| 单词 | ne'er-do-well |
| 例句 | Harley's a consistent ne'er-do-well with a heart of gold, a living fantasy of having it all in the most extreme way while being unencumbered by caring about what anyone other than your best friend thinks. The Harley Quinn twisted Valentine's special brings the raunch and romance to our Hallmark holiday 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z "Tom Lea is what I detest in all men. He's a ne'er-do-well, ignorant, greedy, with uncontrollable anger," said Meyers. Reflections on 'Roots' by stars of History's new version 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z As in all good westerns, it also leads to the inevitable showdown, this one involving a homicidal ne'er-do-well with ties to the Fenians. 'A Good Man': the aftermath of Custer's last stand 2012-01-11T22:09:07Z Sometimes, the tag refers to a pariah, a ne'er-do-well, a killjoy, or an interloper, but it's always subjective. 10 Latin phrases people pretend to understand 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Donleavy's "The Ginger Man," the comic saga of a ne'er-do-well and the affairs ruined by his own design. Unnamed 'Oxygen Thief' become self-published success 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z When Christian Coulson breezes in as Frank, Robert's younger, charming but ne'er-do-well brother, things really liven up. Review: 'A Picture of Autumn' is bitersweet 2013-06-11T00:37:09Z Gad had his own frustrations with 2012's "1600 Penn," where he starred as the ne'er-do-well first son of the first family residing in the White House. Billy Crystal, Josh Gad cut close to funny bone in FX's 'The Comedians' 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The self-deprecating title refers to his oft-cited origins as a young ne'er-do-well rescued by music. A distinctive voice: Everett's Clayton Brainerd adds to SSO's Beethoven concert 2010-12-30T20:36:03Z The Tampa Bay Times, his local newspaper, called Gaetz an "entitled ne'er-do-well." Fox News made Matt Gaetz a GOP star. Now he's trying to take Fox News' Tucker Carlson down with him 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Hiring some ne'er-do-well relative is one of the ways rich and powerful people scratch each other's backs — and, not incidentally, ensure that the quasi-aristocracy of the one percent is perpetuated. Et tu, Don Jr.? At least Hunter Biden isn't being a complete hypocrite 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The devilish ne'er-do-well, who terrorised people and chased a gardener, according to a report from 1838, went on to inspire a novel named after him, written by Philip Pullman. Serpents, owl men and demon dogs - BBC News 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Aysgarth is presented as a strange mixture of gambler, fortune hunter, blatherskite, ne'er-do-well and what not. A look back with 'Suspicion' and an 1941 opinion that stands the test of time 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z How could it be that this ne'er-do-well, Oswald, getting off those shots - was he such a splendid marksman? Kennedy was 'a blank slate' 2013-11-19T03:07:20Z The word was starred out in the report we read, but I presume it was 'ne'er-do-well'. David Haye v Dereck Chisora – live! 2012-07-14T19:10:34Z Every poacher and every ne'er-do-well was visited and examined, every house was canvassed, every man who had ever said aught that could be held to savour of radical doctrine, was considered. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z None other than your ne'er-do-well brother, Farish, come home to die on your hands. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z She will feel that fellow's fate most terribly, the more so that he was a ne'er-do-well; though there are reasons why it's best as it is. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z He had been a ne'er-do-well, a rolling stone; he had not been a dutiful son. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z But to continue—the wretched boy shows one of your letters the very same day to that ne'er-do-well Zanshin, and within an hour Natalie Dimitrievna holds it in her hands—my deadly enemy! Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z Those who had known him in the battery would scarcely have recognised in the sullen ne'er-do-well whom men called Morgan, the cheerful Snatty of a former time. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z He is a charming fellow, but the sort of talented ne'er-do-well who can do anything but make a living. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z "This indeed is one of those ne'er-do-well boys who has sold himself to a foreigner," remarked one of them contemptuously. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z Of course he was a ne'er-do-well, but his smile was so jolly in contrast with the long-drawn, severe expression of Mrs. McSorley. Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls 2011-09-09T02:01:09.477Z "Oh, I know," he broke in, "that I spoil things, that I'm a failure—a ne'er-do-well." The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z Our Idiot Brother reviewed: Paul Rudd is a charming stoner ne'er-do-well. Obama and family visit the beach on Martha?s Vineyard as vacation nears its end 2011-08-25T16:02:42Z He is the spendthrift, ne'er-do-well, who is always a drain on the old man's purse. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z Wallingford himself might be a spendthrift and a ne'er-do-well, but their faith in the tack that was to make them all rich was supreme. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z He and his mother could hardly be said to live upon it, they only existed; and they found this still more difficult when George's father, a lazy, ne'er-do-well, came to visit them. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z "I'm glad it's what you wanted, because it's what I was going to say, anyway," returned the ne'er-do-well soberly, thus showing that he, too, had not yet outlived the influence of the overnight hand-grip. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z Sometimes a rush leaves a shiftless ne'er-do-well or two for the Ridge to reckon with, but even these rarely disregard the Ridge code. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z The main interest of this book lies, however, in the character of the heroine, Margaret, who is placed in a most cruel dilemma by a ne'er-do-well brother whom she shields. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z This particular specimen was the son of a notorious poacher, and till now regarded by the fathers of the hamlet as a ne'er-do-well. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Some of his neighbors pity him as a ne'er-do-well, while others devoutly attribute to him a sort of superhuman faculty. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z I was only a shiftless sort of ne'er-do-well till you came here and helped me to be strong again. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z The son of a ne'er-do-well tenant farmer, Mr. Demarest had had no formal schooling until he was fifteen. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z He is a young ne'er-do-well, and happens to be in the employ of my own solicitor. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z The building of new railways threw the Nation into debt, and between the advice given first by Progressives, then by Radicals, Milan the ne'er-do-well could barely enjoy a life devoted to pleasure. Serbia: A Sketch 2011-02-11T03:00:25.893Z The movie is about a wealthy ne'er-do-well who has to prove he can hold down a job to win the approval of his girlfriend's father. Silent films recovered: These new releases are oldest in a long time 2011-02-09T02:21:04Z That whimsical, hapless ne'er-do-well who strolled the woods day after day, drinking white whiskey, and bringing strains from his old fiddle which made one's flesh creep with their weird sweetness. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z I've heard of ne'er-do-well sons, but I did not know they had such amusing times. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z It was not long before she realized that she was married to a ne'er-do-well at a time when even an industrious man found it hard to make a living. The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States 2011-01-26T03:00:29.717Z "That boy will never be anything but a ne'er-do-well," said Lady Vereker with a shrug. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z The mere acknowledgment that she had frivolously abandoned body and soul to a tattered and torn jovial ne'er-do-well would deprive her forever of her friend's esteem. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Take him as though he were one whom it is your duty to support—as though he were a ne'er-do-well younger brother of yours. Mashi and Other Stories 2010-12-28T03:00:16.890Z Show us a gun, and we picture a muscular ne'er-do-well in a balaclava menacing an elderly sub-postmistress. 'This is America son' 2010-12-18T11:45:12Z It tells the story of a married woman whose seduction by a ne'er-do-well neighbor results in the murder of her husband, a hapless rickshaw driver. Haunting Films From Japan 2010-10-28T02:50:00Z Nor will the citizens of countries that are paying the largest share of the bill -- Germany, France -- happily subsidize their ne'er-do-well neighbors. War, peace and Europe's bailout 2010-05-10T20:58:00Z One of them was the "bad lad" of the regiment—a drunken ne'er-do-well. With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War About his going away in debt, and being a ne'er-do-well, and about his going away from Baslehurst and not coming back any more. Rachel Ray Her father, handsome ne'er-do-well that he was, made a poor and intermittent living for them until the girl was fifteen. The Dual Alliance The comfortable theory that once he has settled down to something important the college ne'er-do-well will suddenly blossom forth into a competent leader of men didn't work out in practice. Some War-time Lessons The Soldier's Standards of Conduct; The War As a Practical Test of American Scholarship; What Have We Learned? With Tom Roland was a fellow named Guardley, a ne'er-do-well, who had been up before the squire on more than one occasion for drinking and stealing. To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon Although he had never spoken of it, he had always had a secret fear of the father: if he turned out to be a drunkard or a ne'er-do-well? The Son of His Mother He was mainly to be seen near the Papal house, though, because this ne'er-do-well had something in mind for the Pope's mule, and, as you will see, it was something malicious…. Letters from my Windmill I asked the ne'er-do-well, when he begged for an audience after meeting the King. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess The answer is usually unfavourable, simply because many colonials cannot disassociate the idea of a gentleman adventurer from that of a scapegrace or ne'er-do-well. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand The weak shoots of the tobacco plant that had to be stripped off and thrown away were called suckers, and Illinois was said to be largely populated by ne'er-do-well emigrants from tobacco-growing states like Kentucky. Shaman Think of a woman being tied to a feckless ne'er-do-well like Matthew O'Brien!' Lover or Friend The same instant I heard a man running on the road behind me, and who should come up but the very "ne'er-do-well" who helped me to wash down my car but yesterday morning. The Man Who Drove the Car "But would that ne'er-do-well Kaye family take in an old curmudgeon, does thee think?" Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life Lamb, while ranking a single speech of Bellafront's very high, speaks with rather oblique approval of the play, and Hazlitt, though enthusiastic for it, admires chiefly old Friscobaldo and the ne'er-do-well Matheo. A History of Elizabethan Literature That one was a man named Ralph Temple, generally considered a ne'er-do-well and a vagabond, who lived in a tumble-down shanty in the edge of the wood. The Tin Box and What it Contained And he who loses is a good-for-nothing, a fool and a ne'er-do-well; just as it happens in the big cities, at the clubs, where people sit playing cards night and day. Jewish Children But he was a ne'er-do-well, with nothing to be said in his favor, unless you admit his fame as a practical joker. Humorous Ghost Stories Imagine the situation—this rake, this dark-eyed ne'er-do-well, notorious all down Cheapside for his relentless dalliance with the fair, placed in intimate proximity with one of England's most glorious specimens of ripening womanhood. Terribly Intimate Portraits She guessed that he was a ne'er-do-well, who had come out to the States to redeem his fallen fortune. The Secret House Is a man a ne'er-do-well, a drunkard, an idler? A Poor Man's House Whenever in her dreams such a vow was made, the promise was always given to that ne'er-do-well. Linda Tressel Strange how the ne'er-do-well is often equipped with an extravagant sense of humor! Humorous Ghost Stories What sort of talks and beliefs had the girl been accustomed to in companionship with her ne'er-do-well father? The Opened Shutters Evan, the ne'er-do-well, does not seek his friends when the sun shines. The Diamond Coterie Among these sailors, to Hudson's cost, was his former surly mate, Juet, and a young ne'er-do-well named Henry Greene, who had been cast off by his family for his evil ways and his dissolute living. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. As for me, he plagues my life out, and, if you keep him here with his ne'er-do-well ways, you'll come home some evening to find me gone.' Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations A ne'er-do-well in the country would probably remain the same in the city, and would be likely to accentuate his characteristics there, especially if his life was cast, as was Shakespeare's, in Bohemian surroundings. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 The Squire said to himself: "It must be that Tom Lincoln, who, folks say, is a ne'er-do-well and moves from place to place every year because he can't make his farm support him." Historic Boyhoods They will tell you, a vagrant, a lazy fellow with a gift of talking, a ne'er-do-well with a little learning. David Malcolm His name was Joe Hopper, a ne'er-do-well whose children, by working at the mill, supported him in idleness. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills In some way the ne'er-do-well was connected in her mind with another train of thought that, until now, had had "the right of way" in her inner consciousness. How Janice Day Won "You are awfully good to be willing to listen to so long a tale of a ne'er-do-well," he returned. The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World He also reinforced it with ne'er-do-well words from Europe that did her no particular credit. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales The ne'er-do-well who cannot cook the luscious egg his hen has laid, may yet sit down and write a book that makes the big best sellers fade. Rippling Rhymes The ne'er-do-well blew, like seed before the wind, to distant places, but mankind at large stayed at home. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice The father was a ne'er-do-well and the mother an imbecile who has since died of tuberculosis. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell In his private affairs so easy-going that he began and ended a ne'er-do-well, in his official duties as a peace officer he was so exacting and painstaking that he ne'er did ill. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier But a certain ne'er-do-well Mountain, a noted striker and tosspot of the district, had mysteriously disappeared about that date, and had never since come within scope of Castle Barfield knowledge. Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray We are not accustomed to mysteries here, and the major is an upright man, and a regular churchgoer, and his brother was a ne'er-do-well, But we won't say anything against him now, poor man! The Carved Cupboard But when the great guns sounded, and the bugles rang, they came at once to their birthright, and many a ne'er-do-well made himself a patriot and hero forever. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 A scapegrace, a ne'er-do-well, an incorrigible, hopeless of himself, despaired of by others, he has "gone wrong and run wild." Charles Dickens as a Reader He was what might be called a ne'er-do-well. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings A gambler probably; a ne'er-do-well certainly; and one to break his mother's heart in the end. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story He's a chap named Hyson, the local ne'er-do-well, who was almost starving when Mr. Glenthorpe came to the district. The Shrieking Pit "Well, to tell you the truth he is a sort of ne'er-do-well," the merchant laughed. Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS Here was a man who, at forty, was generally regarded as a failure, a ne'er-do-well. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers His friends gave him up as hopeless, a ne'er-do-well; and Ledyard gave over the farce of trying to live according to other men's patterns. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward If it were not for her sister, she might find it in her to like, though she could never approve of the good-looking young ne'er-do-well. Where the Sun Swings North Crowds of Members flocked into the House from libraries and smoking-rooms when it was known that this ne'er-do-well was on his legs. Can You Forgive Her? I thought it was going to be a match, but they were both poor, and the girl suddenly married a young nobleman, a man I disliked very much, a wastrel and a ne'er-do-well. The Woman's Way A Siberian peasant by birth, immoral, filthy in person, untrained in mind, he had early received the nickname of Rasputin, which means "ne'er-do-well," on account of his habits. History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War But he said that he had news of their Jozef, who was not so badly off for a ne'er-do-well. The Prairie Wife The Orange Free State had been kicked outside the British line of empire, with a solatium in money, in the manner that an angry father bids adieu to a ne'er-do-well son. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. He wished to give some serviceable, and, if possible, permanent aid to the poor ne'er-do-well; but he did not wish to talk more than could be helped about his own wife. Can You Forgive Her? This the ne'er-do-well soon ran through, and finding himself in middle life, destitute of funds and friends, he consented for a trifling salary to superintend the education of his brother's children. Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers That she should have consented to marry the ne'er-do-well is a mystery; perhaps he was not without his redeeming virtues, after all. American Men of Action His mother, a hardworking laundress,* whom his ne'er-do-well father had scandalously deserted, had afterwards married an honest artisan who was madly in love with her. His Masterpiece The wild boy had come home—the scapegoat of many Middleville escapades had returned—the ne'er-do-well sought his father's house. The Day of the Beast The wastrel, the ne'er-do-well, who went mostly nobly to a fine end. The Ragged Edge "You told him, of course, that you had a ne'er-do-well brother in Australia, who might at any moment appear and disgrace the whole family?" Macleod of Dare A seedy, shabby ne'er-do-well of a song-writer maybe stopping the successful author in the midst of a tale to borrow a dollar. Twelve Men Argentina offers to-day a splendid opening for the best of England's sons, but she does not want the loafer nor the ne'er-do-well. Argentina from a British Point of View Every question is settled when some moth-eaten ne'er-do-well lets out what is known as a 'rebel yell.' Queed He was a drunken ne'er-do-well, but he was my man. A Man Four-Square I'm willing to support an idle, ne'er-do-well; but he sha'n't saddle himself with one of those theatrical creatures and bring scandal upon the family. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper Though the organist of the new church at Raxton, and custodian of the old deserted church on the cliffs, he was the local ne'er-do-well, drunkard, and scapegrace. Aylwin It was in anticipation of this that messengers had been scouring the neighbourhood in search of that young ne'er-do-well, Tom Tufton, the good Squire's unworthy son. Tom Tufton's Travels The last is the worst cut of all, for the battered, bloodless, sunken ne'er-do-well can remember only too vividly his own gallant youth, and the thought of what he was drives him crazed. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour And there is indeed little danger that such optimism will become weak and sentimental and popular, the refuge of every idler, the excuse of every ne'er-do-well. Robert Browning She took no money on Sunday, and this becoming known to her ne'er-do-well neighbours, they made a point of forgetting to come for milk on Saturday. Women of the Country One boy, named Ike Akley, was a ne'er-do-well, who had once set a barn on fire and burned up two cows. Young Hunters of the Lake Rachel foresaw ruin doubtfully staved off by eternal vigilance on her part and by nothing else—an instant's sleepiness, and they might be in the gutter and she the wife of a ne'er-do-well. The Price of Love The hero of the story, a handsome ne'er-do-well who has money and position to start the world with, encounters plenty of adventure in England and out of it, by land and sea. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities This son was, in truth, a great ne'er-do-well, and very shortly got murdered in the streets of his new capital by an offended husband. What I Remember, Volume 2 Through storm-cloud and eclipse must move Each Cause and Man, dear to the stars and Jove; Nor always can the wisest tell Deferred fulfillment from the hopeless knell— The struggler from the floundering ne'er-do-well. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War By which Abrahm Kantor, in smiting mother tongue, branded his offspring with attributes of apostate and ne'er-do-well, of idiot and thief. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 When the tills of the little shops are raided, or when the family ne'er-do-well levies on his women with more than usual brutality, they know, because they suffer, what principles are being put into practice. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) She married badly--a handsome, reckless ne'er-do-well, who led her a most wretched life. Wife in Name Only Here was a means of at once swelling the man-power of his country and ridding himself of a pestilent ne'er-do-well. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 I put him down as a scapegrace, for he had all the winning pleasant manner of a ne'er-do-well. My Brilliant Career I am glad that you should rebuke me, because I deserve to be rebuked as a ne'er-do-well and sinner as much as any one, or perhaps more. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Nick Whickson, too, the good-natured ne'er-do-well, who is in his own and everybody's way till he finds his natural vocation as an aid to a dealer in horses, is a capital sketch. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 I have never known a friendship between a rich man and a ne'er-do-well like myself which did not end in harm for the poorer man. Wife in Name Only I am running away from my husband, after liking a Swedish ne'er-do-well and expressing immoral opinions, just as in a romantic story. Main Street He became a ringleader of a gang that infested London; a thorough mendicant and ne'er-do-well; a pest to society. In Darkest England and the Way Out For this purpose he calls in the help of a brother, a ne'er-do-well, who has left his native country under a cloud. A Book of Remarkable Criminals "The aristocratic ne'er-do-well in Canada frequently finds his way into the ranks of the Royal North-West Mounted Police." Ballads of a Cheechako Born of a thoroughbred English race, Well proportioned and closely knit, Neat of figure and handsome face, Always ready and always fit, Hard and wiry of limb and thew, That was the ne'er-do-well Jim Carew. The Man from Snowy River He was a wanderer, somewhat of a ne'er-do-well, and to Thompson's consternation, after twenty years, he had turned up in Calcutta very much alive. The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles A weakling, a ne'er-do-well—he's spent all his money and hers too. Redemption and two other plays The response came in the sniffling snarl of the London ne'er-do-well, the unemployable rogue whose chiefest occupation seems to be to march in the ranks of The Unemployed on the occasion of its annual demonstrations. The Black Bag I am a ne'er-do-well, a debauchee, a tippler, a compendium of all the vices you care to mention. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking I have here one, who is the very root of retribution, the incarnation of all mischief, one who is a ne'er-do-well, a prince of malignant spirits in this family. Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books He looked entirely like a ne'er-do-well who plays a violin in the street, dressed in the most down-at-heel, sordid respectability. Twilight in Italy "It is excused in others, why not in me?"—the last cry of the ne'er-do-well. Roden's Corner Charles Eames was at the outset of his career a ne'er-do-well New Englander--a Yankee Jack-of-all-trades--kept at the front by an exceedingly clever wife. Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Charles Eames was at the outset of his career a ne'er-do-well New Englander—a Yankee Jack-of-all-trades—kept at the front by an exceedingly clever wife. Marse Henry (Volume 2) An Autobiography Now it happened that he had a brother who was not a bit like himself, but was a sort of ne'er-do-well, always hard-up and sponging on other people, and never working. Frenzied Fiction He seemed like an old ne'er-do-well in priests' black, and he talked loudly, almost to himself, as drunken people do. Twilight in Italy I also learn that Gopal's son-in-law has turned out a ne'er-do-well, and that his daughter refuses to go to her husband. Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore No matter how strong our affection for the ingratiating ne'er-do-well, there are certain charges against the poet which we cannot ignore. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years As we walked to the museum I caught glimpses of what Donald's past life had been, learning incidentally that his father was rich, but since Donald was sixteen he had been considered a ne'er-do-well. Memoirs of My Dead Life When a ne'er-do-well lands in Melbourne or Sydney without a penny he will probably buck-up and do something for himself. Children of the Bush George William Curtis calls Rip "the constant and unconscious satirist of American life," but surely Irving would have smiled at finding so purposeful a mission laid upon the stooping shoulders of his vagabond ne'er-do-well hero. Short Stories Old and New Kind, as men go, but a ne'er-do-well, a prodigal, a waster. Man Size In the darkness of night our plan came to seem like an atrocious outrage upon a guileless, defenceless ne'er-do-well. The Boss of Little Arcady The real journalist—as I know him—is a Bohemian; a font of cleverness running to waste; a reckless, tender-hearted, jolly, careless ne'er-do-well who works like a Trojan and plays like a child. Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation It is true that he does not go to mass, but that hurts no one; and there is many a ne'er-do-well in the village who never darkens the church door. By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic I have always been a ne'er-do-well, despised and scouted by a hard father and a villainous brother or two, and life with these good fellows here is, after all, to my mind. Stories by English Authors: England Shall a man who is needed by his family risk his life to save a ne'er-do-well? Problems of Conduct These thieving propensities made her perfect as a ne'er-do-well. The Fat and the Thin He acknowledged that he had been a ne'er-do-well. The Ne'er-Do-Well Her husband is dead, and her daughters are married away, and she has the great grief and trouble of a ne'er-do-well son. He Knew He Was Right They have said, 'Courteau is a loafer, a ne'er-do-well, and he permits another to win his wife away from him.' The Winds of Chance "Well, have you thought anything more of young ne'er-do-well?" Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War In other words, he was a do-nothing, a ne'er-do-well. Half a Rogue Mrs. Maxwell had changed her name several times, because she said that she did not want her divorced husband, a ne'er-do-well, to know of her whereabouts. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo No wonder some of his old club friends regarded him as a scapegrace and a ne'er-do-well. Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police A thorough-going ne'er-do-well in the upper classes has eminent advantages on his side in the battle which he fights against respectability. The Small House at Allington You choose your own life; you throw in your fortune with a ne'er-do-well, and then you come and reproach me! Martie, the Unconquered "I don't put much faith in him myself," said Mrs. Bradshaw, meaning nothing more by the phrase than that she considered Reuben a ne'er-do-well. The Emancipated She was full of indignation against want of steadiness, though not willing to direct her indignation against the right object—her ne'er-do-well darling. Ruth Somewhere in the background of his house dwelt his two ne'er-do-well sons; Tilly had accepted their presence uncomplainingly. Australia Felix What with hard work and babies and a ne'er-do-well husband, her life had not been an easy one, and Hannah seldom revisited her old home. Rilla of Ingleside He I am," answered the Prince; and she said, "What ne'er-do-well art thou, who comes to debauch the daughters of Kings? The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 Shapely calves and well-made legs denote the idle and the ne'er-do-well. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 He was a good many years my senior—and I've always understood that he was a bit of a ne'er-do-well in his younger days. The Hermit of Far End He might have been no more than a ne'er-do-well, perhaps, if cosmic forces had not opportunely provided him with an occupation which his contemporaries and posterity could regard as a high service to humanity. The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England His father, Thomas Lincoln, was a ne'er-do-well Kentucky carpenter, grossly illiterate, unable or unwilling to rise above the lowest level of existence in the pioneer settlements. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond All through the morning she went about the place scolding and storming at him for a drunken ne'er-do-well, while Gorseth himself lay comfortably snoring. The Great Hunger London could not think of a ne'er-do-well to equal him in the memory of its oldest gossips—and all the time with every penny, he was putting together this immense treasure—for her. The Sleuth of St. James's Square The other fellows at the shop had a definite foothold in life, while I was a waif, a ne'er-do-well, nearly two years in America with nothing to show for it. The Rise of David Levinsky Then there was Mr. Evringham's younger son, a regular roving ne'er-do-well. Jewel She might have married any one of the richest and steadiest young men of the country, but of course, in feminine perversity her heart was set on that ne'er-do-well, Paul des Roches. Animal Heroes In the event of "anything happening" to that ne'er-do-well nephew, he himself would be the heir; and he reflected not unfrequently that something very probably might happen to the nephew. The Prime Minister I like to think of him as poacher, as village ne'er-do-well, denounced by the local grammar-school master, preached at by the local J. P. of the period. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Of his two sons, one was a ne'er-do-well. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West Good God! you've given our fortune to that ne'er-do-well,—that dandy with morocco boots! Eugenie Grandet To get into the business of tavern-keeping, to manage the public balls, what a fine career for the marshal's baton of a ne'er-do-well! Sons of the Soil A ne'er-do-well was Harry—drank, knocked his wife about, they say. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow |
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