| 单词 | gangling |
| 例句 | Soon he came out, a gangling, tall, reddish-brownskinned fellow, at that time thirty- five years old; when my purpose was made known, he brisded, his eyes skewering me from behind the hom-rimmed glasses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He was tall, thin, and gangling, with freckles, big hands and feet, and a long nose. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He could not have been any older than sixteen, yet he was even taller than his father, almost seven feet of legs and shins and elbows, a gangling, gawky boy with a cowlick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The gangling steward backed away, his hands upraised as if to say, Not me, it was not me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They had gone but halfway around the floor when Francie discovered that his gangling awkwardness was extremely deceptive. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A gangling, towheaded youngster, a girl of about twelve, stood looking in the doorway. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Right in the middle of the picture was Ron, tall and gangling, with his pet rat, Scabbers, on his shoulder and his arm around his little sister, Ginny. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He perched in the stand, both hands wrapped around the head of his cane now, a tremulous and gangling old man. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He realized now that the shout had been merely a summons to someone named Nebre, for a gangling figure was hurrying toward them from another part of the shop. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z And the gangling, shuffling loose-jointed boys carrying suitcases were marching awkwardly down Main Street to the Southern Pacific Depot. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Bewildered, Salvador stopped, whirled around, and stood waiting as a gangling youth came shouldering his way through the market crowd toward them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The other, tall and gangling, stood there awkwardly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a master of the lump: the knobbly and inert, the gross and the gangling. Franz West: generous sculptural jester 2012-07-26T16:05:02Z It's in contrast with his opening act, Willow "Daughter of Will" Smith, a gangling 11-year-old who resembles a streetwise string bean in bright green and black. Justin Bieber and Katy Perry live 2011-03-20T00:05:30Z At first the roles that came to him were mostly comic, owing perhaps to his gangling figure and pilgrim looks — long face, sharp nose, superb eyebrows. Sam Waterston Is Still the Face of ‘Law & Order’ 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z That was one of the first of his performances to exploit his tall, gangling, slightly awkward figure. Hugues Cu?nod obituary 2010-12-08T19:10:00Z I first met Daldry 20 years ago when he was a gangling guy in sneakers who looked as if he needed a good meal. Hurrah for Daldry and Boyle 2010-06-17T10:54:00Z Both James McArdle as the gangling tutor, caught in a sexual tug-of-war, and Jonathan Coy as Natalya's husband, who grasps the wrong end of every stick, are equally infected by the heroine's hysteria. A Month in the Country 2010-10-01T20:29:00Z It shows how easily idiots can thrive in a broken system, such as gangling imbecile Jonah Ryan, most notably through his wood-chopping campaign commercial. Hail to the Veep: the best and most brutal comedy of the century 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z The best known is NASA's ER-2, a derivative of the U-2 spy plane with a tiny fuselage and gangling, oversized wings. It’s Time to Engineer the Sky 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z How did you step into Cootie’s gangling, somewhat awkward skin? Jharrel Jerome of 'I'm a Virgo' is a Libra, but he can channel another star sign 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z An awkward, gangling kid, he failed to make the team at Hoover Junior High School. Bill Russell, professional basketball’s first African American superstar and a game-changing big man who reinvented the center position of the dynastic Celtics of the late 1950s and 60s, has died 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z He's also given the tall, gangling, slightly cadaverous writer ill-fitting clothes and cabbage-patch hair which he thinks were characteristic. Would Orwell want to adorn the BBC? 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Just look back at some of the past descriptions in the foreign press: “gangling,” “scrawny,” “like an American surf dude.” Perspective | Alexander Zverev might be tennis’s heir to the Big Four. Enjoy him in this moment. 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Prather brought Blackfoot Mystery back East to work beside Martin, who took an instant liking to the big, gangling gelding with a floating gait. Hollywood Park rescue horse finds himself in the Olympics 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z “This is hard, Charles,” Skelton said to Charles Davis, a gangling and talented freshman forward. A Long Hardwood Journey 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Wearing his yellow tights and green tunic with pride, a gangling James Moye portrays Buddy as an endearing, mildly anxious man-child with an ingenuous personality and a wide smile. A Review of ‘Elf’ in Millburn 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The gangling Geordie gives a whole new meaning to the term ungainly, but with a ball at his feet his pipe-cleaner legs seem to come into their own. Middlesbrough 2-1 Cardiff City 2013-03-02T17:38:11Z Although his gangling figure suggested possible limitations, he turned his dimensions to his advantage. Tony Greig obituary 2012-12-30T15:40:25Z We knew him as Washie, short for the old fashioned washpeg that his peers at school in South Africa said that the gangling youth resembled. Tony Greig – showman, salesman, charismatic leader and cricketing great 2012-12-30T14:42:28Z Dot’s man was a gangling young fellow with a covered basket from which he was selling sugar cakes made into fancy shapes. The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward 2012-02-03T03:00:19.757Z The pose of gangling Walter Barker, a student and assistant of the artist, is one of carefree languor and awkward youthful grace. Vampires, Ghosts Haunted Max Beckmann During U.S. Exile: Review 2011-12-09T00:23:06Z A gentleman of Philadelphia purchased a horse, four years old, long, gangling, ewe-necked; such a brute as no one but a confident disciple of Baucher would have had anything to do with. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z With them was a gangling, goose-necked youth, dressed several degrees beyond the height of fashion. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z Yet there were times, now he was come to a gangling fourteen, when Luke’s philosophy threatened to fail him. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z The elk is a large and ungainly creature, with a body like a grand piano, gangling, knotty limbs and a cranium overweighted with antlers the shape of giant foam hands. When a sportsman's elk-hunting days are over 2011-08-25T22:00:03Z “That so?” returned Smithy, his gangling clerk, coming outside to stretch and yawn. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z I have never met with the word “gangling” before; is it an invention of Mr. Albert Smith’s? John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z They have a short, choppy stride, far different to the gangling gait of the American soldier. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z One day a young swamper, a gangling lad of twenty, raging and weeping, threw himself upon Reivers like a cat upon a bear. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z "Coronel Pancho Villa" was the name his men gave him, and the thin, gangling Mexican scholar had fought like a terror to live up to this name. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z He had to speak to Smithy, or to the circumambient air, for nobody but the gangling clerk was within hearing. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z A Northampton club stalwart, Lennie Newman, recalls going to watch his own son play and being deeply impressed by a gangling 17-year-old in the same team. Courtney Lawes can be the heir to the talented Mr Ripley 2010-06-18T14:00:00Z Shahadat Hossain rushed in from around the wicket, his gangling frame bounding up to the stumps with the fervour that he had displayed throughout England's innings. Shahadat Hossain's England five-for puts Bangladesh on Lord's board 2010-05-28T15:06:00Z A deep free kick from Steven Davis reaches Kyle Lafferty at the back post after a flick from a defender but the gangling forward cannot make anything of a difficult chance. Live - Wednesday's Scottish football 2010-04-14T18:23:00Z They had gangling arms as long as an orangutan's, but relatively modern hands. Fossil Discovery Offers New Look at Evolution 2010-04-08T14:38:00Z Smithy, Judson’s gangling young clerk, was the most noticeable member of the new group. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z I played against him when he was a gangling child star. In 1991 players gave you nothing, in 2010 they give you even less |Eddie Butler 2010-03-25T15:28:00Z Matt is gangling and shambling - he's like a terrible mess that somehow becomes elegant by magic, he said. New Doctor Who series premiered 2010-03-19T02:17:00Z King Charles was a little chestnut, one of those long fellows that stretch like rubber when they commence running; Miss Lazy was a gangling bay. The Garden of Eden Hugh hadn't changed a great deal from the gangling kid who never studied mathematics in school but always had the answers. The Last Gentleman Perhaps the evidence of this gun so prominently displayed had saved the gangling clerk from much hectoring comment that he might otherwise have suffered from some of the patrons of the Three Star. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z Tall, gangling Boris gave her no trouble, turned his back when she undressed for the evening, even though she was careful to slip under the covers first. Voyage To Eternity His gangling, ineffectual physique wasn't too far below the mode, but mentally he soared intolerably above it. The Dictator The horse wheeled, stepping as clumsily as a gangling yearling. The Garden of Eden Unlike the trained cow-ponies from Bill Edwards’ corral, this gangling creature did not know, of himself, what to do in the emergency. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure Besides, the gangling one put forward an unmistakably pregnant fact. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z There are radial intelligences, one-legged species, tall, gangling creatures, squat ones, pancake ones, giants, dwarfs. Voyage To Eternity Colonel Fairfax became a benefactor of the young man's fortunes, an inspiration to his ambition, and was truly and wholeheartedly attached through his affections to the gangling youth. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria The gangling Texan was testing his rudder controls and flipping his ailerons with jerky movements of evident impatience. Aces Up The wicked little black steer was almost upon the gangling Eastern horse ere Frances stretched forward and let the loop go. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure He had expected to meet a weak-faced, bony-necked, shock-headed type of gangling youngster such as ranged the Kentucky hills in his own boyhood. The Bondboy The tall Rogan teetered up to the prisoners on his gangling legs, and stared icily at them. The Red Hell of Jupiter It was while I was guiding a party of Eastern folks across the Rabbit Ear range that we met a gangling fellow named "Shorty," by way of contrast. A Mountain Boyhood The gangling youth for the first time showed an intelligent interest in anything outside of his cigarette. Rimrock Trail It was the first joke the gangling innovator had perpetrated. The Brown Mouse But many towns died in their gangling youth, tragic monuments to hopes; but monuments also to effort, and to the pioneer courage and the dreams of an empire-building people. 'Firebrand' Trevison Heading the procession was the immensely tall, gangling Rogan leader, clutching Greca by the wrist and dragging her indifferently along to be his mouthpiece. The Red Hell of Jupiter Her mother, moreover, was manifestly proud that the child wasn't "one of those long-legged, gangling tom-boy girls, who seem so backward" and wear pigtails and chew slate pencils and dream. In Our Town A gangling lad, with a grin on his homely face, he had certain instincts of manliness, of decent conduct, although he had known only men whose souls were black with sin. Blackbeard: Buccaneer Father would no more have dared play the mouth-organ to these gangling youths than he would have dared kiss a traffic policeman at Forty-second and Fifth Avenue. The Innocents A Story for Lovers Now, I want——” There was a gangling figure walking down the concrete path between the trim, monotonous cottages that were officers’ quarters at the Shed. Space Platform Already many had found them; and everywhere gangling, slimy bodies were melting in oily black smoke that almost instantly vanished in thin air. The Red Hell of Jupiter Four years there did the work for the gangling, silent mountaineer. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights He was then a tall, "gangling" youth, six feet one in height, with yellow hair and blue eyes. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado My kibitzer came stalking out of the building, gangling and gawky. Card Trick He blinked at the tall, gangling Kevenoe, who was still out of breath from running. The Destroyers At a piping cry from the leader, several of the gangling figures picked them up in reedy arms and began to walk across the square, away from the ship. The Red Hell of Jupiter Johnny Coombs was a tall man, so thin he was almost gangling, with a long nose and shaggy eyebrows jutting out over his eyes. Gold in the Sky There was a blonde woman who might be in her late thirties, a short, scowling man with several jewelled rings on his fingers, and a gangling, skinny adolescent. Talents, Incorporated The I-A section chief was dark-haired, gangling, with large head and big features. Missing Link You see, I've been in love with you ever since, as a gangling, bony, knobby-kneed kid, I listened to your first doctorate disputation. Masters of Space What had been its gangling body drifted up in inky smoke. The Red Hell of Jupiter A gangling youth in the latter's employ was on the buggy seat and he recognized the Foam Flake first and his driver next. Fair Harbor He pressed close into the angle of the fence, made himself of as little compass as his long and gangling limbs allowed, and held himself still as an opossum feigning death. The Long Roll He was not the awkward, ignorant, gangling farm-hand we meet in books and see on stages. Prudence Says So There is nothing to be done for God by harshness; nothing to be done by discords and gangling; nothing to be done by scolding and rebuke. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Twice that door had been opened, and twice she had directed the death rays into its opening to mow down the gangling figures behind it. The Red Hell of Jupiter Yet there were times, now he was come to a gangling fourteen, when Luke's philosophy threatened to fail him. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story A gangling young man, swart-faced, fired by the contending crosses of alcoholic concoctions which he had swallowed, approached Morgan where he leaned against the bar. Trail's End The second of the three was a gangling kid who probably never gave me a second look, let alone a third. The Door Through Space A gangling line trailed across their bodies, a line with a safety belt locked to it, and a second was uncoiling in a slow loop as they watched. Star Hunter With pain-dimmed eyes he glared at the gangling, hateful figure that gazed down on him with icy eyes. The Red Hell of Jupiter His wide mouth opened with a grin of pleasure; he came forward with gangling strides. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett He was a tall, gangling, effeminate, romantic, middle-aged man whom his parents still supported and viewed with deference as a superior personality. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Sing! gangling lad, along the brink Of wild brook-ways of shoal and deep, Where killdees dip, and cattle drink, And glinting little minnows leap! The Book of Joyous Children They were all legs and gangling arms, red ears and dusty boots. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West Next day bright and early here comes frugal Safety, gangling along behind his whiskers and bringing one of his ill-fed hirelings to help drive the stuff back. Ma Pettengill I became, in short, the gangling farmer-boy my aunt had known, scourged with chilblains and bashfulness, my hands cracked and sore from the corn husking. Youth and the Bright Medusa This is very apt to be the case where the wife is of the "dumpy" sort, with a small mouth and short fingers, while the husband is "gangling," large mouthed and long fingered. Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise He would probably have described himself as tall, big, gangling. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 These gangling creatures, all legs and foolishness, are not of our kind, O my master. Alcatraz Cy Bogart covered Fern's nervous hand with his red paw, and when she bounced with half-anger and shrieked, "Let go, I tell you!" he grinned and waved his pipe—a gangling twenty-year-old satyr. Main Street I became, in short, the gangling farm boy my aunt had known, scourged with chilblains and bashfulness, my hands cracked and sore from the corn husking. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories I would ye both sat as fast there; Then should ye dance as a bear, And all by gangling of your chains. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 Long, gangling boy to start with, and a lean, stoop-shouldered man. A Modern Instance Mr. Bowring touched a button on his desk and presently an office boy—a mop of auburn curls, a pert face and gangling legs in knickerbockers—hurried up with a "Yes, Sir?" The Great God Success When the echo of the horse's hoofs had ceased, a lean gangling figure came from out of the field-brush, and met him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 Long, lean and hollow cheeked, the term "gangling" fits him better than any other. The Boy Aviators in Africa Stover, a tall, gangling cattle-man with drooping grizzled mustache, came shambling up to the steps. Going Some As for the first, he was narrow-chested and gangling, while a brief, disastrous experience on the college paper had furnished a sad commentary upon the second. The Ne'er-Do-Well A gangling youth of twenty lolled in the saddle. Sixes and Sevens And, as ever toward the feeble, his big nature went out in friendly protection to this gangling wisp of impishness. Further Adventures of Lad To Kitty, with his tired eyes and weather-bitten face, his bony, gangling body, he had the appearance of a lazy man. The Drums of Jeopardy Of a sudden the gangling, spineless foreman had grown taut and forceful, his long face was hard. Going Some As a gangling boy he still took for granted the hard knocks of a world he did not attempt to synthesize. The Vision Splendid The constable's gangling body strove in vain to hold any semblance of balance. Further Adventures of Lad The youngster was eleven years old; lank and gangling, and blest with a fretful voice and with far less discipline and manners than a three-month collie pup. Further Adventures of Lad |
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