| 单词 | mossback |
| 例句 | Even when La Luz called the Emerald City home, their surfy strain of garage pop always felt more Golden State than mossback. Seattle expats La Luz channel their sunnier new home with ‘Floating Features’ 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Whether proud mossbacks or fresh transplants, Pacific Northwesterners value the bounty of our lush evergreen state. Add to your home’s decor with inspiring works by Pacific Northwest artists 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z Cool as cucumber seltzer, the hometown favorites helped the still-gathering crowd beat the midday heat as temperatures approached 80 degrees — desertlike conditions for resident mossbacks. Seattle’s Bumbershoot returns from hiatus to celebrate 50th anniversary 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z In true mossback fashion, he bought a plot of land on a particularly damp section of the island because he loved the rain. Remembering Jeremiah Green, Modest Mouse’s soft-spoken ‘rudder’ 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Newcomers eager to burnish their Seattle credentials and mossbacks looking for a refresher course will find plenty to like at the museum affectionately known as MOHAI. 5 Western WA museums that will take history buffs back in time 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Tourism and hospitality: This was one of the hardest-hit sectors during the pandemic, and as much as mossbacks hate it Seattle is a big tourism town. Delta variant adds uncertainty to Seattle’s recovery 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Some might even feel bad about soaring tax bills for the nonwealthy mossbacks. Ron Judd’s newcomers’ guide to Seattle 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z I can hear the mossbacks objecting, but Amazon is the city’s biggest employer, and driver of many changes, like them or not, that have redefined Seattle. Vote: Will Amazon’s Spheres replace the Space Needle as the new symbol of Seattle? 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Some of the results — population growth, traffic, widening of income gaps, disruption of once-stable middle-class neighborhoods, and loss of favorite shops — fuel the “what this town needs is a good recession” discontent among mossbacks. Recession won’t revive Seattle’s bygone days 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z I’m not a mossback, but I’ve been here for a decade now. Reflections on 10 tumultuous years in Seattle 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z I realize I am a dinosaur — a Northwest mossback. Soul-sucking traffic and the Seattle ‘fixes’ that make it worse 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z He dubbed them a "bunch of birds and mossbacks." The Time Bob Dole Called George Bush a ‘F------ Nazi’ 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z I received an Osteopathic journal recently containing a list of names, about eight hundred of them, of “mossbacks,” as we were politely called. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z I say, what a lot of old mossbacks there must be about here anyway. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z He would show this girl and her mossback father. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z As he spoke a large mossback came to the surface, and calmly surveyed the surroundings, as if to say: "Well, my little boy, that's all you know about turtles biting before warm weather." The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 2011-05-07T02:00:28.747Z And if the whole white race of mossbacks don't like it they can go plumb—to—hell. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z An old mossback Democrat insisted that they have Martin. Tales and Trails of Wakarusa 2011-03-08T03:00:41.730Z "Those mossbacks never spend a cent and once they grasp a dollar it passes out of circulation." Rockhaven What I want to know is, why are so many mossbacks throwing brickbats? Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Another time, to his great satisfaction, he discovered a large piece of bacon rind among some scraps that the mossback's wife had thrown away. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals He'd got five hundred mossbacks with him, and he felt good. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z There's no use," said he, "in letting a horse lag along down hill the way the old mossbacks do around here. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine There is the "old" farmer, there is the "new" farmer, and there is the "mossback." Chapters in Rural Progress He was followed to the very verge of the wood, and then the exhausted "mossback" left him to return to the house. A Tramp's Notebook Two or three miles away was a little clearing where a mossback lived. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals Indeed the boys so loved this work and were so proud of their skill, that when an unusually vicious old "mossback" was encountered, each strove to be the first catch and master him. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier And that mossback 'gator, as Tony always called an old fellow, was certainly worked up into a rage which might result in his attacking the struggling boy, despite all his wild floundering and splashing. Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat The mossback is the man who tries to use the old methods under the new conditions; he is not "up" with the present times, but "back" with the old times. Chapters in Rural Progress With fights between the dancing— Till Silver Jack cleaned out the ranch And sent the mossbacks prancing. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads Again the mossback appeared in the doorway, shivering a little in his night-shirt. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals But the asset side of our "mossback's" yearly balance sheet always made the liability side ashamed of itself. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope Old mossback, he get in hole, an' hide a week. Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat The mossback cannot win, because he prefers a flintlock to a Mauser. Chapters in Rural Progress I took her to a dance one night, A mossback gave the bidding; Silver Jack bossed the shebang And Big Dan played the fiddle. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads The mossback was wide awake now, and he muttered something about "another of those pesky porkies." Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals You got a gang of mossbacks sitting on your head who don't get a live idea among 'em wunst a year. Queed "Then again, perhaps you noticed that the old mossback headed downstream; and so the chances are the fish might be scared away for some distance." Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat The mossback sees perhaps clearly enough these changes, but he does not understand their meaning, nor does he know how to meet them. Chapters in Rural Progress "My father'll come down here and show you old mossbacks a thing or two," he laughed. Gordon Keith As the mossback lay awake in the long, quiet, windless winter nights, he often heard them puffing and snorting, now with slow, heavy coughs, and now quick and sharp and rapid. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals The mossback pays in pennies and gives a mortgage. The Rules of the Game I told the orderly to "fire away," I would go over and see the old "mossback." The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail You cannot have the new farmer unless you also have the mossback. Chapters in Rural Progress It's claim-jumping; and not a cent will they pay, and laugh at us besides, and call us mossbacks. In Exile and Other Stories At any rate he looked so lonesome and forlorn that the mossback felt a little thrill of pity for him, and decided not to kill him after all, but to drive him away again. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals It's mossbacks," the messenger explained, "and them deadheads we been carrying along. The Rules of the Game We didn't want the nuisance of a prosecution," said Fay, "because that would mean that these mossbacks could drag us off to Rapid City any old time as witnesses, and keep us there indefinitely. The Claim Jumpers Every "new" farmer when full grown competes with every mossback. Chapters in Rural Progress I'm going to fish and hunt and lie in the shade and swap yarns with mossback moonshiners. The Desired Woman Long whitish bristles were mingled with them, and the mossback could not help thinking of a little old, old man, with hair that was grizzly-gray, and a face that was half-stupid and half-sad and wistful. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals It is an unimproved river, and difficult to drive, and just lined with mossbacks. The Rules of the Game I'm going to prove I'm not a mossback. Dr. Jonathan And if he can, is he to be an aristocrat, a landlord, a captain of industry, and to bear rule over the mossback? Chapters in Rural Progress I took her to a dance one night, A mossback gave the bidding— Silver Jack bossed the shebang, and Big Dan played the fiddle. The Blazed Trail It is their business—as much so as the most obdurate mossback can protest—but collectively, not individually. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) Them few deadheads we've picked up along the line; mossbacks left 'em stranded. The Rules of the Game It was obvious that this alert lawyer regarded the Springfield folk as mossbacks—which might be well enough for St. Louis and Chicago, but was scarcely becoming in a man from Steubenville. The Path of the King The mossback is the man who has either misread the signs of the times, or who has not possessed the speed demanded in the two-minute class. Chapters in Rural Progress "That old mossback Reed was right on deck with his rope," remarked Johnny Simms. The Riverman I want also to make a plea for the mossback. Chapters in Rural Progress What the mossbacks thought about it we can safely leave to the crossroad stores. The Rules of the Game Doubtless this simple fact is responsible for a multitude of mossbacks. Chapters in Rural Progress You have to define him in terms of the mossback. Chapters in Rural Progress It's a pity that old mossback had to put in a mill. The Riverman I also have sympathy for the mossback particularly because he is the man that needs attention. Chapters in Rural Progress He went on, in his good-natured, unexcited fashion, to inveigh against the obstinacy of any and all mossbacks. The Rules of the Game "I know that sort of crazy old mossback," muttered Welton as he turned down the mountain. The Rules of the Game The contrast is between the new farmer and the mossback, for that is a question of men and of their relative efficiency as members of the industrial order. Chapters in Rural Progress Boys," said he, "the old mossback who owns that dam has come up here loaded to scatter. The Riverman A fine bunch of whitewater birlers we'd look if we got hung up by an old mossback in a plug hat. The Riverman "I don't know about that," objected the mossback. The Rules of the Game See here, you old mossback," said Orde, thrusting his bulky form to the fore, "you sue just as soon as you want to. The Riverman |
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