| 单词 | faineant |
| 例句 | Here’s me not using faineant in a sentence. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z So said Dormer,—who simply died because his wife died, who could not have touched his brush if one of his girls had been suffering, who, with all his genius, was but a faineant workman. Ayala's Angel Yours is the faineant spirit of the decadent, masquerading in the garb of a sham primitivism. A Lost Leader A loud protest will arise against the faineant policy which declines to interfere while men of English blood are uselessly murdering each other by thousands, and while England's most important manufacture is thereby ruined.... Great Britain and the American Civil War "A faineant, a dilettante; a man with all the God-given ability to do as he will and to succeed, and yet who will not take the trouble to persevere." A Fool for Love So this faineant took but little part in the electioneering doings, holding moodily aloof from the meetings, and councils, and public-houses, where his father's partisans were assembled. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family I'd rather marry the roughest viking that ever sailed the seas than the most accomplished faineant. The Wolf's Long Howl An habitual drunkard was more welcome at "raisings" and "logrollings" than a known faineant. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 So long as I am in the chair, I cannot be a faineant or refuse to do anything and everything incidental to the position. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 King Arthur has fallen into slothful and faineant ways, much to the grief of Guenevere, who sees her lord's fame and prestige waning day by day. From Ritual to Romance I wonder if the faineant Sultan who luxuriates at Langat knows anything of the sensationalism of his "yacht." The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither She called herself harsh names: egoist, craven, faineant. A Spirit in Prison "Master you until the little remnant of your authority shall have been sapped; until you are no more than a puppet in the hands of the Huguenot party, a roi faineant, a king of straw." The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series But, of course, I must make it easy for the Council to get rid of a faineant President, if they prefer that course. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 A race that is not to the swift, a prize that no merits enforce, But is won by some faineant youth, who shall simply walk over the course? Complete Poetical Works A faineant governor and the prestige of British power is now the political aspiration of the Canadians in general; and I think that this is understood in the States. North America — Volume 1 I'll wager, darling, you have seen your uncles, who manage so well that I, at seventeen years of age, am no better than a roi faineant. Catherine De Medici While a roi faineant may fulfil effectively all the essential duties of sovereignty, an autocrate faineant is an absurdity. Russia Send us a faineant governor, a King Log, who will not presume to interfere with us; a governor who will spend his money and live like a gentleman, and care little or nothing for politics. North America — Volume 1 If that be true—and I do not think that any who know the Canadas will deny it—must it not be presumed that they will soon also desire a faineant minister in Downing Street? North America — Volume 1 |
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