| 单词 | hag-ridden |
| 例句 | “I’m hag-ridden,” he says, pretending to be mournful. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Rending and gnawing, Devouring sleep, Like vampires did they sap my strength, So that the dawning of day Found me hag-ridden, Shattered and broken. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z But I carried double weight: jealousy is a heavy hag, and I was hag-ridden morn and eve and all the livelong day to boot. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Let the blue and hideous glare of the lightning, and the ghastly gleam of the hag-ridden meteor, illumine the deeds of my doing. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z And as a man hag-ridden beats and grins And bends his body sidelong in his bed, So wagged he with his body and knave's head, Gaping at her, and blowing with his breath. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z She has not time to worry about her mother's homely ways, nor is she so hag-ridden by the Simpsons. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z Thus hag-ridden, yet still in search of happiness, have I stalked over the loveliest of the lovely scenes that abound around Edinburgh, almost unconscious of where I have been. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 He rushed into the day's pleasures like one hag-ridden. Shadows of Flames A Novel Whitaker waited by the desk, a gaunt, weary man, hag-ridden by fear. The Destroying Angel In short, she was out of health, out of looks, out of heart, and hag-ridden by her conscience. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) She had been worn out and discouraged, hag-ridden by her mother and facing a trip to the city; and she had sold out for what she could get. Shadow Mountain What a plague it sometimes is to be hag-ridden by a tune, racing through one's head, with a never-ending always-beginningness, as though a thousand imps were singing it in one's ears. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 She was a lovely, solemn, deep-eyed, hag-ridden goose. Love and Lucy The man is what his country is, tragic, hag-ridden, yet impassive, patient under the sun. The Spanish Jade The ancients had been hag-ridden, so to speak, by the circle; and it appeared to them that such a perfectly formed curve was alone fitted for the celestial motions. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language I leaned against gaunt houses and saw the dancing waifs yield their poor lives to ugly, hag-ridden music. Tongues of Conscience He is not the man to be hag-ridden like Macbeth, or humoured into remorseful deeds like Brutus. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 He got a man with a hag-ridden look in his eye. PRoblem To what you call the hag-ridden moron jittering out of sight in your mind, so many things equate to a threat to survival. The Short Life Commuters who go in and out of town every day are a notoriously hag-ridden lot, and the men who go on the road are not much better. The Book of Business Etiquette Alas, poor devil! spectres are appointed to haunt him: one age he is hag-ridden, bewitched; the next, priestridden, befooled; in all ages, bedevilled. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History They were incessantly hag-ridden by political difficulties, both internal and external, of an inordinate complexity, and these occupied all the leisure they could steal from the sordid work of everyday. A Book of Prefaces She had found a formula for the resolution of problems, both physical and mental, which had hag-ridden her for years. Modern Religious Cults and Movements He looked hag-ridden as he went on without any preparation. Robin Her eyes haunted me; they had what is called a hag-ridden look. Lore of Proserpine It is a Government hag-ridden by forty-one administrative Boards, whose functions overlap one another and sometimes conflict with one another. Liberalism and the Social Problem Then why did he allow himself to be hag-ridden to his ruin by such a creature? Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 We thought him looking old and hag-ridden, but Doria seemed happy. Jaffery These people would have it jovial, smart, highly coloured, aiding them, in their base selfishness, to forget the hag-ridden existences of their brothers. Là-bas Yet this is an absurd position—for man, the heir of all the ages: hag-ridden by the flimsy creatures of his own brain. A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga At other times, they were just like other men of their age; but Falloden, who knew them well, realised that they were both hag-ridden by remorse for what had happened in the summer. Lady Connie This matted appearance of colts' manes, which is only the natural result of their not being groomed or combed when young and unbroken, was known in many country places as "hag-ridden." Grain and Chaff from an English Manor But, for ourselves, in that forlorn and hag-ridden figure we more naturally see a symbol of the generations that slay the slayer and shall themselves be slain. Essays in Rebellion In short, she was out of health, out of looks, out of heart, and hag-ridden by her conscience. Prince Otto, a Romance It is very certain, and much to be rejoiced at, that our literature is hag-ridden. Nightmare Abbey Nightmare, for example, will explain the testimony of witnesses in trials for witchcraft, that they had been hag-ridden by the accused. Among My Books First Series Fed by slaves from the cradle, hag-ridden by his vices; a purple young bully, a product of filthy sloth, scabbed with privilege. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Those whom Christophe saw were more hag-ridden by the science of music—even when they knew nothing—than all the critics on the other side of the Rhine. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House What a self-sufficient and inhuman brood were the Victorians of that type, hag-ridden by their nightmare of duty; a brood that has never yet been called by its proper name. Alone By nine o'clock the man was hag-ridden by fear of the unknown, by terror of learning what fault had developed in the calculations of his confr�res. Alias the Lone Wolf Every one must have noticed how Russians are hag-ridden by an idea; but no one except Merezhkovski has observed the passion of abstract thought. Essays on Russian Novelists The existing condition in the hag-ridden Territory was directly chargeable to a measure whose authorship Douglas had boasted. Life of Stephen A. Douglas If some obscure man had been hag-ridden by a blackmailer and had his family life ruined, you wouldn't think the murder of his persecutor the most inexcusable of murders. The Man Who Knew Too Much This then, this common pitch-link for artificial fireworks of turpentine and pasteboard; this is the miraculous Aaron's Rod thou wilt stretch over a hag-ridden hell-ridden France, and bid her plagues cease? The French Revolution Alas, poor devil! spectres are appointed to haunt him: one age he is hag-ridden, bewitched; the next, priest-ridden, befooled; in all ages, bedevilled. Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh |
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