| 单词 | molehill |
| 例句 | Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Boston looked so usual and so unconcerned, Johnny began to wonder if they all had not made mountains of molehills, imagined an expedition when none was intended. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z An old, close-bitten pasture, with a footpath wandering across it and a molehill here and there. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “When I want mountains made out of molehills, when I want to legitimize their puerile actions by paying attention to them, I’ll let you know.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Restless with hunger, he wandered up the banks of the creek, investigating every rock and hollow, pushing his hopeful nose through tunnels of withered sedge and into the yielding earth of molehills. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And he was busy anagramming anything odd—any odd night, handy dog tin, doing thy DNA—when Colin did his DNA proud: he stumbled on a molehill and fell. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Then come to realize that you’re making mountains out of molehills. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I couldn’t handle having some hostile clerk telling me I was making mountains out of molehills. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In cosmology, as the journalist Geoffrey Carr has suggested, we have "a mountain of theory built on a molehill of evidence." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The calm centre is Henry's long soliloquy during the battle of Towton, delivered not on a molehill but an upturned pail. Henry VI – review 2013-07-11T18:24:00Z He settled on the floor, starting with a molehill pile and, over the course of a half-hour, turning it into a mountain. Into the Wild With Kanye West 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z To head the Council of Economic Advisers, I nominate my Aunt Ruby, who never once failed to make a mountain out of a molehill. Style Invitational Week 1277: Come into Beeing — a new word contest 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z So when your kid reaches a mountaintop or even a molehill top, it’s a rare chance to say: “WooHOO! I did something RIGHT!” Perspective | Kids’ awards ceremonies ratchet up the parent guilt 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z The New York Times was making a mountain out of a molehill. How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory 2011-01-07T07:59:02Z Florida, with its wild palm scrub, its palmetto bugs, its hills of fire ants and heaps of molehills, permeates the art that people create. Florida Women Are No Joke. I Should Know. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Here, by contrast, they are largely mooching and wallowing, spinning mountains from molehills as the plot shunts them between a series of picturesque Manhattan backdrops. Keira Knightley: 'The criticism was tough' 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z And some of his most unexpected laughs are in his own mixing up of mountains and molehills. 5 Standup Specials to Stream for the Labor Day Weekend 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z In another, two moles stare at a mountain in the distance, and one says, “It started out as a molehill, but then I just kept going.” They Are Also 2 Wild and Crazy Guys 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z But when the animal digs under gardens and lawns, sprouting molehills along the way, it can become a nuisance, reviled by homeowners as if it were a rat. Review | Life lessons from a mole — and a man who made a living catching them 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z A molehill is even said to have caused the death of William of Orange, who was thrown from a horse that tripped over one. Review | Life lessons from a mole — and a man who made a living catching them 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z I've got three ingredients in my potting compost: one-third compost, one-third rotten down leaf mold, and one-third loam that I've got from molehills in my field is perfect. How to garden through climate change 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z “The idea that men don’t know their behavior is bad and that women are making a mountain out of a molehill is largely untrue. If anything, women are more lenient in defining harassment.” Why are so many men afraid to interact with women at work? | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Am I making a mountain of a molehill? 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 Each year, they form collars of manure and soil gathered from molehills. A garden the ‘Downton Abbey’ crowd would drool over 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z "Too often we are stressed by the little things, daily hassles, making mountains out of molehills," says Plante. 10 ways to manage stress, according to mental health experts 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z "China could act in non-reciprocal fashion, retaliating somewhere other than on the investment side. But the executive order is barely going to do anything, and China escalating would risk turning a molehill into a mountain." Analysis: Biden's tech curbs to keep investors sidelined, fearing more steps 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z When the mass of several suns is compressed into an orb that is 10 km in diameter, extreme gravity crushes mountains of superdense material into molehills that are millimeters tall. Gravitational-Wave Search Resumes after Three Years and Lots of Headaches 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z “This is another example of right-wing conservatives making a mountain out of a molehill,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, New York Democrat. Durham report spotlights how Clinton campaign helped create the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z In particular, Tacopina leaned heavily into the idea that the real problem is hysterical women turning molehills into mountains. Trump's defense in E. Jean Carroll rape trial is pure misogyny 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Shame on people for making a mountain out of a molehill. Opinion | Give Jill Biden a break 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z The notion that poor Mr. Trump is the first president to suffer from Justice Department “weaponization” and to have misdemeanor molehills turned into criminal mountains is bonkers. Opinion | Political persecution of presidents is the new American Way 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z One way for the press to achieve "balance" is to make mountains out of Democratic molehills — or worse, to cover flat-out fake or unimportant stories as if they were for-real scandals. The GOP is about to go wild with phony Biden investigations. The media must not take the bait 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z “Let’s not make a mountain out of a molehill,” she said speaking at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. WHO says monkeypox 'containable' as more govts start limited vaccinations 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Small situations, individual at-bats, are molehills made into mountains. No rest for speedy Kai Minor on her path to softball success 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z You care enough to vaccinate, but this is the molehill you refuse to climb? Perspective | Ask Amy: Is brother ‘unreasonable’ for asking for rapid tests before visit? 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z They take the molehill, and they try to turn it into a mountain, yeah. Opinion | These 8 Conservative Men Are Making No Apologies 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z One said, “He is trying to manufacture that he was chairman in a permanent capacity” and that media attention on the situation is making “a mountain out of a molehill.” Power struggle among Biden appointees gets personal over race 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi -- from every mountainside. Transcript of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I have a dream' speech 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Trump is again making mountains out of molehills. Analysis | Trump’s never-ending parade of election falsehoods 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z And yet, organizers say local officials have characterized their campaign to stop RMG from operating in their neighborhood as making a mountain out of a molehill. The Chicago plant that sparked a hunger strike amid environmental racism claims 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z In a landscape of endless accusations, moral mountains become molehills and vice versa, making all sins appear equal when they are not. Review | The FBI as a model of accountability and ethics 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “Walking through the local park I noticed that the football pitch had suffered a lot of mole-related damage. Have molehills ever resulted in a match being called off?” asks Paul Vickers. Is James Milner the only footballer with a door named after him? | The Knowledge 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z He thrives on it, lives for it, turns molehills into mountains. Commentary: Boxing has no socially redeeming qualities. I can't believe how much I miss it 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Every step becomes a potential turning point where a molehill can be characterized as a mountainous failing. If Trump will stop at nothing, will nothing stop him? 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z A local newspaper may report on a molehill of an irregularity, which hyperpartisan outfits then transform into a mountain by stripping it of context or embellishing it with phantom partisan intent. Opinion | Election Day promises to be full of misinformation. Here’s how we can all stop its spread. 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Quinter resident Judy Wolf, a cook at a senior center, said media outlets reporting on the pandemic need to “quit making a mountain out of a molehill.” COVID spike arrives late, hits hard in rural Kansas county 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Azar on Friday played down the conflict with the White House, telling a House panel that those concerned about its involvement in the guidelines were making “a mountain out of a molehill.” White House Blocks New Coronavirus Vaccine Guidelines 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z But the Tour’s top riders turned the mountain into a molehill, ruining race organizers’ best-laid plans. Lutsenko claims 1st Tour de France victory on Stage 6 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z “I don’t want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but I also want to be careful to follow what the rules are,” he said. ComEd pleads not guilty in alleged influence-peddling scheme 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Allan Behm, the head of the international and security affairs program at the Australia Institute and a former senior defence official, says the reporting had made “a mountain out of a molehill”. A dodgy dossier? How News Corp hyped a US government reading list into a China coronavirus 'bombshell' 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Former Democratic National Committee communications director and Fox News contributor Mo Elleithee countered that Republicans were making a conspiracy out of a molehill. Chaffetz debates Mo Elleithee, claims Dems 'don't want to hear the truth' about Russia probe 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, various former intelligence officials have made new careers standing on a molehill pretending to be Cassandra, warning that all that change and new leadership would signal the destruction of all that’s important. Trump appoints first woman to lead the National Counterterrorism Center 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z The hill was covered with strange grassy mounds about the size of molehills. Opinion | I Had a Gloriously Wild Childhood. That’s Why I Wrote ‘How to Train Your Dragon.’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z However, in the grand scheme of things, it’s more molehill than mountain. SNYDER: There are legit concerns about Haskins, but his selfie isn’t among them 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z According to the memo, Democrats have made a mountain out of the Ukraine molehill in order to get to Trump. The Two Irreconcilable Realities of the Impeachment Hearings 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z “My opponent has nothing else to talk about,” he said, “so he has to make mountains out of molehills.” Soros Adds Intrigue and $800,000 to D.A. Race, Backing Progressive 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “But Democrats can’t keep things secret forever. And then it’s up to the American people to decide whether this amounts to a mountain — or a molehill,” they concluded. Strategic: News media ramps up impeachment urgency 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “People try to make mountains out of molehills. We want to treat her the same way and give her the same opportunities,” he explains in the video. Jamie Foxx denies Sela Vave dating rumors following Katie Holmes split 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z We know that these mountaintop experiences of growing up will soon enough recede as mere molehills, but that doesn’t make the adventures of the Beanbag Boys seem any smaller to them. Review: Tweens invade the raunchy teen comedy in ‘Good Boys’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z It was knotty and dramatically unwieldy, not to mention the “mountain of rumors and…molehill of facts,” as Lee put it. This Southern murder trial inspired Harper Lee's 'lost' book. 'Furious Hours' reexamines it 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z No game is necessarily straightforward, of course, and as the finish line draws closer, the slightest molehill can loom as a great mountain, but this was probably the hardest away game Liverpool had remaining. Mohamed Salah misses reflect Liverpool forwards’ loss of edge | Jonathan Wilson 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Compare and contrast: while Manchester United continue to make a mountain out of their post-Fergie transition, ours has been a molehill, so far. Premier League fans’ half-term verdict. Part one: Arsenal to Huddersfield 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z In any case, this will turn out to be a molehill compared with the mountain she is about to climb. Review: Netflix's supernatural sea thriller ‘Tidelands’ is B-picture TV with random acts of nudity 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z They would turn the mountain of cash into a molehill of cash. Trump engaged in suspect tax schemes as he reaped riches from father 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Another accused her of “making a molehill into a mountain.” ‘It’s hard to say what is real and what isn’t’: Women wrestle with accusation against Kavanaugh 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z She said Democrats and the press are making a mountain out of a molehill. Analysis | The Daily 202: Why U.S. v. Nixon matters — now more than ever 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Taking back control of trade was always making a mountain of a molehill. Don’t worry, a no-deal Brexit won’t be allowed to happen | Simon Jenkins 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z That exposure has addled Dershowitz to the extent that he fails to distinguish molehills from mountains. Alan Dershowitz, Jewish identity and the long road to defending Donald Trump 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z As Gaddis recounts, Megara was a “molehill” at the northeastern end of the Corinthian isthmus whose citizens “had long feuded with the Athenians, while posing no military threat to the larger city.” Review | How great leaders make good and terrible military decisions 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Open-ended contracts create “an incentive to turn molehills into mountains, as they never want to end the money train,” he adds. Elon Musk says Tesla will build Model 3s 24/7 until the end of June 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z “It’s an insignificant event that has blown up — a mountain out of a molehill.” Denver Cafe ‘Happily Gentrifying’? Neighbors Aren’t So Happy 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z So when your kid reaches a mountaintop or even a molehill top, it’s a rare chance to say, “WooHOO! I did something RIGHT!” Awards ceremonies sadden parent of ordinary kid 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z It’s time to stop making mountains out of molehills. Adam Grant: The Differences Between Men and Women Are Vastly Exaggerated 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z “Instead Pericles,” the Athenian leader, philosopher and orator, “convinced himself that he couldn’t concede a molehill — the Megarian decree — without a mountainous loss of credibility.” Review | How great leaders make good and terrible military decisions 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z “The government is scraping and clawing to build a mountain out of a molehill.” No bond for woman accused of leaking top-secret documents 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z “The government is scraping and clawing to build a mountain out of a molehill,” Titus T. Nichols, one of Ms. Winner’s lawyers, said before Judge Epps announced his ruling. N.S.A. Contractor May Have Mishandled Secrets Before, Prosecutor Says 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Andretti said: “Bryan has become more than just a good strategist. He’s become a weapon for me. He helps me turn mountains into molehills, keeps a focus on me.” Scuffling for an Indy 500 Win, the Andrettis Go Outside the Family for Help 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z For a middle-class family, roughly $40,000 in debt might be a molehill. College Is the Goal. The Problem? Getting There. 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z As more and more molehills sprung up, Page came to feel as if their labours were engineered to produce in him the maximum anguish. Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z It’s another pedantic critique trying desperately to make a mountain out of less than a molehill. This is why conservative media outlets like the Daily Mail are 'unreliable' | Dana Nuccitelli 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Still, the disparity is jarring: Next to the mountain of books on Vietnam, there’s barely a molehill on the war as waged in Laos and Cambodia. Opinion | Laos: America’s lesser known human and political disaster in Southeast Asia 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z “Some people think this was making a mountain out of a molehill,” said an editorial on Tuesday in Southern Daily, an official newspaper for the southern province of Guangdong. Daimler Executive Is Removed After Accusations of Insulting Chinese 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Han Xudong, a military expert in Beijing, said the United States had “made a mountain out of a molehill” by hyping up the seizure. China returns seized U.S. naval drone despite Trump’s call to ‘keep it’ 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Sheep that eat dirt from molehills can die from listeriosis, while winter feed for dairy cattle can become foul-tasting or toxic if contaminated by soil bacteria. Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The mountain of conflict between molehill eradicators is relatively new. England Has a Mole Problem: Feuding Mole Catchers 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z And even the issue of disposing of nuclear waste is, according to some experts, a molehill made into a radioactive mountain. You make me want to nuke: The nuclear option may be the best environmental option too 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z For the most part these "scandals" were overblown – "optics"-driven mountain-making out of what were largely molehills. The Right Choice for the Left 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Never before in my 60 plus years on this planet have I seen so much venom, vituperation and wasted time and effort expended to make Mount Everest out of such a molehill. F.B.I. Papers Offer Closer Look at Hillary Clinton Email Inquiry 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Britain would be overrun by molehills, which are not only unsightly, but can also potentially spread disease to livestock, trip up horses on race-courses, and ruin golf courses and football pitches. Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Brooders lose perspective as molehills become mountains, and slights become capital crimes. Why You Should Embrace Your Darker Emotions 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z “Only three of 30,000 had anything even resembling classified markers,” she said, arguing that a mountain of criticism has been based on a molehill of sensitive material that wasn’t even well-marked. The speech Hillary Clinton should have given on her emails 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Leave it to a Real Housewife to whip up the smallest molehill into a mountain of drama. A ‘Real Housewife’ tries to woo critics of her Arlington restaurant 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The high ground may be more molehill than mountain, but it still beats the gutter. A nose-holding word to the disaffected: Vote 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Moles dig their tunnel systems to catch earthworms, shoving the excavated earth out of vertical passageways to produce molehills. Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z A field of molehills was now a quite professional complex of pitches. Take 2: My cock-eyed soccer field and teacher appreciation, a few years too late 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z But this molehill became a mountain that the N.F.L. was willing to die on to protect its shield. With Deflategate Ruling, Roger Goodell Is Firmly in Control 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z There is a measure of arrogance about Wenger’s belief that the combined football expertise of his critics barely reaches the molehills when it comes to his own mountains of knowledge. Arsène Wenger a victim of the game’s vitriol but also his own flaws | Daniel Taylor 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z They don’t make a mountain out of molehill so much as they erect a new tower of Babel from a grain of sand: Paul Ryan 2016? Examining the GOP establishment’s latest terrible idea 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Page worked as a commercial pilot and when the occasional molehill erupted on his lawn, he would pat it down before departing again to New York or Hong Kong. Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The usual mountain from a molehill argument by those likely to be affected financially by a change in payment philosophy. Medicare Tries an Experiment to Fight Perverse Incentives 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z On the health law - a molehill compared with Medicare and Medicaid - there’s no apparent difference between Trump and other Republicans. Does Trump have a health care plan? Does it matter? 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Put another way, there seems to be little point in making a mountain out of the new molehill. Yanks Hope New Workout Area Puts Them on Upward Trajectory 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z And neither side seems able to stop building molehills when there are mountains to conquer. The fight over Hillary Clinton’s speaking fees is ridiculous 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z The rain washed over the molehills and they gradually flattened out. Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z We have to agree with Vos who said: “People are really making a mountain out of a molehill.” Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z “It’s not helpful when the three fountains of knowledge on Match of the Day make a mountain out of a molehill.” Sport quiz of the year 2015 – live! 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z A farmer in the country’s northern municipality of Ueken made the find earlier this year in his cherry orchard, after spotting something glimmering in a molehill. Treasure Trove of 4,166 Roman Coins Found in Swiss Molehill 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z When I slipped it into four-wheel-drive mode, and gave it a steep hill, the Tacoma climbed like a cat, mocking the elevation, making a molehill out of a mountain. 2016 Toyota Tacoma stays quiet and comfy on and off pavement 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z “There will be no sandhill or molehill to hide behind, we will defend our borders.” Croatia moves refugees to Hungarian border - as it happened 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z More likely, the mountain will be added to other molehills of Obama overreach: Obamacare, the stimulus, Dodd Frank, the IRS, immigration, executive appointments and on and on. Mt. McKinley becomes the newest conservative molehill 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z “It’s not helpful when the three fountains of knowledge on Match of the Day make a mountain out of a molehill.” Sport quiz of the year 2015 – live! 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z But even if I miraculously manage to conquer this parental molehill, I’ll still have a mountain of questions to answer: “Daddy, why are we boiling Sebastian from The Little Mermaid?” I want my baby to eat meat-free. My in-laws want her to eat Peppa Pig's ear | Tom Ross 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Hills make an impression when you’re running or walking here, but to take notice feels like making mountains out of molehills, literally. New York Today: Mourning an Officer 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z “There will be no sandhill or molehill to hide behind, we will defend our borders.” Croatia moves refugees to Hungarian border - as it happened 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z “Don't just let a precious few voices on Twitter turn a molehill into a mountain,” he cautioned. '50 Shades' Star Dakota Johnson Joins the Islamic State on SNL 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Others feel that the criticism of Scalise is making a mountain out of a molehill. House GOP Whip Scalise Addressed White Supremacist Group in 2002, Pundits React 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z “I don’t want to make a mountain out of a molehill on this,” he said. Jamie Dimon himself called to urge support for the derivatives rule in the spending bill 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The Maryland lieutenant governor said the general election would be a mere “molehill” en route to the governorship. 5th annual ‘Turkeys of the Year’ for foolishness, ineptitude in the D.C. area As he described it, “My immune system was tired and distracted from the recent hike up Mount Everest, and now the molehill is giving it a hard time.” Relief Work in Ebola Zone Is Fraught With Risk 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z However, Mr Stubb was more conciliatory telling me that he accepted that a demand that big was "more a mountain than a molehill". Cameron set for sweaty time? 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Gov. Anthony G. Brown crushed his Democratic primary competitors and told supporters that the general election would be “a little bit of a molehill” in comparison. Maryland governor’s race has turned unexpectedly tight And, so desperate are political pundits for any fresh news crumb that a molehill quickly becomes a mountain. Alison Grimes and the unanswered question on Obama But they saw what everyone else saw, a bad pitch that bounced off a foot, a molehill of a mistake that didn't deserve its own mountain. Yasiel Puig's temper could cost Dodgers big in the playoffs 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Predictably, there are those who think a mountain is being made out of a molehill by people who just need to get a sense of humor. Is ‘Black Pete’ Racist? 2013-12-02T06:23:52Z Predictably, there are those who think a mountain is made out of a molehill by people who just need to get a sense of humor. Is ‘Black Pete’ Racist? 2013-12-02T06:23:52Z Their posts draw you in, which is invariably a waste of time since they can make a mountain out of any molehill. How to Navigate Insane Facebook Friends 2013-06-26T18:05:27Z I admit to some ambivalence on the molehill that didn’t have to become a mountain. Alison Grimes and the unanswered question on Obama Given the way news can go viral in minutes, it’s impossible to distinguish a political molehill from a political mountain anymore. President Obama is older and wiser this time around 2013-01-20T18:55:00Z Most people — if you don’t have an illness, but even some who do — we don’t make mountains out of molehills. Now 75, Jane Fonda looks back — and ahead 2013-01-07T21:43:00Z “For Gary,” said Mr. Kovacic, who is also a professor at George Washington University Law School, “there are no molehills, only mountains.” Onetime Allies in Antitrust Part Ways Over Google 2012-12-16T20:31:01Z One single mole can make 30 molehills a day, which multiplied a hundred-fold can see entire estates pockmarked within weeks. Weird news: “Royal molecatcher” outlives Versailles king 2012-12-06T22:47:00Z Romney was dead wrong, a victim of his campaign's--and the right-wing media's--tendency to turn molehills into anthills. Viewpoint: A Myopic Presidential Race Without Heart 2012-10-18T17:05:35Z Mountains of pharmaceutical claims are often made from mere molehills of data. Well: Weight Loss in a Pill: No Lemonade From Lemons 2012-05-10T16:54:49Z "I told the Count that I was sure they had made a mountain of a molehill." Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z "My dear boy, you can make a mountain out of a molehill, if you like," Sir Charles said, with a laugh. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z In 1702, William III of England died from injuries he sustained after his horse tripped on a molehill. Weird news: “Royal molecatcher” outlives Versailles king 2012-12-06T22:47:00Z Tut, man," said Amos; "you make a mountain of a molehill! Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z "Not to build up molehills out of dust and ashes!" said the gipsy. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Girls get strange fancies into their heads, and make mountains out of molehills. The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure 2012-04-06T02:00:24.610Z Problem is, it's a molehill issue that isn't worth it for them. Mariners might rue the day they interfered with proposed Sodo arena 2012-04-05T04:09:03Z Unluckily the church he had chosen for the spiritual encouragement of his nephew and niece was to the church of his recollections as Mount Everest to a molehill. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z She had an amazing faculty of turning all her little molehills into mountains of pleasure. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z Under the turf the blind mole creeps, And moulds the mounds of molehill kind. Cornish Catches and Other Verses 2012-01-15T03:00:13.973Z You see, Vivian, you live right here in this old oyster of a town—and you make mountains out of molehills like everybody else. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z Young wives, she knew, are always doing those foolish things, and always regretting them afterwards when they find the whole county magnifying the molehill into a veritable mountain. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z These are the mountain-summits for our bards, Which stretch far upward into heaven itself, And give such wide-spread and exulting view Of hope, and faith, and onward destiny, That shrunk Parnassus to a molehill dwindles. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z “What mountains of molehills!” said Mr. Longcluse, very gently, smiling with a little shrug, as he placed the letter again in Miss Maubray's hand. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Yet with the lark's glad song of Love May mine on wandering winds be hurled, In happy regions far above The dull mad molehills of the world. Cornish Catches and Other Verses 2012-01-15T03:00:13.973Z It is of a dark-brown colour, somewhat tenacious, and nearly hard, of a very penetrating odour, and is found in cavities resembling a molehill. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z Cartaret felt that he was in danger of making a mountain of a molehill; he had the morbid fear, common to his countrymen, of appearing ridiculous. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z They were exactly the same as are told to children in the story-book; but Celio enlarged upon them with wide rolling eyes, and magnified the molehills into mountains. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Your Olympus will prove but a molehill when the earth shakes with the onset of the millions on whose necks you have sat all these ages. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Break, Spirit, break to boundless things Beyond the molehill and the clod, And catch the glory of the strings That tune the harmonies of God. Cornish Catches and Other Verses 2012-01-15T03:00:13.973Z It was astonishing what mountains of despair we made of these social molehills! Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z To "remind us of Dickens" would be as difficult for many modern novelists as for a molehill to remind us of the Matterhorn. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Their actions had the same bald significance for her as a string of molehills for a mole-catcher. Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:31.283Z As I contrasted the mountain of things I didn't know with the molehill of things I did know, my self-esteem sank to zero. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Gran'ma said they were making a mounting out of a molehill—and expelling people did the school no good. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z I think," he said, "that you are making a mountain out of a molehill. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z Alas! how great a mountain is our own conscience, and how small a molehill that of our neighbor! The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z "Oh, Virginia, don't, don't make a mountain out of a molehill," he began, with a leaning towards his old, seductive persuasiveness. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z Or were they, as prosecutors claim, just a molehill, fabricated by death penalty opponents? In Georgia death penalty case, system once more on trial 2011-09-21T23:33:35Z On the moon, a mountain actually might be a molehill, gravitationally speaking. NASA spacecraft to probe the inside of the moon 2011-09-08T06:08:35Z In order to make quite sure I hunted for koodoo spoor; there was none to be seen, but on an old molehill there was the single print of a dog’s foot. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z Of course, as usual he has made a mountain of trouble out of a molehill of vexation. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z It is like you women," he said, "you always make a mountain out of a molehill. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z Women who have not much to do make mountains out of the molehills of their little occupations and every trifle must be adjudged. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z “Oh! perhaps I am making a mountain out of a molehill,” confessed Cora. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z The length of my shadow stretching out before me as we started from the molehill was a reminder of the need for haste, and we set off at a smart double. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z Unintentional slights.Perhaps the slight or offence was most unintentional, but as we all know, there are many “sensitive” women who are ever ready to make a molehill into a mountain. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z What a fool I was to make mountains out of molehills, and call the little ills of life miseries! Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z A mountain crowned by a molehill could not have looked more ridiculous. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z “I think we’re making a mountain out of a molehill,” declared Walter. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z Dearest, we must not make mountains out of molehills. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z I would give now anything for Richardson’s power of making mountains of molehills. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z He dubbed the great specialist "a verra reasonable fella," who didn't make a mountain out of a molehill. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z This road did not seem to lead anywhere, for it divided into several paths in the middle of the meadows, and disappeared among molehills. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z Virgin Martyr, I., 1, 342: An humble modesty, that would not match A molehill with Olympus. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Inside this great molehill were the quarters for the garrison, the machinery for moving the guns and cupolas, the ammunition and supply stores, the electric-lighting arrangements, and the ventilating fans. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z She was making a mountain out of a molehill. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z This plain with its miserable molehills is a dismal place in the twilight, and I marvel that they can be so gay, these dear soldiers of ours, in the midst of the desolation surrounding them. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Stay calm and appeal to reason and you'll be able to ensure this molehill doesn't become a mountain. Business Horoscopes: October 2010 2010-09-24T16:23:00Z Then yakked up a large pile of rich brown vomit, a molehill of chunder, to illustrate its angst. The Fiver 2010-09-24T15:05:00Z Ridiculous outcome of a non-event, mountains out of molehills. — matthew campbell There’s a double standard at work here. The Policeman vs. the Nurse 2010-09-21T18:20:00Z But now, Republicans say he is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. Obama attacks GOP over Boehner's remarks on financial overhaul bill 2010-06-30T18:03:00Z The management literature on older workers is a mere molehill compared with the mountain devoted to recruiting and retaining the young. 2010-02-04T10:41:00Z Look here, Anthony," she protested, "for goodness sake don't make a mountain out of a molehill, as the old saying goes. The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas You know how they are inclined to make a mountain out of a molehill. The Cottage of Delight A Novel Don't make mountains of molehills, or be constantly down upon children for little breaches of every-day discipline; don't be fidgety and fussy. Rambles in Womanland The class was forbidden to encourage the dancer; a mountain was made of a molehill; Jenny was raised to the giddy pinnacle of heroism. Carnival As he looks, a little rivulet expands into an impassable gulf, and a molehill becomes a mountain. The Religious Life of London This law is traceable from the molehill up to the mountain, from the mite up to the man. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. These little heaps of dry grass are of the form and size of molehills. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Pontius Pilate replied, maintaining that tranquil and careless manner that characterized him: 'Come, my seigneurs, don't take bushes for forests, or molehills for mountains! The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth You are making a mountain of your molehill, and when you have made your mountain you will not be satisfied until you have made another beside it. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome The one is proud of a molehill, the other of a dunghill.” The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries "If it amuses you people to make a mountain out of a molehill I can afford to stand it." The Blue Goose The old gentleman stopped before an expanse of blackened stumps, among which a multitude of molehills diversified the soil. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement Thus the time of our great dignitaries is consumed removing molehills, while mountains are looming up everywhere. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital If you will permit me to say so, I think you are trying to make a mountain out of this molehill yourself. The Monk of Hambleton These low hills are not represented in the map, although they are of very considerable size, such as the greater part of the mountains of Scotland or Wales; but, near Emodus, these appear like molehills. An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha So there they were, back where they started, after having seen the nearly imperceptible pond we call the Mediterranean, and the other little pool that, under the name Ocean, encircles the molehill. Romans — Volume 3: Micromegas He even walked around molehills; they reminded him too much of the soft soil about the trap. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain "The best saints are most sensible of their sins, and most apt to make mountains of their molehills." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 I would rather have to fight one mountain than two molehills any day, you get so much more sympathy after the struggle. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate The rough ground beyond the road was covered with low scrub, and dwarf twisted hawthorns, with a plentiful show of molehills. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker He might be one of those individuals who make a mountain of agony out of a molehill of pain, and insist upon a dozen poultices where one would do. Cleek, the Master Detective “The most stupid, trivial affair, they made a mountain of a molehill as they always do,” Kolya began carelessly. The Brothers Karamazov Yet their frauds were as molehills to the mountains which the busy hands of our public peculators have heaped up, and are daily piling higher. Public School Education Though less elevated than the Alps, the Pyrenees mountains are no molehills. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt If you choose to make a mountain out of a molehill you must, but I’ll not help you. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker The drivers will tell you that these are molehills, which isn't quite true. Wild Animals at Home "When you are coming to compare Johnsonhurst mit Burgess Park it's already a molehill to a mountain." Elkan Lubliner, American In a word, it made a mountain out of a molehill. Jonah and Co. When his mother appears before him as a suppliant, he exclaims,— My mother bows; As if Olympus to a molehill should In supplication nod. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical I really don’t believe there is a molehill, but it is extremely gay from the variety of habitations and the prodigious cultivation of all sorts. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I In the middle, upon a molehill prettily covered with small pebbles, stood the throne for the good King and his fair daughter; it was made of snail-shells and mussel-shells, and cushioned with feathers. The King of Root Valley and his curious daughter A formal apology and reconciliation will, in his judgment, dignify the episode and make a mountain out of a molehill. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The wheels, in grazing the flower borders, had bruised the box trees, broken a rhododendron, knocked down the dahlias; and clods of black muck, like molehills, embossed the green sward. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life "I dare say you think we are making a mountain out of a molehill." The Privet Hedge With all Mrs. Carlyle's great and attractive qualities and her undoubted influence on her husband, she made his work difficult by her want of perspective, magnifying molehills into mountains. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson What trifles bring on quarrels in the hills; what mountains molehills become when men are alone in the wilderness! The Man from the Bitter Roots I tell you what, old chap, your sudden promotion has disagreed with you, and you are trying to manufacture a mountain out of a molehill. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek That is often a mountain to one which is only a molehill to another. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow W'st, you little numskulls!"—she turned and addressed them—"keep quiet, I say, with your mountains out of molehills! Shining Ferry He wasn’t to be taken in by these molehills, not he!” Chasing the Sun There were those who would seize upon this incident, no matter how slightly the evidence might point to Nelson, and make "a mountain of a molehill." How Janice Day Won It is a mere molehill in our path. The King's Esquires The Jewel of France The question became very badly mixed, and under the circumstances he told himself that he was splitting hairs on the mountains he had made of his molehills. Adam Johnstone's Son When it was evensong they rested by mutual accord, and seated on two molehills near the fighting place, they had their helms taken off by their pages and their worse wounds bound up. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Then by assent of them both they granted either other to rest; and so they sat down on two molehills, and unlaced their helms to take the cool wind. Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" All these were trivial things—yet in the early sunrise of married life the least molehill throws a long black shadow. Agatha's Husband A Novel It was about as deserving of its title as is a molehill; nevertheless it proved a safe asylum in the end. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood You are making a mountain out of a molehill, Mary, and I won't hear any such nonsense. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem Nothing, however, was said to me on the subject, and I began to fancy that boys Bluff and Cuff had been deceived, or were making a mountain out of a molehill. Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days Mr Deane here will soon tell you how in history molehills got stretched up into mountains.” Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days So poor Chloe paced her small round upon the earth, as unconscious as the ant in her molehill that she was whirling round among the stars. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 The others hastened to the spot, and gazed with horror-stricken eyes at a number of minute molehills showing distinctly in the felting, and each one presenting a sharp point when investigated by the touch. A Houseful of Girls “He’s chock full of the old superstitions of the sea, and makes mountains out of molehills.” The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea However, Mr Fitzgerald, though I never like making mountains of molehills, don’t let your zeal, or your love of a joke, carry you so far again. Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days "Well, dear, I wouldn't make a mountain out of a molehill," said Ruth, quietly. The Corner House Girls at School He had the uncomfortable sensation that comes to men who grandly contemplate mountains and see them dwindle to molehills. Jill the Reckless People who make mysteries of trifles at times exercise their friends a good deal,—the imagination so often converts molehills into mountains; and then there is always a power in the unknown. Belles and Ringers At the Chace a rook occasionally mounted on a molehill recently thrown up and scattered the earth right and left with his bill—striking now to one side and now to the other. Round About a Great Estate As time goes on, a new thing opens to the view: a short week ago it seemed but a molehill: now it has risen to the height of a man, and hourly increases in size. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. I felt so unspeakably relieved, so happy that the mountain of slander which my imagination had piled up was reduced to an anticipated molehill, that my spirits rebounded even to gaiety. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author If Lord Liverpool looks to professional merits, mine are to Copleston's as the Andes to a molehill. My New Curate It all sounds rather a molehill, doesn't it, after the horrors we have been living in here? The Great Amulet My first "Colonel's" set had been waiting all the year to get something against me, and now they worked up a molehill to a mountain. An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 I was afraid Nannie would think I was making a mountain out of a molehill, as nurse says. We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses I think you are making mountains out of molehills. The Farringdons The baron, accompanied by his wife, walked in the sunshine, grumbling because the molehills against which his foot tripped were not yet leveled. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag I need not allude here to the process of making mountains out of molehills, beams out of motes, and entire summers out of single swallows. The Patient Observer And His Friends Thus, when real mountains no longer separated man from man, mountains were made out of molehills—mountains of immemorial misunderstanding not yet moved into the sea! The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry But the highest some of us can see is the nearest molehill. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron Although he felt a spasm of sincere satisfaction pass through him at the result of his chum's test, at the same time he realized that there was no necessity for making "mountains out of molehills." The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight My young folk are just going to see whether they can hit the molehills under your feet. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag They were mainly fools, and if she let them each have chapels and churches of their own, molehills would become mountains, and the congregations would go from arguing into fighting. English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 "If they continue to be the same, I shall think that we have been making a mountain of a molehill." Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College The molehill seems to him a mountain and the mountain a molehill, and he jumps at conclusions which he should arrive at by reason. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie The office to which he led her was an arid, neat room, an economical legal factory for making molehills into mountains. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories The cattle had trodden it down into holes; the snouts of greedy swine had rooted it up; gray molehills and rank tufts of grass rose on all sides. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Moreover, little troubles and offences which seemed mountains at Bellevue Cottage were apt to dwindle into very surmountable molehills with my larger-minded parents. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances "At making a mountain out of a molehill," she said, "no one can touch you." Berry And Co. He wondered dully when he would ever feel free again, and then laughed inwardly at himself for making a farce of the whole thing, for building a mountain out of a stupid little molehill. The Riddle of the Frozen Flame That kind of worry comes of keeping things to oneself, till molehills look mountains. The Disentanglers Our terrestrial volcanoes," said Barbican, "as you can now readily judge for yourselves, are no more than molehills when compared with those of the Moon. All Around the Moon The two hens told the rest what had happened, but nobody troubled themselves about such an insignificant matter, and some said that the poor old things made mountains out of molehills. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men Perceiving a molehill which had suffered an ugly gash—presumably from a scythe—he trotted up to explore, and, clapping his nose to the wound, snuffed long and thoughtfully. Berry And Co. Mountains out of molehills and armies out of windmills; and you'll tire yourself in one direction and shatter yourself in the other. The Ragged Edge A gossip is one who can make a mountain out of a molehill and then bring it to you. More Toasts My beloved chicken, who is making mountains out of molehills now? The Keeper of the Door If you choose to make a mountain out of a molehill, you choose to make a mistake which the Executive Committee will not repeat. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Jealousy always looks through magnifying glasses, which make mountains of molehills, and realities of mere suspicions. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes He might be one of those individuals who make a mountain out of a molehill of pain, and insist upon a dozen poultices where one would do. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces He thinks his wife makes mountains out of molehills and lacks a sense of proportion. The Nervous Housewife Philosophically, a mountain is no more wonderful than a molehill, yet no man is knighted for climbing a molehill. Prose Fancies (Second Series) There are some monster mountains in the natural world, but they are mere molehills alongside this giant height. The Authoritative Life of General William Booth "Well, but they are not molehills," returned Gabrielle, in rather a lower tone, which, however, we could hear well enough. Jacques Bonneval Wearied with the length of my walk over the mountains, and finding a soft molehill, covered with grey moss, by the wayside, I laid my head upon it and slept. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson Looking down into the meadow as soon as my eyes were thoroughly open, I instantly noticed a covey of young partridges a little way up beside the hedge among the molehills. The Amateur Poacher They made mountains out of molehills, and expected her to climb them—she, whose unwary feet were accustomed to trip so lightly along easy ways. The Rocks of Valpre These are the mountain-summits for our bards, Which stretch far upward into heaven itself, And give such widespread and exulting view Of hope, and faith, and onward destiny, That shrunk Parnassus to a molehill dwindles. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell A century ago the Alleghanies were the boundaries—now we look upon them as molehills; then the vast prairies lay in the way, like an endless sea; then the Mississippi, like Jordan, rolled between. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 The terrestrial volcanoes," said Barbicane, "are only molehills compared to the volcanoes of the moon. The Moon-Voyage In a frost if you see a thrush on a molehill it is very likely to thaw shortly. The Amateur Poacher One doesn't have to make a mountain out of a molehill. Laugh and Live The movement of a mountain often only displaces a molehill. The Man Who Laughs But you scarcely quote your father as among the average, do you?—The people whom you'll meet on Thursday compared to him, I'm afraid, are as molehills to the mountains yonder. Deadham Hard It may seem that this is a foolish making of a mountain out of a molehill; but she would not have felt it to be so. What I Remember, Volume 2 Oh, for a hill, were it no bigger than a molehill! Nancy How many molehills such as that must first Be piled up each on each, ere you make A mountain equal to the least in Uri? The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes One day I saw a hippopotamus tread upon a molehill; he crushed it utterly. The Man Who Laughs The only thing we could find was a molehill, so we delved our way into that. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 With savoury appetite, from hedge-row briars, Then drops content on molehills' sunny side; Proving, thereby, low joys and small desires Are easiest fed, and soonest satisfied. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827 Yesterday's sea was as molehills to mountains compared with the sea to-day…. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. Oh, he made a mountain out of a molehill. Little Women And of your molehill virtues he made splendid mountains. Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis Maurice is perfectly aware that there is a war on, and to demand rent from soldiers who are defending his molehill with their lives is the most ridiculous proposition I ever heard of. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 She wondered why he, who did not usually trouble over trifles, made such a mountain of this molehill. Sons and Lovers There IS such a thing, Sergeant, as making a mountain out of a molehill. The Moonstone But in this molehill many pismires be, All which will sting, before they be remov'd. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 Nothing was definitely fixed up between the Government and Fenton for the right to excavate at the Mountain of the Golden Pyramid, as they call the little old molehill, and I scored. It Happened in Egypt She nosed up unparochial byways and accommodation- roads of the least accommodation, and put old scarred turf or new-raised molehills under her most marvellous springs with never a jar. Traffics and Discoveries Mountains of great size are piled around it, but they appear like molehills beside that veteran mount. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources "There is also such a thing as making nothing out of a molehill, in consequence of your head being too high to see it." The Moonstone My nurse would tell me of a molehill crying To a mountain 'Stand aside and room for me!' Queen Mary and Harold There is not an eminence loftier than a molehill throughout, yet the spacious roads and the wealth of trees and flowers make it a very picturesque and happy-looking locality. Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" But reverse this, and a Pope and a Buonaparte can never be wanting,—the molehill becomes an Andes. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge If they can't agitate the universe and play at ball with hemispheres, they'll make mountains of warfare and vexation out of domestic molehills, and social storms in household teacups. Lady Audley's Secret But here my fancy's moods admire The naked levels till they tire, Nor een a molehill cushion meet To rest on when I want a seat. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript "Oh, for goodness' sake, don't let us make a mountain out of a molehill!" she begged. The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill A sweet meadow, I know it well; small hillocks, like molehills; all over it. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 Beside the mountain belching out its sulphurous flame the little pimple of a molehill is nought. Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI I can imagine no more successful and productive form of manufacture than that of making mountains out of molehills. Tremendous Trifles One little molehill is pretty nearly the same height as another, if you measure them both against the top of the Himalayas, that lie in the background, with their glittering peaks of snow. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah They used to say the most outrageous things without knowing it, and they were always making mountains out of molehills. Jean-Christophe Journey's End These saucy creatures are forever finding out wonders, and forever metamorphosing molehills into mountains. American Historical and Literary Antiquities, Part 12. Second Series "Don't let us make mountains out of molehills," he said. The Fallen Leaves I do no deny that molehills can sometimes be important. Tremendous Trifles Ah, my darling, here's your vivid imagination again, making mountains out of molehills, as they say! Blind Love You do not know Lord Oliphant, Mr. Popham," Cyril laughed, "or you would be aware that his custom is to make mountains out of molehills. When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire I ascended this mountain, which might better be called a molehill, by a flight of a hundred and thirty steps. The Englishwoman in America "As to the locality,"–he hesitated a little,–"it is on a small hillock, scarcely bigger than a molehill, on the hill-top behind my house." Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life William III. died by falling over a molehill; I do not suppose that with all his varied abilities he could have managed to fall over a mountain. Tremendous Trifles Lady Helena's mountain, seen by his eyes, no doubt, would turn out the veriest molehill. A Terrible Secret They delight to degrade human life into that dull and barren plain "in which every molehill is a mountain, and every thistle a forest-tree." Seekers after God Never had police called in yet without 'em making mountains out of molehills! The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation Oh, nonsense; you diplomatic fellows make mountains out of molehills; you see a storm in every cloud; you imagine the lightning's going to strike you every time it flashes! Affairs of State If anyone says that I am making mountains out of molehills, I confess with pride that it is so. Tremendous Trifles Shaving-Brush.—This sign suggests that you are apt to turn molehills into mountains. Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves It was one of those days when nerves are strained, when molehills become mountains, and mountains are all Everests. The Coming of Bill How many molehills such as that must first Be piled above each other ere you make A mountain equal to the least in Uri? Wilhelm Tell Yet it is equally true, that the same passion will sometimes make mountains of molehills, and produce despair in the midst of hope; but these cold fits last not long in good constitutions. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling But if a man has commonly a very clear and happy daily life then I think we are justified in asking that he shall not make mountains out of molehills. Tremendous Trifles Instead, the House made a mountain out of a molehill, by refusing the request and appointing a select committee of seventeen members to consider the matter. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Its upper surface was quite flat and smooth, save for innumerable tiny molehills or pyramids of mist. Letters from America "It seems to me that he is making a mountain out of a molehill." The Prince of Graustark Often have I debated the potency of satire, again and again have I suggested to learned friends a scientific and historical investigation of the popular belief that satire moves mountains or even molehills. Without Prejudice He was making a mountain out of a molehill. The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar Not many hours will elapse before you will see the ground swell like a molehill; an eruption will ensue, and you will be the happy possessor of a Stromboli of your own! Wonders of Creation Of course Jack knew that Big Bob was making a mountain out of molehills, but he could readily understand how that came. Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums The best saints are most sensible of their sins, and most apt to make mountains of their molehills. The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works And one of them is, not to make mountains of molehills; for a molehill is not a mountain. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood She had sent Sophia away for nothing; and no doubt her maternal affection had exaggerated a molehill into a mountain. The Old Wives' Tale I may sum that up by saying that there is nothing the matter but weakness and indisposition to do anything, together with a perfect genius for making mountains out of molehills. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 "I am sure you are worrying yourself needlessly over something— are magnifying it from a molehill into a mountain." Two Boys and a Fortune, or, the Tyler Will A molehill is what a ground mole lives in, ain't it? Galusha the Magnificent As before, they talked constantly of them, piling mountains of conjecture on molehills of fact. Angel Island "I knew it," murmurs Paradis between his teeth, and he goes on his knees towards the opening into the molehill that shelters us. Under Fire: the story of a squad If she allowed herself to go on creating mountains out of molehills she would soon have a whole range upon her hands. The Window-Gazer He thought it the silliest case of making a mountain of a molehill that he had ever heard of. Sisters He was, however, so in the habit of fighting windmills and making mountains of molehills that he could not at first glance see any sudden presentment with a normal vision. Alice of Old Vincennes Yet in certain moods we are inclined to make mountains out of molehills, and I went on my way, puzzled and uneasy, with a distinct impression that I had received the cut direct. Love Among the Chickens "I have bidden good-bye to the Gays' molehill," he informed Madame Hanska. Balzac The hut was swarming with rats and white ants, the former racing over our bodies during the night, and burrowing through the floor, filling our only room with mounds like molehills. The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile She went on making a mountain out of our little molehill, till even Grandfather broke in with a word; and then she snapped at him, got into her second wind and went off again. Who Cares? a story of adolescence In two words, after what I have found out this morning, I say as you say—Oscar is making a mountain out of a molehill. Poor Miss Finch An upright, well-groomed, grey-moustached, red-faced man of sixty-seven, with a keen eye for molehills, and none at all for mountains. Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of John Galsworthy To make a mountain out of a molehill was the act of an idiot. For the Term of His Natural Life The hut was swarming with rats and white ants, the former racing over our bodies during the night and burrowing through the floor, filling our only room with mounds like molehills. In the Heart of Africa He saw now, or thought he saw, that he had been making a mountain out of a molehill. Beatrice I soon found my pride was a molehill and my love a mountain. Hard Cash Youth would never have seen that molehill and fairy ring and projecting root, but wisdom cometh with gray hairs, my son. To Have and to Hold Vaya! what is this molehill of a republic—this pig's head of a country—to a man like me? Cabbages and Kings Surely they had better wait and see what was to happen, instead of making mountains out of molehills. The Idiot The mountains in the way looked molehills, and the rainbow tangible, to Youth, and Health, and Hope, and mighty Love. Put Yourself in His Place As a molehill to a mountain is women's jealousy to men's. Hard Cash "Here is a molehill, and there a fairy ring." To Have and to Hold Those low, zigzag mounds, like giant molehills protected by wire hurdles, were the Hun trenches; five or six lines of them. One of Ours "My good child, don't distress yourself! don't make mountains out of molehills!" Little Novels Volcanoes vary greatly in their dimensions, from vast mountain masses, rising to a height of nearly 25,000 feet above sea-level, to mere molehills. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland, Come, make him stand upon this molehill here, That raught at mountains with outstretched arms, Yet parted but the shadow with his hand.— King Henry VI, Part 3 The tunnels which open off our road are only just like those in a molehill, and by following the chief gallery we shall of course reach the opening we got in at. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland, Come, make him stand upon this molehill here That raught at mountains with outstretched arms, Yet parted but the shadow with his hand. King Henry VI, Part 3 From Sion we came to Brieg; a little village in a nook, close under an enormous mountain and glacier, where it lies like a molehill, or something smaller, at the foot of a haystack. Life of John Sterling Not a molehill, not a mound jarred the spine. Dead Souls Here on this molehill will I sit me down. King Henry VI, Part 3 |
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