| 单词 | limpness |
| 例句 | Miyax turned her head, touched him with her chin, and felt his limpness. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She was wounded by the halfheartedness in his texting and calling, the limpness of his efforts. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Under the aegis of the writer-director Tiller Russell, it delivers limpness. ‘Silk Road’ Review: A Digital Drug Kingpin’s Undoing 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z The entree comes with green beans whose limpness suggest they originated from a freezer bag. Dinner cruise on the Potomac: A moveable feast with unbeatable views And the production, while spartan, doesn’t stint on theatrical flair, as when the Valkyries, charged with carrying slain warriors to Valhalla, attach cords to the men’s bodies, which then float up in solemn limpness. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z His bravado grates up against Eastwood’s limpness as he struggles to shake off the ring rust and remember how to shoot straight. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Unforgiven 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Gaspar's shifts from rag-doll limpness to taut vertical thrusts were a marvel. Review: Brazilian dance troupe Grupo Corpo brings bright, buoyant fare to Seattle 2011-02-04T18:09:04Z The rhythms betray a mental lassitude and limpness of spirit, but this is torpor custom-built for dancefloors. Jagwar Ma (No 1,443) 2013-02-01T09:00:00Z Here's the simple formula for it all: no more limpness, America, it's time to get hard. Despite right-wing narrative, "hardening" schools is taking the easy way out 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z He said local governments should stock naloxone in places like buses and trains and public restrooms, and people should be aware of overdose symptoms like pale, blue skin, shallow breathing or choking or limpness. Homeless deaths in Seattle, King County are rising, and fentanyl is largely to blame 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The many political crises we’re facing feel prolonged by sheer exhaustion — the combined limpness and frenzy that arises as a result of spinning our wheels. Opinion | Omicron invites more dread. The country can’t afford to give in to it. 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Aside from being second best technically against Spurs, what will also worry Hammers fans was the limpness of their display, their lack of fervour. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z But Britain’s limpness over Hong Kong seems to demonstrate only how easily these values are compromised away. As China tramples on Hong Kong's freedom, a feeble Britain avoids its glance | Angela Gui 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z As you watch this revival of Bob Fosse’s 1966 hit, you keep hoping that, despite early signs of limpness, it won’t be drained of all its energy and sentiment by the end. A Strangely Muted “Sweet Charity” 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Anas al-Abda, the leader of the Turkey-based Syrian National Coalition represented in the Geneva talks, lamented the international community’s “limpness” in responding to what he called “massacres” against civilians, in response to the Aleppo violence. Escalating Violence in Syria Leaves 31 Dead 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z According to Romeo, parents should be concerned if their infant does not wake up regularly to be fed, shows limpness or does not gain weight. New Moms' Codeine Use Down Since Health Warnings 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Acs says the No. 1 culprit has been the overall limpness of the economic recovery. The Weak Link of Long-Term Unemployment 2013-08-20T11:05:25Z The report added that he suffered from “limpness in all the body’s muscles” and doctors worried about muscle atrophy. Once Illegal, Health Rumors Now Have Mubarak Die Daily 2012-06-13T02:55:37Z And soon, still laughing, they extract His limpness from the darkling tide; They make the towel's roughness act On back and head and dripping side. To Your Dog and To My Dog 2012-05-22T15:16:52.220Z In fact, the man, as his son recognized, appeared to have sunk into a state of limpness that was mental as well as physical. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Her hand pointing, from beneath the stones, accused him for all the limpness of its fingers. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Mariana's limpness and indifference irritated his nerves and gave rise to sharp discussions and frequent squabbles. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Leaves fluttered and hung still again with a strange limpness, their under sides exposed. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Thorn pulled up his plunging horse as the other spoke, and for a few seconds I struggled with the limpness of dismay. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z A kind of limpness comes over me when I look at tiaras. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z European society might let her in, but European society had its limpness. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z The black arms whizzed down with a velocity hardly lessened by the limpness of death. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Annie was reduced to the limpness of a wet dishrag by what we had overheard. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z He could see her distinctly now, and his heart contracted as he looked at her; the limpness of her body and the waxen immobility of her face were terrifying, an inertia as complete as death. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z The limpness and discomfort of seasickness is as nothing compared to the state that, as a rule, develops after such treatment. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Be his craze "speculation," "a crush," "a small dinner," A christening, marriage, a death or a birth,— There's a limpness of purpose that shows, though no sinner. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 26th 1893 2011-05-21T02:00:09.693Z Twists of smoke rise from the limpness of jewelled fingers, The softness of Persian rugs hushes the room. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z Its stem gave way also, swinging loose with the horrible limpness of a broken limb. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z With the words issuing from her mouth she staggered and crumpled into a limpness of fiberless flesh and trailing garments. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z His knees doubled with a drunkard’s limpness, and he had to run to keep from falling. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Arias hobbled off soon afterwards, a sad symbol of his side's limpness. Toulouse 42-16 Stade Fran?ais 2010-04-11T20:19:00Z The man who, avoiding the bar, made his way straight into the coffee-room, entered with an air in which jauntiness and limpness were curiously combined. A Poached Peerage She seemed to feel the limpness of the arm she held or in some way to sense the despair that was on him so quickly following the mood she had interrupted only a moment before. The Cottage of Delight A Novel He looked unspeakably ghastly in the huge limpness of his slackened figure. Shadows of Flames A Novel As those horrid, beady eyes met hers, again she was seized with that strange sense of limpness, utter inability to move a muscle. By Right of Conquest A Novel "There's a kind of limpness that's strength"—thus he lectured himself. East Angels But there was an unnatural limpness about the thing, and the hideous eyes were glazed. Red Nails Then a convulsive shudder passed through the body, followed by complete limpness. Warrior of the Dawn Her escort was feeling the limpness of his collar and endeavouring to detach his shirt from his chest. Adventures of Bindle He wondered what other shapes he'd find if he put back into proper place the other hunks of limpness that lay beside the fire. The World That Couldn't Be Perhaps the new generation, from its outlook on elemental things, was taking to marriage by capture, clubbing the damsel and striding off, her limpness flung over a brawny arm. Old Crow Everything had the same gloomy look about it, with that certain limpness of leaf waiting for the storm. Letters from my Windmill She lay back in her chair and felt a comfortable limpness in all her limbs. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court But it quickly became a terrible, heavy limpness that dragged at our arms like some soggy log dredged up from the dark waters of the canal. The Man the Martians Made His shoulders sank to their accustomed limpness and he took no notice of Duncan's thanks as he drove off. Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro In the limpness of reaction, she sank into a chair. The Readjustment Knitting his brows in almost comical vexation, he hastened to restore it to the stream, holding it by the tail and striving to impart a life-like wriggle to its limpness. Uncanny Tales Dread overcame him as he felt the limpness of the older man's body. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Then as he vanished into the shadow of the arch she sat down with sudden limpness and buried her hot face in her hands. Brandon of the Engineers Two minutes later Robbie had reached one of the chairs and dropped into it with a limpness strangely inharmonious with her statuesque proportions. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls From her limpness, and her cold, moist hands, Garth apprehended that she was physically sick. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest She wanted to take hold of the girl’s thin shoulders and shake the limpness out of her once for all. The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story Miss Warren rose politely from the spindle-legged sofa where she had been sitting, and touched one of the outstretched hands with rather extraordinary limpness. The Heart of Arethusa This was the curious sag and limpness, and color and style of my clothes. A Circuit Rider's Wife Must he go about for the four days which must intervene before a letter could reach him with that sinking sensation in the pit of his stomach, that curious limpness of his spine? The Lady Doc But the utter limpness of the body under him stayed his hand from a second blow. Bloom of Cactus There was a droop of surrender in her usually gallant shoulders and a limpness in her whole body which even the darkness did not entirely conceal. The Tyranny of Weakness Breathing in labored gusts, the thing slapped its tail down on the stones with a limpness which suggested that the raising of that appendage had overtaxed its limited supply of strength. Storm Over Warlock The driver's hat was white, like his bones; it drooped in weather-beaten limpness about his ears, hiding his face, but he appeared to have an hospitable heart in spite of the cheerlessness of his pursuit. Trail's End To a limpness almost unbelievable the eager little figure wilted down within its blanket-wrapper swathings. Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs But when she sought to rise, she sank back with an ominous limpness. Bloom of Cactus And there was something in the way he lay there—a limpness and helplessness—that somehow frightened me, and made me feel right away as if I ought to call nurse or somebody. We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses Even to Verena, as we know, she was confused and confusing; the girl had not yet had an opportunity to ascertain the principles on which her mother's limpness was liable suddenly to become rigid. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) The left arm hung with that limpness which denotes a broken bone. A Pagan of the Hills She had seated herself again, but it was impossible to feign limpness with every pulse at the gallop. The Swindler and Other Stories But his limpness seemed to impart itself to me, and I—I gave way. A Pair of Patient Lovers There was an apple tree in view, too, with all its blossoms hanging in pink limpness. The Story of Bawn Utter exhaustion was in the limpness of her slender body as he raised her gently in his arms. The Courage of Marge O'Doone She dropped to the ground and, rolling over, stretched to utmost tension, then relaxed to limpness, eyelids closed and the hair blowing upon them the only moving thing about her. Secret Bread Kenkenes dropped his hands to his sides with a limpness highly suggestive of desperate perplexity. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt The rugged lines of his face were relaxed to a vacant, thoughtful limpness, that aged his expression not a little: now and then, as if for reference, he glanced questioningly at the girl's profile. Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship Years ago he had been poisoned by berries, and limpness almost like this had gone softly, treacherously, through him. The Three Black Pennys A Novel And then the limpness of the place, hardly awake by sunrise and asleep again by dusk! The Cathedral When that reached her ears, Olga sat down very suddenly on the edge of her bed with the limpness of relaxed tension, and realized that she was feeling very weak. The Keeper of the Door Whereupon he began to show a pronounced limpness in his good leg, and a tendency to slide down upon the floor. The Uphill Climb But he, too, grew silent and there was a certain meal-sack limpness about his attitude. Spanish Doubloons The sentry shook him gently by the shoulder, but the limpness of the body frightened him. Witness for the Defense This accounted for my exhaustion, or limpness and lack of vigor, as Charles Reade preferred to call it. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections At first I took this for a ruse to put me off my guard, and held on more firmly than ever; but presently a characteristic limpness of his limbs suggested a new idea. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta She felt a sudden terrifying limpness of his body. The Blood Red Dawn Possibly his confidence is to be ascribed to the limpness of their attitudes. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Her knees doubled under her, and she fell with the limpness of a bundle of clothes, her head first striking against the cushions of the divan. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Al, glancing expertly at the ingenuousness of her artfully simple coiffure, the slim limpness of her body, her wide-eyed gaze, laughed a wise little laugh. Cheerful—By Request Some dead bodies carried on the backs of brawny porters are even awful by the contrast of their wet-clay limpness with the muscular energy of brutal life beneath them. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti She sat for some moments, thinking hard, one hand fingering the slender base of the wine-filled glass in front of her, the other dropped in pensive limpness at her side. The Blood Red Dawn Their eyes were not quite right, and their hair, though it was brushed, showed fatigue of the nerves in a certain inclination to limpness and disorder. Philosophy 4 I jumped over to Larry, there had been no change in his condition; still the terrifying limpness, the slow, infrequent pulsation. The Moon Pool The heartiness of his appetite, in contrast with his extreme fragility of aspect and limpness of demeanor, assured me that he, too, had just had influenza. A. V. Laider I freely confess to my own inaction and limpness; but it was all deliberate. The Lost Continent With the limpness and inertia of a sack of sand, the reins slipping loosely in his dangling fingers, his eyes fixed, staring between the horses' heads, he allowed himself to be carried aimlessly along. The Octopus : A story of California Andrew saw a figure throw up its arms, a shadow form in the interior of the car, and then a man pitched out headlong through the doorway and flopped with horrible limpness on the roadbed. Way of the Lawless This is important, for if the brim be not firm the elements will soon reduce it to raglike limpness and it will flap up and down in your face as you ride. A Woman Tenderfoot In all this there was nothing exceptional—nothing to take note of—and Vellacott only remembered the limpness of Frederick Farrar's grasp. The Slave of the Lamp Moreover, the trees seemed to know it, for there was a limpness in their attitude as if they were tucking their heads into their shoulders in anticipation of the worst. With Edged Tools The head and limbs of the figure drooped down the sides of the mound, falling with the limpness of death. The Pagans And soon, still laughing, they extract His limpness from the darkling tide; They make the towel's roughness act On back and head and dripping side. The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch David gave her an angry shake, on which she toppled over among the fallen stones with an exasperating limpness, and lay there laughing. The History of David Grieve A subtle suggestion of limpness manifested itself in the mass before her. From a Bench in Our Square It was raining steadily, and the atmosphere had that singular feeling of total relaxation and limpness which is only to be felt in the rain-ridden districts of Central Africa. With Edged Tools And that the man whose foot projected over the step was dead he had no doubt: the limpness of his pose certified to it. The Middle Temple Murder Religious fervour, if it ran to limpness of dress, or form, or mind, was punishable according to law. The Grey Lady There was a nasty cut on the side of his head, and a general limpness of body which was alarming. Short Cruises Disappointment, apathy, nervous limpness and exhaustion are the inevitable consequence of extreme excitability, and such excitability is extremely characteristic of our young people. Letters of Anton Chekhov She came down into my arms with the limpness of one who is accustomed to such attentions, and then wheeled instantly upon the futile individual on the steps above. A Fool and His Money Around and above the stove hung oddments like wolf-skin mitts, finnesko, socks, stockings and helmets, which had passed from icy rigidity through sodden limpness to a state of parchment dryness. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 She lay in a horrid heap unmistakable in its limpness. The Unwilling Vestal Anna had chewed a bonnet string to damp limpness; now she was saying "Da!" in an alluring and provocative tone to a lady praying nearby. The Story of Julia Page Head down, arms hanging in the limpness of shame, she followed, but without drawing nearer. The Crown of Life At first meeting they had both kept a certain watch upon their lips, feeling that their position demanded it; a moral limpness was evident in them by this time. Demos Then the limpness became softness, and the very creases took the lines of beauty. Wives and Daughters There was a general limpness to be observed in camp that morning, aggravated by a steady downpour of rain; but before noon it cleared, and the men took all but the camp stuff forward. Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador He was conscious now of a certain limpness, both of mind and body; his fit of passion over, he felt dulled, almost indifferent to what had happened. Australia Felix My arms were weak and of a strange, flabby limpness, but they moved. The Firefly of France Impressed by her limpness and languor, I proffered a chair near at hand; She looked back a mild sort of anger - Posed anew, and continued to stand. Poems of Cheer Besides, she wished to convince herself that she had done everything possible to content her husband; she was determined not to be haunted by visions of his wife's limpness under appeal. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 From the inextensive volumes of an eminent and fastidious critic I have culled a dear phrase about an oasis of style in “a desert of literary limpness.” How to Fail in Literature; a lecture Her own was warm, and there was no limpness about it. T. Tembarom Her proper skating attitude was thought to be that of clinging limpness to some male relative. Three Men on the Bummel He could look with righteous toleration upon the limpness of his fellow prisoner. The Trail of the White Mule Grayne, who stood staring after him, soon saw his tall, loose figure, returning, restored to all its normal limpness and air of leisure. The Man Who Knew Too Much Nicholas had none of the moral limpness and vacillating character of his predecessor. Russia And, still more unexpected, the fox was overtaken in the next thicket, shaken to limpness, and dragged to be dropped at Quonab's feet. Rolf in the Woods |
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