| 单词 | footless |
| 例句 | I hold the rabbit foot so tight that I bet some distant, footless bunny must be wincing or shouting. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I seemed to be drifting, footless, into the light. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Jane Fonda defined the genre in the 80s, her tapes introducing women to the joys of aerobic fitness in footless tights. The rise of digital fitness: can the new wave of high-intensity home workouts replace the gym? 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z It had been bad enough when I went out in a tutu and leather jacket and she uttered the immortal words: "Ipswich is not ready for footless tights." Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z It’s possible they are just stretchy footless tights that are easy to wear. It’s Possible Leggings Are the Future. Deal With It. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z In “What We Lost,” a group of friends — blind, footless, noseless — plans to storm the palace of their heartless dictator. Debut Stories From Clare Sestanovich, Brenda Peynado and Choi Eunyoung 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z For what are essentially stretchy footless tights in a seemingly endless array of patterns and colors, they have been an unexpected source of controversy. It’s Possible Leggings Are the Future. Deal With It. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z But the girl’s daddy hunted them down, shot the boy in the ankles and dragged his daughter home — leaving him footless and fiancee-free. Style Invitational Week 1104: HOW’s this? Compare 2 things with the same abbrev. 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Soft slippers are worn; the women have footless, flesh-colored tights; the men, sleeveless dark gray tops and loose black bottoms. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz?s ?Untitled (the Blue Ballet)? at the Kitchen 2012-03-10T00:50:47Z It stands on display in the Regional Archaeological Museum, badly weathered and footless but upright. From the Rubble of Atlases, a Colossus Will Rise 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z “My footless habits were practically ruinous to those who had to live with me,” he wrote. Self-Isolated at the End of the World 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z In 2014, the self-made billionaire introduced slimming denim to a line of products that started with footless pantyhose and now includes everything from bras to yoga apparel. DVF, Donna And More: Meet Fashion's Richest Self-Made Women 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z And then there was the orderly group of somber-faced police cadets, who were intently observing the headless, handless and footless statue of the Greek river god Ilissos. At Russia museum, Elgin Marbles statue is cast in a political light 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z She whisked her into the bathroom for a little show and tell, trying on her own product — slimming, shaping footless pantyhose — under a pair of white pants. Spanx Inventor Sara Blakely On Hustling Her Way To A Billion-Dollar Business 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z It is the king Varuna who has traced out to the sun the broad path he is to follow: to footless creatures he has given feet so that they may run. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The picture on the wall refines us, the open book fills the mind with a hundred delicate, footless fancies. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z The footless type with a single handle is preserved in the ordinary tea-cup. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The woman’s footless leg and hernia testify to the truth of her statement. The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z No footless imagination can realize the sublimity< of western Mountain and Plain. Bill's School and Mine A Collection of Essays on Education 2011-10-05T02:00:19.377Z The female deposits one egg in a place, generally low down on the stem of the tree; this hatches, and enters the tissues of the bark, where it feeds for a time, a footless grub. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z The larval stage, however, is simply that of a footless grub which lives within the body of its victim absorbing its life blood and gradually killing it. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z I should like to take my Dictophone to a fussy "afternoon" and record the word evacuations, the footless conversation, the forced pleasantries, the set sentences that mingle into a hum and buzz. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z After this the mutilated wife of Lomboto, of Ekerongo, was carried by a chief, who showed her footless leg and hernia. The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z Why were serpents created footless, stealthy, lidless, implacable—the living embodiment of cunning, their very presence—” He stopped short, and the hairs of his moustache bristled. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z All this bickering about "saving" a production whose asininity one esteemed beyond repair as long as one lacked the moral courage to touch a match to its interminable footage of footless photography! Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z The footless larvae are elongate, worm-like and very active; they feed upon almost any kind of waste animal matter, and when full-grown form a silken cocoon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Shouting for help across the black space that lay between me and the wharves soon exhausted what wind and strength I did not use up in a footless attempt to swim against the current. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z The lance-shaped lobes of these are unequal, sharp, and angular; and the footless acorn-cups are covered with bristly or mossy-looking scales. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z This is a long narrow bag, more like a footless hose than anything else, and when filled with rice it is worn around the waist, where it looks like a big snake coiled around. Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country But no footless serpent could have writhed more deftly down than the pine trunk. Pretty Michal But there is a little footless streak of contrariness in her–we noticed it at boarding-school,–and it seems to have completely spoiled her.” Betty Wales Freshman They always seem to me to resemble those lumps of floating grass one sees in the Gulf Stream, forever drifting onward, footless and fruitless to the end. Aliens Bertrand, do you see these changing exhalations do you see these blue rings and spirals, weaving their dance, like a round of fairies, on the footless air? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV Her husband was staring at her with doubt and fear and weak, footless wrath playing like scurrying clouds across his proud, shamed face. In the Heart of a Fool The creature was standing upon three legs, the fourth was hanging useless, and the blood was dripping from the footless limb. The Hound From The North One by one, in bewildering succession, climax after climax had piled itself upon those which already had left the white-haired circle of regulars about the Tavern stove breathless with fruitless argument and footless conjecture. Once to Every Man As a sample he gave Dickens the following: A definition of nothing,—a footless stocking without a leg. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 Portuguese naturalists also represent the passaros de sol as footless, their mode of flight concealing the extremities. Through the Malay Archipelago At this she asked about Friendship folk, and I answered as best I might, though of what she inquired I knew little, and what I did know was footless enough for human comfort. Friendship Village But this would give rise to a footless argument, leading nowhere. Edge of the Jungle He's a footless kind of breed—but straight, as far as I know. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest No, Mr. Infantryman, Mr. Artilleryman, Mr. Machine-Gun-toter, Mr. Aviator, Mr. Wireless-buzzer, this has not been "the winter of our discontent"—as footless and no-use-at-all as your own work may have seemed to you sometimes. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 The initiated know what it means, but I doubt if any one else would recognize the significance of the headless and footless box! Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) "Life looks dreadful footless to me," she said. Friendship Village The true ant, when emerging from the egg, is a footless grub, and remains in the pupa, or quiescent stage, inclosed in a membrane, till its limbs are developed. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Each cell, in which it hibernates, in the middle of March, contains the yellowish white footless grub. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses His mind ran back over the events of the past few weeks and he could see that those occasions from which Dr. Harpe had been excluded had seemed flat, stale, footless to Augusta. The Lady Doc Maggot: applied to the footless larvae of Diptera. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology Eliminate every habit that holds you back, every practice that unfits you for progress, every person who depresses you, every move that is not necessary, every footless idea that crowds your brain. Dollars and Sense While he was speaking the on-lookers gazed in open-eyed-and-mouthed expectancy, for they did not feel quite sure how their footless friend would receive the gift. The Madman and the Pirate For so many miles had this fleet and footless beast of burthen charioted our fortunes, that we turned our back upon it with a sense of separation. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Even as late as 1760 they were supposed to have no feet, and Linnaeus calls them footless birds of paradise. In the Eastern Seas It is all very well to talk," grumbled Patience, "but you know just how footless mere talk is. Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College It is a footless thing to spend valuable time in idle gossip, for the gossip is seldom a successful business man. Dollars and Sense The deputy, angered out of his usual judgment, spurred his horse directly down the footless shale that the tramp had ridden across diagonally. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail I strove at the footless task of promoting the third peace conference. Fighting For Peace A mother, whose heart bleeds every hour as she sees her son torturing himself with footless remorse; that is one. A Certain Rich Man Once I observed one of the larger ones, about two feet long, pursuing a frog in our meadow, and it was wonderful to see how fast the legless, footless, wingless, finless hunter could run. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth The docile genius of the species, forestalling our desires, presents us with the basset, a sort of almost footless serpent, which steals into the closest thickets. Our Friend the Dog The eggs hatch within five or six days, and in about three or four weeks the footless grubs become full-grown, coming out as adults about five days later. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 I swear it shot along quite flat, crawling, not undulating; but, ough! what a lightning, footless, legless crawl! The Way of the Wild "What duties have I?" said Ray, hoarsely, looking along his footless limb. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 "Nothing," he says, "is—a footless stocking without a leg; and maintains that he ought to hold the first rank as a philosopher for having invented the definition, and deserves a pension from the crown." The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One One poem says that he faces in all directions: another that he is footless and headless. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 "Here are our stockings, Mommy," said the oldest, handing three ragged, almost footless, black stockings to the woman. And Thus He Came A Christmas Fantasy He is represented in the pictures as being footless; in his missionary travels, it is said, he wore away his feet. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Her desire was to stop the footless workings of her mind; to go out and do something. V. V.'s Eyes Instead of sowing onion seed in rows, they should be grown in hills, so that the maggots, which are footless, cannot make their way from one hill to another. Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 A footless boy hobbles past, bargain hunting, a life at odds & ends - smoke drifts over Manhattan, out across the Hudson river as from a Bedouin campfire. Deadly Pollen Only answering with a shrug, the man filled the footless glass, and Riderhood emptied it: looking amazedly from his daughter to his visitor. Our Mutual Friend Bertrand, do you see these changing exhalations? do you see these blue rings and spirals, weaving their dance, like a round of fairies, on the footless air? Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson I apply a drop of acid over the knee of the footless leg. Ponkapog Papers Staring, speculative, he hung in the wind—inquisitive as a cat but loath to waste time in footless inquiry. The Bronze Bell Since, even in these degenerate days, many a footless blacksmith makes an honest living. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories The honest man who gained his living by the sweat of his brow remained in a state akin to stupefaction, until the footless glass and the unfinished bottle conveyed themselves into his mind. Our Mutual Friend The women here wear toeless or footless stockings, the upper part of the foot being bare. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" It is a sort of nautical sister of the fabled bird of Paradise, which was footless, and never alighted out of the air. Journal of an African Cruiser He, after his footless fashion, didn't bother to acknowledge my note. The Deluge "You are not given to footless gossip," replied Grace quietly. Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College At first Riderhood had sat with his footless glass extended at arm's length for filling, while the very deliberate stranger seemed absorbed in his preparations. Our Mutual Friend This riderless horse, with its pall of black, yellow helmet, and footless boots, was the saddest sight imaginable. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 You have passed your life in toil, trying to earn your daily bread, and have found yourself nearing the end of this footless journey that we call life, alone and friendless. Drusilla with a Million Bess," she said, pouting, "did you run me in because of that footless little story? Betty Wales, Sophomore The descendants of these ancient footless vertebrates only acquired extremities—two fore-legs and two hind-legs—at a much later stage of development. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 After a few years' trial of his new life and several rather footless efforts to serve the Church, Ignatius determined, at the age of thirty- three, to perfect his scanty education. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. He was stooping over it, his lens in his eye, busy with a watch, of which several portions lay beside him protected from the dust by footless wine-glasses, when the laird and Cosmo entered. Warlock o' Glenwarlock Now, while all this may strike the reader as footless and trivial, it really has a distinct place in the chronicles of Trigger Island. West Wind Drift Of course we wanted you for yourself," she said, "but that footless little story, as you call it, is a rather important asset. Betty Wales, Sophomore And from the basket drew a flask, And eke a footless glass; He quaff'd the drink, and cried, "Now, dear, I'm strong as ____" let that pass! Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 When she returned she triumphantly displayed a battered doll, armless and footless, but with a magnificent crowning glory of black, frizzed hair. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch By footless ways and sterile went My thought unsatisfied, and bent With blank unspeculative eyes On the untracked sands of discontent Where, watched of helpless skies, Life hopeless lies. Songs Before Sunrise He had sailed and paddled without hurt in his fleet and footless beast of burden, the Arethusa. Robert Louis Stevenson What Larry now did, as he got into the taxi, he would have called footless and foolhardy an hour before, and at any other hour his judgment might have restrained him. Children of the Whirlwind There was also a secondhand coffin, three barrels of turnips, and a peck of coals; there was likewise a footless pair of stockings without the legs, and a pair of embroidered gaiters, a little worn. The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 7: Miscellaneous "Is that another armless or footless wonder next to Billy Thorpe?" asked Teddy. The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings : or, Making the Start in the Sawdust Life On the feet are moccasins, and the stockings are the same footless kind as worn by the Hopi, fastened below the knee with a wide garter. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it Small to see, I, Priapus, inhabit this spit of shore, not much bigger than a sea-gull, sharp-headed, footless, such an one as upon lonely beaches might be carved by the sons of toiling fishermen. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Her scorn and fury that morning of the race had left nothing for him except footless fancies. Wildfire |
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