| 单词 | pinchbeck |
| 例句 | With rough and homely fist he had copied this pinchbeck fervour. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z There was Robert--haggard and unkempt--still in the pinchbeck uniform, torn and bespattered now, with a peasant's frieze-coat thrown over it--a ridiculous disguise. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z What a snake in the grass, with his clever military plan and pinchbeck enthusiasm! My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z But for love of the dear old Karnak, I must show up this pinchbeck Isabel; this dirty, disorderly floating prison, where no kind care alleviated one's miseries, and no suitable diet helped one's recovery. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z The public has in turn learned to expect the sudden start, the swift pace, the placarded climax, the clever paradox, the crisp repartee, the pinchbeck style, the bared realism, the concluding click. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Years of successive revolutions had been followed by the military intervention of France, and the creation, under the protection of the French army, of a pinchbeck "empire," with the Archduke Maximilian of Austria as Emperor. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z If you fill the coffer with gold, nobody will want, and there will be no room for, pinchbeck. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Except for the lady of the house, who has gone to the play, as usual without the knowledge of her father-in-law, I find the whole family assembled round the pinchbeck samovar. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z I recollect that Sile Bates owned a pinchbeck watch, and Squire Longbow was the proprietor of a "bull's-eye," and they were both wonders. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z From the era of plaster to the era of pinchbeck, Blake kept straight ahead of the times. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z The works of Du Bartas are stuffed full with these strained and fantastic similes, his surface sparkles with the glitter of tinsel and pinchbeck. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z "I hope you observed how that pinchbeck countess was prepared to tread in her footsteps," said Seigburg. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z Everything he has on is whole, and he wears a chain—perhaps it is pinchbeck? Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z A few snuffy-looking old counts, with brown wigs and unshaven chins,—a stray Government clerk with a pinchbeck chain and a weak moustache, couldn't be my rivals. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z It is sufficient to have visited Berlin, the capital city of pinchbeck, of the gilded decorations of the parvenu, to form an idea of what our towns would have become. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Upon these pinchbeck creeds their souls must surely starve, must slowly shrink to desiccated imps. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Even the weather seemed to fight for his pinchbeck empire; it was continuously dry, and for the season in Northern France extraordinarily clear. The Book of Susan A Novel Yet he knew well that she was pinchbeck compared with Sophy. Shadows of Flames A Novel There was a pinchbeck crown and scepter hung below a small sword with guard of cut steel. Carnival But in the opinion of the speaker these were pinchbeck heroics. Ewing\\'s Lady In his Life of Cowper that great writer somewhat rashly says, "The age of Pope was the golden age of poets—but it was the pinchbeck age of poetry." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 The first was not made of gold, but this one is mere pinchbeck. Waldfried A Novel And yet it was to please and fascinate these same pinchbeck sportsmen that these girls were then there. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands Is it nothing to take a mirage for a landscape, nothing to be hoodwinked of your confidence, to see high noon dissolve into obscurest night, a diamond into pinchbeck? Eden An Episode His verse is to the greatest poetry what melodrama is to tragedy, what plaster is to marble, what pinchbeck is to gold. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) We don't know whether 'tis real gold and precious stones, or only glass and pinchbeck. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine They both broke into happy laughter and he toyed innocently with one of her pinchbeck ear-rings. John March, Southerner I suppose you have had the experience, when someone for whom you have no esteem, imposes his pinchbeck personality upon you. Aliens He has a sort of pinchbeck watch; ditto, ring; ditto, eyeglass. Shirley It is so fine, this emblem of divine suffering, that it obscures its tawdry surroundings, its pinchbeck tabernacle, gilding and red paint. The Spanish Jade Give me an old set of Blackwood in the Kit North days, and I can easily forego your pinchbeck stories and propagandist novels of to-day. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Gold is gold, and pinchbeck is pinchbeck, in character as in metal. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Then some cheap hosiery had to be purchased—more collars of the bearing-rein type, some stiff shirts, made-up white ties, pinchbeck studs and cufflinks. Anthony Lyveden Mabel had been his ideal of women, his fair and peerless queen, and it pained him—as it has pained unsuccessful lovers before—to think that she could contentedly accept pinchbeck for gold. The Giant's Robe But there was nothing pinchbeck or tawdry about them. Lorimer of the Northwest On his confirmation day, George received a great pinchbeck watch from his godfather, the old iron monger's shopman, the richest of his godfathers. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Not many years ago no really refined gentlewoman would have worn pinchbeck. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) He would expose the fraud then and there, and defy the impudent usurper; he would warn every one against this spurious pinchbeck imitation of himself. Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers “Well, I took it for fine gold, and it turned out to be pinchbeck,” saith she. Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Were there any petitions from the people sent up to this self-constituted legislature of pinchbeck ministers, praying to have hell abolished, and "hades" inserted? Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 Jack started so that the pinchbeck watch had a narrow escape of falling from the counter, and the man who had the care of the apprentices at Mr Henderson's exclaimed,— 'Take care, you clumsy lout. Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century This feeling ran through the whole of society, and pinchbeck was considered as at once despicable and disreputable. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) As he whispered to Tom, when he had the chance, it reminded him of the pickpocket who had stolen a watch, complaining of being hardly used because the article turned out to be pinchbeck! Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek There were stalls also for the sale of patriotic songs, cockades, tricolour ribands, purses, pinchbeck watch-chains and all sorts of cheap gewgaws. The Gods are Athirst But pinchbeck eccentricity—Brummagem originalities—gave to her views of the poverty of poor human nature leading her to a depression not un-tinged with contempt. The Folly Of Eustace 1896 He had known all the while, that in exchange for the solid gold of her young heart, he was offering her the veriest pinchbeck. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Every part of social and domestic life is dedicated to the apotheosis of pinchbeck. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) He felt that by insisting on exchanging the pure gold of her earnest affection for the pinchbeck of his passing fancy, she was making a rogue of him. Potts's Painless Cure 1898 The national unity we have paid so dearly for will turn out a pinchbeck counterfeit, without that sympathy of interests and ideas, that unity of the people, which can spring only from homogeneousness of institutions. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays It happened, whether by accident or design, that the one tray was substituted for the other, the pinchbeck imitations being left in the jeweller's safe and the real thing carried away by the commercial traveller. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile After all, her affection for you seems to have been a very pinchbeck affair, Chloe, if she could calmly stand by and see you suffer for her wickedness. Afterwards Another bit of pinchbeck is the visiting-list—the cards of invitation stuck against the drawing-room glass—with the grandest names and largest fortunes put forward, irrespective of dates or tenses. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Miss Shields had not studied Mr. Matthew Arnold, and was mercifully unaware that not to detect the "pinchbeck" in the Lays is the sign of a grovelling nature. The Mark Of Cain Indeed, they seemed to him to be doing something towards the removal of his doubts concerning Catie's pinchbeck chain. The Brentons Just glance round at the cave and the company, all made of gold, and look at me—gold too, if not pinchbeck, but I’m not a good-enough judge of metals to tell which. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West But the pinchbeck sobriety of later times was unable to tolerate her freedom. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I It is too good an occasion for the airing of pinchbeck to be disregarded, and, consequently, for the most part is turned to this practical account. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) There are pinchbeck imitations which are neither sacred nor helpful. The Family and it's Members It was a pinchbeck world, of pretence and pull,—that world that lies drowned out there. The Master-Knot of Human Fate All counterfeit of 41 any kind as little becomes the buildings of the farmer, as the gilded pinchbeck watch would fit the finished attire of a gentleman. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings The most valuable of watches may be obtained here; also the most genuine pinchbeck timepieces. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City No good will be done till we get back some of our fine old horror of pinchbeck, and once more insist on truth as the foundation of our national life. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) He must not give you pewter for silver, or pinchbeck for gold, or mica for diamond. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 You know the genuine from the spurious, gold from pinchbeck, that's the rub. The Last Harvest Hadrian's superficial taste was not offended by the gimcrack quality of the new god; and Antinous was saved from being a merely pinchbeck saint by his own charming personality. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The poverty of the play faded out; he became almost unaware of the pinchbeck and the fustian of Patullo's invention and its insufferable mixture with the fabric of which every thread was precious beyond imagination. Hilda A Story of Calcutta We are in the humor to rehabilitate all things, and pinchbeck has now its turn with the rest. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Spartan mothers were theatrical and pinchbeck compared to these women. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II The Captain endeavoured to hold up his head, and to swagger, and to assume an air of pinchbeck respectability. An Eye for an Eye She is a little jewel, and it will be a sin if she is marred in the cutting and polishing, or if she is set in tawdry French pinchbeck, instead of fine, strong, sterling gold. Records of a Girlhood For other times other Philistines, and Ekron we have always with us, ready, as it was once said, “to bestow its freedom in pinchbeck boxes” on its elect. Matthew Arnold Whether the fashion will be suited to the material, or to the other parts of the dress, is quite a secondary consideration, it being of the essence of pinchbeck to despise both fitness and harmony. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) From her stomacher, to which it was attached by a multitude of glittering steel chains, depended an immense turnip-shaped watch, in a pinchbeck case. Jack Sheppard A Romance Then he looked at the wagon again, and at a pinchbeck watch he carried. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 When she was good, she was as good as gold, but when she was naughty, she was as naughty as pinchbeck. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892 In the tottering statue of the Church some true metal might be found between the pinchbeck at the summit and the clay of the foundation. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots There is a large amount of pinchbeck in the appearance of social influence, much cultivated by women of a certain activity of mind, and with more definite aims than all women have. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) We say “Dutch Gold” for pinchbeck, “Dutch Myrtle” for a weed. A Wanderer in Holland Were there any petitions from the people sent up to this self-constituted legislature of pinchbeck ministers, praying to have hell abolished, and “hades” inserted? Peck's Compendium of Fun The other day, when her dear Mamma was away for the morning, it happened to be one of her pinchbeck times. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892 The hand that can bend Ulysses' bow is certainly not here; and this pinchbeck Montesquieu can best be left in the obscurity into which he has fallen. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham They accept the thinnest gilt, the poorest pinchbeck, for gold. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) As luck would have it, there came a schoolmate of ours, the son of the city physician, who kept bragging of not even a silver, but of a pinchbeck watch his grandmother had given him. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 It was the difference between the theatre by gas-light and the theatre by day-light: the gold was pinchbeck, the gems were glass, the flowers were cambric and colored paper, the goblets were gilded pasteboard. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 In the hands of a pinchbeck Anatole France, how unendurable the review conceived as a causerie would become! The Art of Letters Yet thy tongue, I affirm, without giving an inch back, Outdates the sham jewels, rouge, mirror and pinchbeck. Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 We saw the elder Corsican, And Clotho muttered as she span, While crowned lackeys bore the train, Of the pinchbeck Charlemagne: 'Sister, stint not length of thread! The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell His pathos never makes you wince: you can always read his works aloud, the deadly and unfailing test of anything flat or pinchbeck in literature. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Antonyms: paste, strass, gewgaw, gimcrack, tinsel, pinchbeck, gaud, bauble, foil stone. Putnam's Word Book He wondered whether she had struck down from her pinchbeck sentimentality into something that rang solid in the depths of her nature. The Philanderers There is pinchbeck with the gold, but the shining true metal is there. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities But a mere imitation of the peasant statement of the heroic, such as Lady Gregory seems to aim at giving us in these sentences, is as pinchbeck and unreal as Macpherson's Ossian. Old and New Masters A paste pin in a faded cravat, and a jaunty cane with a pinchbeck top, betrayed that he was still somewhat of a beau. In the Days of My Youth It is neither gold, nor silver, nor honest copper, but a vile, worthless pinchbeck. Paul Faber, Surgeon I see, by the Gazette, that Lord Cowper's pinchbeck principality is allowed. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II With Fudge to feed the Hungry Bum She plays the Girl Philanthropist — Each pinchbeck, boy Millenium She swings, a Bangle, at her wrist — Blithe Parrot and Pert Egoist, You threaten her with Night and Sorrow? Hermione's Group of Thinkers The Russian Countess gave talks on the prisons of Siberia, wearing the headdress and pinchbeck ornaments of a Slav bride; the Aesthete, in his white cassock, gave readings on obscure questions of art and ethics. The Octopus : A story of California I will buy, buy, buy! deference, respect, esteem, worship—every pinchbeck grace of life the market of a trivial world can furnish forth. The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories What are called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally of pinchbeck. Les Misérables Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness. The Conquest of Fear The English lady was pinchbeck by contrast with all about her. In the Valley Everything in it seemed to him as pinchbeck as the passion itself. Sir George Tressady — Volume II We of the North poke fun at the South for its fondness of titles—a fondness for titles pure and simple, regardless of whether they are genuine or pinchbeck. The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories How could he have supposed that the new heaven upon earth of his dreams would ever be constructed out of such pinchbeck materials? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 They have their own ideality and a gaudy pinchbeck honor. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene The watches are worthless, the diamonds and other jewels are paste, and the gold is pinchbeck or Dutch metal. The Secrets of the Great City In this edition Dryden's pinchbeck epigram so often quoted, first appeared— Three poets in three distant ages born, &c. Milton The fat person, the small eyes, the immense double chin, and the chubby fingers covered with pinchbeck rings, were unmistakable. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee Crime as it exists is an enormous evil, and it costs us enormously; and cheap and pinchbeck methods will never rid us of it. The Subterranean Brotherhood There are some people who are born with what we call, for want of a better name, a pinchbeck air. Manners and Social Usages How long was it since he had heard that those pearls were artificial,—that those golden locks were only pinchbeck? The Virginians Otherwise, be his watch large or small, gold, silver, or pinchbeck, all this is indifferent, so long as it be a reliable timekeeper. Moral Philosophy One was a portly and plainly clad old countryman, with a prominent nose, a double chin, and fat hands decorated with pinchbeck rings. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee None of the pinchbeck pedigrees and ormolu titles of the continent. Endymion She had wit enough to know that; but then she had wit enough also to feel that she herself was but a pinchbeck lady. The Eustace Diamonds This was the best store we had come across yet; it had everything in it, in small quantities, from anvils and drygoods all the way down to fish and pinchbeck jewelry. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6. A tempting array of stuffs and ribbons, pencils, pinchbeck jewels and thimbles, scissors and knives, immediately became visible; with many other things which it is not necessary for us to specify. The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier The large, prominent nose, the cunning eyes, the double chin, the fat person, and the chubby hands covered with pinchbeck rings, were still fresh in my memory. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee Plated buckles were cast in pinchbeck, with a pattern on the surface. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) Take back your scissors with the pinchbeck chain. The Love-Tiff It was a sketch of unpleasant little minds, avid and curious on somewhat exotic subjects, little minds, awake to rather common claptrap and gossipy pinchbeck interests. The Head of the House of Coombe And the young lady tore the pinchbeck jewel from her neck. The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier In their minds, the pope, with his lady of Babylon, his college of cardinals, and all his community of pinchbeck saints, holds a sort of second head-quarters of his own at Oxford. Castle Richmond Buckles were made of pinchbeck, an alloy of four parts of copper and one part of zinc, invented by Christopher Pinchbeck, a London watchmaker of the eighteenth century. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) But it was only a pinchbeck thing, an imitation, a bauble, an empty show. Following the Equator — Part 1 Occasionally Swiatek--that was the beggar's name, went his rounds selling small pinchbeck ornaments and beads; generally, however, only appealing to charity. The Book of Were-Wolves He wore, then, a pair of white stockings on his legs, and pumps on his feet: his buckles were a large piece of pinchbeck plate, which almost covered his whole foot. The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great The gilt of the world had not eaten into his soul; his heart was not as yet wedded to the splendour of pinchbeck. Castle Richmond The poverty of the play faded out; he became almost unaware of the pinchbeck and the fustian of Patullo's invention, and its insufferable mixture with the fabric of which every thread was precious beyond imagination. The Path of a Star The bankers find that all the calculated advantages of the game do not balance pinchbeck parolis and debts of honourable women. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Made of pinchbeck, my dear Major, both of them, and yet how genuine it looks on the surface, and what a lot of it is in circulation. Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero I'm nothing but a pinchbeck imitation of the real "Lady of Quality." Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life This is saying much for him; for how seldom is it that the hearts and souls of the young are able to withstand pinchbeck and gilding? Castle Richmond To a people who had counted on statehood these concessions were small pinchbeck. Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty It was utter and virgin; it was not clogged with nineteenth-century qualifications; it had never dallied with strange doctrines, or kissed the feet of pinchbeck substitutes for God. The Wizard Where, in these pinchbeck days, can we hope to find the old agricultural virtue in all its purity? Framley Parsonage They have need of thee to gaze on, they have need of thee to grace The triumph of the Prince, to gild the pinchbeck of their race. Ballads Hang the pinchbeck rascal! he's no more Forgue than you are, Grant, and never will be Morven if he live a hundred years! Donal Grant, by George MacDonald But even this horse-play seemed more natural than the utterly artificial editorials with their pinchbeck glitter and cheap erudition; and thus far it appeared harmless. The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales They tinkle with their pinchbeck, they jingle with their gold. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none We may generally ascribe them to love of notoriety in the forger; such notoriety as Macpherson won by his dubious pinchbeck Ossian. Books and Bookmen But our expectations are fustian spangled with pinchbeck; we look for tragedy to be theatrical. Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William He met a little orphan girl, about nine years old, and giving her a pinchbeck ring told her to seek for others like it under a tree in the neighbouring wood. Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology |
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