| 单词 | pettifogger |
| 例句 | For nearly three years now, I’ve been fascinated by the performance art of this blustering pettifogger. Column: A glimpse into the dystopian abyss of President DeSantis' America 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z “The noun pettifogger has two main senses: ‘A lawyer whose methods are petty, underhanded, or disreputable; shyster’ and ‘one given to quibbling over trifles.’ Iowa smiles upon Transhumanist candidate 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z The verb was actually formed from the noun "pettifogger", which was used in the 16th Century to describe those who would argue over minor details in a fee. Why is 'pettifogging' suddenly in the news? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z He hated Mr. Bonamy for a puritanical old pettifogger; but that was no reason why he should be rude to his daughter. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z "That a son of mine should lack the spirit to turn on these pettifoggers!" Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z He figured conspicuously as a pettifogger before the justice of the peace, but regarding it merely as a kind of preliminary practice, seldom made any charge for his services. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z "Tremble, pettifoggers, tremble," their glances seemed to say. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z A happy thought suggested itself—one worthy of the unscrupulous theological pettifogger that he is. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z This lawyer, Overend by name, was a sort of pettifogger, who laid himself out for poor men's work. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z He acquires the European vices without the virtues; loses his native modesty and self-respect, and develops too often into a contemptible pica-pleito, or pettifogger, instead of becoming an honest farmer. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z You ought to be ploughing with the boys in the field and attend to your sowing, but the fiend carries you to court or to some pettifogger. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z The struggle over tickets is a pettifogger’s dream: Were summonses mailed to the correct campaign official? City Room: The Day: John C. Liu's Poster Problem 2011-10-13T12:24:41Z But what about the hundreds of thousands of minds that have been deformed forever by the incapable pettifoggers who have pretended to form them? Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z The loss of his ten gulden and the blasphemy, as he calls it, grieve him, so that he is having an appeal drawn up by some pettifogger here to present to the archbishop of Lemberg. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z He did not know any law, except what Bates, Turtle, and other kindred pettifoggers had taught him—and when he shot at a case, he shot in the dark. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z "I leave grocers and pettifoggers to wage war with the tongue," answered the knight haughtily. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z But Mr. Truby, about whom there was nothing of the pettifogger, was in no hurry to advise his client to rush to extremities. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z My opponent was what was known in the States as a pettifogger. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z “There’s something queer about all this,” soliloquised the pettifogger, when left alone in his office. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z "Here," cried a backwoods pettifogger, "I'm for Philista Filkins; am always on hand at the tap of the drum, like a thousand of brick." The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z He became a low pettifogger, and quickly grew notorious throughout the country as legal adviser in all cases of roguery. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 But in this instance, he was concerned in the purpose of cheating a pettifogger, whose very occupation it was to cheat every poor litigant that came in his way. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 But Domitian was a pettifogger as well as a plunderer; he would fleece or assassinate his victims under forms of law. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Paltry pettifogger, this is the second time that through your d——d bungling I have been brought to disgrace. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I This man was a character; a pure specimen of a live western pettifogger. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z But Tell was a shrewd pettifogger, and his was a different calibre of mind from Judson's. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas He foreclosed mortgages with pitiless promptitude, and his adroit knowledge of the law, approaching if not reaching, that of an unscrupulous pettifogger, enabled him to get the upper hand in every transaction. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times The perky clerks and smirking pettifoggers move apart on tiptoe, those to their respective stations, these to their privileged seats facing the high dais. Dr. Sevier To invoke the Enlistment Act against us, is a mean pettifogger's trick. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Humanity will have the best against such pettifoggers as you. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Who blindly take the book display'd By pettifoggers in the trade. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance I wish woman to have her voice there among the pettifoggers. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Describing the pettifogger, Ward says, "He always talks with as great assurance as if he understood what he pretends to know; and always wears a band, in which lies his gravity and wisdom." A Book About Lawyers I like not this black-leg manner of proceeding: yet it augurs thou wilt be no pettifogger. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle “I did, but egad! he behaved so like an attorney the first day and so like a 256 pettifogger the second that I wouldn’t take the wand to light my fire with.” A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 When he is ill affected, however, he represents pettifoggers, cunning vile persons, thieves, messengers, footmen, and servants, etc. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy Now, which was the best pedigree, that of the son of the pastry-cook, or that of the son of the pettifogger? The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' In his 'character of a pettifogger' the author of 'The London Spy' observes—"His learning is commonly as little as his honesty, and his conscience much larger than his green bag." A Book About Lawyers That precaution later he omitted, and paid the penalty of dealing in good faith with crowned and coroneted pettifoggers. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography A more respectable-looking individual was never seen; he really looked what he was, a gentleman of the law—there was nothing of the pettifogger about him. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest Estorgoʼs neighbours, instigated by native legal pettifoggers in Manila, raised endless lawsuits against him; his means were exhausted, and apparatus being wanted to work the mines, he had to abandon them. The Philippine Islands A curse upon every pettifogger in the world! Debts of Honor They will cry That I’m a pettifogger, fortune-hunter, A beggar.—And besides it were not well To leave her in distress. The Comedies of Terence In one case submitted to arbitration, a pettifogger of bad repute by the name of Baldwin secured an award palpably unjust. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. According to my view, pettifogger is neither more nor less than pettifolker, i. e. one whose practice lies among the petty folk, small tradesmen, day-labourers, and such like. Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Encisco, who was a pettifogger of the most pronounced type, would have dealt harshly with him, but there was nothing to do after all. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure “Pray, who mentioned money, Mr. Meiklewham?” said her ladyship.—“That wretched old pettifogger,” she added in a whisper to Tyrrel, “thinks of nothing else but the filthy pelf.” St. Ronan's Well “Ready, ready, this is he,” said a litigious pettifogger, for every one knew the name of the other, but would not acknowledge his own. The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell "I never said you were a pettifogger, or a scoundrel; but I did say you were little Else." The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings He had none of the arts of the pettifogger. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Then the habits of unprincipled advocates in law courts are naturalized in Senates, and pettifoggers wrangle there, when the fate of the nation and the lives of millions are at stake. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry He had been trained in the school of the French Revolution—which was not carried out by unimaginative pettifoggers. Post-Prandial Philosophy Niger, accompanied by his friends or his 'company,' betook himself to some limb of the law, possibly a pettifogger, certainly a pauper who braved a deadly climate for uncertain lucre. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative He had long been reading law in his curious, spasmodically concentrated way, and he had practised a little as a "pettifogger," that is, an unlicensed practitioner in the inferior courts. Abraham Lincoln Sturtivant, one of their principal engravers, was thought to be implicated, and even one of their pettifoggers was on the list of the proscribed. Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. When France was in the extremity of revolutionary agony, she was governed by an assembly of provincial pettifoggers, and Robespierre, Marat, and Couthon ruled in the place of Mirabeau, Vergniaud, and Carnot. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Thinking it well beneath me to measure words with this knavish pettifogger, I looked beyond him and spoke to his master. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady But how idle, even to his mind, desirous as he must have been of every species of defence, were all the vainglorious mouthings of the pettifogger! Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia It has been estimated that we have in this country, at the present time, thirty thousand lawyers, without including pettifoggers. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. In returning to my boarding-house I was met by the blackleg pettifogger, who treated me with great coldness. Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. She may get some briefless pettifogger to appear for her; a man set up for you to knock down. Ishmael Or, In the Depths So it took another turn of the audacity screw to tune me up for the battle royal with Gilbert Stair and the pettifogger, Owen Pengarvin. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady This British Constitution has not been struck out at an heat by a set of presumptuous men, like the Assembly of pettifoggers run mad in Paris. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) He perhaps mistakes me for what you call a—a pettifogger, is it not? A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today Are you, sir, to be bothered by this pettifogger? Sevenoaks The tetrarch sank to rise a pettifogger, a spendthrift, ruined by his own follies. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) There was no safety for Margery whilst this plotting pettifogger was at large, and I stepped to the door and called the sentry. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady Where do we find the minutes that assigned these starving wretches to some vile pettifogger, to be fleeced by impositions, and mockery of justice, in the seigneural courts? Political Pamphlets A low pettifogger, with the soul of a bullock. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 The profits of agitating pettifoggers would have materially lessened in a district where he acted as a magistrate; and duels would have been nipped in the bud at his regimental mess. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 The courts of law would never be so crowded with petty, vexatious, and disgraceful suits were it not for the herds of pettifoggers. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete There was another stir in the backgrounding group and the pettifogger edged his way into the circle, keeping well out of hand-reach of me. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady The programme over, somebody called for Squire Town, a local pettifogger, who flung his soul and body into every cause. Darrel of the Blessed Isles From judge to jury, from the highest practitioner to the lowest pettifogger, there soon came to be but one impression. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 But, what of the hundreds of thousands of minds that have been deformed for ever by the incapable pettifoggers who have pretended to form them! Nicholas Nickleby Petty courts were instituted to take cognizance of petty offences, pettifoggers began to abound, and the community was soon set together by the ears. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Why, listen to this fellow Bold, and that other low pettifogger, Finney;—and get up this petition too. The Warden Nay, rather a lawyer, or some pettifogger he doth seem. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 The pettifogger must give place to the jurist. The Call of the Twentieth Century An Address to Young Men The lawyers are few; the pettifoggers are many. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Who that surveyed thee, when that day Thou deemed that future glory ray Would here be ever bright; Feared that, ere long, all France thy grave From pettifoggers vain would crave Beneath that column's height? Poems There we saw some pettifoggers and catchpoles, rogues that will hang their father for a groat. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 You seem to think you are talking to some other pettifogger. The Virginians The youth, before setting up for a gentleman, had been an attorney's apprentice, and was an arrant pettifogger in money matters. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography The affectation of order in the statement of facts had all the lucid method of an adroit pettifogger. Coningsby The pettifogger of the West simply expanded, like its sunflower, in the fierce white light around the chair, and was the lion, among the lesser creatures. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form Go to the bar, go take the pettifoggers. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 In the Common Pleas an ordinary pettifogger would often take a case away from him. Cambridge Sketches In this sketch Goldsmith undoubtedly shadows forth his annoyances as traveling tutor to this concrete young gentleman, compounded of the pawnbroker, the pettifogger, and the West Indian heir, with an overlaying of the city miser. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography In the first place, the pettifogger made a large haul for his services. Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life The liberties of the emigrants themselves were not specifically enlarged, but they were at least emancipated from the paternal solicitude of the stingy and self-complacent pettifogger who graced the English throne. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 A low pettifogger, with the soul of a bullock! Malcolm He is always bringing writs of error, like a pettifogger, and reversing of judgments, though the case be never so plain. Character Writings of the 17th Century Mistress, take heed you speak nothing that will bear action, for here comes Master Churms the pettifogger. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 The pettifogger threatened that Lady Scatterbrain would run in debt, which Lord Scatterbrain must discharge. Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life Mourn, mourn, pettifoggers, ye venal crew, And you, minor poets, woe, woe is to you! Apocolocyntosis The justice had been a pettifogger, and was a sycophant to a nobleman in the neighbourhood, who had a post at court. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves The surgeons are atomies and pettifoggers, who kill more than they cure. Character Writings of the 17th Century A pettifogger's skull, however, will serve the turn, provided that pettifogger has been bitten with an insane itch for scribbling about things so infinitely above his capacity as the fine arts. Love Me Little, Love Me Long There were six jurists, and only seven pettifoggers. A Woman-Hater One of them when he saw the pettifoggers putting their heads together, and lamenting their sad lot, up comes he and says: "Did not I tell you the Saturnalia could not last for ever?" Apocolocyntosis They have put their army under such a variety of principles of duty, that it is more likely to breed litigants, pettifoggers, and mutineers, than soldiers. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke But mark the superiority of British law, and see how the black pettifogger was defeated. George Cruikshank Such politicians are generally worse than the worst of the laity, more merciless than any ruffian that can be found in camps, more dishonest than any pettifogger who haunts the tribunals. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 Thine own fate—that of thy house—that of thousands—that of Britain herself, are at this moment in the scales; and you are only occupied about the safety of a poor insignificant pettifogger!' Redgauntlet Agatho and a few pettifoggers were weeping for grief, and for once in a way they meant it. Apocolocyntosis To the young lady of to-day, belike, she will seem accordingly ridiculous—seem poor-spirited, and a pettifogger. Yet Again “He is a pettifogger, and surely must know that there is such a thing as feloniously breaking into a man’s house.” The Pioneers What I say is that the Treaty of Union, construed, not with the subtlety of a pettifogger, but according to the spirit, binds us to pass this bill or some similar bill. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Thou, as thy glorious self hath justly said, From earliest youth, wast pettifogger bred, And, raised to power by fortune's fickle will, Art head and heart a pettifogger still. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 He is akin to the street boy in his habits, and to the pettifogger by fate. Colonel Chabert This undiscriminating enlistment of proselytes has gone so far that rebels and criminals of China, pettifoggers and mischief-makers, and such like, take refuge in the profession of Christianity, and covered by this position, create disorder. New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening If their first application had been made to some obscure pettifogger or needy gambler, we should be warranted in believing that the Penne to whom their second application was made was George. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 "He owed me for the councillor, the pettifogger!" Twenty Years After He was constantly surrounded on such occasions by buffoons selected, for the most part, from among the vilest pettifoggers who practiced before him. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 |
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