| 单词 | crackbrained |
| 例句 | Kirkpatrick’s idea is not as entirely as crackbrained as it sounds. Fracking is still not the answer: Gas will not solve the climate-warming problem 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z The interminable duns and khakis of La Mancha are the same that Don Quixote roamed across in his crackbrained quest for adventure. Falling in love with medieval armed combat 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Theobald, whom she was used to contemplate as a crackbrained enthusiast, assumed a new interest in her eyes. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z It is late, it is nineteen-nineteen— go to sleep, his cries are a lullaby; his jabbering is a sleep-well-my-baby; he is a crackbrained messenger. Sour Grapes A Book of Poems 2011-03-25T02:00:10.780Z "Of all the cursed crackbrained schemes!" he muttered. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z Do you think she'd be running round loose in this crackbrained way if she had a home she could stay in and a husband she could slave over? The Romance of a Plain Man According to Aubrey, the author was thought to be crackbrained, and lost much of his practice in consequence. Fathers of Biology His operations in this direction were mostly limited to sending crackbrained letters to the Civil Governor in Manila from his “camp in the sky,” but his perturbation of the rural districts had to be suppressed. The Philippine Islands The woman, appointed for my keeper, was gained over by my enemies, to torment me as an heretic, an enthusiast, one crackbrained and an hypocrite. The Autobiography of Madame Guyon There are just too many of the archaic religions still around, as well as crackbrained ideas that have been long entrenched in custom. Planet of the Damned Of all the crackbrained, sentimental, outrageous chaps I ever met there’s none of them comes up to a Frenchman.” The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise They were of a very various kind, and no bad epitome of the mind of a gallant and crackbrained coxcomb. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 That's one of 120 sail that we saw; multiply 120 by 20, and then you have the number of vessels that we must attend under this crackbrained scheme of ours. A Dream of the North Sea For the sake of Islam, O caliph," replied Giaffar, "let us forbear to trifle with that crackbrained drunkard any more. The Pacha of Many Tales The crackbrained fellow dreams of nothing less than becoming related to the cardinal, and seeing his daughter a general's wife; he might remember poor Sagrario. The Shadow of the Cathedral Nobody disputed it; or, if any one did, he was set down by the oracles of the vicinage as a crackbrained visionary. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author She adored cynics and people who said piquant things, and it amused her to make her large tyrannous hand felt by the Squire's timid, crackbrained, ridiculous little sister. Robert Elsmere All the ledger and daybook men say we are crackbrained. A Dream of the North Sea It may be that this crackbrained rebellion of which the torch is already alight will, if it does no other good in England, at least make a widow of you. Mistress Wilding |
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