| 单词 | horseleech |
| 例句 | To the Church they were stanch; they held on with a kind Of a power like horseleeches' of suction, Intolerant, bigoted, narrow, and blind, They but lived to persist in obstruction. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Feb 3, 1872 2012-02-10T03:00:16.947Z Morales had, however, made his horseleech nature tolerably plain already, and Appleby decided to stand firm. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z The people, like Oliver, "asked for more;" ungrateful people! not content with Father Glynn at the viceroy's table, and the Bishop of "Mesopotamia" in the council, they cried, like the horseleech's daughters, "Give! give!" Nuts and Nutcrackers 2011-03-08T03:00:45.687Z This faith thou not only keepest silent with this uproar of thine, but even oppressest, only so thy insatiable horseleech have those to whom it may say, "Bring, bring!" Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z They are always hanging upon us like an incubus; and yet like Solomon's daughters of the horseleech, are never satisfied. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician Each incoming administration is bedeviled by hordes of applicants, as greedy as the daughters of the horseleech. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. The people, like Oliver, “asked for more;” ungrateful people! not content with Father Glynn at the viceroy’s table, and the Bishop of “Mesopotamia” in the council, they cried, like the horseleech’s daughters, “Give! give!” Nuts and Nutcrackers I want also—I am the daughter of the horseleech truly—“Black’s new large map of Scotland,” sheets 3, 4, and 5, a 7s. 6d. touch. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) "It never seems to occur to you that I may have some little wants of my own, Dan," she said; "you are a perfect horseleech's daughter." The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius How can a Lord Abbot, all stuck-over with horseleeches of this nature, front the world? Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. The real horseleeches felt that they could hardly get a good hold of him while he was lying at the Percycross inn. Ralph the Heir Yet, as regarded men generally, Sally was a daughter of the horseleech! Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' The horseleech Lawyer cries for a king, because else the supreme power will come into the People’s representatives lawfully elected.... The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer Nay, at this moment it stalks into this Senate, crying, like the daughters of the horseleech, "Give! give." American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) And how he raised it: From usurious insatiable Jews; every fresh Jew sticking on him like a fresh horseleech, sucking his and our life out; crying continually, Give, give! Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. "The horseleech has two daughters, crying, Give! give!" Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala And how he raised it: From usurious insatiable Jews; every fresh Jew sticking on him like a fresh horseleech, sucking his and our life out; crying continually, Give, Give! Past and Present Sure you are the horseleech's true daughter, crying, "Give, give!" The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty She is become the horseleech's daughter and my mill doesn't grind fast enough to suit her. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) Could I be one of their flattering panders, I would hang on their ears like a horseleech, till I were full, and then drop off. The Duchess of Malfi |
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