| 单词 | mulish |
| 例句 | Maria got a mulish look in her eyes and Matt’s heart sank. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She developed a lofty sense of injustice and the mulish, reckless streak that develops in Someone Small who has been bullied all their lives by Someone Big. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Althea doesn’t mean to be obstinate; she’s just naturally mulish. But she keeps the wolves at bay, and we badly need her. We’ll wait here until she returns.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She had her lock box on her lap and a mulish look on her face. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z The right one, mulish, untouched, stares back dead at the lens. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “And so can I,” she said, getting that mulish look in her eyes Matt knew so well. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Under ordinary circumstances, I even like your obstinate braying and your mulish devotion to the cause.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z There was a peculiar hilarity in Longstreet’s breast, the mulish foolish hungry feeling you get just before an assault. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They seemed to have a separate, mulish identity of their own that refused to be washed and folded and stowed. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “We should get back on the road to Abuelita’s house. And this is the fastest and safest way to get there. So stop being so mulish and get up here. Come on, everybody up.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She wasn’t being fair but didn’t much care, feeling mulish. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Many of today's adolescents may seem gauche, mulish and angry. Submarine plumbs the depths of self-satisfaction 2011-03-21T10:31:19Z But they made a gaffe With their offer so mulish— Penny-wise and mound-foolish. Style Invitational: Oops? Do it again — try an earlier contest 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Even the prickly interdependence of the spinster and her mulish employee has less drama than the relationship of the two to the grim grandeur of their environment. The Wild West in the South of France 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z He paid a price for his mulish views. Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z FAM’s exhortations include the question, “Are you the man who takes the control?,” and Krystal, with her mulish, small-minded, amoral determination to win at any cost, is that man. Review: Kirsten Dunst Fights for Her Piece of the Pyramid Scheme 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Beyond being mulish, he’s as eloquent in legal jargon as he is in street talk. Rampart: Woody Harrelson Shines as L.A.'s Dirtiest Cop 2011-11-26T14:00:46Z “I wouldn’t call her ridiculous,” he said, mulish. Book Excerpt: ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z And still fashion week keeps its mulish course, a carousel spinning madly. London Fashion Week Draws the Queen and the Rabble 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z He seems addled and hapless, and may be cognitively challenged, but he’s also mulish, incoherent, exasperating and cunning. ‘Intregalde’ Review: Oh, Be Good! 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z In 1969, Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin ran a political campaign largely devoted to the idea of Gotham’s sovereignty — with the mulish insistence that the city get custody of the name “New York.” A Polite Drive for Secession in ‘Radio Free Vermont’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Bodily degeneration is one scientific fact Stephen ignores with a mulish cheerfulness, even as he takes for granted Jane’s delaying of her own scholarly goals in order to tend and fend for him. The Theory of Everything review: My Left Brain 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Freud’s preoccupations no longer look eccentric or mulish. Perspective | Lucian Freud captured intimacy, even when his subjects were clothed 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z This grass-colored liqueur, with its bracing, vegetal taste and mulish kick, called Chartreuse after the Carthusian brothers of your order, is the closest thing you’ll ever experience to a magic potion. What’s in the green elixir Chartreuse? Only a couple of monks know for sure. 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Maybe they weren’t just being mulish but were just tired. Editorial Roundup: Louisiana 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Come Wednesday morning the mulish paragraph addressing conduct during the national anthem was suddenly nowhere to be found on the pre-race handout, leading to much online murmuring. 'We're fighting for change': Bubba Wallace on Nascar and the Confederate flag 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Because it can’t – these are mulish men and women resistant to reality – expect an escalating crisis of political authority on top of everything else. The looming economic disaster will only get worse if those leading us stick to dogma 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z He will be back soon, possibly at Madrid, as mulish as ever, still refusing to bend for anyone. José Mourinho must bin blame game and learn from his failings at United | Daniel Taylor 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z To his doctors and therapists, Dewey was mulish and obstinate, refusing to believe their lies. By the skin of his teeth: learning to walk again without health insurance 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z “When you try to make me do something, I get real mulish and tend to go in the opposite direction,” said Rep. Mary Hooper, a Montpelier Democrat and opponent of the change. Vermont House votes to end philosophical vaccine exemption 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z By contrast, Ruby Thai Kitchen, with its mulish reliance on sweet, sad, suburban interpretations of Southeast Asian cooking, must be aware of its imminent extinction daily. Mall food gets courtly on the renovated terrace at Westfield Montgomery 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z When I'm feeling beat-down, peckish, fluish or even just a little mulish, there's nothing that restores my equilibrium like a bowl of greens. Good for what ails you, 12 recipes for winter cooking greens 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z That the mulish teachers union would come around without threats and proddings? Joel Klein's Book on American Schools Tries to Find a Way Forward Faced with mulish obstructionism from the GOP, Obama chose that route to make a technical change in a law — the Affordable Care Act — Boehner’s party hates. Perry v. Lehmberg and the veto that illuminated an unsettling trend 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z A popular meme in Western societies at the moment is to lament the mulish unwillingness of democratic majorities to support sober, centrist political leaders. Way of the World: Together in Prosperity and Despair 2012-06-21T10:30:05Z Her mouth was the most beautiful thing about her; the calligraphic hand of nature had richly curved it into an expression of mulish bad temper.... Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z I rode a big mule not used to the bit, very troublesome and mulish at first, but broken in an hour. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z He drags back, and a mulish look comes into his sweet eyes. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z A temper that was often aroused to fits of obstinacy, little short of mulish. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z Civil government itself suffered, for a community whose daily occupation it was to break one law could not be expected to have much respect for other laws, nor for the bribe-taking rulers and mulish legislators. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z Miss Hardwick is going to make another trip to the spook chamber, as our mulish friend so aptly termed it. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z And further he would not budge, but turns mulish, yet too feeble to lift the gun he clung to with a grip I could not loosen lest I break his bones. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z She had obstinacy enough; a quiet, mulish obstinacy which left her exactly where one found her. Concerning Sally 2011-08-19T02:00:14.430Z Ought one for the sake of mulish, out-of-date traditions to prevent a union which embraced so immeasurable a blessing for the country and its people? Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z As mulish as the girl Hill, he refused to release Mrs. Gower from her oath; finally, in fiery wrath declaring there would be a heavy breach of promise case, did she break faith. A Romance of Toronto A Novel 2011-04-23T02:00:04.677Z Now, he was a singularly smart boy, the son of a very clever man and a very sensitive woman, with a fine resolute temper that systematic spoiling had nearly turned to mulish obstinacy. Captains Courageous 2011-04-22T02:00:10.677Z They're a mulish, obstinate, unbending kind of people, these English; and wherever you see them, they never conform to the habits of the people. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z He had lost his inheritance, but he was determined, in his weak, mulish way, that he would not lose Hilda. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z Curse you for a mulish fool," added the proconsul with a snarl, "what in the d——l's name do you want to do? Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z In a man he would call such persistence mulish. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z They got six harnessed into a team, when one of the leaders, feeling a little mulish, jumped right straight over the other one's back. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z And this hesitation so much resembled a plain mulish balk that Mr. Ackerman was a trifle disconcerted. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z But dare those fans risk their cash after her mulish refusal to leave the starting stalls in last week's Yorkshire Oaks? Claims Five: Autumn Treats 2010-08-27T14:41:00Z It laid back its ears and bit at him when he attempted to pat it on the nose, and manifested every other sign of mulish antipathy towards its new master. Campmates A Story of the Plains But being in a hotel salon, with no enemy present more dangerous than a beautiful young girl, it was only mulish. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z This was the first she had heard of Mona's hatred, though she certainly had not needed Mrs. Gereth to tell her that in close quarters that young lady would prove secretly mulish. The Spoils of Poynton Why then and there his mulish brain couldn’t understand. Dorothy on a House Boat Now and again he would try my patience by some outbreak of mulish cussedness, but I remembered his character and training, and had no difficulty in keeping myself in hand. A Frontier Mystery Heaven knows how much farther our mulish Cumberland skipper would have pursued his voyage of discovery, had not the soundings proclaimed but five fathom water. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands Marise said nothing, but looked suddenly as mulish as a beautiful girl can look. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z The young man watching him with eyes of hatred, saw guilt in that obstinate and mulish dumbness. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June Mr. Spokesly assumed a mulish expression and said, No, he hadn't. Command But let us mount, old Surefoot—mulish in nought but an inveterate aversion to all stumbling. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) The mulish leaders, with distended ears, would view our strange-looking vehicles with suspicion, and then lurch far out in their twenty-foot traces, pulling the heavily loaded vehicles from the deep-rutted track. Across Asia on a Bicycle The most mulish mule in the whole braying family was selected for the operation, and if we did not have some tall fun I will admit that I am no judge. Three Years in the Federal Cavalry O the yell that she set up, the true mulish yell—knowing all p. 17the time that she had nothing to fear from her rider, knowing that he would not strike her between the ears. A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain I was just mulish, I guess, because you were trying to stampede me. The Innocent Adventuress Having driven a team of these animals—fine Calabrian mules they were, equal to the best Spanish—all the way from Naples to Dieppe, I can boast of some experience in the mulish temperament. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. We would advise the Western men to come into the measure generously and gracefully, and not be so obstinate and mulish as our Eastern lords have been. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II His temper appealed to her; so did his fearlessness and his mulish attitude toward the wall. The Wall Between The eight-team hauled negligent, their mulish senses steeped in the drudgery of the trail; only the wheel pair flopped inquiring ears. Desert Dust The many, mulish as ever, therefore imagine evil. William Shakespeare It shall not be said that I was mulish.” Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Martial was a little mulish, and I’m afraid I’m troubled with a shortness of temper now and then. Masters of the Wheat-Lands She was met by one of the tiring-women whom she particularly disliked, and whose mulish face and impertinent manners had often irritated her. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg Benda could have sketched Daniel’s face in the darkness: the round forehead, the little nose, pointed and mulish, the rigidly pinched lips, the angular musician’s chin, and the deep dimples in his cheeks. The Goose Man They seem generally agreed—except a couple of stout ones who are lolling back and listening with mulish simpers. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. But circumstances are mulish things, and not to be governed at will, as Nattie was soon to discover. Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes He was backing his judgment—or was it only his mulish obstinacy?—against the conviction of the community. The Man from the Bitter Roots As his comrades said, he died because he had determined to die—an instance of that obstinate fatalism253 in their mulish temperament which no kind words or threats can cure. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure A horse with the staggers was not in it with a mulish Lampton. There was a King in Egypt The great length of their ears gives to their heads something of a “mulish” look—hence they are often known among the trappers by the name of “mule deer.” The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire The long ears caused her to look mulish, but it was only in appearance; she was a pure mustang when you examined her attentively. The Scalp Hunters Her lank grizzled body, naked tail, and mulish look, I remembered well. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse The instincts of the mulish heart form an interesting study to the traveler in the mountains. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Well, it was a substantial attempt, and if I am not happy, I shall be the most mulish and ungrateful of men. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden The rafts were ready, and the people, scared and anxious, had left their houses, and now only wailed for old Todge, who, with mulish persistence, refused to be moved. Plantation Sketches He had a will of his own; and he was obstinate, mulish, pig-headed. Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student It is not easy to say which of the two combatants is the more mulish. Six Months at the Cape Still, I was just mulish enough to stick around. Torchy and Vee These gentlemen, too, were ill at ease at the suppressed feeling in the conversation, but Wilkins was "mulish" at times, and he had a reserve. Marion's Faith. She was a round-bowed contrivance, with a spring aft which gave a kind of mulish, kick-up look to the run of her. The Honour of the Flag He vanished into his lair, consulted a superior officer, and after a long delay returned with the news that we must pay ten centimes, probably as a penance for our mulish stupidity in leaving France. My Friend the Chauffeur A prominent trait of character in the captive buffalo is a mulish obstinacy or headstrong perseverance under certain circumstances that is often very annoying. The Extermination of the American Bison It was an obstinate, mulish old face, seamed and creased, the bright sunlight rendering more manifest the leather-like skin, the marvellous network of wrinkles about eyes and mouth. Beth Norvell A Romance of the West There's quite a mulish streak in him, too. Wilt Thou Torchy He puffs away just as mulish as ever. On With Torchy We could get nothing out of these men; they refused to answer our questions from sheer mulish obstinacy, as we thought at first, but we saw at length that they did not understand us. The Passenger from Calais With mulish obstinacy he would concede nothing, neither had he force of character to marshal any decisive resistance. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power For down either side of him, projecting from head and shoulders and arms, were ears—long, hairy, mulish ears, that wriggled horribly, one moment unfolding themselves to catch every sound, the next flopping about ridiculously. The Poor Little Rich Girl The instincts of the mulish heart form an interesting study to the traveller in the mountains. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries It must reach its outlet quickly and attain to its ambition without overmuch delay, else it shrivels and withers to a mere stubborn, perhaps lifelong, enmity—a dwarfish, mulish thing, devoid of any tragic splendour. Children of the Mist But I dare say I should be equally mulish if I were in his shoes. Nightfall I'm sure you'll all agree with me His stubbornness was mulish. The Adventures of Grandfather Frog Well, I wrastled with that mulish female seven straight days to make her leave that twelve-hour job of hers and come out here with me. Ma Pettengill Sevenning replied dryly, "but it's wonderful what the witness-box can do; it loosens the most mulish tongues in a marvellous manner." The Sorcery Club "I can't," she repeated, and a mulish look of obstinacy came into her face. Flames When at last he had ushered the three men into the common sitting-room and had stood his gun in a corner and placed the candle on the table, he sank into a mulish silence. The Downfall Halicarnassus is absurd and mulish in many things, but he knows I will not be hampered with him when I am shopping, and he obeys the smallest hint and stops outside. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 The mulish vehicular display does not end the tale of Denry's splendour. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns He had reasoned that William was probably subdued to the point of permitting the liberty, and that he had other things to think of more important than protecting his mulish dignity. Casey Ryan But she was in one of her most mulish moods, and was not to be turned from the subject or silenced. Flames The haste, the secrecy, the sharp practice, of the New Zealand Company were forced on the Wakefields by the mulish obstinacy of careless or irrational people. The Long White Cloud The Dutch Boers constantly endeavour to break them to harness, and though they occasionally succeed to a degree, the wild mulish nature of the animal is always breaking out, and liable to balk them. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development So don't be mulish, dear- Although I say it, darling, It's not your line, my pet— I play that part, you bet! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan Then was lifted up his voice in mulish lamentations until, cursing, we had to ride out bareback and drive him far into the hills and there stone him into distant fear. The Mountains Cuckoo spoke in the most mulish manner, following her habit when she was completely puzzled, but sticking to what she believed to be the truth. Flames Had I lacked imagination, had I been stupid, had I been stubbornly mulish in having my own way, I should never have got in this pickle. John Barleycorn The bigger the price they were offered, the more mulish they would be about holding. The Market-Place State and local police can be touchy about their jurisdictions, and can sometimes be mulish when the feds show up. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier It was a fine, young chestnut gelding with a Roman nose and long, mulish ears. Way of the Lawless She set her lips to silence, with a look of obstinacy not impressive, but merely mulish and childish. Flames The wives of the working classes, who have hitherto been dirty, ill-treated, mulish beasts of burden, begin to show a sense of their dignity as human beings and as women. Freeland A Social Anticipation I have my obstinacies as mulish as other people's. The Mountebank By Heavens! that was what made me so internally mad, the mulish obstinacy of the old fool. Keith of the Border The boy remained silent as before, and Sewell had no means of knowing whether it was from silent conviction or from mulish obstinacy. The Minister's Charge The monster annoys me, and even our mulish dream-consciousness can be taught to acquiesce in a fact, after a sufficient lapse of time. Alone The valley is honeycombed into man-traps by rats and lizards, causing many a tumble, and notably developing the mulish instinct. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 It is with this principle rather than with a mulish insistence on the rights of property, that advocates of "workers' control" and the like have got to reckon. Supply and Demand But which of us ever heard of 'the discourteous reader,' 'the mulish reader,' 'the barbarous reader?' Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 He knew this and yet he felt obstinate, mulish almost, as he sat down to reply non-committally to Miss Van Tuyn's letter. December Love He makes no answer, but he looks at me with eyes that are positively baleful, and in the instant I read his mute but mulish resolve that Utopia must end. A Modern Utopia Such mulish indifference was a dreadful thing to this girl. Once Aboard the Lugger He possessed a sort of mulish obstinacy, and was evidently determined to use no scrap of information which he had obtained from Paul Harley. Bat Wing Of all obstinate, mulish, pig headed, copper-riveted— I was lucky enough to find Eleanor crying softly to herself in a corner of the veranda. The Motormaniacs But here, to my horror, that young man's mulish obstinacy came in. Allan and the Holy Flower In some things he was as inflexible and mulish as ever; but then he durst not kick so openly, and was reduced to the necessity of being passive in his resentments. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle "There is only one thing more disastrous to a man than the wisdom of thirty-eight years," I declared with mulish inconvincibility, "and that is the wisdom he may accumulate after that age." Simon the Jester "He is a mulish little toad," cried Simon, angrily. Marie Antoinette and Her Son "And yet," he exclaimed, "Jacques will not change his system: any one who knows his mulish obstinacy might be quite sure of that." Within an Inch of His Life As his comrades said, he died because he had determined to die,—an instance of that obstinate fatalism in their mulish temperament which no kind words or threats can cure. The Discovery of the Source of the Nile Moreover, at the sight of the foaming but shallow torrent, the camel, a creature unaccustomed to water, pulled up in a mulish kind of way and for a moment refused to stir. The Ivory Child This impenetrability and something mulish in her attitude annoyed him. Saint's Progress The boy appears to be really sick, or else he is obstinate and mulish. Marie Antoinette and Her Son Powell mounted The Rabbit, a plain bay country-bred much like Corks, but with mulish ears. The Day's Work - Volume 1 Halicarnassus is absurd and mulish in many things, but he knows I will not be hampered with him when I am shopping, and he obeys the smallest hint, and stops outside. Gala-days Thar're two kind of women in this world, the mulish and the pulish, an' when it comes to a man's taking his pick between 'em, the Lord help him. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields Now he was a singularly smart boy, the son of a very clever man and a very sensitive woman, with a fine resolute temper that systematic spoiling had nearly turned to mulish obstinacy. Captains Courageous That is what the poor dark mortal meant to express; and in his mulish way, he has expressed into a falsity what was in itself a truth. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 The mulish, obstinate, and proud man never says, I don’t know. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) Sir Richmond considered something mulish in the doctor's averted face. Secret Places of the Heart That mulish obstinacy of which you jestingly accused me is in a woman the result of confidence, of a vision of the future. Honorine "Be that as it may," replied Li-loe, with mulish iteration, "five deficient strings of home-made cash are a meagre return for a friendship such as mine." Kai Lung's Golden Hours Sometimes I am conscious of two selves—one of me is a nice, polite person that I'm really fond of, and the other is so contrary and so mulish that I'm actually afraid of her. Lavender and Old Lace Till when long enough time has elapsed you find him all the obstinate and mulish man he ever was. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) He used to sit low in his chair and look mulish. The New Machiavelli This is not in the least "mulish obstinacy." Honorine And thus, as his mulish obstinacy kept him so ignorant, so his ignorance in turn increased his obstinacy. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) |
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