| 单词 | cuspidor |
| 例句 | Time after time, single-handed and on her hands and knees, she emptied all the cuspidors and scrubbed down the lobby of Grand Central Station. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Avoid this habit and use the cuspidor or step out-of-doors. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z To avoid bloating from the hundreds of sips in a day, he would use chrome-plated cuspidors. Noble Fleming Dies at 92, Arbiter of Tea Taste 2012-03-15T04:06:19Z A corps of janitors had been active for two days introducing folding chairs, cuspidors, tables and wastebaskets. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Directly behind me, as I was soon made aware, was a cuspidor, toward which the President turned the flow of tobacco juice. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z The first man rapped his pipe empty on the edge of a cuspidor. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Flies may carry the virus if they are allowed to frequent cuspidors into which consumptives have expectorated. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z Some clinics made no provision for sputum beyond a cuspidor; others provided gauze or paper napkins when patients entered the room. Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium 2011-11-25T03:00:11.053Z Roaring Rory spat a huge cud of tobacco into a cuspidor six feet away, the better to express his astonishment. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z With as unerring an aim as the famous spitter on the boat in Dickens's American Notes, he never missed the cuspidor once, or put my person in jeopardy. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z More comedy business involving a gratuitous box of property cigars and a cuspidor. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Then he abruptly turned and flung the end of his cigar into the cuspidor beside his desk. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z When they prohibit tobacco, a war of cuss words will be followed by a battle of cuspidors, and the very crows will cuss the crocuses. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z A chair, a cuspidor, and part of a table hurtled across the Blubber Room; bottles struck the walls; the light went out when the lamps fell in a thousand pieces to the floor. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z The parlor is dusted frequently and the cuspidors washed at least four times a day. Guide to Hotel Housekeeping 2011-01-27T03:00:39.557Z The man, a tall, gaunt, middle-aged farmer, nodded, struggled to speak, then hastily bent over a brass cuspidor and spat. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z Pete's feet fell off the stove with a clatter, and kicked the loose damper into the iron cuspidor. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Reid, I noticed, barely tasted his drink, and watched his chance to pour the rest with a certain medical accuracy into the cuspidor beneath the table. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z The look said, "Don't buy him another, or I won't get my cuspidors cleaned." She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z She must look after the writing-rooms, do the high dusting, clean the tiles, clean the mirrors, polish the brass trays, clean the cuspidors, wash the lace curtains, and sweep and dust. Guide to Hotel Housekeeping 2011-01-27T03:00:39.557Z Bare tables, a wooden floor, and almost as many cuspidors as chairs, comprised the furniture of the long room. The Window at the White Cat He stirred at last, and dropped the lighted stump into a cuspidor, and thrust his chair back. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z It was low-ceiled and smoky, and full of large cuspidors and small tables. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z But Jenkins only shook his head as he gathered up the remains of the spider and consigned them to a cuspidor. The Haunted Pajamas The waste paper baskets should be emptied as often as is necessary, and the cuspidors should be cleaned at least four times a day. Guide to Hotel Housekeeping 2011-01-27T03:00:39.557Z These men-that-were—miserable worms, scum of the earth, walking cuspidors—began to take off their armor. H. R. "Ain't ye goin' back, Jack?" he demanded, as he shot with expert aim another stream of saliva into Schmalz's cracked cuspidor. By Right of Conquest A Novel If I've told my chief officer once I've told him fifty times, I will not have a cuspidor on the bridge for the man at the wheel. Command To the death rattle of The cuspidor Upset, As he departs at two o’clock To golf, While I type on Till five. The So-called Human Race Then there’s a suggestion for cuspidors for each bench, and I must say, right here, I’m in favor of them. The Law-Breakers A big raw-boned westerner, he shifted his quid as he spoke and spat resoundingly in a cuspidor at his feet. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 "Dutch" scratched his head, and, to better conceal his emotion, let go another flyer of saliva at the cuspidor. By Right of Conquest A Novel She splits in the middle like a cracked walnut, and there in the center, floating three feet from the floor is a small flying cuspidor. The Flying Cuspidors He had to push one of the cuspidors aside to make room, and as he pushed it with his foot he saw an oblong of paper lying in it among the sand and cigar stubs. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective The cuspidor had been restored to one corner of the large room, and to this corner Rooney, like a man with a jaw full of birdshot, always walked first. Whispering Smith And the rich Ispahan rug, the cuspidor being small and overfull, receives the richly coloured matter which he spurts forth every time he takes the cigar out of his mouth. The Book of Khalid “But I don’t want those things about”—pointing gingerly to a pair of cuspidors. Counsel for the Defense With that, the cuspidor shoots across the room and plows right through the wall. The Flying Cuspidors He spits out the coffee into a large brass cuspidor which is designed for the purpose. All About Coffee A box filled with sawdust sat upon the floor to serve as a cuspidor; three or four splint-bottomed chairs completed the office furniture. The Love Story of Abner Stone It has long been observed that flies are particularly fond of sputum and will feed on it on the sidewalk, in the gutter, the cuspidor or wherever opportunity offers. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases She drew a chair away from the environs of the cuspidors and sat down. Counsel for the Defense "One flying cuspidor," he says, his face serious. The Flying Cuspidors Corrigan bit his cigar in two, and slowly spat that which was left in his mouth into a cuspidor. 'Firebrand' Trevison He worked sixteen hours a day for eight dollars a week, cleaning cuspidors, scrubbing the floor, scattering clean sawdust, cutting the more rotten portions off the free-lunch meat. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life In their rows of cuspidors and shouldering desks, and barren offices hung with insurance calendars, and dining-rooms ornamented with portraits of decomposed ducks, they were typical of all the hotels she had seen. The Job An American Novel Honorable members will lack provocation to hurl allegations and cuspidors. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 They would place a cuspidor on one side of your chair to catch the chicken bones, which you would spit out from your mouth. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia Of course you could secure the same murmuring effect by holding an old-fashioned tin cuspidor up to your ear, too, but in this case the poetic effect would have been lacking. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare There was at this point a sudden scraping of a chair, the clatter of an overturned cuspidor and a stout, elderly man at the rear of the room jumped to his feet. Still Jim Bonaparte had partaken of his fourth cuspidor of beer and was in a delightful state of swagger and fight when he saw an unusual commotion up the street. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills All rooms contained sufficient box cuspidors filled with sawdust. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 He took a slow measure of the distance between himself and the cuspidor, and shot a piece of gum into it. Tess of the Storm Country And, besides, there were other uses for the cuspidor. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare He picked up the glass between thumb and forefinger and deliberately emptied it into a handy cuspidor. Kid Wolf of Texas The cuspidor end of it protrudes into one of the proscenium-boxes. Second Book of Tales Receptacle for the Sputum.—A cuspidor, or basin, should be constantly kept at the side of the bed in which the patient may conveniently expectorate. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies And the various inhospitable legends on the doors and walls were punctuated by frequent cuspidors on the floor. The Promised Land Bloom laughed, and directed a stream of tobacco juice into a convenient cuspidor. White Ashes He paused and aimed a stream of tobacco juice at a near-by cuspidor. Danger in Deep Space The man, for all his grand dreams, had a shoddy soul; he belonged authentically to the era of cuspidors, "females" and Sons of Temperance. A Book of Prefaces And mother stood over there, see,—right about where that cuspidor is,—and looked at the preacher all the time. From the Housetops "Doing!" he returned, "Why, they're gradually taking the cuspidors out of the church pews!" American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Rand leaned over and spat into the brass cuspidor, a gesture of braggadocio he had picked up among the French maquis. Murder in the Gunroom He walked back into the room, threw his cigar into a cuspidor, and stood with his back to the stove, listening. The Trail Horde Spitting on the sidewalk, on the floor, on the wall, on the grass, in the gutter, or even into a cuspidor containing no disinfectant is a very dangerous practice for a consumptive to indulge. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Adorning the center of the table, before which we were seated, was a large cuspidor. The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan There were several drummers writing at the little desks, and several more sitting idly in chairs adjacent to brass cuspidors. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' He straightened out his legs and stared gloomily at the brass cuspidor. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country The small man struck a match and, using the wide-mouthed metal cuspidor for an ash-pan, lighted the letters one at a time as they were given to him. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush About Expectoration.—No man should smoke, anywhere or at any time, who cannot smoke without using a cuspidor. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Without a word the Sheriff dropped the coins into the cuspidor. The Girl of the Golden West After this improvised cuspidor has been used, it is always carefully covered with a leaf. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan He hurled the cigarette at the cuspidor and took a turn up and down the cramped quarters of the little room. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country Hardy spat into a cuspidor with long-range accuracy. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police The irate old railroader kicked over the wooden cuspidor in disgust. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent It was about as hideous and devil-born a contretemps as, say, putting a belted earl to peel potatoes or asking an archbishop to clean cuspidors. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Then, having reached the center of a cuspidor with all the precision of a character in a Californian novel, he added benevolently to Jimmy, "Make it a dollar for them." Your United States Impressions of a first visit Then he expectorated not in but to one side of a handsome polished brass cuspidor which contained not the least evidence of use, the rubber mat upon which it stood being instead most disturbingly "decorated." Twelve Men He removed his unlighted cigar, and spat loudly into a tall brass cuspidor, which he had taken the precaution to place for just such emergencies. Queed Ye would think that our chief aim was the cuspidor. The Light in the Clearing Why do they call themselves by the graceful name of "cuspidor"—suggestive of castanets and Andalusian wiles? The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 After all," he confided to the cuspidor, "it is up to the girl whether we fish or cut bait. Kindred of the Dust When not entertaining a circle of admiring auditors from San Francisco or the East he could commonly be found pursuing the comparatively obscure industry of sweeping out the various dance houses and purifying the cuspidors. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Trunnell gave a snort and threw his quid in a corner near a cuspidor. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" The husband would open a bundle and sing out, "Who's this big immense pink and purple cuspidor for?" Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents In the cars, as in the rooms at one's hotel, the "cuspidor" is always with you as a thing of beauty! The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections Again the magistrate spat into the cuspidor between his feet. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 There was a bed, some old chairs, one of which had a broken back, a center table, a cracked mirror, and two cuspidors. Frank Merriwell at Yale To see a cuspidor in a dream, signifies that an unworthy attachment will be formed by you, and that your work will be neglected. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition In the hotel office she could see a stretch of bare unclean floor, a line of rickety chairs with brass cuspidors between, a writing-desk with advertisements in mother-of-pearl letters upon the glass-covered back. Main Street One takes a basin and towels, another powder and rouge-boxes, another the pipe and embroidered tobacco pouch, not even forgetting the silver cuspidor, all of which will be needed. Court Life in China The station was only large enough to hold the stove, the ticket-office, and the inevitable cuspidor. The Story of a Pioneer Now it was a cuspidor, now a fire-shovel for the little stove, now a China shaving mug. McTeague And now you have the good taste and the good manners to use me as a kind of a cuspidor! The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Then filling first a cup with tepid water, she brought a large cuspidor for Pao-yü to wash his mouth. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books He leaned forward suddenly and caught up his whisky glass—whose contents had previously and surreptitiously been spilled into the cuspidor on the floor beside his chair. The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale Upon the floor, six feet behind his antagonist, was a cuspidor with jagged edges. Tales from Bohemia This startled him so that he stepped back a pace or two, tangled his feet in his surcingle, clutched wildly at the empty gas-light, but missed it and sat down in a tall majolica cuspidor. Remarks Mr. Martin aimed at the new cuspidor—and missed. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Mr Riesbitter mused for a moment and shelled the cuspidor with indirect fire over the edge of the desk. The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories The second glass of whisky followed the first—into the cuspidor. The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale He also emptied the waste baskets and cleaned the cuspidors. The Century Vocabulary Builder I have ordered an entirely new set of boxes and postoffice outfit, including new corrugated cuspidors for the lady clerks. Remarks Nextly," said Mr. Martin, trying a new sight on the cuspidor, "I don't belong to any lodges whatsoever. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Slowly the little flame mounted, and when it threatened to scorch his fingers the promoter of Donnaville tossed the blazing fragments into a convenient cuspidor. The Long Chance Stage properties: a suit of clothes, shoes, chair, table, bed, bureau, hatrack, candle, cigarette, match, cuspidor, roller skates, bottles, flag, inclined plane and steps; plate, napkin, cup, spoon, teapot. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations He took the package of crape from his pocket and threw it into a cuspidor. Her Weight in Gold Manton casually flicked the ashes from his cigar into a highly polished cuspidor as he leaned over. The Film Mystery There were magnificent palms in magnificent jardinières, and plush chairs and large, inviting sofas and an imposing mahogany desk and a cuspidor of shining brass. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago "But don't it sound nice, especially when it hits that brass cuspidor!" Bar-20 Days He twisted the paper into a roll and burned it carefully in the office cuspidor. The Pit They left out the stationery, and had only twenty-three cuspidors. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon Uncle Eb pushed the cuspidor a bit nearer. Eben Holden, a tale of the north country I happened to be standing within five feet of a cuspidor when Major Caswell opened fire upon it. Strictly business: more stories of the four million The table skidded through the door on one leg and caromed off the bar at a graceful angle, collecting three chairs and one sand-box cuspidor on the way. Bar-20 Days Lew Perkins sat in the corner on a shaky old apple barrel and brushed back his long mustaches to spit at the cuspidor—and miss it. The Seventh Man He was back in a minute, and took up his position near a sawdust-filled box that did duty as a cuspidor. The Man in Lower Ten So speaking, he tossed the cigar into a cuspidor. Michael, Brother of Jerry If you didn't know it was your tooth you would take it for an old-fashioned china cuspidor that had been neglected by the janitor. Cobb's Anatomy With a swift movement he emptied his glass into the cuspidor, set the glass back on the table, and stepped out from the stall. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale He wouldn't 'a' let him clean the cuspidors at the bank! The Turmoil, a novel |
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