| 单词 | flossy |
| 例句 | Before it had been tacky and flossy and drab. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Another variety bloomed in the curves of its bones, flossy and sheer and caramel-colored. Angie Mar’s Menu: Red Meat and Respect 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Tending to his own flossy coif with comb, hair dryer, spray and oversize scissors, Trump is the delusional, preening Norma Desmond from one of his favorite movies, “Sunset Boulevard.” Stephanie Grisham, the Latest White House Memoirist, Offers Apologies and Payback 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z I’m not a flossy man, so I don’t need a car that peacocks too loudly. Sterling K. Brown Is on His Best Behavior, Just in Case 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z With his pale eyes, flossy hair and rugged features, Crowell is more evidently the country-music grandee – an imposing Texan in a black silk scarf and matching trilby. Emmylou Harris: 'I looked down on country' 2013-03-04T18:22:38Z Back on dry land, the flossier parts of L.A. have new “lifestyle clubs,” some invitation only, all of them evidently requiring a matchmaking interview that sounds like facing a New York condo board. Patt Morrison: The naked truth about L.A.'s swanky private clubs 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Plump pods and flossy seed heads signal the end of this year’s growing season while holding the germ of the next. Fill your autumn garden — and your house — with these subtle plants 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The meat is shredded into flossy, slightly chewy tendrils that are gently charred around the edges on the grill and piled into aluminum to-go containers. Review: At Fonda Mixcoac in Anaheim, order a cheesy 29-inch machete. Bring friends 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “Florence Foster Jenkins,” which was written by Nicholas Martin, is a comedy, and a frothy, flossy one at that. ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ review: Meryl Streep, singing badly, and right on cue 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The fair hair, lying on the pillow, recalled to her the short flossy curls of the little girl who had clung to her skirts, who had had but one thought—"mamma." The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z When he wants to pull off a crime, he always dresses it up in flossy trimmings. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z The hazel hath put forth his tassels ruffed; The willow's flossy tuft Hath slipped him free: The rose amid her ransacked orange hips Braggeth the tender tips Of bowers to be. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z At the same time you will find the wild willow-bushes all covered with little flossy white cocoons. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z At this point I am sorry to say that Archie, in the wish to have everything as real as possible, actually did snip off a good part of Ethelinda's flossy curls. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z Here and there, as though flung by an invisible hand from the zenith, straggled long cloud ribbons of flossy crimson and silver. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The silk-cotton-tree is so called because it bears a pod full of flossy silk, which is used instead of down for pillow cases, but the fibres are too short to be woven. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z She blushed as she gingerly drew it from among the rest, the delicate color tinting her whole sweet face, from its pretty chin to its silver frame of flossy curls. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z Brush the flossy or bright side with a clean clothes-brush, the way of the nap. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z Into this I dropped, and lodged safely upon the flossy paddock inside. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies There's no doubt at all, however, that before that takes place I must acquire some of those flossy things you've taught me to look for. The Bachelors A Novel She could hardly be some graduate student in philosophy; she was too young and too flossy for that. The Book of Susan A Novel The only clouds were a few faint flossy pencilings like combed silk. My First Summer in the Sierra I worked more or less for two or three years; but my money made me kind of 'flossy,' and whenever I 'd feel like it, I 'd just throw up the job and quit. Checkers A Hard-luck Story The rose tints, and the shading of rose tint into gold, the flossy, filmy accumulation of illuminated vapor that drifts across the sky in a January afternoon, are beauties far exceeding those of summer. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings Charles was a short foot taller, with much the same hair and eyes, thick flossy whiskers, broad shoulders, and a bass voice. Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 To be truly flossy was, after all, a privilege reserved for a chosen few, born to a certain circle which Jimmy had never sought to penetrate. The Book of Susan A Novel ‘Repatriation’ was the flossy name they gave it, but I call it homesickness. Aces Up Madame Beattie was in bed, where she usually was when not in mischief, the summer breeze touching her toup�e as tenderly as it might a young girl's flossy crown. The Prisoner She was a placid lady of sixty, whose hair, once golden, had turned a flossy white, and whose apple cheeks, though still retaining their plumpness, had grown waxen and were criss-crossed by innumerable tiny lines. The Belovéd Vagabond All I ask is that no lady will cut up flossy in any shape, form, or manner, but behave genteel and refined to one and all. Athalie Speeches mostly about me, I nearly rubbed the silver off my flossy new cigarette case keeping from looking foolish while they were telling about me and the future of aviation and all them interesting subjects. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life I’m more or less of a thickhead when it comes to flossy finance; but I’ve seen enough plain flimflam games to know a few things. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe It is a little clump of wattle-trees, about as big as apple-trees, covered all over with soft flossy blossom of the brightest yellow. Peeps At Many Lands: Australia And how the glossy horses tossed their flossy manes and neighed, As the rattle and the rhyme of the tenor-drummer's time Filled all the hungry hearts of us with melody sublime! Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes When first taken from the loom the face of satin is somewhat flossy and rough, and hence requires to be dressed. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades The forms of other actorines I put away into the shade; All of them flossy near-blondines Find and shall find me unafraid. The Book of Humorous Verse Here you are for the nice, glossy floor and the nice, flossy girls. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance "Any suggestions that you may make——" "Then we'll begin right now," says I. "You are to ditch that flossy floor-walker outfit of yours from this on." The House of Torchy He might have fled: Those legs of his would soon have sped That flossy tail—that lofty head— Far, far away from danger. The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses And yet when the maid lets us in hanged if the place ain't full of people, mostly young hicks in evenin' clothes, but with a fair sprinklin' of girls in flossy party dresses. Torchy As A Pa Even so, that flossy bunch of lady typists showed poor taste in cuttin' loose with the smothered snickers as we wobbles past. Torchy and Vee Maybe it was that flossy French maid of theirs. Torchy, Private Sec. "Too flossy," says I. "Sounds like you was tryin' to let on he belonged to the aristocracy." The House of Torchy Well, you know them cut rate apartment houses, with a flossy reception room, all marble slabs and burlap panels and no elevator. Torchy She had some flossy ones: Emperor, Commander, President, en sich, but I vetoed that trash, the colt couldn't carry 'em and live. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story I don't know where she gets all them flossy things and she won't tell. Torchy and Vee Flyaway looked up, through her veil of flossy hair, at her pretty auntie with the roses round her face. Dotty Dimple's Flyaway You raise your face to the heavens, and the soft touch of the flossy drops makes you close your eyes as in a dream. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 "Well, it's a flossy outfit, all right," says I. "What is he, one of the directors?" Torchy You'll be in at the finish, Dan," said London Bill; "an' for the others, pick out a dozen of the flossiest coves you can find. The President A novel I knew he always had acted like a poor prune when he was kidded by the flossy key pounders in the office, but almost any nut could see this was an entirely different case. Torchy and Vee Up went the little hands to the flossy hair. Dotty Dimple's Flyaway He was very fair complexioned, with flossy hair and flaxen beard. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 It's a flossy garden scene, all right, with winding paths, and flowerbeds, and cute little summer houses, and all sorts of bushes in bloom. Torchy It was a silk tassel, and he pulled at one strand of it until it was flossy and frayed. The Tin Soldier The curtain still held slightly back by her hand permitted the light from within to reflect over her figure, revealing in softened outline the beauty of her features, the flossy brightness of her hair. Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier He turned just in time to face a dazzling vision of fluffy lace and flossy hair beside him in the dimly lighted hall. Bob Hampton of Placer His head was small, but finely formed, and covered with flossy hair black as ebony. Trifles for the Christmas Holidays Maybe he wouldn't be listed as a home destroyer; but he has a flossy way with him and he goes around a lot. Torchy The best I can do, though, is to steer him into a flossy Broadway grill, shove him the wine-card with the menu, and tell him to go the limit. Wilt Thou Torchy Say, they got more curiosity, them flossy key pounders! On With Torchy Her hair, as thick and curly as Lily's, was far more glossy and flossy, and of the yellowest, brightest gold-color. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics He led a little flossy white dog by a ribbon. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories It's the real thing, too, and no flossy bluff about the lady's grouch. Torchy Spoiled at home, and the job finished at one of these flossy girls' boardin'-schools where they get a full course in court etiquette and learn to call the hired girl Smith quite haughty. Wilt Thou Torchy And when they came out of the store she was carryin' a pound box of choc'late creams tied up flossy with a pink ribbon. On With Torchy Only Topaz, who at his entrance had bounded from a satin cushion as golden as his flossy coat, leaped upon him with every sign of affection. Jewel's Story Book And their manes were silken, and thick and strong, And their tails were flossy, and fetlock-long, And jostled in time to the teeming throng, And their knightly song besides. Afterwhiles Some of the heads, of lustrous, flossy gold, actually shone by their own light. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 One was a flossy account of Mrs. Theodore Bayly Bagstock's third Wednesday; the other was six lines in the obituary column. Wilt Thou Torchy I scatter crumbs on the doorstep, And fling them some flossy threads; They fearlessly gather my bounty, And turn up their grateful heads. New National Fourth Reader The hearth-rug exhibited a bright yellow tiger, with pink eyes, on a blue ground, with a flossy green border; and the fender and fire-irons were of shining brass. Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities It is crusted with emerald and flossy mosses, and glimmers with diamond, jacinth, ruby, topaz, sapphire and gold. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Having procured a small flossy feather, the players sit in a circle as closely together as possible. My Book of Indoor Games It's one of those flossy, ornamented ceilings down there, and a panel of those ceiling ornaments came up with the bottom of the trap. The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant They trudged onwards with slanted bodies through the flossy fields, keeping as well as they could in the shelter of hedges, which, however, acted as strainers rather than screens. Tess of the d'Urbervilles And how the glossy horses tossed their flossy manes and neighed. Riley Child-Rhymes But now, all the light in the room seemed to centre on the yellow flossy curls against her breast. The Green Satin Gown No. He must have thick, flossy hair like Mimi, so that I can stroke him. Life and Death of Harriett Frean Perhaps, also, the flossy young woman is of opinion that any clever author can write as well as this reader. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 It was a fine, serene evening, and the highest peaks were wearing turbans of flossy, gossamer cloud-stuff. Travels in Alaska We are nearing Atlantic waters, The sun is high up now, almost overhead: there are a few thin clouds in the tender-colored sky,—flossy, long- drawn-out, white things. Two Years in the French West Indies After you've been on the road for ten years a real Sunday dinner in a real home has got Sherry's flossiest efforts looking like a picnic collation with ants in the pie. Roast Beef, Medium A little below the fort, on the right bank of the river, was an extensive cotton-field, still white with the flossy cellulose. Four Months in a Sneak-Box But Jane's hair loved the water, and a flash of sunshine after it just whipped the little ringlets into flossy tangles. Jane Allen, Junior One of these drew a flossy tendril of Winsome's golden hair, which this morning had red lights in it like the garnet gloss on ripe wheat or Indian corn, and tossed it over her brow. The Lilac Sunbonnet She turned us over to a stout brunette lady who was cultivating a neat and flossy pair of muttonchops. Europe Revised The Opera with its lemans, the pink boudoir and its flossy hangings, the feast and its surfeits; we have even seen Moliere's doctor reappear, such need has this man of sarcasm and grotesqueness. Balzac These then followed the plush; first two snowy, full-sized pillars of white, and then two jet columns of flossy silk. Relics of General Chasse A dainty little lassie, Grace Kildare, Had snared him in her flossy, flaxen hair, And made him captive. Maurine and Other Poems Now and then he passed his fingers through his flossy white hair, to assist his thinking, and meantime he allowed his breakfast to go on cooling. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Her dainty feet, shapely, aspiring, and full of character as her face, were carelessly thrust forward, and upon one of them lay a flossy spaniel, a privileged pet of his fair mistress. The Golden Dog On that snarling April day, when only himself and the flossy ball of sleeping Skye were in the place, this thought added to Mr. Traill's discontent. Greyfriars Bobby The exhilarating wind brought a colour into her pale cheeks, and her flossy curls were blowing over her face. The Heir of Redclyffe The same internal arrangements prevail behind this frontage: first, a flossy quilt; next, a little keg in which the eggs are packed. The Life of the Spider The flossiest kind of thing they got is only ten cents a order. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed When Spring flowers peep from flossy cells, And bright-winged parrots call, In forest paths be ours to rove Till purple evenings fall. An Anthology of Australian Verse The balloon has to split automatically and to scatter the youngsters and their flossy mattress all mixed up together. The Life of the Spider |
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