| 单词 | woolgather |
| 例句 | The train lurched over a patch of rough tracks, jarring me out of my woolgathering. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Chronic lateness is a personality characteristic just as much as smiling or shyness or empathy or mothering or woolgathering, to name a few of the more benign. Chronic lateness: That’s just me, says reader 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z But such are the longueurs of this would-be slam-bang blockbuster directed by Robert Schwentke, that it sure does inspire woolgathering. ‘Snake Eyes’ Review: The Journey to the ‘G.I. Joe’ World 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z I listened to their woolgathering for a while, and then some artillery rumbled in the distance. Theo Padnos, American Journalist, on Being Kidnapped, Tortured and Released in Syria 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Most people spend between 30 and 47 percent of their waking hours spacing out, drifting off, lost in thought, woolgathering, in a brown study or building castles in the air. Living in an Imaginary World 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Not that that matters at all if there is spiritual affinity, but in this case—— Really, Annette, I think your wits must be woolgathering. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z “Directly his eye lights upon a fresh ‘skirt’ his wits are off woolgathering on the spot.” Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z I am very sure that “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “The Black Cat” will give this woolgathering lad of yours more pleasure than a new bicycle could. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays But surely one's mind must be curiously at random to go to such woolgathering. Old Junk Really, God thought with annoyance, this woolgathering—at such a moment! The Worshippers With his wits thus woolgathering as he walked, he one day suddenly tumbled into a pit. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections I trust that your good man here is not jealous, for beauty, you well do ken, ever sends the wits of a Douglas woolgathering. The Black Douglas Master Pennybet, in the common way of tired children, finished the day in listless woolgathering. Tell England A Study in a Generation A man that puts only half himself in his profession or trade, while the other half of his wits is gone woolgathering and dreaming, is predestined from all eternity to fail. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Oliver Cromwell was then in London, having come to town with three wagonloads of wool, but his wits were not woolgathering. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Mother used to say, "Sam, your head is always a woolgathering." Nature and Human Nature Your wits are gone a woolgathering; saying to an absent man, one in a reverie, or absorbed in thought. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Such strange alleys do my thoughts run along when I am woolgathering in the field. Tell England A Study in a Generation If I throw myself into it, I shall hate everything else, and my wits will be woolgathering. The Daisy chain, or Aspirations "They do say, among 'em," said Dan, "that you picked it up, and then got woolgathering in your head till you didn't rightly know where it come from." The Last Chronicle of Barset |
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