| 单词 | exiguous |
| 例句 | Expectorating on an enemy's final resting place is exactly the kind of exiguous act of vengeance that a contemporary injured party might just be able to manage. I spit on your grave, but that's about it 2011-01-24T13:50:06Z Elizabeth is effectively obliterated and yet one immediately recognises her from this exiguous after-image. The 10 best portraits of queens 2012-06-02T23:06:01Z Some of them had thrown on an exiguous vestiture, which extended only to the loins, yet all were calm so that their scraps of tatters kept no secrets. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Now in its 84th impression in Spanish, it remains a fixture on the exiguous shelves devoted to Latin America in bookshops in Europe and the United States. The gods that failed 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Beecroft's rationale for proposing a whole series of changes weakening employment protection was the assertion, offered without evidence, that workers use their exiguous protections to get away with working below capacity. George Osborne's solution: make the workers pay 2012-12-20T15:24:55Z He sat down on one of the specially designed artistic chairs of the Associated Booksellers' Trading Union and produced an exiguous lady's handkerchief, extraordinarily belaced. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z To extend these limits, which confined in so exiguous a compass our therapeutic agents, has been the laborious and singular study of Hahnemann and his disciples. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Some of them, starting with exiguous capital, have made large fortunes in a year or two of trade. South America and the War 2012-02-10T03:00:17.163Z Fourteenth Century returns to the wriggling ideal and exiguous form of the Twelfth Century, and fails woefully in brilliance of color. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z He invited her to pay a visit to his exiguous dominions, and she went, probably feeling that she was playing the part of sparrow-hawk. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z In the buttressed hollow of one of these paleozoic cathedrals you are ashamed of your ribs, and blush for the exiguous pillars of bone on which your breathing structure reposes.... Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z His legs—oh, who shall describe those legs, those exiguous legs, so brief and yet so expressive? Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Robin murmured without heat, but Culling was already depicting two nude gladiators struggling in front of the Town Hall for the possession of an exiguous necklace. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z Toward evening he dined exiguously on a dish of milk and porridge, and remembered hazily a dispute with the waiter on the question of a tip. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z And this at a time when there is a manifest slowdown around the western world, from a growth rate that, with the exception of Germany, was already exiguous. There may be no safe havens in this turbulent summer 2011-08-06T23:06:07Z The skill with which he managed the exiguous finances of the exiled court earned him further confidence and promotion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Down in the thirsty wilderness of the rest-camps the few troops in reserve lay restless under occasional olive-trees, or huddled under the exiguous shelter of ground-sheets stretched over their scratchings in the earth. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z Yet in this exiguous circle of prudent people who were detained in Madrid, or foolhardy people who had travelled there, turned up the irrepressible British tourist. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z For the fuel wherewith to cook the exiguous supplies of this uncertain food, the family is wholly dependent upon what the children can scratch together. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology Opposite me, within an exiguous front yard, a very fat man sat on a rickety chair, the back resting against the wall, and gave me an uncomfortable sense of impending collapse of the spindly legs. A Top-Floor Idyl Finally, a force thus drawn out on the march in one exiguous and lengthy trail is in the worst possible disposition for meeting an attack delivered upon it from either side. The Battle of Blenheim Mataafa has played and lost; an exile, and stripped of his titles, he walks the exiguous beach of Jaluit, sees the German flag over his head, and yearns for the land wind of Upolu. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) “Allah have mercy on his soul,” sighs an exiguous voice within; “pray for him, pray for him.” The Book of Khalid Lady Lane had already shewn off her "sailor son" to the exiguous congregation; it was the turn of "my eldest son, the author, you know," to submit. The Education of Eric Lane It could not be made to penetrate the exiguous oven of the little gas-stove, but we bribed the janitress to cook it for us. A Top-Floor Idyl The conclusion seemed obvious "that these meteors are formed of very soft materials, which expand while incalescent, and are immediately crumbled and dissipated into exiguous dust." A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition He had made the money which provided a tolerably costly upbringing for his children, but his own education I gathered had been of a much more exiguous character. The Message “Ah, the mother of––,” repeats the exiguous voice. The Book of Khalid Liberal as these terms may seem, they were exiguous at that critical time, and the stock was at 4 per cent. discount before the deposit was paid. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration But my Portuguese was dinner-table talk of the purely necessary order, and my companion's was more exiguous than my own. A Tramp's Notebook Flora saw her father trembling in all his exiguous length, though he held himself stiffer than ever if that was possible. Chance A Tale in Two Parts When Sir F. Banbury, who indubitably has that right, endorsed Mr. Samuel's appeal, Mr. McKenna took refuge under a point of order—rather an exiguous form of shelter for a Minister of the Crown. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 We feel bound to point out however that any attempt to save the nation with the same exiguous weapons would be too hazardous to be encouraged. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 This is a London egg, and this is London bacon, and this exiguous liquid which "laves the milk-jug with celestial blue" is London milk. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile If it cannot be reduced to their exiguous standard, so much the worse for it. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles But so exiguous an expeditionary force could not have maintained itself in that isolated situation in face of swelling hostile numbers. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 One of his rooms was directly above the street-door of the house; such a dormitory, when it is so exiguous, is called in the nomenclature of New York a "hall bedroom." The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) Even at this stage of the campaign, we fought in Mesopotamia, both sides, with the most exiguous number of planes. The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad "Out of the exiguous wages Mr. Gedge-Tomkins and I pay you?" Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl In most cases the taps were buttons requiring continuous pressure, and then yielding only an exiguous supply; a kettle took nearly a minute to fill, so that while one tenant drew service others stood waiting. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Savinien, with loud gasps, let himself down upon an exiguous chair, rested both fat hands upon the head of his stick, and smiled ruefully across the table at Cobb. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories I know it is fashionable to sneer at Baedeker, especially when you are writing little rhapsodies about remoter parts of Italy, where you have found his knowledge indispensable, if exiguous. Masques & Phases His request was granted, and for the next three years Huxley lived in London with his brother, on the exiguous income of an assistant-surgeon, and devoted himself to research. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work Very sleepily indeed we rode along an exiguous path by the side of the cobbles. Adventures of a Despatch Rider There were, in fact, only two persons in the long room, which, with its open Erard, and its innumerable bibelots, and its plenitude of quaint, impossible chairs, seemed quite cosily exiguous. A Comedy of Masks A Novel The hall seemed suffused in a ruddy glow that was certainly not reflected from the exiguous pile of post-Crusading fuel smouldering on the great hearth. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20 They can run a little farm or keep a shop or do other remunerative work, but the assistants in Secondary Schools are debarred from these methods of supplementing their exiguous wage. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union They raided the delicatessen at eleven o'clock, and made an exiguous meal on the plunder. The Real Adventure A job to the 3rd Division on our right and another in pursuit of an errant officer, and then a sweaty and exiguous lunch—it was a sweltering noon—seated on a blistering pavement. Adventures of a Despatch Rider Quakers, like the mandarins, keep their hats on in public meetings; and the oddity of their manners has kept them out of society and made their following very exiguous. The Awakening of China He pondered these matters as he ate, spinning out his exiguous meal to its uttermost crumb to make it as satisfying as possible. A Maid of the Silver Sea "Yes," said I. Liosha joined us, accompanied by a porter, carrying their exiguous baggage. Jaffery She gathered up all the scruts and let them fall in a rattling shower on the exiguous pudding. A Christmas Garland Often the Signal Office gives you the most exiguous information. Adventures of a Despatch Rider The latter had been very unhappy in her youth, and had been left a widow with one beautiful girl and a rather exiguous fortune. Whosoever Shall Offend Lansulyan parish is a wide one in acreage, and the stipend exiguous even for a bachelor. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts The clipped brown beard seemed thick and plenteous, but this effect was given by the coarseness of the hairs, not by their number; the moustache was long and exiguous. Leonora Absolute strangers would have exhibited less restraint; for the ghost of an old comradeship made the fourth at the feast and prated to them in exiguous voice of paths that had diverged. The Philanderers We got up, had a cheery and exiguous breakfast to distant, intermittent firing, then did a little work on our bicycles. Adventures of a Despatch Rider A London director has to be content with an honorific position, a fee of a few hundred pounds a year, and, it must be added, a very exiguous degree of responsibility. War-Time Financial Problems Presently a withering fire was opened from the summit of the Fosse, which soon began to take effect in the exiguous and ill-protected trench. The First Hundred Thousand On the right hand they passed a little temple from whose exiguous courtyard two stone foxes grinned maliciously, the temple of the god Inari, who brings rich lovers to the girls who pray to him. Kimono Mr. Mortimer stood erect, in a declamatory attitude, with his back to the exiguous fire. True Tilda One of us spent all his spare time at this café in silent adoration—of the piano, for his French was exiguous in the extreme. Adventures of a Despatch Rider She bent forward, and then tipped back on the high, exiguous heels again. Composition-Rhetoric He hadn't quite realized how exiguous it was going to be when he spoke of it as supper. Mary Wollaston In the buttressed hollow of one of these palaeozoic cathedrals you are ashamed of your ribs, and blush for the exiguous pillars of bone on which your breathing structure reposes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 There was another long interval of suspense before the porter reappeared with an affirmative answer; and a third while an exiguous and hesitating lift bore her up past a succession of shabby landings. The Reef It is a full-blooded judgment which, though it sounds a trifle exiguous to describe our manifold heroic efforts, is a sort of perpetual epithet. Adventures of a Despatch Rider Her mother was a small, spare, light person, with a wandering eye, a very exiguous nose, and a large forehead, decorated with a certain amount of thin, much frizzled hair. Daisy Miller Women in dreams of diaphanous and exiguous raiment stared derisively at the trio as they passed their tables. The Mountebank She had, however, the advantage of having seen them; she was not called to make an exiguous evocation from the void. Bertram Cope's Year Your Commissioners recommend the building of a stone harbour out to sea without encroaching on the already exiguous dimensions of the land. On Something The German army was reduced to an internal police force of a hundred thousand men, and meticulous care was taken to prevent the evasion of this exiguous limit. A Short History of the Great War Adj. few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases At the latter village he laid in a fresh stock of linen, and was soon complaining of the exiguous proportions of English shirts. With Zola in England The other sailor watched the speaker in cold contempt as he prepared a distinctly exiguous, ill-fed cigarette. Snake and Sword A Novel To be tossed about at the whims of superiors was an experience which he would take as composedly as he would those exiguous weekly wages which were the derisory compensation. The Lost Naval Papers The game is to make seven points by hitting the adversary as many times, and he who wins receives the exiguous stakes for which they play. By-Ways of Bombay No one can maintain the position of a gentleman with more exiguous resources than often fall to his share. Greifenstein Her exiguous legs twinkled all over the parlour, and she had the oddest appearance in the parlour. The Old Wives' Tale One of these set in an exiguous but perennial stream towards India, especially Malabar, where, mixing with the people of the country, the Arab merchants became the progenitors of the Moplah race. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 Thus it came about that, from the exiguous material supplied by Paul, Miss Winwood, not doubting his gentle birth and breeding, constructed for him a wholly fictitious set of antecedents. The Fortunate Youth Perhaps in her girlhood, when I had often seen her in such exiguous finery, they had not been so shapely. The Red Planet Python's design is notably clean, elegant, and well thought through; it tends to attract the sort of programmers who find Perl grubby and exiguous. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 At the best of times, the money which my parents had to spend was an exiguous and an inelastic sum. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments She arrived punctually at eight o'clock next Sunday, carrying an exiguous green linen bag, which contained her dresses. Beyond From his earliest memories they were the first to be fed, clothed and bedded; to his own share fell the exiguous scraps. The Fortunate Youth And as for any money coming,—her sublime Aunt the Kaiserinn never had much ready money; one's resources on that side are likely to be exiguous. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 The broken nose, the exiguous forehead, and the enlarged ears all clamoured for recognition. Piccadilly Jim I had never had to walk along a thoroughfare so exiguous. Manalive Flora saw her father trembling in all his exiguous length, though he held himself stiffer than ever if that was possible. Chance A Tale in Two Parts I found in the preface no clue to the exiguous labyrinth of contents, and in that labyrinth nothing to explain the preface. Seven Men Together they had a noble breakfast, with waffles, and coffee not in exiguous cups but in large pots. Babbitt |
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