| 单词 | apish |
| 例句 | My arms suddenly felt apishly long, knuckles threatening to scrape the pavement. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z All of “Khmeropédies III” is copied from life — and several scenes are played in silence, or with the performers’ apish grunts and whoops. Dance Review: ‘Khmeropédies III’ and Amrita Performing Arts at the Guggenheim 2013-04-29T21:44:28Z A hero who is apishly alpha or beatifically beta? Love Notes 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z We, these weird, apish creatures capable of pondering their own origins, are the biggest mystery of all, I say. Hearing about the Big Bang for the First Time 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z They are evolutionary throwbacks, “savages” with apish, “atavistic” features. Can the Shape of Your Face Predict Your Propensity for Violence? 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z In his grossest display of disaffection, he apishly smeared his feces on the embassy walls, according to Ecuador’s interior minister. Opinion | Julian Assange isn’t a journalist or a Daniel Ellsberg. He’s just a ‘cypherpunk.’ 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Lib recalled cartoons in the popular press depicting them as apish pygmies. Emma Donoghue’s Art of Starvation 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z He’s held up a mirror to the country, shown us how blind and apish we are. America, you’re stupid: Donald Trump’s political triumph makes it official — we’re a nation of idiots 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z In Shakespeare's time it was Italy Whose manners still our tardy apish nation Limps after in base imitation. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z The droning of this arrant humbug drives as many of the audience away as the zany's merry pranks and roguish whiskers and apish tricks have drawn together. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z A naked, deformed, apish figure stood on a pedestal from which a statue had fallen and had not been replaced. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Masked shepherds and shepherdesses danced upon the graves of a former generation, a new Arcadia was created in apish imitation and peopled with grimacing creatures who tripped about on tiptoe in their high-heeled shoes. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z “The idiot” who chose to be “apish,” declared that a lock of hair fantastically hung, or the dancing feather in his cap, were his “humour.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Imported extravagance—imported customs—apish imitations of European usages—are fast driving republican simplicity from our once happy land. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution When Henry perceived the apish minion thus upon his track he burst out into a laugh. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency We discard the class whose dress is apish, whose life is an inanity, whose thoughts are vapid, if not something fouler and worse. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. The tinsel and apish civilisation no longer sufficed to conceal the brute in human nature. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z The worst feature was the chain of vice which, through apish imitation, was transmitted from the debased women of the upper classes to the women of the bourgeoisie, and from the latter to the peasants. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Missing thimbles, a plume from Chloe’s hat, Metty’s pen knife, thread, nails, buttons—anything and everything that had been missed and had captivated their apish fancy. Dorothy on a House Boat Renouncing all these frivolous manners, all these theatrical caricatures of our times, let us be more sincere; less of courtiers, more serious, more reflective, and less apish. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 He was a big, apish man, with a certain fiery eloquence. Big Pill We have always been rather apish in France: the Grecian, Roman and biblical tragedies which every day now brings forth are innumerable. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. "Beg pardon, sar," said Cudjo, stamping out fire in the leaves by the end of the log,—and he looked up through the smoke at Penn, with the old malignant grin on his apish face. Cudjo's Cave I hate him with an A because he is apish. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes Do you see how it imitates the divine in an apish sort of way? Carmen Ariza Dwarfed, apish creature, with tiny limbs, and chests that stood out like barrels, they bustled about, chattering in shrill voices that seemed like the piping of birds. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 In an irregular half-circle they squatted, pawing gingerly at their wounds or scratching themselves uncouthly, while their apish women loitered in chattering groups outside the circle, or crouched in the branches of the neighboring trees. In the Morning of Time Only for sport to see the apish world Worship such beasts with sound idolatry. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 "Get a good dinner into you, lad, and then come and talk to me," he said, putting a great paw on my shoulder, and leering apishly. The Man Who Drove the Car The Negro, apish in his affinity to his prototype in a "lynching bee," is beneath contempt. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century The name of that little hamlet town has, cruelly enough, passed into a byword—a synonym for everything that is rowdy, vulgar, apish in the English character, with the dregs stirred up. The Dop Doctor Whenever possible, therefore, they preferred to journey, after the fashion of their apish ancestors, by way of the high branches and the liana bridges. In the Morning of Time Dubois, who cared about the gift, and not about the manner in which it was given, replied, with that apish grimace which belonged to him, "I am your valet, monseigneur, dress me always the same." The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental Powers above in clouds do sit, Mocking our poor apish wit, That so lamely with such state Their high glory imitate. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age It saith thou wert but shadow born of nought, But vain creation of an apish rhyme, While, Fashion’s fool, my strain’d invention sought To better them who best did please the time. Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies. The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby One clear footprint in the wet earth revealed itself clearly as Mawg’s––for there was no such thing as confounding that arched and moulded imprint with those left by the apish men. In the Morning of Time "Perhaps you don't fish right, sir," suggested Monkey, with one of his apish grins, as he took the gentleman's line, and found that the sinker was not within twenty feet of the bottom. Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot. Past the lamp-posts, skipping from the gloom into the light and from light into shadow, with a series of bounds, sped a horrible apish form. War and the Weird I'd have stopped him messing around in that apish way, but with the ultra-queasy state of my stomach I lacked all ambition and was happy just not to be smelling him so close. The Night of the Long Knives Here it is evident that the Vedic antagonism between Indras and Vishṇus is reproduced in a zoological and entirely apish form. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Oh, many have told of the monkeys of old, What a pleasant race they were, And it seems most true that I and you Are derived from an apish pair. The Book of Humorous Verse The monkey temple is full of monkeys, and they have less apish expressions than the priests. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah And his voice was as fearful, hoarse, bestial, with apish gibberings. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain Before him no monkey-tricks, no apish indecorums—none even of those passing levities which young gorillas will indulge in just like other youths. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General There are dog-faced idols, and apish gods, and unearthly things, besides the sacrificial stone, and a rude attempt to represent a goddess. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Here there is a mixture of apish imitation with vanity. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. But what cannot be carried—a cathedral, a monument, an ancient window—that is destroyed with an apish zest. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers The next instant there was a worse convulsion, and just under his necktie suddenly appeared a tiny apish head. All Aboard A Story for Girls He goes on to say that false humour is given to little apish tricks, and buffooneries. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 They were banished the theatre of Athens, and from Rome hissed, that brought parasites on the stage with apish actions, or fools with uncivil habits, or courtesans with immodest words. The Growth of English Drama Instead of ever coming to grapple with its mighty rival, the great catholic church of heathenism hardly reached the stage of apish mimicry. The Arian Controversy He saw in the mirror the door of the bedroom slowly open, and a hideous, apish face peep stealthily in, not at him, but at the sleeper. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter Thoroughly angry now, Dwight caught the apish thing, and, boxing its ears till it howled, stuffed it into his pocket and hurried from the room, his dinner forgotten in his chagrin. All Aboard A Story for Girls It begins: “These hardy knaves and stupid fools, Some apish and pragmatic mules, Some servile acquiescing tools,— These, these compose the Congress!” Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book At six o'clock I saw him start, his apish feet padding through the crusted slush. Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege As his eye became accustomed to the gloomy depths of the forest, he became still more alarmed to see a number of black, apish faces at various points among the thick undergrowth surrounding the clearing. Round the World in Seven Days Whilst I was the victim of this insect's ferocity the horizon had become darkened by the shadowy outline of an enormous apish form. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter Why, that the young fellows of the day are such conceited, apish creatures; no man under forty-five is worth wasting a minute's time over. The Gay Lord Quex A Comedy in Four Acts The room quickly filled, and the chattering of many and strange tongues lent an apish tone to the function. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest There is a very plain line of demarcation between the legitimate spirit of inquiry and mere apish curiosity. At a Winter's Fire His own foreign and fashionable apparel was ridiculed by Gabriel Harvey, in the much-quoted description of an Italianate Englishman, beginning: "A little apish hat couched faste to the pate, like an oyster." English Travellers of the Renaissance To one accustomed to his apish activity, and to being annoyed by it, there was something plaintive in the fact of having got rid of that trouble. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 At fifteen or sixteen, she affected, both in dress and manners, to ape such of the quality as were most apish. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 A thought of God, and yet subdued To any passion's apish mood? Poems New and Old An arrant set of vagabonds and tramps,—of ranting, strutting, apish creatures, with neither local habitations nor names of their own. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 The "disinterested" satisfaction Herder makes a cold satisfaction; the harmonious activity of the cognitive powers, a tedious, apish sport; the satisfaction "without a concept," judgment without ground or cause. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time To purge the rashness of this cursed deed, First, be thou turned to this ugly shape, For apish deeds transformed to an ape. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 When my Cat and I entertain each other with mutual apish tricks, as playing with a garter, who knows but that I make my Cat more sport than she makes me? The Compleat Angler Short hair grew upon a large portion of their limbs and bodies, which still retained a considerable trace of apish progenitors. Out of Time's Abyss This could not be relaxed, for he was full of the most apish tricks. The Stark Munro Letters He had long since discovered the apish propensity for mimicry and learned to make use of it. Jungle Tales of Tarzan But François jumped backward, tumbling over le Merdi, and with apish celerity caught up a great stone and flung it full in the priest's countenance. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages Let apish despots trifle With home and child and wife? War Poetry of the South He saw only their defects copied and exaggerated by the apish mimics of art and the bagmen of the Press. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House This apish and unmannerly approach, This harness'd masque, and unadvised revel. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe "Blazon it yourself as you will," said Rouge Sanglier; "I will do no such apish tricks upon commandment, as an ape is made to come aloft." Quentin Durward Enough of this wretched life, and murmuring, and apish trifles. Seekers after God Pictures are invaluable to the stupid; they benumb and enervate the clever, and turn them into apish imitators, instead of making them able to act from their own knowledge and volition. In the Riding-School; Chats with Esmeralda A shame upon this peevish, apish age, These crouching, hypocrite, dissembling times! A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 Sometimes it is derived from apish imitation, or a humour to comply with a fashion current among vain and dissolute persons. Sermons on Evil-Speaking Compare it with the population of black Barbadoes, where the apish grossness of African coast types has been perpetuated unchanged;—and the contrast may well astonish!… Two Years in the French West Indies And if they saw him in his holiness, as he sees them in their sins and shame, they would take but little pleasure in their apish knacks. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 And why follow the apish fashions of the world? Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 Precisely what a Hottentot boy would do, except that he would be free from the apish folly of pretending a scientific interest, not really existing. A Life's Morning And it gave her pleasure to sit there, cheeks flushed, eyes black and sullen, seeing them all objectively, as put away from her, like creatures in some menagerie of apish degraded souls. Women in Love When Haydn arrived, there was, in short, no native composer of real genius, and our "tardy, apish nation" was ready to welcome with special cordiality an artist whose gifts were of a higher order. Haydn Now, sacred God of Wit, if you can make Those, whom our sports tax in these apish graces, Kiss, like the fighting snakes, your peaceful rod, These times shall canonise you for a god. Cynthia's Revels He speaks pure truth; now if an idiot Have but an apish or fantastic strain, It is his humour. Every Man out of His Humour I must own to you that the lower class of people here amuse and interest me much more than the middling, with their apish good breeding and prejudices. Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark These “monkey tricks”—this apish fury and impatience! All Roads Lead to Calvary He wore the provoking ugliness of a monkey, with an apish twinkling of mischief too in his piercing eyes. An Iceland Fisherman The distorted yellow dwarfs seemed to gibe apish before me. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper His neck and shoulders were brutal, like those of some apish god. The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare How superior to the apish politeness of the towns! where the people, affecting to be well bred, fatigue with their endless ceremony. Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Fools had ne'er less grace in a year; For wise men are grown foppish, And know not how their wits to wear, Their manners are so apish. King Lear If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies. The Water-Babies Now, with apish yellow faces haunting my dreams, with ghostly menaces dogging me day and night, I was outcast from my own rooms and compelled, in self-defence, to live amid the bustle of the Astoria. The Quest of the Sacred Slipper A gruesome conviction seized me, as irrational as the hope which it displayed, that this was one of the Hashishin—an apish yellow dwarf, a strangler, the awful Hassan himself! The Quest of the Sacred Slipper |
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