| 单词 | armless |
| 例句 | I lunge for it but I’m armless, helpless. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And all of a sudden, while looking at the armless lady, Aurelia just started crying. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He motioned toward my armless area, blinking his eyes rapidly and barking as he did so. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I sat down on an armless sofa till she was ready to talk. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The hooks look like appliances for the armless. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z You could also call this the "Sure, I'm totally used to seeing people with no arms" look or the "I have tons of armless friends" look. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Then there's the look I like to call "Oh my gosh, I'm staring at your armless area. Just kidding, no, I'm not. Now I'm staring. No, I'm not." Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Someone at the support group calls you armless Aven? Is that from his Tourette’s?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “He’s starting to get on my nerves, calling you armless Aven,” he mumbled. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z A powdery, colored breeze lifted her hair and blew it like a rippled shawl around his armless shoulder, that ended abruptly, like a cliff. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z June was out there waiting for us, sitting in an armless kitchen chair, playing her cello. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Baba told me stories of his travels to India and Russia, the people he had met, like the armless, legless couple in Bombay who’d been married forty-seven years and raised eleven children. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Also at Cross MacKenzie, Nicole Gunning is showing the next generation of ceramic nudes — life-size, but headless and armless — modeled on her own body. In the galleries: Works on paper at Marsha Mateyka Gallery 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The most unusual pieces in “Apology/Remorse” are six sculptures that place the heads of elderly Asian men on the armless Greco-Roman fertility-goddess bodies. Noted Seattle artist’s final show reveals he was vibrant to the end 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z “We like the sleek look of a single-cushion sofa and think the armless design is very modern and chic,” says Brian Sawyer, a partner in the firm. Step inside a home decorated for a 1-percenter: The 2016 Kips Bay show house 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z George Condo claims his depiction of West and a, er, nude armless angel was requested by the rapper to create controversy. Kanye West wanted album cover to be banned, says artist 2011-01-11T10:45:46Z A storage alcove is stacked with random detritus: an armless Greek warrior, several sets of antlers, a modern wood stool and a bronze bust of a mustachioed Seventh Regiment sergeant. A Gilded Age Setting for a Huge Art Show 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The mix of furniture is sleek, simple, neo-Classical: upholstered Greco-Roman wooden benches and armless chairs, overlapping zebra rugs. | Lanvin: At Lanvin, Pricey Designs for Society?s Decline 2010-08-10T20:57:00Z Today, a new, authentic Saarinen Tulip armless chair sells for $1,481 on the Knoll website or for slightly less at online retailers such as Hive, which lists it for $1,465. How to repaint a classic fiberglass mid-century chair 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z That was the case with the Louvre’s headless “Winged Victory of Samothrace“ or its armless Aphrodite of Milos, better known as the Venus de Milo. Recreating Adam, From Hundreds of Fragments, After the Fall 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z Then she sees Albert’s armless body, and a bloodstained cleaver next to him. ‘Jessica Jones’ Season 1 Finale: Doing Something Good 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Sobo, who helped create the Ample app, advises restaurant owners to encourage the staff to gently suggest a more comfortable table or offer to find an armless chair for bigger customers. For Larger Customers, Eating Out Is Still a Daunting Experience 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z In the Petit Salon by Sawyer/Berson, a chunky marble terrazzo floor with marble fragments in golds and greens sets off a custom gold velvet armless sofa with a fringe trim. Step inside a home decorated for a 1-percenter: The 2016 Kips Bay show house 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Fourteen-year-old Desiree is left "a walking lump of clay" on discovering an armless newborn baby in a ditch one early spring day. First novels: Catherine Taylor's choice – reviews 2012-08-24T21:55:02Z First, there’s Andrea, our would-be negotiator who travels the perilous route to the prison with an armless, jawless walker to gauge Rick’s intentions. The Walking Dead Watch: Hey, Judas 2013-02-25T20:07:50Z Rivera’s, executed at about 16, shows the armless sculpture lying on its back on the ground — European Classicism toppled. LACMA's uneven new Picasso and Rivera show reveals an unprecedented, must-see discovery 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z And without spoiling anything, Michonne is the mysterious hooded character who saves Andrea by slicing up a walker while towing two armless zombies in chains. The Walking Dead Watch: Beside the Dying Fire 2012-03-19T13:14:58Z The kneeling, armless woman in gauzy orange dress in the left-hand panel seems to be warily eyeing them. ‘Francis Bacon: Late Paintings,’ at Gagosian, Is a Vivid Narrative 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Student groups and tourists once filled the museum's halls to view the corpse-like Senoufo statues depicting armless ghosts of ancestors and the dark wooden Baoule masks with elongated eyes and narrow mouths. Looters plunder $8.5M from Ivory Coast museum 2011-09-23T11:31:04Z Her mama was an albino hunchback dwarf and her papa a legless, armless act billed as "Arty the Aqua Boy." Katherine Dunn has died; the 'Geek Love' author once took the world by storm 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z But from her cinematic entrance to the quick scenes that showcased her prowess in this world, we never knew her name, nor did we know why the hell she dragged armless, jawless walkers on chains. The Walking Dead Watch: The Governor Commeth 2012-10-29T14:54:06Z Her twitter page is cluttered with emojis of hearts and tears for an endless stream of rescue dogs and tragic animal heroes, like a video of an armless squirrel named Karamel. Olivia Hussey, star of Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet: 'I was wild' 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Ph.D. candidates in informatics have worked on a computer program that allows this museum’s visitors to try to reconstruct Praxiteles’ statue of the Resting Satyr, now armless and legless. On College Campuses, a New Role for Students: Museum Curator 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Five years ago, Quinn made a series of sculptures of people with disabilities whose body defined them – most famously Alison Lapper, armless and with short legs, displayed on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth. Just don't call it a freak show 2010-04-30T23:07:00Z One figure has a hairless head like a golden pear and an armless body like a bowling pin. What to see in L.A. galleries: Hot-button greeting cards, mesmerizing photograms 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z An armless man moves wormlike across the stage as his partner berates him for failing life's tests. New Glass opera "The Lost" premieres in Austria 2013-04-13T00:11:09Z You'll dine in a spacious dining room with a remarkably high ceiling, at tables covered in white linen and surrounded by comfortable, armless chairs. Banchan, vegan fried chicken and caviar: A size-inclusive travel writer's guide to eating NYC 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z There is more space between tables, and sturdy, armless wooden chairs that the company said will lend a homier feel. For Larger Customers, Eating Out Is Still a Daunting Experience 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z He shifted some books from an armless soft chair. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z The phrase echoed his resolve to keep in memory his creative forebears: the illusionists and enchanters, the charlatans and cardsharps, the human cannonballs, armless artists, learned animals and practitioners of ancient acts that still amaze. The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Gossiping feverishly among the sleek, armless couches and teak accent chairs, the actors hurl themselves into this adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s semi-absurdist play as if they’ve taken a collective B12 shot. ‘Absolutely! {Perhaps}’: Eye-catching (but frustrating) The final sequence shows the beginning all over again — the armless woman, the images of death, the marriage of the corpses. Review: ‘Viktor’ Is Vintage Pina Bausch, Complete With Gravedigger 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Still, she said, the issue is much deeper than armless chairs. For Larger Customers, Eating Out Is Still a Daunting Experience 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z But he is also fragile, and armless in his old garments. Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures – review 2012-09-29T23:05:27Z The black, armless figurine is bound to the opaque glass bottle by chains. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Politics An armless man From the very beginning, Nixon is depicted as a man haunted by his own wickedness. Far from unimpeachable 2010-06-03T11:40:00Z That he does not yet feel she is sufficiently dependent upon him is made overwhelmingly clear by repeated foreshadowing shots of a replica of the armless Venus de Milo. Where you can (and can’t) watch eight of Julian Sands' most notable movie roles 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z At this point the plant still would have been small, armless, nondescript. A centuries-old cactus survived everything. Then summer rains came. 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z He also hailed people in the southern city of Kherson for taking to the streets Sunday to protest the Russian occupation, showing “Ukrainian courage, armless against the occupiers.” Live updates: Ammonia leak in east Ukraine city contained 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z She wears a long sundress and hunches slightly as she sits in one of the exam room's armless chairs. What if Doctors Stopped Prescribing Weight Loss? 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Video from the property shows emus and geese wandering around a collection of overturned buckets and wheelbarrows, skirting an armless mannequin and a discarded toilet. Llamas and ostriches were taken from an exotic meat farm. Was it theft or rescue? 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z At some point later that year, Jean-Michel Basquiat used marker and acrylics to dash off a sketch of two fiendish cops beating an armless, legless figure, rendered in black silhouette. Basquiat’s Memorial to a Young Artist Killed by Police 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Alongside, in an armless high-back, rested his ailing father, 82, who fell asleep. The Gambler: Meet the man who won $1.2 million on Tiger Woods - Golf Digest 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z But that’s not mandatory, as long as the chairs are armless so they don’t consume a lot of space. The best seats at the Masters can be yours — until the owner wants them back 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Growing up, Teresa and Anna were mentored by Jessica Cox, the world’s first licensed armless pilot. There’s no challenge too great for Teresa Buchholz — a Seattle U cheerleader born without arms. Just don’t call her inspiring. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Katrina said she removed a whole suite of French, silk-covered armless chairs and settees “because there were complaints about the lack of comfort.” Real estate entrepreneur Don Peebles is still building on his success 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z I sat at the bar, admiring the airy space with its mix of bench seating and simple, armless chairs placed around family-style tables. Review | Liberty proves that good barbecue is a group project 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z One resident reportedly described the assailant as “spineless” for taking on an armless machine. Give robots an 'ethical black box' to track and explain decisions, say scientists 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z It has no arms but is not armless. Rei Kawakubo, Interpreter of Dreams 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z American Matt Stutzman is an armless archer who holds a world record for long-distance accuracy. Rio Paralympics saved by last-minute government bailout 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z It’s a metal sculpture of an armless woman with hair made of chains. ‘The Iron Mother’ sculpture now rises from Tennessee River 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The trees look “just like Venus de Milo,” the armless ancient Greek statue, Natoli said. Drought drives bears down to foothill town in search of food 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Featureless, armless, their rough-hewed bodies face one another as if engrossed in conversation. Leadership on View in ‘Art Walk’ Near West Point 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Some armless, others hobbling on spindly prosthetic legs, Honduran migrants came to Mexico City this week to protest their plight. Honduran migrants, maimed by train, protest their plight 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The layout: A sleek, armless sofa floats slightly away from the wall; two large, low ottomans double as coffee tables and seats. How To Design And Lay Out A Small Living Room 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z And waiting rooms should offer armless chairs or benches and firm sofas, as well as inclusive information that "reflects size diversity." Is Health Care Improving for Obese Patients? 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The work she shows in the guide is an armless, headless, classical-style sculpture of a skimpily draped woman, titled Ironic Piece of Work by a Female Artist. Catlin Guide aims to catalogue Britain's most intriguing new artists 2013-01-08T18:57:08Z Four people were temporarily kidnapped, dozens were injured and, according to local leader Nina, a dynamite blast left one man armless. For Bolivian Farmers, Quinoa Boom Is Both Boon and Bane 2012-04-03T10:25:00Z Two other statues which I thought exceptionally interesting are of a sturdy, smiling child and of a headless and armless woman. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z But she had heard wild rumours in the meantime—the possibility of his adopting the armless dwarf and the wild twins of Borneo, in case the show business did not pay. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z You must give him that round, armless seat, so that he cannot lean back, but must hold himself proudly erect. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z Among the notabilities of Antwerp in those days was Charles F�lu, the armless painter. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Thence they were conducted over the bridge of Ness, and dismissed everyone armless and harmless to his own house. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Even the copyist in the Antwerp Gallery who, being armless, painted with his toes was an amusement, as much to my uncle, who loved freaks, as to myself. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Guardeen to an armless dwarf and two wild twins of Borneo! Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z There he lay upon his cot, armless, and knowing that this must be his condition through life; but yet with a cheerful, happy countenance, and not a single word of complaint. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z Found F�lu, the armless artist, in the Mus�e copying a picture of Godiva. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Finally, who but a Schnorrer would wear this overcoat cloak-wise, with dangling sleeves, full of armless suggestion from a side view? The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z It was the use of actual human oddities: the Siamese twins, the “pinhead,” the armless, legless man and a whole sideshow of nature’s misfits. Happy Halloween: TIME's 25 Scariest Horror Movies 2011-10-31T21:35:13Z Among wrecked guns and mountings lay headless and armless bodies; human limbs shattered by shells were strewn in all directions upon decks slippery with blood. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z The bus driver pulls up and says to him: "Hello, hello, hello, you look armless enough, hop on." Small Talk: Jamie Roberts 2011-08-18T23:01:00Z My sign was all eloquent, and like statues—for we felt how utterly armless, and therefore powerless, we were—we waited, our eyes fixed on our foe. Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs 2011-08-04T02:00:26.337Z He straightened his back, giving that little forward shrug of an armless shoulder that Olwen could never see unmoved. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z There were some armless sleeves, and now and then came men who limped, or whose foreheads were bandaged. Roger Davis, Loyalist 2011-02-17T03:00:22.690Z "All this, my dear H., in spite of my misfortunes!" and he glanced significantly at his armless sleeve. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z “All this, my dear H—, in spite of my misfortunes!” and he glanced significantly at his armless sleeve. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z Immediately opposite to the barracks, in the convent yard, are two very ancient wooden guard-houses, blackened and decayed with age, about thirty feet in height, looking very much like armless windmills, or mammoth pigeon-houses. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z That moment the phantom faced him; and Pierre saw Enceladus no more; but on the Titan's armless trunk, his own duplicate face and features magnifiedly gleamed upon him with prophetic discomfiture and woe. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z There was a small single bed, a wardrobe, a toilet table and chest of drawers, a hard, uninviting-looking sofa, and an easy-chair with a stiff back, and armless. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z He pointed to the armless man and to the man with the shapeless legs. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Go into the hospitals;—armless, legless men, wounds of every description. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z The good youth went into the hut, and saw that on the stove lay an armless, legless one, piteously groaning, and begging for meat and drink. Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z The campaign is composed of 150 legless, armless mannequins. Beating the odds so far in battle against ALS 2010-06-09T18:44:00Z Ms. Ortiz’s was the first name called that cold morning at Fishkill, and she took her place in an armless chair, dressed in prison greens, her long brown hair in a ponytail; she was 40. Convicted of Murder as a Teenager, Inmate Is Paroled at 41 2010-06-04T21:17:00Z He looked splendid to-night, more romantic than he had ever been, with his pointed beard, his armless sleeve buttoned across on to his coat, his top-hat shining, his clothes fitting so perfectly. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary Possibly this was the crest used in his later years, consisting of three shields on a blue field, above which is a closed helmet supporting the armless bust and head of a winged negro! Dürer Artist-Biographies "I've noticed that," said Handy Sam, the armless wonder at the flea circus, drinking beer because he had an ingrown toenail and couldn't hold a shot glass. At the Post In front of this is the traditional couch, armless but well-upholstered and comfortable. You Don't Make Wine Like the Greeks Did A few years more, however, and all of us cripples, one-armed and one-legged and those who are wholly armless and legless, will have passed away out of sight. Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles Again the windows rattled, the armor clanked, and the hanging suits swung and shook their armless sleeves in the air. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 He appeared about as much good to the world as a pair of boxin' gloves would be to the armless wonder. Side-stepping with Shorty Before him, on that wall, beneath those beasts, the necromancy of the priesthood had projected an armless, fluidic hand that mounted, descended, tracing with a forefinger the three luminous hierograms of his doom. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal They are a wild pack dressed in gaudy rags, and rumpled, armless cloaks with hoods; carrying long staves and crutches; with colored cloths bound about their sinister foreheads. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature Those armless radiant shoulders, long ago Perchance held arms out wide with yearning grace For Adon by the blue Sicilian sea. Collected Poems Volume One Belle went at once to the stable and there she found the Preacher on his knees, in an armless old undershirt, rubbing linament on to some slight bump on Blazing Star's nigh hock. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country Then he bore the armless torso of the mech backward and fell upon it. Second Sight So he had the armless man and the legless man in the wagon brought to him, and said to them, “Do as you are able.” Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales Did he know that just beneath were things?—two dangling in air, headless, armless? one "writhing in agony anon"? Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Simon sat in a small, armless chair made somewhat comfortable by the cushion on its seat. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Women, old men, little children, 'armless people—enough to make your 'eart bleed. Tatterdemalion I can see now the bandaged eyes of the gassed patients, the armless sleeve or the bared breast with the bloody dressings. The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man He raised his head and found himself sitting in a wood, and there he saw an armless man pursuing a hare. Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales Of all strange crews that mortal sight has gazed upon, that was the strangest, that dozen men who out of nowhere appeared suddenly in the streets one morning, armless all, all with wooden left legs. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton The armless Vatican Cupid Hangs down his head as before. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold For their greatest enemy must own that "the strange device" of the three legs is utterly 'armless. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 27, 1893 Yes, the train went over them and I'm armless for the second time. Uncanny Tales The armless one said, “The hare is mine!” Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales Mrs. Brace moved slowly to and fro on the armless rocker, her swift, appraising eyes taking in her visitor's distress. No Clue A Mystery Story The armless Vatican Cupid Hangs down his beautiful head; For the priests have got him in prison, And Psyche long has been dead. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold The armless Chinese girl whom I discovered at Poplar.... The Bill-Toppers Robeccal showed her a card on which was written the girl's address and that of the armless singer. The Son of Monte-Cristo The good lady sat in an armless rocking-chair, or rather on it, for she was by no means contained therein, but bulged over and beyond at all points. A Tar-Heel Baron Mrs. Brace resumed her place on the armless rocker after she had moved a chair forward for him. No Clue A Mystery Story At the centre, the presidential arm-chair, with P. C. A. embroidered on the back of it; at one end, humbly, the armless chair of the secretary. Tartarin On The Alps I think of you, away off in Virginia, with your armless sleeve, our children in New Orleans, and I wonder if we will ever be united again. How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 They have something like human heads, but these are without necks and indeed sunken between the shoulders, which last are of enormous breadth and continued into thick armless bodies, with short slender legs below! The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure An armless beggar was turning the crank of an organ with his bare feet. Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 She sat now, still and watchful, on the armless rocker by the window, waiting for him to disclose the object of his visit. No Clue A Mystery Story Did he suppose Master Will didn’t sometimes indulge in a little ’armless jesting like other people? Over the Rocky Mountains Wandering Will in the Land of the Redskin Charley thought of the armless man in the Flea Museum, and decided slowly that no explanation would be good enough. Charley de Milo To Greece we go for consolation, and in her armless and headless marbles we see the perfect type of what men and women yet may be. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Meanwhile, inside there, "the iron man" is sitting in his wife's room on a small embroidered armless chair. The Day of Wrath She moved slowly to and fro on the armless, low-backed rocker, watching him intently. No Clue A Mystery Story "Oh, my gracious," he thought as he banged on the piano—the chords intended to depict musically the armless wonder's cannibalistic proclivities. The Music Master Novelized from the Play Eluding whom, I have assembled you; She deems us armless here, without defence. Athaliah A Tragedy, Intended For Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825) Wooden legs, armless sleeves, numberless graves, fatherless and motherless homes everywhere speak of somebody's carelessness, somebody's blunders, somebody's habit of inaccuracy. Pushing to the Front I sue to thee for grace: With arms to conquer armless men is base. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) She came back, unhurried, imperturbable, and sat down again in the armless rocker before she answered his question. No Clue A Mystery Story "Bosco, Bosco, the armless wonder," bang! bang! "bites their heads off and eats their bodies; eats 'em alive, eats 'em alive!" The Music Master Novelized from the Play In the watches of the night a towel flung across the bedpost becomes a gorilla crouching to spring; a tree branch tapping at the window an armless hand, beckoning. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Venus is an armless figure from the Louvre; Dionysos does not mean to us divine possession, the gift of tongues, or immortality; Attis brings no salvation. The Necessity of Atheism "It used to be owned by an armless man who rowed over the Great American Desert in an open boat!" Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box His popularity, which is great, has, by some scribes sitting in the armless chairs of the scorners, been attributed chiefly to the power of sectarianism. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Two days later the armless man died in hospital. The Red Horizon It was armless and headless, and Shelby wondered by what accident it had become so damaged, and why it was not banished to the attic. The Henchman Well, ye see, I don't know yer history,"—he said—"But I considers ye 'armless an' unfortunate. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Those oaken giants of the ancient race, That ruled all seas, and did our channel grace; The conscious stag, though once the forest’s dread, Flies to the wood, and hides his armless head. Andrew Marvell He looked sidewise at the armless trunk, and his soul writhed in humiliation at the thought of his own ridiculousness. Atlantis He was as much good there as an armless man in a billiard tournament. Destiny Winthrop went to these, and taking down bundle after bundle, disposed them so as to make a resting-place of greater capabilities than the armless wooden chair in which Elizabeth had been sitting all night. Hills of the Shatemuc And they were lean men, battle-scarred and fierce of eye, some with armless sleeves, some with stiff legs, some twisted with rheumatism. A Splendid Hazard "Poor Bob! how much he must have suffered," she whispered, and kneeling down beside him, she hid her face in her hands, weeping bitter tears for her armless hero. Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering This you have accomplished, you poor armless man, that hundreds, though they had two arms, perished, while you are privileged to appear on the stage this evening as if nothing had occurred. Atlantis Down hissed the blow and it bit that little, white, heart-holding hand until it flew armless and disbodied up through the sunlit air. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil In his hand was a dusty cardboard box, and in the box lay five damaged leaden soldiers, up-to-date soldiers in khaki; two without heads, two armless, one who had lost both legs. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 28, 1917 Mr. Soper said he supposed he could "make a 'armless remark." The Divine Fire These two points are—first, the original pose of the statue; and, secondly, the reason of its being armless. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Frederick watched the armless man with great interest. Atlantis There is even an armless billiard-player among them; and I could not wish him a happier setting for the exercise of his skill. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 9, 1919 In the early part of the war I lost my arm by a stray shot, and my armless sleeve is one of the mementos of battle I shall carry with me through life. Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted As my strait-jacket rendered me armless, I presented the glass to Jekyll-Hyde on the tip of a tongue he had often heard, but never before seen. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography I confess that I have a violent prejudice against all blind, one-eyed, deaf, dumb, legless, armless, hunchbacked, and such-like people. A Hero of Our Time He paid no attention to the armless man, who jestingly shouted an ironic remark to him. Atlantis His hands flashed out—armless; they wavered, appearing, disappearing—swiftly tearing something from him. The Moon Pool On several occasions in England, cricket matches have been organized between armless and legless men. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine A chorus of boisterous laughter came from the other rocks, and Dorothy saw hundreds of the armless Hammer-Heads upon the hillside, one behind every rock. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz She tossed the glass aside, and, holding out her flowing skirts with both hands, executed a swinging pirouette in front of the gravely beautiful statue of the armless woman. The Damnation of Theron Ware The applause refused to end, and the armless trunk made a moderately profound bow. Atlantis And they lie legless or armless, perhaps with running sores, a smile on the face in answer to the sympathetic word, in long hospital rows…. The World Decision On a headless, armless statue, almost inundated by the waving grass, a lizard, with its heart beating tranquilly, lay motionless, absorbed, drinking in its fill of light. Jean-Christophe Journey's End These latter they had encountered everywhere; their whines and cries, their armless, legless bodies, their hideous filth, and their insolent importunities, they had found a veritable pest. In and out of Three Normady Inns Her head inclined gently, gravely, toward him—with the posture of that armless woman in marble he had been studying—and her brown eyes, regarding him from the shadows, emitted light. The Damnation of Theron Ware I obtained your address from Mr. Stoss, the armless marksman, you know. Atlantis One met them hobbling down the Élysées under the shade of the chestnut trees, in the metro, at the cafés, the legless and armless, also the more horrible ones whose faces had been shot awry. The World Decision She is an orphan," says the armless one, "and she is half-mad. By-Ways of Bombay And all the things that they hold dear—canes, gloves, silk hats, and the newer garments on which fashion makes its twaddle—are within reach of their armless sleeves. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come The Hegumen sat on a broad armless chair, very pale and weak—so poorly, indeed, that the brethren had excused him from chapel duties. The Prince of India — Volume 02 So, while the other guests went with the Dean, she conducted the Emperor to the reception room, where there were no flowers, and but one armless chair. The Prince of India — Volume 01 In its present condition, the "Venus de Milo" is not the statue of an armless woman, but a statue of part of a whole woman. The Principles of Aesthetics The only reply is a vacant but not unpleasant smile; and the armless wastrel then volunteers the information that the child—for she is little more—is not a boy but a girl. By-Ways of Bombay Oh, Sir," said she, again addressing me, "what signifies a armless thing like an harrow; that's nothin but a little wooden rod to the stroke of the sun, as they calls it. Nature and Human Nature On an armless chair in one of the divisions of the beautiful room, the Princess sat, slightly bending over a piece of embroidery stretched upon a frame. The Prince of India — Volume 02 The chairs, ten straight-backed, and two easy by the fireplace, of which one was armless, were upholstered in saddlebag, yellow and green. The Fortunate Youth When she returned she triumphantly displayed a battered doll, armless and footless, but with a magnificent crowning glory of black, frizzed hair. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch The waiting-room seemed to have been transformed into a museum of misery: there were blind men, legless and armless men, paralysed men, their faces ravaged by fire and powder. The New Book of Martyrs The blastoid is stemmed and armless, and its globular "head" or "calyx," with its five petal-like divisions, resembles a flower bud. The Elements of Geology In this particular tree are the spirits of the Moungun, or armless women, and when the wind blows you could hear them wailing. The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia The armless boy appeared in wrinkled boots, and a red shirt and vest. What to Do? The armless boy appeared in wrinkled boots, and a red shirt and vest. What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow Thousands of lives wasted—thousands of armless and legless cripples sent back—for nothing. At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war. Some of these English wives of aliens, and 'armless little German bakers, an' Austrians, and what-not: they get a crool time. Saint's Progress "P.S.—I had almost forgot to inform you that a fair young lady sat in an armless chair upon my right hand, with manifest discontent in her looks." Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer They also summoned an armless boy and his mother. What to Do? They also summoned an armless boy and his mother. What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow With its armless and headless bust, abruptly ending in a hooped wire skirt, it completely filled the sides of the box. Openings in the Old Trail "Is that another armless or footless wonder next to Billy Thorpe?" asked Teddy. The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings : or, Making the Start in the Sawdust Life And on a wall this king his eyen cast, And saw an hand, armless, that wrote full fast; For fear of which he quaked, and sighed sore. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems Up to now, except for imagining ’imself a mole, and taking all his meals underneath the carpet, it’s been mostly birds and cats and ’armless sort o’ things I ’aven’t seemed to mind so much.” Tommy and Co. Love came upon us suddenly And loosed—an idle hour to kill— A headless, armless armory That smote us both on Jakko Hill. The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition "I don't compline of him," said Moses magnanimously, "the poor chap's 'armless enough; you might tie 'im up in the garden here and 'e'd make noises at the burglars." Manalive But, for the blind man and the armless soldier, the town guard saw them leaving by the North Gate, with a violer woman and her husband, an ill-looking loon, in their company.” A Monk of Fife The stalwart young farmers are accompanied by their wives; each woman in her coloured wimple, with her shapely arms covered nearly to the elbow with cheap glass armless. Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan He was lumbering through with his armless roll, intending to clash the door back in Katrina's face, when there was a fierce shout behind him, and for some minutes Ben Aboo knew no more. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable He's been here for 'alf an hour, miss, and I think more than likely he's a foreigner, by his actions, or may be he's not quite right in his 'ead, though 'armless. Penelope's English Experiences With them there is now a new experiment in the stalked Echinoderm, the Blastoid, an armless type; but it seems to have been a failure. The Story of Evolution |
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