| 单词 | Gilbertian |
| 例句 | When Jean Louise felt apprehensive, expectant, or on edge, especially when confronting her aunt, her brain clicked to the meter of Gilbertian tomfoolery. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Of a truth the complete topsy-turveydom of the eternal fitness of things involved by the arrangement struck him as positively Gilbertian. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z The friends laughed together, and the first said, "What a pity the Gilbertian humor has gone out so; you can't adapt it to a daily need any longer without the risk of not being followed." Imaginary Interviews He is the young fellow who is something in the City; the everyday young man of the Gilbertian song, with a stick and a pipe and a half-bred black-and-tan. What I Saw in America But his eyes would surely have glistened at the unconscious and serious anticipation of his own methods at their most Gilbertian, had he ever read pp. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 “A Gilbertian idea, to say the least,” I smiled. Penguin Persons & Peppermints There was something so "Gilbertian" in the idea of a prisoner acting as his own jailer! From Paris to New York by Land And one feels that it oughtn't to be so; one feels that it's Gilbertian to the pitch of frenzied lunacy. Mufti This proceeding, solemnly carried out on the edge of the wilderness, and in sound of the roaring waters of the Gulf, is not without a Gilbertian spice. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development When he made "Society" rhyme with "Propriety," he thought he was getting to be Gilbertian. Ade's Fables When he made "Society" rhyme with "Propriety," he thought he was getting Gilbertian. Ade's Fables Of him the great Gilbertian generalisation is untrue; he was not born either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative. George Bernard Shaw To turn a private name into a public epithet is a thing given to few: but the word "Gilbertian" will probably last longer than the name Gilbert. The Victorian Age in Literature After all," he murmured, "it would have been almost Gilbertian if I had been returned to Parliament with the Labour vote against me! A People's Man It was a distinctly Gilbertian situation, and the people to whom they introduced me were quite as picturesquely disreputable as themselves. The Exiles and Other Stories Perhaps after this he will return to Real Eccentric Gilbertian Opera, and go away for "change of air." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892 It never has been approached, nor has the opera, so far as my information goes, ever been given with the same Gilbertian verve and swing. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 He is the only poet who was also, in the European sense, on the spot; even if, in the sense of the Gilbertian song, the spot was barred. The Victorian Age in Literature Mother Carey had wished the same thing, but hoped that Nancy had not noticed the Gilbertian flaw in the telegram. Mother Carey's Chickens The hunger-strike itself, with all its grim horrors and heroisms, was like the plot of a Gilbertian opera. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) Go to! thou art surely a Gilbertian travesty, a deliciously droll compound of vulgar patriotism and maudlin pathos. Without Prejudice He produced one day a copy of verses, written in the Gilbertian metre, to illustrate his mental attitude, and they strike me as so neatly worded, that I will reproduce them in full. The Days Before Yesterday These complications were getting exceedingly Gilbertian in character. Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines |
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