| 单词 | crabbedness |
| 例句 | It was this latent crabbedness that had kept the injustice of his lot ever before his gaze. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z He spoke of one Mary Oliver as “a poor wretch;” also of Mrs. Hibbins as “the miserable old woman,” and specified the “natural crabbedness of her temper which made her turbulent and quarrelsome.” Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z It happened that the next door neighbor of Deacon Enos was a certain old farmer, whose crabbedness of demeanor had procured for him the name of Uncle Jaw. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings It is as bad as the intentional crabbedness of the line in Hudibras: He that hangs or beats out’s brains, The devil’s in him if he feigns. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The indigenous townsfolk of Jeddah are the "meanest" set of Moslems I have ever met—I use the epithet in its American sense, as indicating a blend of currishness and crabbedness. Pan-Islam Clearness, ease, a certain Gallic grace it has; the ink flows readily, the thing says itself without crabbedness or constraint. Washington Irving This remark had filled the then thirteen-year-old girl with all the savage instincts of a bound and fettered woman, with all the crabbedness of an unimaginative person of her standing. The Goose Man A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery. '6th. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy “And what are you going to do with him?” inquired Mrs Nash, who, now that her feminine offices were at an end, was fast regaining her old crabbedness. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life It was yankee crabbedness that gave Homer his grip on the idea he had in mind. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets He never varied from that inimitable blend of small and vast mindedness, of liberality and crabbedness, which was his personal note, and which defies our formulating power. Memories and Studies There was heart, then, under all his crabbedness. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France It was postmarked "New York," but the hand was large and round and flourished, not in the least like his uncle's sexagenarian crabbedness of hieroglyphic. Doctor Claudius, A True Story He wrongly interprets natural self-defense as a sign of habitual crabbedness. Certain Success Of the crabbedness of Harry Lawes there is scarcely a trace: that belonged to an era of experiments. Purcell At least it was tenderness in her: in another person her voice and manner might have been taken for crabbedness and impatience. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Accustomed to a written character, their eyes became wearied by the crabbedness and formality of type. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 The occasional crabbedness of his manner and his fiery admiration for Italy are not the only points in which he reminds one of Browning. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities "Na," said the man quietly, "it's no religion, it's curstness," i.e. crabbedness, insinuating that acerbity of temper, as well as zeal, was occasionally the cause of congregations being multiplied. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character It differs from the doggerel of the Fairy Pastoral in making no apparent attempt at scansion at all, and so at least escapes the crabbedness of Percy's language. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England At one moment she was doing the gaiety of youth, and at the next the crabbedness of age; now the undeveloped femininity of the young girl, then the volubility of the old woman. The Christian A Story Out of its crabbedness and spitefulness come the finest, choicest flavors. Locusts and Wild Honey She said this so sweetly that Mrs. Goodenough relaxed into a smile, and her crabbedness into a compliment. Wives and Daughters So we got up and went down to our boat—Ellen thoughtful and abstracted; the old man very kind and courteous, as if to make up for his crabbedness of opinion. News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance This makes the difference between the laughing innocence of childhood, the pleasantness of youth, and the crabbedness of age. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners |
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