| 单词 | horse sense |
| 例句 | The estimates provide a good example of how numerical horse sense can check pseudoscientific ravings. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Parton in the flesh is so exactly how one imagines her to be that as she sits opposite me, bandying about such Dolly-esque phrases as "You just need some good ol' horse sense!" Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts' 2011-08-21T19:00:00Z The ex-Rangers, reclassified as highway patrolmen for their new mission, prefer to rely on horse sense and cowboy folk wisdom. ‘The Highwaymen’ Review: Grumpy Old Men on the Trail of Glamorous Killers 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Cole gets schooled in horse sense; his training features an in-your-face close-up of a wheelbarrow full of manure. ‘Concrete Cowboy’ Review: Acquiring Horse Sense on the Philly Streets 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z One might say they figured it just made good horse sense. Final game could show that UCLA has the horses under Chip Kelly 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z More likely, it was something in American Pharoah’s horse sense that told him the man in the suit was a weak specimen. Opinion | American Pharoah has officially joined the Resistance 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z “One of the all-time great horses in this era,” said Sherman, whose horse sense comes hard-earned. Much Is on the Line for California Chrome at the Breeders’ Cup 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z “Dark Horse” isn’t really about horse racing at all — rather, it’s a story of self-described commoners who prove that scrappiness and horse sense are underrated qualities. Another inspirational horse-racing movie, but ‘Dark Horse’ is worth the ride 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Independent women with choices stand as a factual refutation to the watery stew of evolutionary psychology, macho posturing, and LAN party horse sense that these groups subsist on. The 'Man-O-Sphere' is outraged about Mad Max? Hand me my popcorn! | Jason Wilson 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Harry Truman, a haberdasher turned senator who picked up plenty of common horse sense growing up in Independence, Mo., would slug a shot of Old-Grand-Dad every morning “to get the engine going.” 5 Solid Party Tips from Presidential History 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Coburn caught a lot of criticism for his postrace comments, but even a loser’s rant can carry a bit of horse sense. Marshawn Lynch and Seahawks: Seattle Times readers sound off 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z The classic case of all this horse sense gone wrong is the story of The Green Monkey, a handsome bay colt with top-notch bloodlines that went to auction in 2006. Triple Crown-Bound Horse Breeders Start to Look to Genetics 2012-05-04T11:15:00.203Z You may call this horse sense, but it is horse reason—so near akin to human reason that there might be some trouble in tracing the dividing line. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Yes, he has just horse sense, has Jack. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Doubtless he has more gray matter, more Christian charity, and more horse sense than could be collectively assembled by all the petty officials at Gallivancia. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z Their hostler candidate might have had horse sense to burn, but he hadn't read law. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z I just thought I would try him this time, being in a country where luxuries were plentiful, and see if he wouldn't blow on me as being a person with good horse sense. A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z For it suddenly addressed the Sailor, not with the voice of a magician, but with rude horse sense. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z "There is a streak of horse sense in the Wimbourne blood that has been the saving of all of us," she said. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z These animals have associated with the hysterical natives so long that they have lost all of their natural horse sense and are quite daft and irresponsible. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z There's a lot of difference between horse sense and the law, Maisie. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z Your good, hard, common horse sense is sadly needed. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z As became a true sailorman, who had sailed six years before the mast, he had brought home a pocket of horse sense from his wanderings. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Then, with a malicious grin, he turned to the next man and the first invalid shuffled off, mumbling something about horse doctors without any horse sense. Conscript 2989 Experiences of a Drafted Man 2011-07-26T02:00:15.197Z Had I been guided by their "horse sense" they would have brought me in a few moments to the door of Parish's hotel. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z There's real horse sense at the back of every move they take. Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z "Anyway, I had horse sense enough to keep my gun dry," Tubby observed. The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico 2011-05-02T02:00:18.793Z But I allays says, 'Give me good ol' common horse sense', and not braggin, Miss, but I have got that; always did have. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z He is a remarkable public entertainer, and much that he says has keen humor and verbal art and horse sense. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z He never promised not to use political horse sense and engage in political horse trading. Alter: Sestak Isn't the Real Transparency Issue 2010-06-02T20:11:00Z After that, commend me to a fat woman for horse sense. The Great Mogul "Trust Rob, Tubby; give him credit for horse sense, won't you?" scoffed the other scout. The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico 2011-05-02T02:00:18.793Z I guess you are starving with hunger," he said; "I'll wager you hadn't the horse sense to eat a decent breakfast before you started away from the 'Cess'? Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune That is why, with a man of Mackenzie's horse sense, we were left to perfect freedom of action, and our own independence or individual initiative. On the Trail of Deserters A Phenomenal Capture Maybe, but I hope I have some horse sense. The Land of Strong Men As for the rest, horse sense is the same everywhere. Camp and Trail Or with plain horse sense and logic, developed to a point—after millions of years at it—where it never fails. Voyage To Eternity It was only solid sense, British sense, horse sense as they term it in America, and, hearing him speak, Henri realized that fact immediately. With Joffre at Verdun A Story of the Western Front It’s according to horse sense we must act when it comes to settling the real things of life. Aurora the Magnificent And Thomas Van Dorn’s life was regulated by sense–common sense–horse sense, he called it. In the Heart of a Fool Here he took the lead and showed such consummate horse sense in the handling of the animal that the blacksmith growled, "If you'd put some of that into your pulpit, I'd go to hear you." The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country If they had lived on for a spell they would got bravely over that, and had more good horse sense.” Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife That mightn’t matter if you had horse sense and knew when to slam the covers on the rot. At the Crossroads Maybe he was right enough, if the feller getting off had got any horse sense. The Law-Breakers But horse sense made me pass it by and stay on my own home diamond. The Gorgeous Girl Klae whose IQ had become a measuring guide for the entire system, whose Martian head held more ordinary horse sense, in addition to radical postulations on theoretical physics, than anyone on the planets. The Long Voyage “Horses seem to know more of some things than they really do, and know more of some other things than they seem to; how’s that for horse sense, Nathaniel Bacon Allison?” Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield "Faith, Burke, I thought you had more horse sense," responded Maguire. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure If you had any sort of horse sense you’d have understood I wasn’t in need of a wet-nurse. The Law-Breakers This is just where horse sense beats knowledge. Thurston of Orchard Valley "Colonel, you've seen a lot more of the world than I, but it seems to me that pedigree isn't worth half as much as charity and common horse sense." Sunlight Patch But I do reckon as how I’ve got some horse sense. The Backwoodsmen I thought she had some horse sense left. The Faith Healer A Play in Three Acts “It always seems so queer to me that a man can have so much muscle and so little horse sense,” she said at length. Across the Mesa His horse sense will tell him we wouldn’t go that strong unless our cards was all blue. The Fighting Edge It must have been somebody with horse sense, or the governor would not have appointed whoever it was. The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man So, relying on his Minnetarees and his horse sense, and not on Mr. Fidler, Lewis refused to go any farther north, because he could not figure out there a big river penetrating into the Rockies. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri And not believe there's something more in these matters than "horse sense" will account for. The Faith Healer A Play in Three Acts Don’t worry, honey, she’s got too much horse sense to do anything foolish. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range There is even the tendency to believe that the parson, because he is a spiritually minded man, is incapable of horse sense in practical and public affairs. The Rapids But Mrs. Fuller, fat, placid, perhaps slightly stupid, here rose to the heights of what her husband always admiringly called "horse sense." The Adventures of Bobby Orde He had a certain shrewd business-like efficiency, and in most of his harangues there was a good deal of what, for want of a better word, might be termed horse sense. Mufti He was frequently selected to conduct scouting expeditions where good “horse sense” and nerve were much more expedient than a superabundance of gray matter abnormally developed with theories of fine tactics and maneuvers. Bamboo Tales Both men were excellent company, Dow a delightful spinner of yarns, witty and imaginative, Sewall full of horse sense and quiet philosophizing. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands And, further, I'm telling you because you'll see the horse sense in cutting out sharp business for real business. The Heart of Unaga This man Smith sounds like he had some horse sense. The Man Next Door A little horse sense, a bold front, a hypodermic needle, and a few pills will put you a long way on your road among this class of people. The Lady Doc No, I don't think myself," said Deacon Luce, from the rocking-chair, "that ministers always show what we call horse sense. Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine" In the business world today the men who are doing great things are the men who have horse sense. Dollars and Sense That's the horse sense I want to hand you, and I'm only handing it you so you don't pitchfork any more lives into the trouble that's waiting on them. The Heart of Unaga "He's got a lot of horse sense, Roger, after all, hasn't he?" said Ernest one day after the Indian had laughed at them for their mad driving at the waterless well. The Forbidden Trail "Well, that shows you have good, old-fashioned horse sense, young man," he replied. Halsey & Co. or, The Young Bankers and Speculators Just a lot of it is "horse sense", with a few rules of thumb based upon scientific principles. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 Find out how much horse sense they have. Dollars and Sense If you'd horse sense you wouldn't have said what you handed me just now. The Heart of Unaga It is notorious that 'expert testimony' is too often confused and confusing testimony which jurors and judges feel themselves bound to disregard in favor of mere horse sense. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Another example of horse sense, which seems to prove that horses know more than we think they do. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 "That's one way of looking at it," said I. "It's horse sense," said he. The Plum Tree The law of compensation itself is the quintessence of horse sense. Dollars and Sense Fortunately the rough horse sense of the frontiersman is wiser than the wisdom of the British statesman, and settlement continues along the boundary in spite of Bathurst's brilliant idea. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom A practical book of business "horse sense," containing 130 pages of boiled-down, successful, practical experience. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep "He's a mule," she told Randolph—"a mule with horse sense." Quin A stickler for style and ceremony was the major in garrison, but out on Indian campaign he was "horse sense from the ground up," as his veterans put it. To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days Marshall Field had horse sense when he inaugurated his business. Dollars and Sense He was abundantly possessed with what, in Western parlance, is known as "horse sense." Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Devar thought in his own mind, that the elder Curtis might be ponderous in body and speech but he certainly revealed horse sense when he opened his mouth. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York He isn't altogether a bad lot, but lacks horse sense, and gave his parents a good deal of anxiety in his varsity days abroad. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila But he had initiative and a good gift of horse sense and balance, and in the troublous times that followed he was always our level-headed stand-by. Branded The man who uses horse sense in his transactions gets along further and faster than the man who uses selfishness and smartness. Dollars and Sense That's a comfort," said he, "and you have horse sense, my little Southerner. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) If I've got horse sense there's coming a big shriek one day, and you'll see Pap clear through to his soul—if he's got one. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon I've prayed for all kinds of qualities in ministers but I've come to the point where I ask nothing more of a preacher than a laugh now and then, some horse sense and health. Green Valley He was a plum brick, and had lots o' horse sense, to boot. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) To be possessed of horse sense is a most valuable asset. Dollars and Sense I am never sanguinary without good horse sense to back it up. Samantha at the World's Fair It's mostly horse sense and brute strength that we use. The Enchanted Canyon But if I didn't split Germans with a sword or do any heroics I did get some horse sense knocked into me—unbelievable as that may appear to you. Poor Man's Rock Jan Cuxson had read the letter five times and was just starting on it for the sixth, subconsciously congratulating himself on his foresight, or horse sense, which you will. Leonie of the Jungle The man with horse sense may not go as far in a day as the man with luck, but he will progress more days and go further eventually than the lucky man. Dollars and Sense Why don't you try a little horse sense for a change? A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today Any man with education and horse sense can handle them, provided that his philosophy is sound. The Enchanted Canyon He was deficient in sound judgment, or what is sometimes called "horse sense." Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 It's a pretty state of things if an old woman like me, without a chick of my own, and with no sense but horse sense, can't back a likely filly like your Sylvia. A Hoosier Chronicle Hire employes, as far as possible, who are blessed with old fashioned horse sense. Dollars and Sense Pay 'em well, and feed 'em well, and they've the horse sense to know there ain't no electric stoves out in the Labrador forests in winter. The Man in the Twilight She had learned compromise and horse sense in her politics it home: if her citizens owed her a duty, —she assumed a responsibility towards them. 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 Do you know that a man doesn't get his horse sense till he's forty?” The Lion and The Mouse A Story Of American Life I may get the proper sort of exultation in time, but just now I've imported considerable human horse sense.' The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars Luck is the gambling chance, and horse sense is the investment and security chance. Dollars and Sense Colonel Marker depended greatly on Parks' judgment, which the colonel was fond of calling "horse sense." The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps Now snicker, you dratted young fools, just as if I wasn't talking horse sense to you. A Texas Matchmaker There is no time to dwell on this thought for it is just something that goes on happening anyway and has no bearing upon the advisability of "wedlock in time" between people of horse sense. Laugh and Live Some inkling of horse sense told me that I ought to secure more land, and after thinking the matter over, I wrote to a merchant in Austin, and had him buy me one hundred sections. Reed Anthony, Cowman Now, Nephew, when it gets right down to the thing he really wants to do, every man has some horse sense, even if he happens to be a fool in everything else. The Purple Heights But heaven had further trial of his fortitude and magnanimity, not to say his good honest horse sense, in store to-night. Deadham Hard The man who has much to say about "horse sense." Clairvoyance and Occult Powers The four Gerton girls were all good-looking; indeed, the three younger ones were beautiful; while Annie, the oldest, easily made up in capability and horse sense what she lacked in looks. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations He had a big stock of horse sense and a great fund of humor. Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio No. Apart from his nose, Rogers is gifted with horse sense. The Grafters I'm going to chuck a little horse sense at you. The Nine-Tenths Anything which seems unusual to them is deemed "flighty," and lacking in appeal to their much prized "horse sense." Clairvoyance and Occult Powers The first things I ever noticed about her was her horse sense. The Visioning All of Daylight's horse knowledge and horse sense was called into play, while Bob, in turn, worked every trick in his lexicon. Burning Daylight This reminds me that Ishi always said that a white man smelled like a horse, and in hunting made a noise like one, but apparently he doesn't always have horse sense. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Plenty of horse sense, plenty of banking the fires, of delaying wisely. The Nine-Tenths They hain't got the hard horse sense that anybody has got to have in order to make money out of the nation. Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician But what would her Aunt Elizabeth think of a "sturdy little wretch," believing in the economic independence of woman—whatever that might be—with lots of horse sense, and good on her job! The Visioning The quality desired would appear to be the East African equivalent of horse sense. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 15, 1919 All railroad men have not yet learned that using horse sense and being polite means promotion. Tales of the Road I know; it was Irene Mitchell, her fine prospects, and your natural good horse sense. The Desired Woman "Now you talk horse sense," said the alert Yankee. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story The sons of the Sagebrush are not cold-hearted, nor are they lacking in courtesy of any sort, but to use a Western expression, they possess a large percentage of "horse sense!" Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information "If he didn't he wouldn't have even horse sense." The Shagganappi It was merely a matter of common or garden horse sense, as we call it in America. The Voice on the Wire "Very good lawyer is Tom—got horse sense and can speak the truth—make a very good judge." Kennedy Square "Now that begins to sound like horse sense," Mr. Salisbury began. The Treasure "No; just horse sense, and the old chief." Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail After a while I'm going to look up some big doctors in London and find out which of 'em's got the most plain horse sense. T. Tembarom I don't call myself an officer and a gentleman, but I reckon I've run this affair about as delicately as the best of them, and with a d——d sight more horse sense. Maruja "A little horse sense, as Dad would say," she soliloquized, and then, when she got him out of the brush, she stood thrilled and amazed. Wildfire I've got too much horse sense to try to buy YOU. The Vision Splendid Gents, I move y'u that it be the horse sense of the Lazy D that our friend Mr. Reddy Reeves be given gratis one chapping immediately if not sooner. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West "What man that had a grain of horse sense would do such a crazy thing as to keep a coal fire in a woodshed?" The Copy-Cat and Other Stories In several other places the soldiers used the same brand of horse sense. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Men have some horse sense, though Sarah don't know it. The Valley of the Moon The fact is that, under the new system, ``horse sense'' is especially called for to prevent a too extreme reaction from the evils which afflicted university instruction during my student days. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 Doubtless these things are all due to the ``oscillatory law of human progress,'' which professors of ``horse sense'' like my friend Joe Sheldon will gradually do away with. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 |
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