| 单词 | fingerpost |
| 例句 | When cross-roads come in sight, fingerposts are set up telling him where they lead to, and directing him which to take. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z In a few pages it is impossible to do more than erect a fingerpost to point out a possible road to a given end. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn gallows, as the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable,—yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. And all ways have the same fingerpost at the head of them, and at every turning in them. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 You may stand in Piccadilly Circus at midnight and fingerpost yourself to the country of your dreams. Nights in London He ran on, occasionally taking trees and fingerposts for men, and cursing his ill luck when he saw his mistake. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. The island was so Marian that the folk supposed the Milky Way was a fingerpost to guide pilgrims to the shrine of the Virgin at Walsingham. Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published The pyramids, majestic rock-hewn places of worship, and subterranean crypts are but the fingerposts of destiny. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul All our fingerposts have been twisted round by facetious men years ago. Mr. Britling Sees It Through Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn- gallows, as the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable,—yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed. Past and Present The power and fascination of the tale itself made its merits known to the public without the kindly fingerposts of professional criticism, and early in December the rush for copies began. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Then she would have had a fingerpost to warn her off our ground. A Touch of Sun and Other Stories Inadvertently, in fact, he planted, not one, but two or three, misleading fingerposts. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship While Dove hesitated thus, torn between his reputation on the one hand, his missionary zeal on the other; while he hesitated, an incident occurred, which acted as a kind of moral fingerpost. Maurice Guest The road dropped a little into Milford, and the thing shied, put down its head and bolted, and Mr. Hoopdriver only thought of the brake when the fingerpost was passed. The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll |
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