| 单词 | leisureliness |
| 例句 | To me, Scrabble isn’t about leisureliness or leniency or friendship. First Person: Sheltered by Online Scrabble?s Anonymity 2011-09-16T23:02:17Z Directing his own work, Lewis errs on the side of leisureliness in the therapy sessions. Seven Year Twitch – review 2013-05-28T17:11:53Z The relative leisureliness of pace also allows a little too much time for the hoary this’ll-make-you-feel-smart references to register. ‘Shakespeare in Love: The Play,’ in London 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z The charm of antiquity, the charm of leisureliness, the charm of immobility. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z For example, what he says about Royce embraces both men perfectly: "that unique mixture of erudition, originality, profundity and vastness, and human wit and leisureliness." The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z He pretended a leisureliness, opening a few books and staring with apparent interest at passages in them. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Gone was now the old life for Black Shag, with its leisureliness and ease. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z What a feeling of reserve there is in the beautiful leisureliness of his action! Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z It is of no use being a spirit if you cannot move about with regal leisureliness, such as was displayed by the first Shah of Persia who visited us. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z The charm of the story and the leisureliness of its narration remind one of De Morgan's 'Joseph Vance,' or Locke's 'The Beloved Vagabond.' The Preliminaries And Other Stories The leisureliness of her greeting seemed to take him for granted, to relegate him, almost, to part of the scenery. The Furnace The bull was proceeding with majestic leisureliness towards his shed. Shadows of Flames A Novel In the factor's garden is an old sundial which adds the needed touch of romance to the place; also, it connotes a fine leisureliness. Seeds of Pine He recognized the footfalls of Plenty Buffalo, his chief of Indian police, but this time there was an absence of the customary leisureliness in the official's stride. Mystery Ranch The babies looked at things from an opposite point of view, and strongly objected to delays and leisureliness of every description. Lotus Buds Lastly, a cool ease, deliberation, and leisureliness about all he said and did, hinted at his being a person in authority, accustomed to give orders and see them obeyed without question. The First Violin A Novel The young ladies crowded out, some hurriedly and anxiously, others, sure of their power, with provoking leisureliness. Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro Looking up from below one is fascinated by the extreme leisureliness of its motion. The Book of the National Parks She had been chiefly intent upon her own accomplishment, and Gerard's playing was of a deceptive leisureliness and tranquillity. From the Car Behind How careful these busy men were to convey a certain impression of leisureliness! Mushrooms on the Moor White clouds floated with infinite leisureliness across the blue sky. Talents, Incorporated They stay in the sea awhile, revolving with relative leisureliness, until relieved, and then emerge, sometimes close to vessels. The Book of the Damned That the chief evidence of this peace is in the leisureliness of the heart.—Christ's possession of peace was very evident through all the stormy scenes that followed. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. The men dragging Tesla down the steps paused, and their fists moving with a leisureliness struck into his face, making no sound and not doing anything. Erik Dorn So men who have been accustomed to think of revelation in static terms, now that the long leisureliness of man's developing spiritual insight is apparent, fear that this does away with revelation. Christianity and Progress The vessel, following its curves, tacked continually, its great sail intensely white against the blue of inlet, bay and sky, and the shadeless green of the marshes, zigzagging from side to side with provoking leisureliness. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia It seems advisable also to advance with scrupulous leisureliness in this formidable matter and at certain intervals to turn round as it were, and survey the path by which we have come. The Complex Vision Lindsey rose with studied leisureliness and stood at the rail near Sears, ready. Terry A Tale of the Hill People He filled his pipe with a leisureliness which seemed incompatible with the conditions of the moment. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon You say that science has disclosed to us the leisureliness of the evolving universe. Christianity and Progress Then he slipped from his place and, though each single movement gave an impression of great leisureliness, it was but a flash of time until he stood beside Burkitt. Judith of Blue Lake Ranch That was in 1870, and I fear that Springfield must have lost some of its old-world simplicity and leisureliness since then. Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists The slow stare that he gave me did not mitigate the leisureliness of his entry. Romance "I could wish at times for the revival of 'leisureliness' as a party catch-word." The Half-Hearted Parker may have shared this impression, and it may account for his leisureliness. The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence In the matters of a vast leisureliness and tumbling along the easiest way they resembled each other, these two avowed enemies. The Bells of San Juan With the same leisureliness, he removed his light top-coat and his hat and hung them in the closet. The Cab of the Sleeping Horse Its composition out of an indefinite number of partial systems is more than probable; but the inconceivable leisureliness with which their mutual relations develop renders the harmony of those relations inappreciable by short-lived terrestrial denizens. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 The leisureliness of an Italian religious procession is something delicious, as well as the way they have of forming hollow squares and leaving the middle of the street sacred to the grander dignities. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Fairfax Cary joined the two Churchills and their friends, while Rand, after a just perceptible hesitation, entered the small room where the postmaster was filling, with great leisureliness, the leather mail-bag. Lewis Rand Buck's air of leisureliness dropped from him as he talked; his orange-stick worked ever more and more furiously; his honest voice grew passionate as he described conditions as he knew them. Queed "It seems to me that leisureliness is a characteristic of the country," said the girl. Alton of Somasco She dropped the spurned gift back into her bag, with studied leisureliness, and rose at once, though she had made no purchase. V. V.'s Eyes We in England watched these things, not realising that our own confidence in the military prospects and the resisting power of the Allies, was partly to blame for American leisureliness. Fields of Victory He came up to her quite quietly, with that leisureliness of gait that she remembered so well. Rosa Mundi and Other Stories There were only three more to set out, and her inclination, in keeping with her leisureliness, was to wait on the completion of his task before speaking. The Last Shot "Keep the place in the corner for me!" he commanded, and lounged away upon his errand with imperial leisureliness. Greatheart The salvage steamer had a South of Europe leisureliness in her movements. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle He was off down the hall again with his light, quick step that still had the appearance of leisureliness. Cheerful—By Request Later he went to the hop and had a corking time, stayed till the last violin swooned off into silence, then sauntered with deliberate leisureliness toward Prof. Hathaway's house with Elsie on his arm. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth That quiet leisureliness of hers would not have been humanly possible if either her resolution or the means for executing it had remained in doubt. Mary Wollaston Economy had been the chief factor in all calculations, speed had not entered into them, so leisureliness had become a fixed habit. The Shuttle T. A. lighted it with admirable leisureliness, sent out a great puff of fragrant smoke, and surveyed his wife through half-closed lids. Emma McChesney and Co. And there was the policeman, twenty yards away, coming along with the leisureliness of one who knows that he has a certain area to patrol. The Middle of Things "The moon is rising now, my lady—a half-moon," said the porter approaching with that leisureliness which characterizes railway porters between trains. Roden's Corner Jack Meredith reflected for a moment, lazily, with that leisureliness which gave a sense of repose to his presence. With Edged Tools But it seemed American to sweep leisureliness away into space with a free gesture. The Shuttle And already she had bumped her impatient, quick-thinking, quick-acting North American business head up against the stone wall of South American leisureliness and prejudice. Emma McChesney and Co. The next lesson that I would suggest is the leisureliness of the deliverance. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts "Just come across?" inquired Roden, putting together his papers with his usual leisureliness. Roden's Corner In the men it seems to refer to the past or the future, for their incorrigible leisureliness prevents the present rendering of a full justice to their powers. With Edged Tools The calm leisureliness of conscious power shines out very brilliantly from this story of the raising of Jairus's daughter. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke So, with strange and majestic leisureliness, the escaping prisoner is bid to put on his shoes and gird himself. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII What beauty it gives to His gentleness, to the leisureliness of heart with which He was ready to make everybody's sorrow His own, and to lay a healing and a loving finger upon every wound! Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII At least a temporary secrecy could have been secured with leisureliness by a residence in another State. We Can't Have Everything A certain leisureliness is inseparable from the life of the well-to-do; time to talk; to be interested in a variety of subjects; to be amused; time even to eat and rest in correct form. The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" And she went straight into Dayson's little fancy shop, which was full of counter and cardboard boxes and Miss Dayson, and stayed therein for at least five minutes, emerging with a miraculously achieved leisureliness. Hilda Lessways He seemed to move with extreme leisureliness, yet his approach was but a matter of seconds. The Bars of Iron Smiling, he drew himself from the embrace of the faintly shining water and retiring to the willow screen began to dress with that virtuous leisureliness which characterises those who rise before their fellows. Up the Hill and Over For all his affectation of leisureliness and her obvious fluster, no doubt about it, Joe was gaining on her. The Magnetic North So he waited, chafing, while Mervo examined the situation, turned it over in its mind, discussed it, slept upon it, discussed it again, and displayed generally that ponderous leisureliness which is the Mervian's birthright. The Prince and Betty There is apt to be a certain leisureliness about the methods of country telephone-operators, and the fact that a voice did not immediately ask me what number I wanted did not at first disturb me. The Little Nugget Yet what a sense of leisureliness one has in reading him, as well as a sense of companionability! Our Friend John Burroughs Thither, indeed, he journeyed throughout the day with a leisureliness begotten of the desire to enter the ancient city after nightfall only. In Kedar's Tents Yet there she was, and moving with a leisureliness that must be described as effrontery! The Old Wives' Tale In a strange abstraction, in which every movement seemed to be slowed down into unbelievable leisureliness, I saw the butt of the pistol begin to approach my eye—near—nearer. The Eye of Zeitoon It would shut out, too, the annoyance of the tobacco traveller, smoking with an offensive leisureliness, and declaring, in defiance of all feeling, that they were "Sharp on time and going some!" The Window-Gazer We were moving tranquilly, with a curious suggestion of homing leisureliness, through a soft, blue shimmering darkness. The Metal Monster Too proud, however, to permit his emigration to savour of a flight, he carried the leisureliness of his going to dangerous extremes. The Trampling of the Lilies For the first time it struck him with what majestic leisureliness they turned the pages of their books, trifled with their teacups, or lightly snored. The Island Pharisees He turned with a leisureliness that bore witness to his miraculous self-control. The Lion's Skin He took it with a leisureliness that argued sorrow. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... His very bulkiness and leisureliness are charming; he writes like a man who had eternity to write in, and who knew enough to fill it, and who expected readers of an equal leisure. The Danish History, Books I-IX In lazy leisureliness I bade him get me a cab, and followed him across the station. Rupert of Hentzau |
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