed a woman of vigour—although our conventions did not allow us to treat Clockie or any known wastrel so masterfully—and there was an evident anxiety to hear more. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers He had gone about persuading himself that she was still a child, and this Austrian boy, this wastrel and dreamer, had awakened her. The Hippodrome You see, he was not an adventurer, a gambler, a wastrel, and he wanted a quiet home with a companion to greet him, to take care of him, to serve him in many ways. Civilization Tales of the Orient It was only the absence of the wastrels and those who preyed upon them, and the quiet of nights after raucous revelry, that made the place seem dead. Trail's End How alive were my friends, strong in the sun, compassionate but also perhaps a little despising this poor gathering of wastrels. The Dark Forest The inefficients, the wastrels, the physical, mental, and moral cripples are carefully preserved at public expense. Applied Eugenics Well, considering that Byfleet is about as big a wastrel as ever disgraced the English aristocracy, I don't think either Miss Rennick or her uncle will make a very good bargain. A Honeymoon in Space I thought it was going to be a match, but they were both poor, and the girl suddenly married a young nobleman, a man I disliked very much, a wastrel and a ne'er-do-well. The Woman's Way Gamblers and gun-slingers, tricksters and sharpers, attended by the carrion flock of women who always hover after these wreckers and wastrels, came to Ascalon by scores. Trail's End I make no pretence of immolating myself: I go among the blackguards and wastrels because I am fascinated; I tell exactly what I see, and leave other people to make practical use of my words. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary You're a steady-going man, Feathery," he said, "and I'm a wastrel. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches They would have a natural objection to having public money wasted or spent on keeping in artificial ease an ever-growing class of wastrels and ne'er-do-weels. Liberalism and the Social Problem Something in that movement gave me the suggestion that he was accustomed to guard against eavesdroppers; all those poor forlorn gamesters and wastrels are full of secrets and privacies. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories On the first anniversary of Dave's conversion, I gathered a hundred wastrels of the Bowery together and gave them a dinner at the church. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine The clergyman, the district visitor, the professional slummer—all the people who "patronise"—never learn the truth, and they positively invite the wastrel classes to lie. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary Well, first, because she is a woman, and she might possibly marry a fool or a wastrel. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Further, every wastrel Catholic that came along this road paid him a call, and he had not yet met with one genuine case of want. None Other Gods Loafers and wastrels," Aaron exclaimed indignantly, "dirty parasites of humanity, thieves; not an honest worker amongst them! A People's Man I was often reminded of the grim confession of the poor wastrel, who, when asked where he lived, replied, 'I don't live, I linger.' The Quest of the Simple Life There we made our first acquaintance with the army, which we undergraduates had derided as a crowd of slavish wastrels and empty-headed slackers. Adventures of a Despatch Rider "Assuredly he brings a telegram; otherwise the devil himself could not induce that lazy wastrel to ride twenty miles." The Pride of Palomar His gray hairs were honorable in that he had known no wastrel years. The Ridin' Kid from Powder River And what had Tom done to deserve it?—a wastrel and an idle singer of songs. The Turtles of Tasman He could see the dark figures of men and women, passing between him and the nearest, on the high wastrel in front of Tredinnis great gates. The Ship of Stars The wastrel, the ne'er-do-well, who went mostly nobly to a fine end. The Ragged Edge Result, congested lungs; the poor wastrel, who had no wish to live, was soon satisfactorily dead. A Woman Named Smith It will probably be strong enough to discontinue the system of State doles which encourages the wastrel to multiply, as he does multiply, much faster than the valuable part of the population. Outspoken Essays For the first time his honourable career of building a county commonwealth had been questioned—and by a chit of a girl, the daughter of a wastrel, herself but a flighty, fly-away, foreign creature. The Turtles of Tasman By-and-by the bonfire on the wastrel appeared to be giving out sparks of light which blazed independently; yet without decreasing its own volume of flame. The Ship of Stars And here he was, but a hundred yards away, this wastrel who trailed his genius through the mud. The Ragged Edge Let us consider the case without prejudice: Here is a young man—a gambler, a wastrel—with pressing debts, and clamoring creditors threatening what might be considered dishonor. A Woman Named Smith The position of this class, intellectually and often physically the finest in the kingdom, is rapidly becoming intolerable, and it is the wastrels who mainly benefit by their spoliation. Outspoken Essays And, Nina—even Molly Hatpin's wastrel waif shall never learn what her mother knows if Destiny will help Madame Molly ever so little. The Younger Set The Chapel stood three-quarters of a mile away, on a turfed wastrel where two high roads met and crossed. The Ship of Stars This is the life of the wastrel, the fallen, the man who knows no better. The Man in the Twilight It's only the wastrels, or their mothers or fathers who bring their boys and husbands and cry, who try to use me, and I take 'em once or twice, but not oftener. Twelve Men I visited the 700-acre settlement which Mr. Tomeoka has opened in connection with his Tokyo institution for the reclamation of young wastrels. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People We spend hundreds of thousands on the merest wastrels in the slums, and the finest class that we've got are left neglected. A Dream of the North Sea So much for the wastrel as Nature has left him. Somewhere in Red Gap All men marvelled that the Government of India allowed such a debauchee and wastrel to remain on the gadi. The Elephant God Its novelty has worn off; its uniforms are no longer impressive; its street services, though they provoke no opposition, do not seem to attract the wastrel and the 'rough' as they did at first. The Authoritative Life of General William Booth Her mother dying when she was only three, Columbine had been left to the sole care of her wastrel father. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories The poor we have always with us; but the wastrel—like the pauper—"is a work of art, the creation of wasteful sympathy and legislative inefficiency." Cambridge Essays on Education I do love the poor wastrels, and you are right, I have it from my father. The Bed-Book of Happiness Seryozhka in himself is a nonentity, a sluggard, a drunkard, and a wastrel, but when he has his red lead or compasses in his hand he is at once something higher, a servant of God. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories They are not merely sluggards and wastrels, they are swindlers too, they are continually borrowing money from the town bank, and what do they do with it? Love Then came the rain, with a blanketing rush of level wind, sweeping away the last vestige of the wastrel fires of the emigrant encampment. The Covered Wagon Along the Boulevard, into which we turned, was sprinkled a curious medley of wastrels of the night, and men and women on their way to work. The Lost Ambassador The Search For The Missing Delora Well, so far as the wastrel poor are concerned, I should say, "Catch them when young, and send them out of England so long as there is any place abroad where their labour is sought." The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Public opinion said that "there would have been no sense in her going dangling after her wastrel of a father." The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Not rank's trim pleasaunce, nor parades of fashion Tempted his genius; his the great highway Where, free from courtly pride and modish passion, Toil tramps, free humours crowd, rough wastrels stray. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 17, 1891 A fine story for two stranded British wastrels to hear! The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents If, due to unforeseen circumstances, over which we have failed to exercise adequate control, there is some shortage, let the idler and the wastrel suffer. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History He has never lived with drunkards or wastrels; he is apart, like a star, and I half think that he only has a blurred vision of the things about which he talks so sweetly. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour But in the dark an' the confusion o' savin' the wastrel's life it slipped my thoughts, else—" "Else you'd ha' wetted it wi' the blood o' my back, Job. The Delectable Duchy A fine story for two, stranded British wastrels to hear! The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Good is the work, and the fruit of it excellent; giving poor wastrels a fair start in life, Taste of true pleasure, and wholesome enjoyment, aid in endeavour, and strength for the strife. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890 He hath none!—Wit ye well, he is a stroller, A wastrel, and the shadow of a man! The Piper My children, if I have any, are wastrels like myself. Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" Surely they don't want the wastrel dug up again. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917 Then crowns would tumble down like nuts, And wastrels hide in water-butts; Each lamp-post as an epilogue: Would hold a pendent demagogue: Then would the world be for the wise!— The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies True Thomas smiled above his harp, And turned his face to the naked sky, Where, blown before the wastrel wind, The thistle-down she floated by. Verses 1889-1896 The men are the wastrels, the adventure-lovers and gamblers, and in the end it is by their women that they are saved. John Barleycorn To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise. Oedipus Trilogy The wastrel frowned; he fiddled with his frayed and filthy collar. A Chair on the Boulevard I have two supreme interests—that is one, and the other is elimination of the wastrels and the unfit. The Price of Things Take the worst of me: a gentleman I was born, and as a wastrel I have lived, and always very foolishly; but without dishonour. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship They prove that wealth in society as now constituted does not tend to get into the hands of the thrifty or the capable, but actually tends to get into the hands of wastrels and imbeciles. Alarms and Discursions Less than before, the accent is on the wastrel in Townsend; more than before, it is on the potential creator of beauty in him. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking Ned Galloway, the quartermaster, was a huge New England wastrel, the one rotten branch upon a goodly Puritan family tree. The Last Galley Impressions and Tales For the rest, the former wastrel had turned miser, and went noticeably shabby as a rule, but this morning he was trimly clothed, for he was returning homeward from the quarter-sessions at Winstead. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes It was monstrous that he should rate himself on a par with those slouching wastrels. The Wheel O' Fortune And at least this young man did not look like an idler or a wastrel. The Sisters-In-Law From the first day I met him, I, a cynical disillusioned wastrel, he a raw yet uncompromising lad, I felt that here, somehow, was a sheet anchor in my life. The Mountebank And now he had stood, and a drunken wastrel had cursed him and told him that he was detested by all men and that they waited for his downfall. The Cathedral Mottka had chosen for his little shop an old soapbox which a wastrel providence had deposited in the alley on Twenty-second Street, a few feet west of State Street. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago He was no wastrel; he had had a spell of foolishness and dissipation, but it needed only his own resolution to put an end to that. Wanderers Half the wastrels in the warld pay their passage hame wi' that Parable, and get a bran new outfit for anither start in the far country. Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush There were as many types of man as of woman—the earnest, the ascetic, the socialistic, the pious youth, wastrels, rakes, fops. We Can't Have Everything Drunkard and wastrel though the man was, those words could not be forgotten, would never be forgotten again. The Cathedral A childless wastrel is a terminating evil, and it may be, a picturesque evil. Mankind in the Making The lad was a wastrel, but he had run some risk in order to save his sister from being forced to pay for his fault. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" New pity for this poor old wastrel took hold upon him. Tutt and Mr. Tutt A wastrel, she had been in many strange places, but never before had she found herself in a situation so extraordinary. A Man and His Money And so it was that there was hardly a woman of any kind or degree, who lived within view of Brent's Rock, who did not cherish some form of secret admiration for the handsome wastrel. Dracula's Guest The girl was very young and the man who met her in the dark was obviously a wastrel. Lister's Great Adventure The only reply is a vacant but not unpleasant smile; and the armless wastrel then volunteers the information that the child—for she is little more—is not a boy but a girl. By-Ways of Bombay After that, with his sulks and swerves, Dread of the crowd and fits of nerves, Like a wastrel bee who makes no honey He had hardly earned his entry money. Right Royal He may yet go the way of thy wastrels.' Life's Handicap Let us infest the Lintel of the Gloam And chase the Steeds from Morning's Hippodrome, And let Aurora's wastrel Wanderings be A good Excuse to stay away from Home. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. The wastrel one has no use for is the fellow who keeps it up. Lister's Great Adventure His reputation was that of a good-natured wastrel. The Crown of Life "Lord Ronald is a bit of a wastrel, of course, and I am not very keen on Forrest, but we were all together when I gave the invitation, and I couldn't leave them out." Jeanne of the Marshes I wrote to a few good folk, and we raised the money and sent the wastrel to the old country. An Autobiography He was entangled in a coil from which there was but one way out; he must stand by his comrade and finish the contract, or own himself a wastrel. The Girl from Keller's Anyhow, there are different kinds of wastrels, and the fellow who gets on a jag at intervals is often a pretty good sort. Lister's Great Adventure He was a wastrel and a rolling stone, always in scrapes at school, and always wanting to do ridiculous things. The Lady of the Shroud And I'll go seek through moor and dale A flower that wastrel winds caress; The bud is red and the leaves pale, The name of it Forgetfulness. Forty-Two Poems Not only the world, but miserable wastrels of sports who "plunged heavy" with ten dollars! Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course I'm ashamed to remember that I said he was a shiftless wastrel. The Girl from Keller's Shillito cheated you; he's a plausible wastrel, but you found him out. Lister's Great Adventure After all, he is a pauper and a wastrel, and he has not the honour of bearing our Name. The Lady of the Shroud Society is based on the family, and the clever wastrel can exploit this indefinitely. Howards End Society is based on the family, and the clever wastrel can exploit this indefinitely.� Howards End I imagine we have as many wastrels as there are anywhere else, but as a rule one doesn't find them in the woods and on the plains. The Girl from Keller's See yonder, fair sir," he cried, with gleaming eyes, "there where the wastrel walks with the great fardel upon his back! Sir Nigel "So, ye're not only an idler! a wastrel! a liar!"—he spat the words out. Bob, Son of Battle You think it strange that I should say so, for you saw me decked with lace and diamonds, in the company of drunkards and wastrels. The Idiot As Harold knew him to be a wastrel, over head and ears in debt and with only the succession to a small estate, he did not take much heed to his maunderings. The Man "I can't bear to think that ill can be said of him, even by a wastrel like Captain Palliser," she said. T. Tembarom "Open the gate!" says I. "Be hanged for a murderous-looking rogue, a lousy thief, a wastrel and a hangdog knave!" says he all in a breath. Black Bartlemy's Treasure He has always been a wastrel, a profligate.” The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii If handsome, well-educated young gentlemen, who gave shillings to wastrels, felt they wanted to become smart and capable grocers’ assistants, that was their affair. Tommy and Co. I would explain that Mark must have gone out somewhere, and would myself introduce the wastrel brother to the tea-table. The Red House Mystery I am about to show myself to them ragged and poverty-stricken, a wastrel and a beggar. Whirligigs The stowaway's face showed some embarrassment, but not at all the usual hangdog mien of such wastrels. Where the Blue Begins The tramps, the occasionally employed, the unemployed—the wastrels of the city and country.” War of the Classes The weak-kneed wastrel, receiving to his astonishment a shilling, departed. Tommy and Co. Pretend to be Robert, the wastrel brother, and make yourself objectionable to Miss Norris. The Red House Mystery It was the wastrels, the failures, the general riff-raff of civilization who drifted into crime.... Secret Adversary She had avenged the beggars and the wastrels from whose caste she issued. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola At the top of the new society will tower the magnate, the new feudal baron; at the bottom will be found the wastrels and the inefficients. War of the Classes Young Grindley, alighting from a four-wheeled cab in Fetter Lane, marched up the court, followed by a weak-kneed wastrel staggering under the weight of a small box. Tommy and Co. And he was a wastrel and he went to Australia. The Red House Mystery The weak-kneed wastrel let fall the box with a thud upon the floor. Tommy and Co. |
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