| 单词 | bluffness |
| 例句 | Military bluffness is part of his political persona. Knife’s edge 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z There was more talk, but all the kindly bluffness, all the desire instinctive in Bob Thorpe to give the other man an even break in the bargain, fell flat. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z With all the bluffness of which he was so particularly capable, he sent the importunate questioners about their business. The Wish A Novel However, he was of strong and athletic build, and with a well-affected, good-humoured bluffness, he was able to push back the foremost aggressors without having recourse to any weapon. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley There was Bakht Khan, the commander-in-chief, the square blunt soldier, who was yet said by some to hide under his bluffness a character of cunning and duplicity. Barclay of the Guides His scorn of dissimulation and affectation of any sort, gave his manner and speech a bluffness, and apparent want of sympathy with the feelings of other men, which caused him often to be misunderstood. History of Morgan's Cavalry But these swaggerers are the exception, and the prevailing impression conveyed is that of honest,168 if determined, bluffness. Six Centuries of Painting The Butcher looked down at the funny face and saw the kindly motive under the exaggerated bluffness. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories His manner is frank to the point of bluffness. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers The secretary was a stolid Yorkshireman, who affected whatever measure of bluffness had not been natural to him from birth. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Giving the voice in the dark such short answer, refusing to satisfy him, as the question deserved, and with responsive bluffness, we left the man behind, who, it proved, was bound to our inn. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 "Oh, well!" he exclaimed, with a sudden change to loudness and bluffness, switching on the electric torch and turning it on the earth at their feet. The Judge "Who are you?" he asked, with the bluffness and arrogance of a native of Great Britain. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia "It amounts," thought his present interlocutrice, "to a kind of infinitely sublimated bluffness." My Friend Prospero "A trifle o' bluffness in the entry don't matter, if you understand me," said 'Bias, retrieving his lesson. Hocken and Hunken His sturdy figure, healthy face, and a slight bluffness of manner reminded one more of his original profession than of the life and manners of a man of letters. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 High offices under the Georges were as often as not filled by unpolished Englishmen extolled for their native flavour of bluntness and bluffness. English Travellers of the Renaissance By heavens, you are right," cried the captain, with genuine English bluffness, "and I should have known better than to have thought you would have accepted of a bed at the station house. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia The out-of-door bluffness, the cheery ringing voice, and the upright form only to be gained in the saddle over the breezy uplands, cling to him still. Hodge and His Masters For certain its owner had none, unless a lurking pride in his own bluffness and bluntness may be termed such. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number Kennicott's bluffness made the child squirm with a delight which Carol could not evoke. Main Street As for his bluffness and toughness and appeals to common sense, all that is, of course, simply the first trick of rhetoric. Heretics Mrs Collins was too overcome to attend us, and the Admiral giving me his arm, we set off through the Park, he speaking his mind with the bluffness of a sailor on Miss Darcy's behaviour. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty Her voice was pleasant enough, but its bluffness had a new edge. Hidden Creek He could borrow with a breezy bluffness which made the thing practically a hold-up. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories "My dear Mrs. Florio"—Piers began with good-natured expostulation, a sort of forced bluffness; but she would not hear him. The Crown of Life His note was one of joviality, almost of bluffness. Will Warburton Without thinking of it she spoke rather as to a schoolboy, not with superiority, but with the sort of bluffness age sometimes uses good-naturedly to youth. The Garden of Allah The convict population spoke of him as "that —— Frere," and registered vows of vengeance against him, which he laughed—in his bluffness—to scorn. For the Term of His Natural Life |
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