单词 | ill-shapen |
例句 | Its ill-shapen rocks project on all sides, and a reef makes out half a mile into the sea from the north-west. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z They were persistent in their sad task, going along the rows of ill-shapen remains without missing a thing that promised identification. Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876 2011-09-13T02:00:36.647Z “Make a man of an ill-shapen dwarf like him,” said Maggie Reid. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z He is generally dressed in a coat which is too long and trousers which are too short, his shoes are always down at heel, and on his head is an ill-shapen hat. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z I had from childhood up felt irresistibly attracted towards all that was beautiful and graceful, and had a real horror of what was ugly and ill-shapen. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z They varied greatly in size: some were small and built in the rudest manner, mere squares of ill-shapen and ill-piled stones. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II His ill-shapen ear, bristled with hair, seemed to say, "Beware of speaking to the animal in this cave." Toilers of the Sea The ugly and ill-shapen Crates of Thebes was one of the successors of Antisthenes. Greek Women That excellent potato, the Carter, so firm in New England and western New York, is ill-shapen and inferior in many localities in Illinois. Soil Culture She carries no trailing skirts, nor has she ill-shapen ankles to hide. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Then she seemed to see her mother's gentle face and, conquering the aversion she felt, she pulled out her handkerchief and began to wipe the discolored, ill-shapen lips of the half-wit. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life And there were men: 55 swarthy, ill-shapen, dejected. Children of the Desert Huge ill-shapen head that Swartboy carried on his shoulders, there was an ample stock of brains in it; and a life of keen endeavour to keep his stomach supplied had taught him their exercise. Popular Adventure Tales The inferior banditti are painted with greater vigour, yet still in rugged and ill-shapen forms; their individuality is kept up by an extravagant exaggeration of their several peculiarities. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works As we lounged about, some hideous Indians—I trust they were not framed in the image of their Maker,—ill-shapen lads, dumpy, expressionless babies, green-complexioned half-breeds, sat and looked on with utter indifference. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska We say of a man who passes in the street that he is ill-shapen. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. "No, my dear," returned Lady Evans, "I never heard of a pad to make straight an ill-shapen disposition." A Simple Story She was no longer a beautiful rose; no, nor even a reminiscence of one,—simply a colorless, scentless, ill-shapen mass. The Holy Cross and Other Tales Huge ill-shapen head as Swartboy carried on his shoulders, there was an ample stock of brains in it; and a life of keen endeavour to keep his stomach supplied had taught him their exercise. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Not a light was there upon the ship as she plowed steadily upon her course, and little knots of people stood here and there in the darkness157 looking grotesquely ill-shapen in their cumbersome life-belts. Tom Slade with the Colors Then she was so very ugly and ill-shapen that not one of the youths of the village would have aught to say to her by way of courtship or marriage. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 Tommy Taft was not amazed; but if he had not already become accustomed to affronts and ill-shapen visages, he might have been awed into silence. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 Ordinary compasses are obstinate when we try to set them to the hundredth of an inch; usually the points are dull and ill-shapen; if they make a puncture in the paper it is unsightly. Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology Before he made the experiment he had felt that it would fail; the key was indeed a clumsy, ill-shapen instrument. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India His neighbour, with equal zest, was creating very ill-shapen clay animals, birds and fishes. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Behind him there shambled a sulky, ill-shapen mare with a bony carcase and bowed knees, and on her neck a clumsy iron halter. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland She was one of those small, ill-shapen women whose infirmities are thrown into more conspicuous relief by dress and jewels and décolletage. The Inner Shrine For the rest, this savage was crooked, ill-shapen and hideous. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 At that instant he caught sight of his mother's ill-shapen figure cowering over the fire. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance And Keckerman, by way of inference, excludes all that are ill-shapen from this presbyterian function in the church. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy King Louis has nicknamed Joan 'The Owlet' because she is little, ill-shapen, and black. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy I do not like his hands; I cannot say why; they are neither big nor ill-shapen, but there is something fat and feminine about the fingers. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel I noticed at the same time, that a singular change took place in the figure of the man,—as if it collapsed within his clothes, and they consequently became ill-shapen and ill-fitting. Hunted Down: the detective stories of Charles Dickens He was a huge, ill-shapen, muscular fellow, old but still vigorous, and in his small black eyes twinkled an unsounded depth of shrewdness. Southern Lights and Shadows Starting from the respiratory and proceeding to the muscular system, he and his immediate pupils were content to refer to the ill-shapen bodies of most men about them. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene First of all I set me down at the very outskirts of the woodland, and raised me a bower there, rude and ill-shapen. The Water of the Wondrous Isles Immediately before its principal door, the rock rises in an ill-shapen hillock, across which runs the path to Italy. The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons It was not a bad omelette, though not quite innocent of wood-ash, perhaps, and somewhat ill-shapen. Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories Some natives cross our path, old men or ill-shapen, contorted in their walk, stunted in the face; and even young people, too, over whom hovers the mystery of secret disorders or political connections. Under Fire: the story of a squad The difference was noticeable enough; Lydia's was not ill-shapen, but there were marks on it of all the rough household work which she had never permitted her sister to do. Thyrza |
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