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单词 pothook
例句 pothook
That is barely two years ago—and now here stands Territorial Kantorek, the spell quite broken, with bent knees, arms like pothooks, unpolished buttons and that ludicrous rig-out—an impossible soldier. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was uphill work making pothooks and hangers, having to write rows of a-b, ab, and having to make sure of his alphabet by writing it out from memory. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z
I shall not be able to make the most wretched pothooks--my finger is quite swollen.' The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z
On pothooks and trammels hung the brass and copper kettles, some with a fifteen gallon capacity, and that most beloved pot of iron, which sometimes weighed as much as forty pounds. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z
That illustrious individual is not to be stopped here, if I understand the pothooks rightly," said the huntsman; "but we must be certain whether it is him. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z
It left behind it beautifully straight lines, between which were straight strokes, pothooks, and the letter o. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z
There is the familiar circle plain and dotted , the cross in its simplest form +, the pothook and segmented square , all of which recur in the Phoenician, Keltiberian, Etruscan, Libyan or Tuareg systems. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z
I had even given him a specimen of my new pothook fist! The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z
Upon investigation, it was found to be a composite of three separate fireplaces, built one within the other, and culminating outwardly in a small grate; and when opened, it showed portions of the old pothooks. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z
The crane was a feature of the fireplace, and on it were hung the pothooks from which depended the iron and brass pots in which food was cooked. Remodeled Farmhouses
There he learned to write pothooks and hangers and very soon to write proper letters. Sinister Street, vol. 1
Here's a business," said Skeffy; "as well as I can make out her old pothooks, it is that she can't receive me. Tony Butler
The modern author, who is, say, fifty years old, was born in an age of “advanced civilisation,” when the only method of expression for the young was one—“pothooks and hangers.” The Art of Illustration 2nd ed.
Heat was supplied by the great fireplaces that sometimes filled one whole side of the kitchen and were furnished with cranes, spits, and pothooks. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860
From the pothook on the crane hangs an old Colonial kettle. Remodeled Farmhouses
At this unwontedly late hour the elderly sisters were still sitting in their warm kitchen; there were bright coals under the singing tea-kettle which hung from the crane by three or four long pothooks. Strangers and Wayfarers
Ellen shrugged her handsome shoulders and, tilting a scornful nose, returned to her pothooks. The Rosie World
Bobby rose, as he spoke, and planted his feet accurately on the middle pothook of the hearthrug. The Dominant Strain
An old iron crane, with various sized pothooks and links of chain, swung from the jambs at the will of the housewife. The Strollers
This movement in ordinary methods is represented by the wearisome pothook connected with the first laborious and tedious attempts at writing. Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook
He learns by imitation; but it is only because he has already some rudimentary ability to make such simple figures as pothooks that the imitative process can get a start. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
These pothooks are to be of different length so that the kettle can be adjusted to different heights above the fire, first for hard boiling, and then for simmering. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts
But the education which Rutter could give was of a very limited kind, scarcely extending beyond the primer and pothooks Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson
He may write in the Munich style, or after the manner of the Düsseldorf ready writers, or the modern French pothook and hanger, or the antiquated Dutch. Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914
I thought he was all pothooks and hangers at one time; but he can't be as bad as that. The Hero of Garside School
At the outset, his pothooks are very unlike the model set before him. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
Polly's pothooks, as her father called them, were pictures in her father's eyes. Ralph the Heir
He also practised “pothooks,” and at the age of nineteen he was proud to be able to write his own name. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson
The trenches ran along in a pothook shape from Rhododendron Spur down to the Cheshire Ridge, on the north side. The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula
What blots, pothooks, and angles you and I make as we are trying to write on the top of the page of life. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
You are young to be so studious of pothooks and hangers. The God of Love
In some of the cells, where the inmates are learning to read and write, there is a spelling primer and a copybook for pothooks. A Boy's Voyage Round the World
She and Nancy corresponded daily in the “pothooks,” as Jennie Bruce called the stenographic signs. A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall
Its picture plainly shows the stone ledges within the fireplace, the curved iron lug-pole, and hanging pothooks and trammels. Home Life in Colonial Days
He finished the others in a variety of huge pothooks with blackly crossed "T's" and dotted "I's," and viewed the result of his labors with great satisfaction. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life
Hamlet is not less inspired because Shakespeare began as a writer of pothooks and hangers. Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678
Across the fireplace hung an iron crane, which swung on a hinge or pivot, from which hung a large number of what were called pothooks and trammels. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
There was no answer to be had, so he let the matter drop, temporarily, though his shorthand notebook received another deeply underlined series of pothooks. Murder at Bridge
On the pothooks and trammels hung what formed in some households the costliest house-furnishing,—the pots and kettles. Home Life in Colonial Days
She had furthermore drilled him in making "pothooks and hangers," with which he covered his slate in neat rows, daily. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe
The dots and lines and pothooks clearly belong to a system of picture-writing. Anthropology
And after that many a sorrowful feeling was wrought into trammels and pothooks. Hills of the Shatemuc
"I could read the manuscript, but we have no one at Eastborough who knows how to make those pothooks and scratches that you call 'corrections.'" Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life
Bennett wrote with amazing rapidity and with ragged, vigorous strokes of the pen, not unfrequently driving the point through the paper itself; his script was pothooks, clumsy, slanting in all directions, all but illegible. A Man's Woman
The Chevalier took the letter and opened it carelessly; but no sooner did he recognize the almost illegible but wholly aristocratic pothooks than a fit of trembling seized him. The Grey Cloak
"It's night now, misther, if you plaise," returned Hogan, gruffly; "but we don't want your opinion here—stick to your pothooks and hangers—keep to your trade." The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
As soon as the children had cleared it away the smallest ones settled down to write on slates long lines of pothooks and hangers. Captivity
In one corner of the chimney leaned an iron bar, used sometimes in some forgotten, old fashioned way, across dogs or pothooks,—who knows now? Real Folks
On the envelope were certainly inscribed her name and address in a heavy rustic scrawl, with pothooks and hangers tumbling over one another. A Love Episode
At the age of four he had begun to read and write, refusing to be taught in the orthodox way—this is so accurately characteristic—by syllabic spelling and copy-book pothooks. The Life of John Ruskin
There is Aunt Peggy,—is good at using pothooks, but not so good at making them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
She made my new dress and a doll which, was perfection in my eyes, though its face was crooked, and its pencilled hair was more like pothooks than curls. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
"And pretty I should look at my age, sitting among the babies learning to do strokes and pothooks," the Irishwoman said, echoing the laugh. A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods
Wheeling round, he saw a quaint figure—a huge nose like a pothook, high, massive shoulders, enormous, well-shaped hands, a general impression of uncouthness combined with vigour and geniality. The Aspirations of Jean Servien
But they regarded these pothooks as a clumsy waste of time. The Story of Mankind
You have changed a number of spoken words into a number of pothooks and scrawls. Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations
No," he said, eagerly; "oh, no; I should begin with those horrors of your childhood, pothooks or something of that sort; lines and curves, you know. Ester Ried Yet Speaking
They are the pothooks and hangers of surgery, and I have gone that far. Lord Kilgobbin
He had to take the lowest place, and during two hours made pothooks on a slate. Dame Care
His fond mother gives him a box of coloured chalks and every loose bit of paper is rapidly covered with strange pothooks and scrawls which represent houses and horses and terrible naval battles. The Story of Mankind
What was I to do after everything was settled and the aunties provided for?—assist in a dame's school and wage war with pothooks and hangers? The Christian A Story
Look!" he said to Julius Elias, pointing to his mournful pothooks, "See what I am doing! Henrik Ibsen
We all know how clumsy the pothooks and hangers are, how blurred the page with many a blot. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV
It takes the alphabet and the early pothooks, and the boy by and by combines them into literature. The Warriors
To the uninitiated these scrawls would look impossible; but to the stage-manager's keen, imaginative eye a whole picture is represented in these few pothooks. Man on the Box
It was because Lord Coombe would probably come in with the rest that Dowson had set the low, white table in the round windows and suggested the pothooks. The Head of the House of Coombe
I could speak as well as an actor, as far as pronunciation goes; but I could hardly read words of one syllabile; and as to writing, I couldn't make pothooks and hangers respectably. Cashel Byron's Profession
Whenever she did well I called her a good child, and she was so dreadfully afraid lest I might withhold the praise that she toiled at her ciphering and pothooks long after I was asleep. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca
There were words on the paper, written in stiff German characters, orthodox and methodical in every turn and upstroke and formal pothook. Dreams and Dream Stories
They scarcely deserve to be called the pothooks and hangers of an education. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance
Robin was sitting at a low table making pothooks with a lead pencil on a piece of paper Dowson had given her. The Head of the House of Coombe
His writing was small, compressed, irregular and often far from easy to read; when he suppressed a passage, he used a form of pothook erasure which rendered the condemned phrase absolutely illegible. Honore de Balzac
The breeding of earlier days—so sadly warped, alas!—cried out within him against the lie that he was acting by pretending to suspect treason in that woman's pothooks. The Tavern Knight
He looks around and sees his little pothooks perpetrator. Sixes and Sevens
There was a fat woman inside in a red jumper with pothooks and beasties embroidered upon it. The Four Million
Mr. Paramor's eyebrows, which jutted from his clean, brown face like little clumps of pothooks, were iron-grey, and iron-grey his hair brushed back from his high forehead. The Country House
Then he applied himself to his task, painfully forming a series of pothooks until one more sentence was completed. Red Pepper Burns
If he could but maintain that uncompromising dramatic flavour to the end, his epistle should be worth the trouble of deciphering, for he penned a vile scrawl of pothooks. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...
Sophie would demand from her seat by the pothook; and Mrs. Cloke would answer, smoothing her knees, "For the sake of the place." Actions and Reactions
In my self-sufficient impatience to get out of "pothooks and trammels" into real letters and words I disobeyed her injunction, and disfigured the pages with numerous tell-tale blots. A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)
You are too old to write pothooks and hangers, and too old, alas, to steal pickles and jam when the house is abed. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
This conviction explains why the lady, who is somewhat blotched as to complexion, endeavors to assume in her own person the majesty of a court whose decrees are recorded in her father's pothooks. Modeste Mignon
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