单词 | fiddle-faddle |
例句 | “I’ll bet you my whole store it’s a matter of time before everyone starts buying cheap fiddle-faddle from SmartMart rather than paying a little more for something from their own neighbors.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Another is a restless outburst of modernistic fiddle-faddle. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Series Ends With ‘memoir’ 2014-04-30T19:28:03Z He said one day to me, "Why don't you give up your fiddle-faddle of geology and zoology, and turn to the occult sciences?" Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z I should like to know what we have in common with that little fiddle-faddle Dresden china clock and shepherdesses upon the mantel-piece! The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z Nonsense, nonsense, fiddle-faddle! we’re all getting older, as a matter of fact, but you are still a young woman in the very prime of life. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z To stand about and moon over it, and wonder or care what people would say, was all fiddle-faddle, and all sensible people would call it so. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z Now, Hughie, stop your fiddle-faddle, and ask me who 'my niece' is. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec I know that I am not in the confidence of either party," said Mrs. Ricketts, bridling; "and I also know I am sincerely happy that my head is not crammed with such fiddle-faddle. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life The answer came with the low, drawling laugh of Stud Bennett, otherwise Studart, brother to Jessie, the “merle’s” calling mate, who was himself playing fiddle-faddle in the sunshine, after a four-mile hike. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl The boy had been a willing dutiful soldier, everybody said so, and yet they were going to shut him up in prison for five long months, all because of a piece of fiddle-faddle! Jena or Sedan? “Dost thou think I will fiddle-faddle about myself like a woman?” An Orkney Maid I've got beyond all the dogma and fiddle-faddle of the intellect with which the church has overlaid the spirit, and all the ceremonial so useful and necessary for individual souls in early stages of development. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius What if he had fled the rich attractiveness of her presence, had shunned her with heroic scrupulousness, acting from some fiddle-faddle notion of so-called "honour"? The Sign of the Spider “I think it is hard enough for poor human natur’ to keep the commandments of the Lord and the laws of the land without having to be bound by a passel of fiddle-faddle fancies!” Her Mother's Secret It is not good for much, your new evidence! there is nothing in it! mere fiddle-faddle.... The Gods are Athirst He.—True, in chess, women, poetry, eloquence, music, and all such fiddle-faddle. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. “Is she crying out her eyes over that piece of fiddle-faddle?” The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) Such meals, and practically nothing to do for them!—for what has a man of that sort to occupy his time beyond what one would call fiddle-faddle? A Girl in Ten Thousand Lively as a cricket; none of your stuck-up, fiddle-faddle notions. Tempest and Sunshine As to any other difficulties—any of the maidenly fiddle-faddle of which his wife had spoken—this should not stand in the way for an instant. Come Rack! Come Rope! Perhaps I ought not to; but this isn't a case to fiddle-faddle over. The Ragged Edge The longueurs and the fiddle-faddle, the shameless and fulsome preface-advertisements and the rest lay open enough to censure. The English Novel He might indeed have been well designated as "a fiddle-faddle bit of sterling." Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 "Never use an interlude in church, I pray God that I may be forgiven for the fiddle-faddle that I have strummed on organs, in the name of interludes." Four Girls at Chautauqua I would we had more talk about God His Majesty in this household, and less of Popish trinkets and fiddle-faddle…. Come Rack! Come Rope! Here is none of the literary indolence by which nine out of ten works are disfigured, nor the fiddle-faddle notes which some folks must have written in their dreams. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 I feel constrained to treat as trash His noisy fiddle-faddle About his doings with the lash, His feats upon the saddle. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Of all the fiddle-faddle concerning passion probably none is more shudderingly admired than the notion that one possessed of an overwhelming desire for another longs to destroy that other. The Grain of Dust He had an almost equal aversion for what he called the "fiddle-faddle inventors," with their omnibus patents, into which they packed every possible thing that their noddles could imagine. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers She was a sharp observer of the fiddle-faddle of daily life; she had a keen scent for evil motives underlying simple actions. The Golden Calf "We knew you—would never give your consent," murmured the Baroness, "and without your consent I can not marry—" "Undoubtedly," said the Grand Duke, "I would never have given my consent to such fiddle-faddle." Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes It did seem a waste of trouble, a fiddle-faddle plan of life, he feared. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories "All diplomacy since the Treaty of Utrecht seems to me to be fiddle-faddle, and the country rewarded the great man who made that treaty by an attainder." Endymion It was a neat, fiddle-faddle, bit of sterling, that had read good books and kept good company, but was too trifling for use, and only fit to please a child. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 In this way they waste the whole year with tomfoolery and fiddle-faddle, only in order to avoid doing the king's service. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 They said she was a troublesome fiddle-faddle old woman, and so ceremonious that there was no bearing of her. History of John Bull Think of wasting time in such fiddle-faddle proceedings! The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories No more they make a fiddle-faddle About a Hessian horse or saddle. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 He said one day to me, "Why don't you give up your fiddle-faddle of geology and zoology, and turn to the occult sciences!" The Autobiography of Charles Darwin He must tell him a lot of fiddle-faddle. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau As close as a goose Sat the Parliament-house, To hatch the royal gull; After much fiddle-faddle The egg proved addle, And Oliver came forth NOLL. Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 |
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