| 单词 | pothouse |
| 例句 | So late yesterday we arrived at a solitary pothouse, the filth of which no pen can describe. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Why prose should lag behind its sister arts I can't say; possibly because every pothouse politician is supposed to speak it. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z She looked at the Horace, which still lay open on her lap, and the contrast between the fine scholar's handwriting and the stains of the pothouse had no longer any power to touch her. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z I do not believe they ever brawl and fight here at pothouses on Saturday nights, or that the conversation ever advances much beyond “turmuts” and cattle. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Is this the sort of son I've got—goes robbing me behind my back, drinking with pothouse boys, lags and thieves? The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z A few coarse, ignorant men meet in a pothouse, night by night, to spend the money I sent in beer and foul tobacco. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 He is sure to have gone to some pothouse. Hard Pressed Clare felt ashamed as she remembered all the remarks to which she had listened, reflecting on this man’s courage, and all because he did not take kindly to some low, pothouse brawl. In the Whirl of the Rising It resounded with the clamor of traffic and the noise of such broils and revelry as are usual in the vicinity of pothouses. Roman Women And"—I laughed, and stopped to load and light a pipe—"and now let's stop slanging one another like a pair of drabs in a sailor's pothouse, and go our several ways. The Recipe for Diamonds Like his most obvious parallels in painting, he is too fond of boors and pothouses to be allowed the quality of artistic perception. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) But in its present mood it could see the Puritan leaders represented by a wretched Stiggins—a pothouse Tartufe just capable of imposing upon the friends of Mrs. Gamp. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice In France the splendid roads are used by few travellers, and the inns are filthy pothouses; in England there are detestable roads, but a comparatively enormous traffic. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. The prejudice of Browning was synonymous with his profound contempt for certain things of which he can only speak 'in pothouse words.' Gilbert Keith Chesterton If she were the squire she'd shut up all the pothouses in the county. The Toilers of the Field And lectures give to great and small, In pothouse, theatre, and town-hall, Wearing your brains by night and day To win the means to pay your way? Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams and other ballads "Oh, stop this pothouse talk," put in Hilton, giving the blusterer a contemptuous glance. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley You know that I have been discussed by every pothouse villain in the land? The Day of Judgment Though he never was taught anything he learnt a great deal in the pothouses and the taverns. Honey-Bee 1911 In spite of the vast scale on which he worked his devilish will, his life presents a total picture of sordid vice, differing only from pothouse dissipation and school-boy cruelty in point of size. New Italian sketches You should never play on words; to do so is low vulgar, smelling of the pothouse, the workhouse. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest I only got out of the pothouse for twenty minutes all day, and that was at 5 P.M. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 "How is your pothouse getting on?" he asked again. The Mark Of Cain He did not look in the direction indicated, but hastened into his pothouse to strip off his saturated pelisse before the fire, and swear a little more. A Hungarian Nabob The snorts and moans of the pothouse Werthers are as irritating, in the long run, as the bawling of a child, the squeak of a pig under a gate. A Book of Prefaces The relative advantages of these two schemes is hotly debated in the newspapers and the pothouses. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris The once famous hostelry had become a haunt for pothouse politicians. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow Ah! where now were the fine tirades of pothouse orators and public meetings? In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry Nothing called forth such a shout of joy from me as your photo of the village pothouse. Letters from Egypt Kipling, with "Kim" behind him, becomes a vociferous leader-writer of the Daily Mail school, whooping a pothouse patriotism, hurling hysterical objurgations at the foe. A Book of Prefaces To-day he announces that if his men are supplied with drink within the limits of his command he will burn down all the pothouses. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris He is not an Abel, Is strange to my roof, and no guest at my table: I know not his mates, we are not near each other, He swills in the pothouse, that dissolute brother!— My Life as an Author Never any fighting save in pothouses; nothing but ride, ride, ride, here, there, everywhere, bearing despatches not worth the paper written on, but worth a man's head if he lose them. The Grey Cloak A man may die of yellow fever through the bite of a mosquito; that does not make a mosquito anything more than a dirty little insect or an aggressive imperialist better than a pothouse fool. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Jasper Penny's eyes narrowed belligerently; he would see that these pothouse politicians gave Susan every consideration possible. The Three Black Pennys A Novel He is now regarded as a pothouse politician, who ought never to have been allowed to get beyond the pothouse. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Organise your mass meetings and pack your town-halls, you never will get together such a sample of the British Empire as you will see any afternoon in this remote pothouse. With Rimington With the best will in the world, and the liveliest financial encouragement from Mr. Twist, the architect couldn't in three weeks turn a wooden Californian cottage into an ancient red-brick Elizabethan pothouse. Christopher and Columbus Why should not working men, after enjoying their dinners and thanking God for what they have got, turn their attention to intellectual enjoyments, instead of going out to get drunk in the nearest pothouse! Thrift It would be alike futile to search amongst these mean two-storied houses for a splendid sinner as for a splendid saint; the very vices of these people smelt of cabbage water and a pothouse vomit. The Hill of Dreams The National Guard mounted guard occasionally on the ramparts, and the rest of their time they passed in parading the streets, drinking in the pothouses, and discussing the conduct of their military superiors. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris The son of the Prussian, the Prussian, as the pothouse wits of Remilly had styled him! The Downfall On account of its being, to some extent, a pleasant spot, it was resorted to on Sundays by all sorts of revellers and was a low pothouse. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam A boy's "touloup," given to a vagabond, saved my neck from the hangman, and a drunken frequenter of pothouses besieged forts and shook the Empire. The Daughter of the Commandant It was the devil put it in my mind to take my gun to the pothouse! Love In the morning they go to exercise, and afterwards loll about until night in cafés and pothouses, making up with liquids for the absence of solids. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris They went to all the pothouses and huts, but could not find him. The Schoolmaster The poet seems to feel that there are some things so contemptible that you can only speak of them in pothouse words. Robert Browning Their world is all cakes and ale—why should they bother as to whether the pothouse beer is bad? The "Goldfish" On the levee was a little pothouse of the lowest sort; yet from that unclean and smoky hole was destined to come one of the finest fortunes in Louisiana. Strange True Stories of Louisiana As his home is cold and cheerless, when he is not on duty he lives at a pothouse. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Miss Fouracres stood for a moment with eyes cast down, then, looking gravely at Mr. Ruddiman, said in a sorrowful voice— 'He calls the Pig and Whistle a pothouse.' The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories Rowlandson and Gilray did not fight merely because they were naturally pothouse pugilists; they fought because they had something to fight about. All Things Considered Catching at words confined to pothouse farmers, and village witty bodies! The Romany Rye I entered the door and started at first with my old astonishment, with which I had woke up, so strange and beautiful did this interior seem to me, though it was but a pothouse parlour. A Dream of John Ball; and, a king's lesson Just think of his life in a Lambeth pothouse, and all its evil influences, with a parent who doesn't want him, and has, indeed, hardly seen him, and a stepfather who doesn't know him. Jude the Obscure To his daughter he had spoken only a few cold words, and his last bidding to her was 'Take care of the pothouse!' The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories Yet such pothouse dissipation seemed to satisfy them, since they took not only a pleasure in it, but a pride. Peter Ibbetson They put me up for some sort of a pothouse," he admitted, "and I handed over a tenner, I think it was, for my subscription. An Amiable Charlatan Demetrios, having gleaned this knowledge in a pothouse, purchased a stout file, a scarlet cap and a lute. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship A lot of non-commissioned officers, just in front of the barrack gates, quarreling like drunken sailors in a pothouse. The Young Buglers Would you have us believe the oath of those who are themselves Whigs, Presbyterians, Somersetshire ranters, the pothouse companions of the men whom we are trying? Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Say for ten thousand ten—and pothouse knaves, Brain-dizzied with a draught of morning ale. Queen Mary and Harold Well, there are your wages; the next time you waste them at a pothouse you get no more from me. Becket and other plays Veterans, with red noses and flying ribbons on their hats, kept tramping from one end of the country to the other, making every pothouse resound with tales of martial glory, and fearful accounts of 'Bony.' The Life of John Clare Is that young pothouse villain here? and hasn't Kew knocked his head off? The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family It participates in pothouse soirées and assists at the business of shopping. Mankind in the Making A little group of pothouse politicians, wire-pullers, busybodies, local journalists, and small lawyers, working for various monetary interests, have "captured" the local Conservative organization. In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace It was growing dark, and the shadow took away something of the coarseness of the group outside one of the village "pothouses." The Open Air It is hard, I think, Mr. Caudle, that I can’t leave home for a day or two, but the house must be turned into a tavern: a tavern? - a pothouse! Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures The Colonel and young pothouse have gone down to spend a few days with their elderly relative. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family While the banks, business houses and factories are controlled by Northern men: while the pothouse politicians of Eastern cities struggle in ward elections, the South holds all the Federal honors. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance The impression Odo had gathered from Don Gervaso's talk was of the provincial stage in all its pothouse license; but here was a spectacle as lofty and harmonious as some great religious pageant. The Valley of Decision In those two weeks I have flogged the wife of a non-commissioned officer, the prisoners were not given their rations, the streets are dirty as a pothouse—a scandal, a disgrace! The Inspector-General Well, he'd make a point then of being dirty, greasy, pothouse in his manners and he wouldn't care! Crime and Punishment We would not stoop to defend Sir James Mackintosh from the attacks of fourth-rate magazines and pothouse newspapers. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 For what sort of a home will she return to?—a pothouse! and what sort of a father?—a drunkard! Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard He lay there while Afanasy, gloomy and scowling, hovered about him, sighing heavily, and smelling like a pothouse. The Wife, and other stories There the Parliament does approach to the virile virtues of the pothouse. What's Wrong with the World Pictures of what were considered as the finest of those houses are still extant, and greatly resemble the lowest rag shops and pothouses of Ratcliffe Highway. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Besides, I don't call it fun getting half-drunk with a lot of blackguards at a low pothouse or a shanty, listening to the stupid talk and boasting lies of a pack of loafers and worse. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Even as it is, of course, the spirit of democracy frequently differs widely from the letter, and a pothouse is often a better test than a Parliament. What's Wrong with the World |
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