| 单词 | wooden-headed |
| 例句 | There’s an antique child’s rocking horse in the window, a threadbare quilt, a wooden-headed doll with a battered face. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Other than the fact that they’re not wooden-headed ninnies who can only open their mouths to give orders and gossip?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There is enough and to spare of blame ready in any balanced mind for either of these great writers, but they can do without the admiration of wooden-headed prigs, however able. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z A few wooden-headed spears were all the property they possessed, excepting the worn-out skins thrown over their shoulders. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z We talk about the shortcomings of our War Office officials, and certainly they sometimes give examples of wooden-headed stupidity, and are behind the age in many particulars. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z On wooden-headed soulless guys We see such draping splendours thrust; But raise the robe, and all surprise Closes in pity and disgust. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z He is but a six-inch puppet, a thing of shreds and patches, a wooden-headed doll, vitalized for a moment only by the hand concealed inside his flimsy body with its flaunting colors. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z "And I'll give your wooden-headed clerk a ten pound note," he said. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z It would be simply wooden-headed to affirm that they ever expected to succeed in a war with us. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z "I don't know that I could pilot——" "You wooden-headed idiot, do you suppose I want you to pilot it?" he roared, with a shout of laughter. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z I have to speak sharply to that fellow, Mrs. Braytree; he is about as wooden-headed as they make. Seeing France with Uncle John 2011-02-26T03:00:47.827Z "At the horses' heads, you wooden-headed bladder," shouted Diogenes lustily. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel The English law is curiously wooden-headed on some points. A Veldt Vendetta What a wooden-headed booby he had been to miss an obvious thing like that. Command And while chivalry committed suicide over its ladies' gloves, the stout, wooden-headed burghers, with an eye to the facts of life, dickered and bickered in trade. The Kempton-Wace Letters "Even a wooden-headed detective ought to have given us a better supply than Bird yielded." Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 This here's a brand new car, right from our factory—you wooden-headed fule! Alex the Great They were common wooden-headed dollies, a hand long, with stuffed bodies and stout legs ornamented with very small feet in red and blue boots. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. Any wooden-headed fellow can do as much as that. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm But a shrewd young physician waxes suspicious, and finally convinces the wooden-headed coroner that the girl has been murdered. From the Car Behind I don’t want that wooden-headed Mrs. Perkenpine to cook for me.” The Associate Hermits All these things, in the words of the catechism, "I steadfastly believe," until I become a mere driveller, a moonstruck, babbling, staring, credulous, imbecile, greedy, gaping, wooden-headed, addle-brained, wool-gathering, dreary, vacant, obstinate civilian. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 It is the one true excuse in the core of Imperialism; and it faintly softens the squalid prose and wooden-headed wickedness of the Self-Made Man who "came up to London with twopence in his pocket." Eugenics and Other Evils You have the makings of a good sailorman in you, but you're too quick and excitable, and want an old wooden-headed, stolid buffer like me to steady you. Yorke The Adventurer Another man had a wound from a wooden-headed spear; and most had been struck more or less by these rude and, luckily, innocuous weapons. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy There were more important things on hand than the conversion of a wooden-headed tar. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure More wooden houses and their wooden-headed occupants were passed, and at last I was at liberty to have a drink. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 "Ask him if he didn't say I was throwing myself away on a wooden-headed boatswain with bandy legs." Salthaven And how was it that she was growing more into favour with the Jordans and Walkers and all the narrow, wooden-headed people? The Daughters of Danaus Was there ever such a dense, wooden-headed idiot as I am!” he raged out. The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap You’re such a wooden-headed, solid chap, nothing ever shakes you; but it was a very awful sensation.” Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days In the court of public opinion, he is volunteer counsel for all in any way defrauded or kept in bondage by pitiless pride, barbarous policy, thoughtless luxury, or wooden-headed prejudice. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 It was evident that the same stupidity which had allowed Merrilac to make his escape in the first act, had led this singularly wooden-headed hero into that villain's trap. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life But denials only stimulated the womenfolk into hazarding ingenious questions and suggestions, and the men to various conjectures more or less wooden-headed. Marion's Faith. But no one wasted a thought on the forlorn woman and the sallow baby whose skinny faces were so long within earshot of the wooden-headed staff-officer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 To be able to munch an apple when beginning Trafalgar is an illustration of what may be called the quality of wooden-headed unimaginativeness in Collingwood. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes A second glance disclosed the dinghy half way to the beach, while in her stern, sculling her swiftly along with practised hand, stood the wooden-headed young savage who didn't know how to manage a boat. Under the Great Bear Certainly not anything so unnecessary for that wooden-headed youth. Medoline Selwyn's Work Pacey has made such a book as none but a wooden-headed boy like himself could make. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour What a wooden-headed old fellow he must be, to have got the affair into such a mess. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 What a terrible piece of wooden-headed history was the effort to force Denmark to break her neutrality or make war on her! Drake, Nelson and Napoleon I realised that I had no longer to deal with a suspicious, wooden-headed lawyer, but with a frank, kindly human being. The Jervaise Comedy "Is it not amazing that a woman who could think like that should be capable of flinging up her art—the art which I gave her—on account of the preaching of that wooden-headed Mostyn?" Sister Teresa The man in charge of the birds was one of those wooden-headed chaps you can't get a new idea into anyhow. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents Blount says:— "It would be simply wooden-headed to affirm that they ever expected to succeed in a war with us." The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) What strange tales the wooden-headed old fellows could tell did they but choose to speak! Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Are sixteen hundred men still to bow down to a wooden-headed lord, as the people of Egypt used to do to their beasts, to their reptiles, and their ropes of onions? The Grand Old Man In what different manner can we approach this wooden-headed government? The Great Secret "Perhaps she is in love with her cousin, that long-legged, strong-armed, wooden-headed Master Brome." Fair Margaret For such a dread as that wooden-headed men and women will think me "queer"! The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow Don't you attempt to thank me, or I shall break down altogether; for I've been the stupidest and most wooden-headed idiot that ever disgraced a noble profession. At Love's Cost "We shall see if that wooden-headed old fool knows the meaning of a flag of truce." My Lady of the North The driver, brassie and spoon are wooden-headed clubs, but the others have always iron heads. Entertainments for Home, Church and School There was a fellow traveling around in that country," said Mr. Nickerson, "with a moral-religious show—a sort of scriptural panorama—and he hired a wooden-headed old slab to play the piano for him. Sketches New and Old, Part 7. Three times a week for many months I have been drumming the fact into the handful of wooden-headed Englishmen who have deigned to come to our meetings. The Great Impersonation Curley stood with an expression of wooden-headed, abject innocence on his big, broad face, and looked straight in front of him. Told in the East I have spoken twenty times about chairs being left in that absurd position," she cried, as their hands met, "but you know how wooden-headed servants are. Number Seventeen I had the less difficulty in getting him away because he fears a broil, or anything that will call down upon him the attention of his wooden-headed cousin in the Embassy. A Rock in the Baltic I have observed that the light-headed commonly get the best of everything in this world; which the wooden-headed and the beef-headed regard as an outrage. The Fiend's Delight Humour would not come to his aid; the lighter elements of race were ousted; he was solid insolence, wooden-headed self-will. The Crown of Life He is a wooden-headed person who derives all his ideas from cheap fiction. The Angel and the Author, and others If you carefully look at nothing, you create for yourself a resemblance to all wooden-headed things. Active Service The Governor of Paraguay at that time was one Gregorio de Hinostrosa, an officer born in Chile, an honest, pious, wooden-headed man, and much beloved by the inhabitants of Paraguay. A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 But not a wooden-headed man-at-arms but looked down upon him. Paul Kelver, a Novel Clarissa is a masterpiece, there are fourteen volumes of her, and the most wooden-headed playwright would give you the whole of Clarissa in a single act. The Firm of Nucingen Look here, now, if you think you are engaged in steering a bunch of wooden-headed guys about the Acropolis, my dear partner of my joys and sorrows, you are extremely mistaken. Active Service |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。