| 单词 | jailbird |
| 例句 | “How about a kiss for your jailbird brother?” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He truly believed that even a jailbird has a constitutional right to go on television. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Either there’s been an accident or there’s roadwork, because a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “I just gave a sandwich to a homeless guy! You’re the one who works for criminals and hangs around with pregnant jailbirds.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z A forlorn, jailbird’s face with a nobby forehead running back into a bald scalp, a crooked nose and battered-looking cheekbones above which the eyes were fierce and watchful. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z When Winnie had first told him of the marriage, he had exclaimed, “But you are marrying a jailbird!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By far the major portion of the book was devoted to spinsterish discourses on prison life—bad food, hijinks in the exercise yard, tedious little jailbird hobbies. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The future jailbird showed up four hours late to the taping, TMZ said, and then asked for numerous breaks once the cameras were rolling. Teresa Giudice reacts to prison sentence, calls it 'unexpected' 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z He grounded it, if you can say that, in a phantasmagoric reiteration of American folk legend: drifters, thieves, rounders, jailbirds, horndogs, vigilantes, and roustabouts. Robert Hunter Gave the Grateful Dead Its Voice 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Angus’s real name is Francis Dempsey, however, and he is neither an aristocrat nor even a Scotsman; he is an impetuous Irish jailbird with a bagful of cash swiped from the Irish Republican Army. ‘The World of Tomorrow’ captures swirling New York in 1939 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Once “A Night at the Tombs” answers its most interesting question — will the jailbird be sent to the men’s lockup or the women’s? — it doesn’t have much to say. | 'A Night at the Tombs': Bianca Leigh Reflects on Life, at Bowery Poetry Club 2010-07-14T21:56:00Z An overdosing jailbird father stared back at me, buttering crackers with a silver coffee spoon. Modern Love: A Lost Child, but Not Mine 2011-07-28T22:12:45Z Santa’s delight at meeting jailbird Warwick Davis, whom he naively mistakes for an elf, is brilliantly handled. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Blood was spilled, weaves were pulled, alliances were changed, and Lucious Lyon went from dying man to ALS-free jailbird all in one night. Review: How Empire Changed the Game 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z It will be a moment of high seriousness in a season largely populated by pirates, jailbirds, angels, musketeers, vampires, time travelers, secret agents and pregnant astronauts. Some Big Names Help Make Summer TV Less Silly 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Rogue trade ... will jokey jailbirds have their day in the sun? Let's start a comedy crime wave 2010-08-03T10:36:00Z In the drama "A Face in the Crowd," he starred as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, a local jailbird and amateur singer who becomes a homespun philosopher on national television. Beloved actor Andy Griffith dies at 86 2012-07-03T16:37:09Z His descent from the heady heights of clubland king to tax-evading jailbird provides the show with an arc that is paralleled by other plot lines. Review: A Dirge for Wilting Salad Days in ‘This Ain’t No Disco’ 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z To the press he referred to Malcolm as "a jailbird, a hoodlum ... that chief hypocrite." When Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali's friendship changed history: The new book 'Blood Brothers' explains 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z More like, in such terrible taste that you’d be giving Brooke Astor’s jailbird son, Anthony, a run for his money. Social Q?s: Social Q?s: What?s in a Baby?s Name? Lots, if You Talk About It Ahead of Time 2010-06-03T21:43:00Z Their mother is long gone, and their jailbird father is still locked up. Review: In ‘Hollow in the Land,’ a Headstrong Woman’s Search for Answers 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z In the drama “A Face in the Crowd,” he starred as Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes, a local jailbird and amateur singer who becomes a homespun philosopher on national television. Beloved actor Andy Griffith dies at 86 2012-07-03T16:45:00Z When a 40-year-old jailbird named James Earl Ray was charged with King's murder, almost no one thought that was the end of the story. Book Review: Rev. Martin Luther King's Assassin 2010-04-29T14:56:00Z Walter as Prospero is a drab jailbird; on this sleety afternoon, wearing a bright-red sweater, red trousers, and red lipstick, she looked like a cardinal. Gender-Bending Shakespeare and Rough Magic in “The Tempest” 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z In a sense, the corrections officers and civilian employees—everyone in town except for the vacation-home owners—are as constrained as the jailbirds. Patricia Arquette Succumbs to a Pipe Dream of Flight in “Escape at Dannemora” 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z He was brilliant in Bronson, a tour de force about Britain’s most violent jailbird. Jude Law is one but Tom Hardy isn't: what makes a movie star? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Trump did not name the witness but said it was a "highly respected lawyer who once represented convicted felon, jailbird and serial fake storyteller and liar, Michael Cohen." “His credibility is suspect”: Legal experts unimpressed as Trump’s surprise mystery witness revealed 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z This subtle, amiable jailbird on temporary leave to the funny farm is saner than the men around him but he’s not necessarily brighter. How to watch every best picture winner from 1970 through 1979 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z The Duggar family insider added that the jailbird's birthday won't be as difficult of a day for him as his kids' and wife's future milestones will be. Josh Duggar facing 'tough' birthday in jail as wife Anna and parents cling to their faith, friend says 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z I was humiliated and angry: He’d outed me as a girl with a jailbird father. Perspective | When my father went to prison, I wrote him off. We found a way back together. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Slick jailbird Reggie hits the street with sloppy policeman Jack, this time to nab a drug king. TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 21 - 27, 2019 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z It was hard to watch – the jailbird boyfriend, the long sleeves and glassy distance at family holidays, protective services removing Claudine’s five children. A serial killer at the border – and the women who stood up to him 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z That may be a hypothetical example, but I met one elderly jailbird whose experience was almost identical. Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z One of the most significant parts of the film for her is the love story between Israel and her partner in crime, a ruined jailbird dandy called Jack Hock, played by Richard E Grant. Fakes and fortunes: has the time come to forgive literary forger Lee Israel? 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z “I missssss him,” Jade tweeted Thursday, along of a video of herself with her jailbird beau. Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine gifts girlfriend a $35G Rolex while in jail 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z What would it be like for him to suddenly discover that his old man was an astronaut, and not a jailbird? A prisoner is given a deal he can’t refuse in an excerpt from S.J. Morden’s sci-fi novel One Way 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Elderly and often infirm jailbirds are expensive to look after. Crooks in Japan are getting older and more hardened 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z “Oh, I know you,” Wallace said, labeling Mr. Zellner a troublemaking jailbird for the question he put to Wallace about Alabama’s police brutality and murders of civil rights workers. Opinion | Can Donald Trump Save Roy Moore After All? 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z His music championed those that society had let down, the outcasts and jailbirds, and extended to them a solemn compassion. How hate groups tried (and failed) to co-opt popular culture 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Ihar Shunievich told Belarusian state TV that his ministry is working on a bill to set up its own farms to help rehabilitate former jailbirds. Belarus minister wants ex-prisoners to work on farms - BBC News 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Married to jailbird/creep Hank Jennings, but secretly carrying on with her old boyfriend, Big Ed. Everything you need to know before tonight's 'Twin Peaks' premiere 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z The jailbird appeared well behaved and was taken into custody without incident, authorities said. D.C. shooting victim dies 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The Statue of Liberty is posing for pictures, along with Laurie Sanger, in an orange jumpsuit, a blond wig and handcuffs: a jailbird Hillary Clinton. Notes From the Campaign Trail: A Measure of U.S. Fever 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Afif's graduation from jailbird to jihadi shines a light on a prison system where staff shortages, overcrowding and corruption have allowed extremists to mingle and emerge as determined killers in the name of Islam. Jail to jihad: Indonesian prisons a breeding ground for militancy 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Thanks to them, the Virginia legislature began its 2015 session Wednesday with a jailbird on the House floor. Joe Morrissey: An embarrassment that Virginia voters support — and deserve 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Read more: Morrissey hasn’t decided whether he will resign Morrissey urged to resign after conviction A lawmaker by day and a jailbird by night? Del. Joseph Morrissey resigns in wake of conviction — and promises to run again 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., the jailbird Democrat who spent $750,000 of campaign money on stuffed elk heads and other junk, also played games with the public on his health issues. Tough CTU boss should come clean about health 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The Australian has detailed "his most spectacular fall from cuddly establishment showman to jailbird," while the Sydney Morning Herald said he was "always an embarrassing curiosity rather than a national treasure". Harris backlash in native Australia 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z Not to mention the soap opera lives of sports celebrities like Miami Heat’s Lebron James and New England Patriots jailbird Aaron Hernandez to gossip about on any given day. Why American Sports Media Hate The World Cup 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z THE escape of a flock of jailbirds, including members of the Irish Republican Army, from Whitemoor prison in 1994 was an audacious affair. The lesser escape 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Suppose the Times decided to run a story about convicted jailbird Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The media’s love affair with accused sex criminal Sri Chinmoy 2014-05-09T16:00:00Z In 2006 Ireland gave jailbirds a say; Israel and South Africa have also ruled disenfranchisement illegal, as did Hong Kong in 2009. Prison policies: Gilding the cage 2013-08-15T15:00:17Z But despite a flurry of prison-building in the 1980s and 1990s, cheered on by officers’ unions, California struggled to house the growing aviary of jailbirds. Prison overcrowding: The magic number 2013-05-09T15:00:32Z “There are drug traffickers who want to use our units for their business, enemy infiltrators who want to raise problems, jailbirds who can’t find any other job,” he said. Afghan Army’s High Turnover Clouds U.S. Exit Plan 2012-10-16T05:57:17Z I don’t want to become a jailbird for life.” Crime Scene: Corey Capers, Stabbing Victim, Remembered, as a Suspect Vanishes 2012-06-16T00:56:14Z Very well; then we may as well be getting our jailbird into his cage. The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo 2011-11-15T03:00:18.930Z He went with us out to work too, which was very diverting to the convicts and all others who saw; and everybody got to know Vaska, the jailbird. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z That same fate befell Paul Newman’s smooth-as-silk jailbird in “Cool Hand Luke,” who was sent to prison for the peculiar offense of chopping off meter heads while drunk. The Last Days of the Old New York City Parking Meter 2011-09-19T02:06:41Z My business with you, Governor Eveland, is to demand that you call upon the local authorities to arrest this jailbird, pending his extradition to your own jurisdiction. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z USA!!! as a result of "a minor problem" with his application, and joins former jailbirds Nile Ranger and Joey Barton on the list of those unwelcome by Uncle Sam. The Fiver 2011-07-18T15:34:50Z It was under these conditions that I undertook the defense of Tom Collins Tom was an old jailbird. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z But, except that it was somewhere near the sea—some summer colony probably on the Atlantic coast—she does not know where this pair of jailbirds roost. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z When this guy says he's a jailbird, he isn't kidding. Another reminder that 'fan' is short for 'fanatic' | Sideline Chatter 2011-05-15T00:11:05Z Blind pigs hardly exist, and bootleggers are rare birds who, if they persist in bootlegging, are rapidly converted into jailbirds. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z She bore the unmistakable evidence of a Japanese sealer, a vampire of the sea—as much an object of suspicion to every revenue cutter as a jailbird would be to a self-respecting policeman. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z "It's women as well as men, it's lifelong Muslims as well as converts, it's college students as well as jailbirds." Recent cases show challenge of US terrorists 2010-03-17T12:48:00Z Consider what that means to a community of jailbirds. Where the Pavement Ends "He must be so to start on one of the lonesomest roads in England, at fall of night, with such a parcel of jailbirds." The Broom-Squire Theoretically all men should have shunned him on account of his jailbird taint. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 I do know you by reputation for an escaped jailbird and a would-be blackmailer, who will be back where he belongs before he is much older. The Spoilers of the Valley I'll look like a jailbird to them if I don't color up. They of the High Trails “You don’t want to bring disgrace on the child by being branded as a jailbird, do you?” What's-His-Name They were firm in demanding that no "jailbirds" be sent them. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion Do you think that you were doing well in being in my garden about midnight in company with such a fellow as that,—one of the most notorious jailbirds in the county? The Vicar of Bullhampton As if I didn’t know, as if every jailbird doesn’t know the day and the very minute his release is due! The Spoilers of the Valley It was not long before Columbus saw that among his crew of desperate ruffians and jailbirds there were many who would betray him on the first opportunity. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Men, you are jailbirds as you say, but you are American seamen. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility In Virginia there are records in some of the county courthouses of the crimes committed by these jailbirds. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion With his strange, loping walk the poacher and jailbird walked off in the wake of the Tank, which was now ploughing merrily forward again. No Man's Land “You wouldn’t feel so mighty bad about what I say, if you knew you had a ticket-of-leave jailbird for a partner.” The Spoilers of the Valley In the meantime Mexico had sent many of her jailbirds to settle in Texas. For the Liberty of Texas The seizure of Eliphalet Congdon had been justified; Perky and Leary were valuable lieutenants and the crew of jailbirds was now to be utilized as an offensive army. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! With a band of colonists—if we can apply that name to a motley assemblage of jailbirds and high-born gentlemen, of Catholic priests and Protestant ministers—they sailed for America in 1604. French Pathfinders in North America To the political hobbies of Penn the Government was indifferent, while the intractable Quakers were classed with jailbirds and political offenders as people who were more useful to England in the plantations than at home. Beginnings of the American People “If I wasn’t a jailbird, I’d thank you in my prayers.” The Spoilers of the Valley "Hain't that same kinder rough on us, young feller?" demanded the hobo or escaped jailbird, whichever the taller man might be. Afloat on the Flood He's a friend of mine, and he likes jailbirds. Just Patty “I’m told that jailbird has got an album full of tickets-of-leave.” My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Was she goin' to stand by and see her only nephew marry into a family of jailbirds? Torchy All jailbirds tell the tale and shout their innocence.” The Spoilers of the Valley "If he's a jailbird I'll hate to see him in these parts," went on the farmer soberly. The Rover Boys in the Air From College Campus to the Clouds "No, indeed," he said, "I don't want to be a jailbird." The Cruise of the Noah's Ark Which was why Columbus got three ships and crews of jailbirds for them from a government still busy trying to drive the Moors out of the last corner of Spain. Operation: Outer Space Have we got to put up with having a jailbird, as crazy as a loon into the bargain, living right here in our midst?” An Alabaster Box “Lord! then that jailbird is one of your friends, is he?” he said. The Debtor A Novel I have no money or land to leave to any one; if I had a wife and children, the only name I could leave them would be the name of a jailbird. Sunrise Second, and a heap more important, because the jailbird had threatened Miss Beulah. The Sheriff's Son I'm not going to touch you—a jailbird! The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest And an automobile to fetch the old jailbird home in. An Alabaster Box Sometimes a jailbird just released from prison would find in the Mission House an opportunity to recover his self-respect. The Altar Steps And when they did finally turn him loose, Mary V would be ashamed of her jailbird sweetheart, and his airplane would be—where? The Thunder Bird He tried to see himself with his hair clipped and his beard shaven and the white cravat and waistcoat replaced by the harlequin costume of the jailbird. The Street Called Straight "You'll make a fine-looking jailbird, my friend," mocked Tom, looking down at the prisoner. The Young Engineers on the Gulf Or, The Dread Mystery of the Million Dollar Breakwater "A job lot of precious jailbirds that I was acting as escort of, your Lordship!" Half A Chance She was nearly bursting with rage, but there was nothing to do, and she was obliged to content herself with whispering hoarsely, "Rascal! rascal! jailbird! thief!" whenever she passed me. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 And before him in review passed a motley company of every tragic group that he had ever known—business associates, jailbirds, the inmates of Fairview, Storch's terrible companions. Broken to the Plow "A nice-looking set, surely—a fine lot of jailbirds you are." Frank on a Gun-Boat "But you're a jailbird, just the same," jeered the discharged foreman. The Young Engineers on the Gulf Or, The Dread Mystery of the Million Dollar Breakwater We smile mayhap at his simplicity but note at the same time that his psychology is sound: the influence of his sermonizing upon the jailbirds is true to experience often since tested. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities But the young jailbird quickly changed his mind, and turned to face them, an inquisitive look on his hard cunning face. The High School Pitcher Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond "None of your 'poor dears' to my daughter, you jailbird!" screamed Mr. Whedell. Round the Block They would never have me, a branded jailbird, in the Imperial Yeomanry! Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman "You'd have to sell it all out, if I gave the directors a chance to find out that you're a jailbird—-that you did time as a younger man," sneered Evarts. The Young Engineers on the Gulf Or, The Dread Mystery of the Million Dollar Breakwater Most of them graduated into habitual jailbirds, a few—the cleverest—became saloon-keepers and politicians and high-class professional gamblers and race track men. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise "That'll be all right, too," came readily enough from the jailbird. The High School Pitcher Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond Oh, yes, you're right; I already possess more clothes than any jailbird needs, but when spring comes, I must have new plumage. Dear Enemy It is not mysterious, it is not even odd, that a jailbird should take his gun to Pilgrim's Pond. The Wisdom of Father Brown You first-class jailbird, do you dare ask me again? The Dramatic Values in Plautus At the crucial point the Trust President is on the stand, a potential criminal needing but one push to be a jailbird, scorned by the upright for leagues around. The Beautiful and Damned The stranger halted with his jailbird companion some five or six feet away. The High School Pitcher Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond I am only a fit companion for jailbirds and criminals. Stories Worth Rereading There may have been some old jailbird called a King in the time of our grandmothers; but he belongs to history if not to fable. The Wisdom of Father Brown I don't know: he was as good to me as the well is to the parched wayfarer—as the sun to the shivering jailbird. Villette I am living without becoming but a jailbird. Botchan (Master Darling) "That's what," replied another of the players, a grim old jailbird who had escaped from the Ceuta penitentiary and who looked just like a fox. The Quest He might have been a jailbird gaping through iron bars. We Can't Have Everything "Here's that hat," he answered, "but they ain't passing out guns to jailbirds—not in these parts!" Bull Hunter Nearer land they were given, like the jailbirds they were, to "hopping the twig." The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore Our claim is established by law, and he is nothing but an escaped jailbird. The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes Or, the secret of the island cave At the railway station he looked about for the philosophic jailbird, but he was not to be seen. The Rose in the Ring That if two such rogues were to be set free all the other jailbirds might as well be let go. Courts and Criminals "The consciousness that my brother was a scoundrel, a jailbird!" Two Boys and a Fortune, or, the Tyler Will Whoever would suppose she was the sister of that scurvy scalawag with jailbird branded all over his hulking hide? A Texas Ranger That jailbird hasn't been away from her long enough for her to be weaned from her foolishness about him. When Egypt Went Broke I wouldn't brag about that kind of political power, when you can use it to make notaries out of jailbirds. The Landloper Sons with mothers, sires with daughters, lesbic sisters, loves that dare not speak their name, nephews with grandmothers, jailbirds with keyholes, queens with prize bulls. Ulysses I discovered that there was forty per cent more civil service reformers among the jailbirds. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon And now it's comin' out that he's a crook and a jailbird! Shavings "I have broken your engagement with that jailbird." When Egypt Went Broke Because I been see the jailbird, Dennis Burke, all dress up like minister, go past here with the nephew of Colonel Dodd. The Landloper "The two jailbirds have met," the red-haired woman suddenly called out in a hoarse voice from the other end of the shelf beds, accompanying every word with frightfully vile abuse. Resurrection I always knew he was no good, a jailbird, a hoodlum, a slugger. The Valley of the Moon Suppose I tell him I've been," bitterly, "a crook and a jailbird; what will HE think of me—as a son-in-law? Shavings He saw Paul in a jailbird's uniform, but while he agonized he didn't believe the tale. Babbitt Tell them Billy is a jailbird and that I am a bad woman whom all men desire. The Valley of the Moon |
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