| 单词 | gadabout |
| 例句 | The author insists she is not a gadabout, though after the release of “Primates” she was snapped at any number of benefit galas. Wednesday Martin Dares to Call Her New Book ‘Untrue’ 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z This year they took time off from their business to gadabout with me. Ask Amy: Dad reneges on help with daughter’s down payment 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z She is, after all, the English-born, Oxford-educated former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Talk and The Daily Beast, as well as a prolific freelance writer, intermittent broadcaster, conference organizer and general gadabout. Tina Brown Catches Up With Royal Intrigue in ‘The Palace Papers’ 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z On “About a Boy,” David Walton plays Will, a gadabout who has an independent income but no job or a family, and works quite hard to keep it that way. Television Review: NBC Rolls Out ‘About a Boy’ and ‘Growing Up Fisher’ 2014-02-21T23:28:58Z White was also here in 2008 with the Raconteurs, the gadabout. The Dead Weather at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-26T19:29:00Z He also joins the quintet for a jocular romp through Ornette Coleman’s “Check Out Time,” his presence both refreshing and, with its gadabout charm, a little disruptive. New Music: New Albums from Patti Smith, Ravi Coltrane and Neneh Cherry 2012-06-18T21:55:59Z Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs. The White Queen: a brief guide to television's period pot-boilers 2013-06-14T12:00:00Z That afternoon the strolling couple encounter David’s college friend, Andrew, a sophisticated gadabout and ladies’ man who is immediately smitten with the human tidal wave from Turkestan. ‘Sea of Glass’: A 1955 masterpiece you’ve probably never heard of 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Her attendance lent Ms. Palermo, a social gadabout and former reality-television star, a welcome dose of culture cred, a debt she repaid by lending the evening a generous dollop of chic. Going Hollywood: In New York, the Ballet and Opera Are Stuffy No More 2012-09-28T23:37:02Z But unlike Porter, who was gay, Henry is an asexual gadabout and throwback to the age of “the confirmed bachelor.” | 'The Extra Man': Kevin Kline Charms on New York Social Scene 2010-07-29T22:23:00Z While young St. Petersburg gadabouts play cards for small fortunes, the poor and frugal Hermann merely looks on. Capturing the essence of Pushkin, the revered poet killed in a duel at 37 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Maybe British towns and cities need to reinvent the assembly rooms that were an alternative to shopping for 18th-century gadabouts. Bye bye, British high street. Can anything take your place in our art? 2013-01-17T13:43:05Z Tim Carroll has mustered the gaudy gadabout spirit of the Globe and popped it into the Apollo. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Twelfth Night; The Magistrate – review 2012-11-25T00:05:48Z It’s not even that I’m more gadabout here. Perspective | Make the cheesy bread that the French nibble nightly 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Belmondo was inundated with offers and tried to avoid being typecast as the likable gadabout. Jean-Paul Belmondo, jaunty star of New Wave classic ‘Breathless,’ dies at 88 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z So for a while, Prince Andrew was just Classic Royal, maybe a wastrel and a gadabout in peacetime, but a standup guy in a war. The party prince: how Andrew got his bad reputation 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Not that the Premier League’s promotional machine will be overly concerned as the season unspools into its final dreamy sunlit Sunday gadabout. Premier League of stasis still has a compelling magic all of its own | Barney Ronay 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z The queen looks serious and demure - nothing like the gadabout many took her to be. A delayed tribute to France's most famous woman artist - BBC News 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The galloping gadabout remains under suspicion of fencing. Horse clip-clops into cop shop 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z At the height of Mr. Kurniawan’s gadabout days, little was known of his personal circumstances. The Pour: Doubts Grew Slowly About Wine Collector Charged with Fraud 2012-03-10T03:02:27Z Run′about, a gadabout: a vagabond: an open wagon; Run′away, one who runs away from danger or restraint: a fugitive.—adj. fleeing from danger or restraint: done by or in flight.—ns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Gadfly, gad′flī, n. a fly which pierces the skin of cattle in order to deposit its eggs: a mischievous gadabout. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z This typical gadabout, light-minded, cynical little old woman with the girlish ways, was after all a big-hearted toiler in the vineyard. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z There are several possible descriptions of Lyles — scout, agent, football gadabout. How much drama is too much for Oregon football program? 2011-07-06T02:06:10Z May I take you to your destination here in my little gadabout? The Reclaimers First let mother tell me that my apprenticeship is at an end, and then I will wander with you; and we shall be two jolly gadabouts, and have lots of money for travelling expenses. Waldfried A Novel Yet why should I after all abuse the gadabout propensities of my countrymen? Tom Brown's School Day's She never went calling, claiming vigorously that she was "no gadabout, she hoped." The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended I was just about to send Philip out to find you, gadabout. Kildares of Storm I just soared down to invite you to take a little drive in my gadabout. The Reclaimers Two cups broken, Lily a gadabout who would bring them to the grave with shame! The Bill-Toppers "Well, gadabout!" said her father as she turned to him after embracing her mother fondly. The Arbiter A Novel Fatigue, too, came to dull that busybody—that tireless, gossiping gadabout—conscience. Lorraine A romance All young maids be idle gadabouts, if they be not looked to sharply, and thou art no better than the rest. The King's Daughters Ain't she stronger and handsomer to-day than she was the day I had the honor to bring her up from the depot in that new gadabout of mine? The Reclaimers Do you want them to be quiet, to stay at home, and be neat, modest, unselfish girls? then do not be giddy and a gadabout yourself. The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year "All the world thinks that I'm a gadabout, an idler, with no interest in existence, except the pleasure I can extract." The Angel of Terror “Where on earth have you been, you gadabouts?” came in Rhoda’s voice from the interior of the hall. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) But here am I preaching away like any old gadabout, and you not as much as taken your bonnet off yet. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 "Well, spite of all I, or anybody could do, Miss Swaim takes my little gadabout this morning and makes off with it." The Reclaimers They hate me because I am no gadabout to spend time abusing my neighbours at the village well. The Black Douglas One of the worst of Ulysses' troubles was, according to him, the numerous and lengthy sea-voyages which that Ithacan gadabout had to take. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 Not four years since I still had her under me at school, and she was already a gadabout. Abbe Mouret's Transgression She despised style, and regarded her sisters as frivolous ninnies and gadabouts. Leonora It's the little gray gadabout we come up from the station in the other evening. The Reclaimers "Here you are again, you gadabout and rover!" he said; but he could not subdue the brighter glistening of his eyes, as they fastened themselves upon his son's handsome, spirited, and youthful face. The Youth of the Great Elector Women meandered around as gadabouts while consuming their chocolaty vulnerability like bonbons but, she told herself, she was not a lowly woman. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Mrs. Pritchard, a gadabout infected with philanthropy, was fond of discovering such cases, and in everyday conversation made the most of her charitable efforts. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories "But she will be glad to go, and glad to come back; no one wants to stay in one place all her life, in these gadabout days," Mary answered. A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods Ponk's gray gadabout seemed to know the way home like a faithful horse. The Reclaimers "I am not to be stopped on the king's service by every gadabout." The White Company With an empire on his shoulders he found time for daily public devotion, and in church-going he was no "gadabout." The Grand Old Man You desperado, you destroyer of peace and quietude, you one-cylinder gadabout! T. Haviland Hicks Senior Tomorrow I'll have some plain words with that priest and those gadabout daughters of Doña Violante, and all the rest who are behind in their payments. The Quest Here And everywhere thy shame is known, that thou Art wedded to a gadabout. Malayan Literature Now, it is not seemly for young folk to be abroad after dark, and I do not choose that my nephew should be called a gadabout. Moonfleet "Where can that little gadabout have got to?" Fruitfulness If I were a rich man's wife I'd be something more than a society gadabout. Youth Challenges A rude romping boy or girl; also a gadabout dissipated woman. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue "Where have you sprung from, gadabout?" cried another voice. The Fortune of the Rougons The first, the recluse, is no more able than the second, the gadabout, to solve the problem of a food which can be entirely assimilated, without leaving an unclean residue. Bramble-Bees and Others "In St. Louis, I believe, though he's such a gadabout that a body can't be very certain of him, I reckon." Those Extraordinary Twins Two of them were the runaway rooster and the gadabout hen that never wanted to go to bed with the others. The Diary of a Goose Girl "Out upon you for a pair of gadabouts!" retorted the old woman. Dead Souls Rebufat, on hearing his story, fell into a terrible rage, and declared that he would kick the gadabout out of his house should she have the audacity to return. The Fortune of the Rougons To judge from your surnames, you would seem to have been born gadabouts 29. Dead Souls |
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