| 单词 | clubable |
| 例句 | They were what may be called a "clubable race," to borrow a Johnsonian expression. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z Dr. Holmes once said to her, "Mrs. Howe, I consider you eminently clubable"; and he added that he himself was not. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z In spite of social distinctions, few fellows need be excluded who care to debate or are clubable in spirit. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z Franklin was eminently what Dr. Johnson called a "clubable" man. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z That he was a “clubable” man, too, is very apparent. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Window guidance is not a relic of socialism so much as a throwback to Japan’s clubable capitalism of the post-war era. Price rises in China: Inflated fears 2011-01-06T10:47:49Z Yes, but let it be the companionable, clubable pig. The Cabinet Minister A farce in four acts He then turned to me and said, "Mrs. Howe, I consider you eminently clubable." Reminiscences, 1819-1899 The observances of the Company at elections, funerals, obits, and pageants were quaint, friendly, and clubable enough. Old and New London Volume I We should guess the author to be a very "clubable man." The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 During the last forty years Mr. Carr, eminently a clubable man, has made the acquaintance and enjoyed the friendship of a galaxy of painters, authors and actors. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 What," cried my father, "shall the passionate and warlike and antagonistic instincts in man have a god, but the affectionate and social and clubable have none? Plutarch's Morals I do not suspect that we English are pre-eminent for social gifts; and yet we are the only nation that furnishes clubable men. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General All the opinions it meets with are clubable, and on good terms with one another. By the Christmas Fire He was hardly what Dr. Johnson would have called a "clubable" man, yet he enjoyed the meetings in his still way, or he would never have come from Concord so regularly to attend them. Ralph Waldo Emerson This result shows that she is a clubable woman, for it is emphatically the club spirit. Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" I presume that two species of animals do not consider one another companionable, or clubable, unless their behaviour and their persons are reciprocally agreeable. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Can you fancy anything less clubable than a set of men like this? Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Boswell, however, was, as his proposer said, a thoroughly "clubable" man, and once a member, his good humour secured his popularity. Samuel Johnson Johnson, I suppose, looked upon nine as the most clubable number. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 If asked to state the merits of the candidate, he summed them up in an indefinite but comprehensive word of his own coining; he was clubable. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography More uncanny-looking eyes I had never encountered,—their possessor could not be, in any sense of the word, a clubable person. The Beetle |
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