单词 | ill-sorted |
例句 | Playing marriage counselor to the zebra / human couple and other ill-sorted pairs, we can recognize at least six groups of reasons for failed domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With a heavier heart than that with which she reached it, Margaret leaves the bench and its ill-sorted occupants. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z I can score each knave," quoth the Piper, "in Life's ill-sorted school, For they take and they take their greed to slake, But I am no match for the Fool! The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 As Doll Tearsheet says in the second part of “King Henry IV”: “These villains will make the word as odious as the word ‘occupy’; which was an excellent good word before it was ill-sorted.” The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America Can words more ill-sorted, more shocking be put together? Some Remains (hitherto unpublished) of Joseph Butler, LL.D. And so the four ill-sorted people sat each at a different side of the table, with a long stretch of gold-decked and flower-laden cloth between them. Sarah's School Friend Such ill-sorted alliances are disastrous to both parties, and scarcely more to one than the other. Plain Facts for Old and Young It seems a great pity that the principle of personal freedom should be responsible for so many ill-shaped and ill-sorted physical incompetents. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army The waggons would have been a hard pull for sixteen oxen properly arranged; so that it is not surprising that our ill-sorted teams found the work almost beyond their strength. Three Years' War He thought it to be unseasonable, ill-judged, and ill-sorted with the circumstances of all the parties. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) The classes themselves are ill-sorted and often troublesome, and are usually unwieldy by reason of their size. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill-sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats, for boys and women; but little of solid meat, for men. The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes They walked along in silence, the most ill-sorted pair that you might hope to find in all that higgledy-piggledy city. Cheerful—By Request When they dunnot agree, for that their tempers is ill-sorted, they has rooms o' one kind an' another in their houses, above a bit, and they can live asunders. Hard Times What we get is not a new compound with the element that corresponds to poetic energy transmuted, but an ill-sorted mixture, while Keats gives us the unblemished gold. The Lyric An Essay For a short time the ill-sorted compact lasted, and there was a peace which each of them abhorred. The Life of Cicero Volume One But I am not a professor with a mind like a warehouse, rich with the spoils of time, but a mere peddler, conscious of the janglings of an ill-sorted, ill-packed knapsack of unconsidered trifles. Tropic Days Even these charms faded under the sufferings attendant on an ill-sorted match. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 It "was an excellent good word before it was ill-sorted," and we were fortunate in having a minister who was scholar enough to know what it meant. John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete Very young she was not,—having reached some years of her life in advance of thirty; but then, neither was the Honourable George very young; and in this respect the two were not ill-sorted. The Small House at Allington |
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