| 单词 | old-maidish |
| 例句 | They were the rampart, behind which the half-dozen querulous, rather old-maidish specialists measured skulls, gathered fragments of pottery, took rubbings of inscriptions, and collected folk-lore. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Indeed, she was as prim and “old-maidish” as any spinster lady possibly could be. The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did 2012-02-03T03:00:26.090Z The Pavilion of George the Fourth was the last word in gorgeousness of his time, but it wears an old-maidish appearance of dowdiness in midst of the Brighton of the twentieth century. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z In his small personal affairs he shows a certain old-maidish tidiness and the prudence of an experienced old bachelor, who manages his little pleasures without scandal. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z I want them to know her, and yet I feel how difficult it is to describe her—or rather him, though I shall continue to say her—without writing in a goody-goody or old-maidish style. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Was I, in fact, becoming fanciful and old-maidish—ready to find error in shadows, and crimes in everything? Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z It has been in no busy, old-maidish, envious spirit that I have watched these affairs. Friends I Have Made 2011-02-25T03:01:14.587Z Then little old-maidish Miss Pond, sentimental little Miss Pond, who had befriended Sally by telling her all she knew of the child’s parentage, came hurrying nervously into the tent. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z If so, she would never smile or scoff again at her quaint, old-maidish ways; for the lover might have died, been killed in some wicked duel. A Blot on the Scutcheon From his grave-side she had been taken by an old-maidish aunt to her institution, where for three years she had gazed with yearning through a barred window on the forbidden street. The Undying Past Then there's something old-maidish about her, something sharp and prudish that I don't quite fancy. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers So she ran on for a while, without sparing herself or her companions in her jokes--yet without the least rudeness or old-maidish bitterness in her talk. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. The chivalrous something in Anthony welled up more strongly than ever; the precise, rather old-maidish quality of his expression vanished altogether—and for the very first time Mary almost liked him. In And Out "Oh, Sue," she cried, "that's the first old-maidish thing I ever heard you say!" Shadows of Flames A Novel Bella shuddered at the words, and Sonnenkamp exclaimed,— "O Bella! noble soul, alone great among women, cast away all these European casuistries; with a single step put this whole, old-maidish Europe behind you!" Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine She clasped her hands together with an agitated old-maidish gesture. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers It is no excuse to say that propriety is old-maidish, and that men like smart women, or that no harm is intended by their flirtations. Maids Wives and Bachelors Since then she has lived in London, where she acts as head of the "Réveil International des Femmes," an organisation possessing a journal and preaching an exceedingly confused and old-maidish form of female emancipation. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory Any one would with that old fogy, old man Harrison, worrying you to death with his old-maidish ways. The Rosie World “Now, then,” said Nares, who had watched the breaking out of his signal with the old-maidish particularity of an American sailor, “out with those handspikes, and let’s see what water there is in the lagoon.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) Kitty: Perhaps, with your old-maidish ideas, you would like to see me taking my walks abroad with a train as long as my Court frock! The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly I thought he was being rather old-maidish then, but I'm not sure now that Elsden's point of view hasn't got something behind it. Changing Winds A Novel Miss Marjoribanks is at least ten years——" "Oh, stuff!—keep your old-maidish memory to yourself, Molly; who cares for a dozen years or so? The Doctor's Family I shouldn't have become an old-maidish "young lady from the castle," and you wouldn't have become.... The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays Since her engagement, Tims's old-maidish bringing up seemed to be bearing fruit for the first time. The Invader A Novel She had been a trifle old-maidish in her youth. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 On other matters he was more compliant—humoring her old-maidish fancies in a most docile and conciliating manner. A Book About Lawyers When her husband died, Percy married and Clifford went to school, and Lady Kellynch was left alone in her big house in South Kensington, she became again what I call old-maidish. Bird of Paradise Laughing at her old-maidish precautions, they let her have her way. The Huntress "No-a!" she shrilled—for Miss Coe answered questions with an old-maidish scream, as if the news she was giving must be a great surprise both to you and her. The House with the Green Shutters A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery. '6th. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The other two, however, one a mere lad, the other an old-maidish man of 50, complained bitterly of the food and other things. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship Spiteful people said, that Lily was beginning to look old-maidish, but I never saw it in her calm face. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852 And, lowering her voice, she turned her dull grey eyes, swimming with motherly tears, towards the corner sofa where the pale, fretful, old-maidish Jane lay sleeping. Agatha's Husband A Novel She broke off with a quick, old-maidish colour. The Lovely Lady For that is always associated with lust or incontinence; and Shaw's ideals are strict, hygienic, and even, one might say, old-maidish. George Bernard Shaw Michael laughed suddenly as he recalled the mild old-maidish face. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron That the good Lord who looks after the fathers of willful, old-maidish daughters will see to that. Green Valley She never looked more wasted and old-maidish than when thus affirming her wifely rights. Romance "Mr. Reed, you certainly are the most old-maidish man I ever saw in my life." Trifles for the Christmas Holidays I should not like to be called an old maid, but I confess to an old-maidish care for cleanliness. The Quest of the Simple Life Yet here we two were; and he might have been a high-spirited and most beautiful little boy picnicking with a sedate and old-maidish little girl. A Woman Named Smith And this was the prim old-maidish governess they had been expecting! this fresh, blooming, lovely looking girl! Lewie Or, The Bended Twig He's an old-maidish sort of fellow, and is easily frightened. The Colossus A Novel The room did appear old-maidish, as Mademoiselle Milan stood looking in. Trifles for the Christmas Holidays This is just another of your motherly, old-maidish ways; dressing dolls for poor children, making bonnets, and knitting socks for all the little dirty babies in the neighborhood. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader How utterly different it was from their old-maidish expectations! The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales But even at thirty-five—she had now reached that age, nay, passed it—she was not what you would call "old-maidish." The Laurel Bush What licks me," said I, "is the difference between this and the old-maidish tidiness of his other papers. Jaffery His appearance is effeminate, his manner finicky and old-maidish to a degree. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) There was nothing old-maidish about Miss Mattie but the tale of her years. Red Saunders His Adventures West & East Ruskin, with all the April showers of his rhetoric, discredited himself as an authoritative thinker when he screamed his old-maidish diatribes against that pioneer of modern romantic communication, the railroad. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays She'd become quite attached to me, and I to her, for all she was such an old-maidish thing; but I'd got to thinking an old maid wasn't such a very bad thing, after all. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 She was so small and frail, there was something so pathetic in her old-maidish air, that Philip was touched. Of Human Bondage She was always scrupulously neat, being quite old-maidish. The Burial of the Guns There's nothing old-maidish about you; not even age yet; a girl of twenty-six to be calling herself that! it's perfectly absurd. Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands" Yet to come was the disastrous marriage of intelligent Lady Laura Standish to the wealthy but old-maidish Robert Kennedy in Phineas Finn and its sequel. Nina Balatka And it would be very good for her, it would stir her up to take a pupil; it was just her old-maidish ways—it had startled her a bit at first. The History of David Grieve This may sound old-maidish, but it is a trick I learnt from Swiss climbers and I am very thankful. Ski-running I have done my duty, and I am sure you will not think that I am actuated by old-maidish scruples, and have made a bugbear for myself. The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier Old Mrs. Ash, the housekeeper, always declares her mistress came home even more old-maidish in her ways than she went away, and that she quarrelled with the poor admiral from morning till night. Peter's Mother Arthur Cecil had a delightful nature, with a marked but not unpleasant "old-maidish" element in it. Here, There and Everywhere The furniture of it was very modern compared with the house, but not much of it was younger than the last James, or Queen Anne, and it had all a stately old-maidish look. Warlock o' Glenwarlock The eldest Miss Vernon is plain, and a little old-maidish but I found her afterwards sensible, well read, and well bred but not quite immediately did she appear so, as you will soon see. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 A gentle, old-maidish person and a sweet young girl of seventeen sat right in front of us that night at the Mannheim opera. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 02 His broad shoulders and hearty laughter were oddly out of place among our faded, old-maidish furnishings. Further Chronicles of Avonlea So it came about that they all walked home together very cheerfully, though Gillian was still much vexed under the surface at Kalliope's old-maidish particularity. Beechcroft at Rockstone She sat wondering whether she herself was prim and old-maidish, or whether she was right in feeling it a duty to expostulate and deliver her testimony. Magnum Bonum Ruskin, the pure lover of things noble and beautiful, but shadowed by a prim perversity, an old-maidish delicacy, a petulant despair. The Altar Fire Sara might, after a fitting period of the huff, have overlooked the rest; but the "old-maidish" she could not forgive. Australia Felix Yet the owners were not what is called old-maidish; that is to say, they were not superstitious worshippers of order and neatness. Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott They soon settled in the old-maidish way of partridges, and began to call upon each other. The Island Pharisees For she had lived alone so long that she had grown old-maidish, and she was feeling vexed with him for having dirtied the carpet with his muddy boots. Novel Notes "Fat him up and slaughter him," Mr. Scogan pronounced, with a delicate old-maidish precision of utterance. Crome Yellow Their manager, the old-maidish, thin man, who so prudishly didn’t even like to speak about the impure Jacobus, gave me the correct commercial view of the position. 'Twixt Land and Sea "Now, then," said Nares, who had watched the breaking out of his signal with the old-maidish particularity of an American sailor, "out with those handspikes, and let's see what water there is in the lagoon." The Wrecker The old-maidish head clerk treated me with distant punctiliousness and, as it were, gathered his skirts round him for fear of contamination. 'Twixt Land and Sea |
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