| 单词 | excursive |
| 例句 | Downtown, Montgomery Ward installed a new Customer’s Parlor, where excursive fair visitors could loiter on soft couches while browsing the company’s five-hundred-page catalog. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Rather, it is a more excursive record of a lifelong pilgrim, illustrated by Smith’s own black-and-white photographs, filled with mementos mori and personal accounts of her travels, her artistic obsessions and inspirations. In her memoir ‘M Train,’ Patti Smith opens up about her life and loves 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Charm abounds — again, this is Tom Hanks — but “Masterpiece” is too often a maddeningly excursive endeavor that made me think, more than once, of a Richard Scarry book without the drawings. Nice Guy Meets Iron Man in the First Novel by Tom Hanks 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z But it’s less linear — the excursive record of a lifelong pilgrim over the 40 years since her groundbreaking debut album, “Horses.” Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z At other times they were excursive, especially his blow-by-blow account of the biblical book of Jonah. Alasdair Gray honoured by Edinburgh book festival on Lanark anniversary 2011-08-14T17:58:03Z Such excursive enterprise was alien to the genius of the British colonies. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z I stopped at a pleasant village some distance from Abergavenny, where I rested some time, making little excursive progressions round the country. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z Another most important corollary of this excursive theory must just be mentioned here. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z To trace what modifications these schools have undergone from that period to the present would be a too widely excursive notice for our present purpose. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z This may be a typographic error for either exclusive or excursive. The Key to Yesterday Nor long excursive off at sea we stand, A cultur'd shore invites us to the land. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem This hint, here thrown out as an additional argument for the excursive theory, will fall to be developed later on. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z Endowed, probably, with but slender imagination, he found little charm or flavor in excursive abstractions. Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania Shall it rattle with the drum-beat, bound with gymnastics, court fame by excursive "nines" not known on Helicon, and challenge British Oxford, alas? with its boat crew? The History of Dartmouth College Madam, I entreat you not to be excursive. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Henceforth Watt's ingenuity became excursive, discretionary, almost capricious; but in every phase and form it continued to be beneficent. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History How much of consciousness, if any, may be felt at the point where the excursive phantasm is seen, we cannot say. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z His conception of a great work is looser, more excursive, less dramatic. A History of Elizabethan Literature The intellect looks eagerly forward to a boundless and excursive state; but the affections, the sentiments, yearn for some locality—some spot of residence and repose. Humanity in the City Fortunately I was too tired last night to be excursive in fancy, or I might have slept badly. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Is it not that while the body has been quiescent, the excursive Soul has been in spiritual presence on the edge of that beetling and stupendous height? The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 In the cases which I have just been discussing there has been a psychical excursion, with its possibilities of clairvoyance; but the excursive element has not brought home any assignable knowledge to the supraliminal personality. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z This paper serves as a curious instance in what manner the censors of books clipped the wings of genius when it was found too daring or excursive. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Of course, it is in this latter, aggressive or excursive, issue of the well-to-do bias in favor of investment and invested wealth that its most pernicious effect on international relations is traceable. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation In those excursive reveries, fed by hope and winged with dream, which scour the glens and scale the peaks of the land of thought, this nook of hypothesis must some time be discovered. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Hayne satisfied the hunger and thirst of his excursive and ardent mind by browsing in the Charleston Library on Broad and Church streets. Literary Hearthstones of Dixie The young mind of Colleton, excursive as it was, could scarcely realize to itself the strange and rapidly-succeeding changes of the last few days. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia Nero politely routed an excursive bug from his path and lay down to listen. Diane of the Green Van It must have been both pregnant and copious; declamatory in form, but fresh and substantial in matter; excursive in arrangement, but forcible and pointed in intention. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) The great English writers have written with a free hand, prolific, excursive, diffuse. Emerson and Other Essays Mr. Plumer was a man of cool and excellent judgment, and he thought that Mr. Webster on this occasion was too excursive and declamatory. Daniel Webster I am aware that I shall incur the censure of numerous very learned and judicious critics for indulging too frequently in the bold excursive manner of my favorite Herodotus. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Like so many other men of great gifts, Burke in his youth was desultory and excursive. Burke I have been thus minute in describing this excursive voyage, that others, whose business may hereafter lead them to this river, may profit by the difficulties we experienced in this critical and dangerous passage. Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa The master descended from the forecastle, and passed among the crew, with every thought recalled from its excursive flight to the duty of the moment. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas Her excursive spirit, her inquisitive mind, were, after all, in spite of all differences, his gift to her. The Precipice And so the poet conducts us along the strange excursive windings of the life and passion of humanity. Studies in Literature The excursive line may embrace the wilds of Arabia and Tartary, but the circle will be ultimately reduced to the decreasing limit of the Roman monarchy. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 I become, however, a trifle excursive, I think. She Stands Accused The flesh of animals who feed excursively, is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 However, there were plenty of the other sort--gallant, excursive spirits, and as soon as Kate became acquainted she had pleasure in picking and choosing. The Precipice Pope, Spenser, Chaucer, and the old dramatic writers were all dipped into, with the excursive flight of a swallow. The Crayon Papers There he shows himself the same kind, artless, good-humored, excursive, sensible, whimsical, intelligent being that he appears in his writings. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography And so, Sibyl," continued Septimius, pursuing his strain of solemn enthusiasm, intermingled as it was with wild, excursive vagaries, "we will go on as many centuries as we choose. Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life There is never, as in the Culex and Ciris, a display of irrelevant facts, a yielding to the temptation of being excursive and episodic. Vergil A Biography With him she would have the free and useful, the amusing and excursive life of an American woman married to a man of wealth. The Precipice He could not have made the satiated and meditative Harold so darkling and excursive, so lone, “aweary,” and misanthropical, had he treated him as the hero of a scholastic epic. The Life of Lord Byron Money was plenty among these excursive groups, and they were welcomed in Company K with effusive outbreaks by their less restive comrades. The Iron Game A Tale of the War "No whispering—no caballing—no private business, gentlemen," said the unfortunate Preses, who reminded us somewhat of a Highland drover engaged in gathering and keeping in the straight road his excursive black cattle. The Betrothed He liked the unaffected, quiet conversation of Manning, the vivacious, excursive talk of Leigh Hunt. Charles Lamb But the argument is one of too grave, too intricate, and excursive a character, to be attempted here. Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky In this canto he has indulged his excursive moralizing beyond even the wide licence he took in the three preceding parts; but it bears the impression of more reading and observation. The Life of Lord Byron As his mind was capacious, his curiosity excursive, and his industry continual, his writings are very numerous and his subjects various. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 It is not business, extensive plans, or any of the excursive flights of ambition, that engross their attention; no, their thoughts are not employed in rearing such noble structures. Vindication of the Rights of Woman Anne blushed deeply, and stopped his too excursive discourse by hastily saying that she always respected old folks like him. The Trumpet-Major These savages, through whose mountain haunts the party would have to pass, were noted for daring and excursive habits, and great dexterity in horse stealing. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains Over those instantaneous associations we have little power; for when the mind is once enlarged by excursive flights, or profound reflection, the raw materials, will, in some degree, arrange themselves. Vindication of the Rights of Woman IT is now necessary, in linking together the parts of this excursive narrative, that we notice the proceedings of Mr. Astor in support of his great undertaking. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains |
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