| 单词 | primrose path |
| 例句 | Even in the late 1950s, this was not exactly the primrose path of dalliance. Once Upon a Secret: My Hidden Affair with JFK by Mimi Alford ? review 2012-02-10T11:00:02Z Based on the number of notes like yours we get, I’m not concerned that you’re being led down the primrose path to wokism -- or anyplace, for that matter. Supreme Court may be the sleeper issue for 2020 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z She is leading the Democrats down the primrose path of playing not to lose, of being timid, of being afraid, the path that has always caused the Democrats to lose. Could impeaching Trump cost him the presidency in 2020? 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Now Mr. Trump is leading the economy down a primrose path that is even more unrealistic. Trump Is More Optimistic Than Reagan, and That’s Not Good 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Iyer: To make it simple, if he wins two this early in his career, he would be on the same primrose path taken by Brady take all these years. Seahawks vs. Patriots: What the national media say about Seattle early in Super Bowl week 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z “Cruz plays well into that crowd because he always wants to lead the party down that primrose path.” 2016 Hopefuls Skirt Leaders of the G.O.P. 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The two cheaters are the lesser halves of their respective marriages, and it is resentment that has led them down the primrose path. 'The Affair' Is the Sound of Puppies Drowning—And We Can't Stop Listening 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z But by taking a strong side, and backing it up,, helps lead your audience down the primrose path to client conversion. Want To Be An Effective Thought Leader? Ignore President Obama 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z "Nobody wants the country to go down the primrose path that it was led down by Fianna Fail," Finance Minister Michael Noonan said. Irish government faces post-bailout battle to woo back voters 2013-12-13T09:25:56Z The genius of the trajectory of the series, and its manipulation of viewers, can be seen in how Walt's evolution has been shown, and how we were led along the primrose path. Is Breaking Bad's Walter White one of TV's truly evil characters? 2013-09-27T01:33:45Z Outlook - Ducks have a primrose path to the title, because none of their remaining 11 games are with the second- and third-place teams. Conference calls: How the best leagues are shaping up . . . 2013-01-28T23:19:10Z The prim path must inevitably triumph over the primrose path. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z For centuries men have climbed up to strength of character, if at all, by ways uniformly arduous and steep; and distrust of the primrose path, however alluring, has passed as an instinct into our blood. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z Norton went back to the primrose paths of love; and sometimes he would forget all about such a thing as the Black Hundred. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z But Dorothy was learning that the way to success is not always a primrose path, and she cheerfully did her best to accede to such of these demands as she considered just and reasonable. The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z Only one morning paper implied that Persis had strayed into the primrose path of dalliance. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z He tells us that he threw the "pearl of his soul into a cup of wine," that he "went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes." Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z The primrose path of dalliance did not lead them to peace, and the pursuit of variety in love brought them only monotony. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z "It's grown out of Mary's keeping one or two women from going the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire." The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z The humorous assumption is that gay devils like Williams and me need to be constantly warned against straying off into the primrose paths that run out of Broadway. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z The way to heaven is not by “the primrose path.” The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z There was Chilly, her own twin-brother, with his feet set on the same primrose path. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Many a lad who has wasted his health, wealth and substance on the primrose path, has "come back" gloriously in the service of the flag. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z Of the two calamities he had chosen the former as the primrose path—a path he had always followed instead of the stormy and thorny one, he said, whenever liberty of choice had been his. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Fain would halt the dancing feet of those careless ones who pass, Down a sweet and primrose path, through the ribbons of the grass. The Ballad of the Quest 2011-07-06T02:00:44.593Z The way of the good writer is no primrose path. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z A year or so later, while Madeleine still has both feet set in the primrose path, she violently upbraids a girl who wants her to use rouge. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z All the moralists assure us that descent by the primrose path is facile. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z The primrose is associated with fateful indifference to reality — the primrose path and all that — and the potted primrose can lead you astray if your expectations are too high. Primroses can get you primed for spring 2011-03-16T20:23:21Z We shall then start fair upon the primrose path—the broad and flowery way—though I may get farther down than you. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z For the American the urgency of his novel attack upon matter, his zeal in gathering its fruits, precludes meanderings in primrose paths; devices must be short cuts, and symbols must be mere symbols. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z "Would I were indeed your knight, little mistress, so should you ever walk on primrose paths." A Blot on the Scutcheon I wish I were in love, and someone loved me, and put his arm round my waist and took me for walks along the primrose path of dalliance.” Blind Policy And our highway was no primrose path, swept and garnished and safeguarded; it had perils enough in gale and tempest, fog, ice, blinding snow, dark moonless nights, rock and shoal and sandbar. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war In the first place, Paaaeua had a charge of souls: these were young men, and he judged it right to withhold them from the primrose path. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Better to think half an hour and get the right word one’s self than to tread the primrose path of the rhyming dictionary. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Nay," she replied, "I think the primrose path would soon be left if you were no more faithful than you have been these ten years. A Blot on the Scutcheon But such respectability and the duties of society haunt and burden their poor devotees; and what seems at first the very primrose path of life, proves difficult and thorny like the rest. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) The jumble of hash began to stabilize, becoming more coherent— Lenny sat behind the far desk, watching his brother come up the primrose path in a unicycle. The Foreign Hand Tie But the author was too far gone in anxiety and bone-weariness to care to linger just then in any primrose path of dalliance. Kildares of Storm When she looked out of her window and saw Gretchen and her lover pacing up and down the primrose path in the moonlight, a horrible laugh would break from the great lady's ripe, red lips. Pretty Madcap Dorothy Or, How She Won a Lover I am but a fair way along the "primrose path," not yet within singeing distance of the "everlasting bonfire." Silhouettes They might believe the way to the Villa Medici to be the primrose path that leads to everlasting fire—they probably would if they had ever heard of Camille. Olive in Italy And he saw no reason why she should not make even the tariff a primrose path. The Prisoner “Otherwise known as the primrose path, or the great white way,” added Blake. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation In retracing a life so ill rewarded by contemporaries, and so checkered by calamity, it is pleasant to dally awhile in the primrose path, and enjoy the opening prospects of good fortune. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. At sunrise she had been still treading gayly the primrose path of childhood; at sunset she had entered upon her heritage of womanhood. Brand Blotters We were on an anxious undertaking of more than doubtful outcome, but save when we remembered to be sober we trod the primrose path. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 It was large, white and 24 strong; it was not the hand of a woman who dallied, who idled in primrose paths. The Place of Honeymoons And so he gladly took this Sunday for a return to the primrose paths. The Herapath Property Ten minutes later he was treading the primrose path of dalliance with an arm around "Nosey" Marion. Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University Burke's was not the primrose path of dalliance. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Let him start at once on the jack trail, that primrose path of dalliance. Sally of Missouri It may be that they were, intrinsically, no better men than the ones who trod the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire, but they were much easier to live with. The Book of Business Etiquette A doctrine hard for you to understand, Gay sisters of the primrose path, Whose only chain is as a flowery band. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 On the other hand, he might honourably have done so, and Diana being the reckless scatterbrain she was, still chose to dally on the primrose path of danger. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa I have watched many attractive women treading the primrose path and I have seen that it always leads them to unhappiness. Possessed It may seem to some that He chose 'the primrose path,' but if he did so it was not due to an easy-going good-nature. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics But perhaps she was, by this time, accustomed to the dalliance of her Ludwig along the primrose path. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Pascal scourges the mass of humanity down a steep place into the sea; Vauvenargues takes each wanderer by the hand, and leads him along the primrose path. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France I don't know what path it's verging on," was the reply, "but it isn't the primrose path of dalliance. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain He never lost control of himself, and so did not, like some of his brilliant contemporaries, tread the primrose path which leads down to futility and death. Platform Monologues Your own sister—your sweetheart—your friend's brother and your soldier pard's sister—on the primrose path! The Day of the Beast The Thunderer, in its capacity as a European watch-dog, had its eye on Ludwig and his dalliance along the primrose path. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert But with the semi-humorous recklessness which was the leaven of his success, he thrust prudence behind him and stuck to the primrose path. A Splendid Hazard Once embarked upon this primrose path, which is always an imperceptible but easy down-slope, Io went farther than she had intended. Success A Novel It was bordered by dwarf evergreen, but the students had named it Hope's primrose path, owing to the temptation to dally along it, whenever one had the chance. Kit of Greenacre Farm In treading the "primrose path of dalliance" he allowed no grass to grow under his feet. The Story of Versailles At sunset she had been still treading the primrose path of youth; at sunrise she had entered upon the world-old heritage of her sex. Mavericks By the time Uncle Henry had the ends out of half the champagne bottles I guess everyone there was glad he had decided to drag Aunt Mollie back from the primrose path. Ma Pettengill Her mental quality was all in the vein of the friendships of Rousseau and Voltaire, and pleasantly and trippingly she led him along the primrose path of an intellectual liaison. Mr. Britling Sees It Through She was so near that, although he had no belief in any God, he could not deal with her as he had used to do with the work-girls in the primrose paths of old Vincennes. Bebee The wild diversity of his incidents shows a trend towards the romantic, which, doubtless, under happier influences, would have led him much further along the primrose path which ended in the bonfire of 1830. Books and Characters French and English It provides a primrose path to stagnant pools, to an Arcadia of thistles, and a Paradise of mud. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 It was no primrose path these unhappy women traversed, though that it led to the everlasting bonfire it were unchristian to doubt. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays It will be seen from these notes on social history that the Loyalists had no primrose path. The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration And so it chooses the primrose path of dalliance with a moneylender. International Finance What with acting, and supping, and an easy conscience, Mistress Oldfield gaily trod the primrose path of dalliance, and Cupid hovered near, albeit there was no law to chain him to the scene. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield It scorns to "tread the primrose path of dalliance"—it shrinks back from it as from a precipice, and keeps in the iron rail-way of the understanding. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Many men in his position would have preferred the primrose path of dalliance to the steep heights of duty; but Lord Arthur was too conscientious to set pleasure above principle. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories Turn it which way you will, it rolls into the primrose path of dalliance, whose objective point is the aceldama. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 I've vastly dreamed and little done; I've idly watched my brothers strive: Oh, I have loitered in the sun By primrose paths to Thirty-five! Rhymes of a Rolling Stone It was good to know that the old dark past was gone, and that the primrose path of happiness lay shining before them. The Mystery of the Four Fingers Some event of the morning had, it would appear, given him pause on his primrose path. Barlasch of the Guard Here she was, determined to put obstacles on the primrose path where she herself once had dallied. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing The man with whom she enters the primrose path feels that he is as good as his fellows. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 You see the 'primrose path'; you do not see, to use Shakespeare's solemn words, 'the everlasting burnings' to which it leads. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms A mistress of the great art of pleasing made knowledge from the first a primrose path to him. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day The primrose path of dalliance stretched fair before him, here in the soft summer night, with a moon overhead which bore the same message as it bore in the Italian gardens of the leisure-class. King Coal : a Novel Remove the Vicar's magic-lantern and the try-your-weight machine opposite the post office, and you practically eliminated the temptations to tread the primrose path. The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories A man who has to win name and fortune and a home for his young wife cannot spend all his days in the primrose path. Phantom Fortune, a Novel Fain would halt the dancing feet of those careless ones who pass Down a sweet and primrose path, through the ribbons of the grass. The Miracle and Other Poems But, unfortunately for the world in general, it is not only the horror-struck, conventional, shocked women who resolutely turn their eyes from the primrose path. Winding Paths "The Morgue—quick!" he ordered, not even noticing the flabbergasted look on the jehu's face, who was not accustomed to carrying people thither from the primrose path of Broadway quite so rapidly. The Ear in the Wall Of course you did not land on the primrose path with both feet, but you climbed carefully over the fence—just as befits a man of your embonpoint. Moral Mr. Redmayne was admirably rendered, and Jack's performance of the anxious and courteous Master, treading the primrose path reluctantly and yet subserviently, was very nearly as good. Watersprings Who had had the primrose path without the rain of fire, the cinders beneath the feet, the gins and the nets spread for them? The Judgment House She will come to it sooner or later, if indeed she has not already begun to tread its primrose path. Yvette Sure, hearing this, a grateful world will bawl, "Escobar makes a primrose path to heaven!" Ballads in Blue China Now or never is the moment to tread the primrose path. The Mason-Bees Once arrived in Canada, the settler soon found that he had no primrose path before him. The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor Temptation came to me today, And oh, I felt that I must stray Down primrose paths, forgetting all.... Cross Roads But Zinzendorf was not long allowed to tread the primrose path of peace. A History of the Moravian Church The sonnet's primrose path Is all too tempting for thy feet to tread. Ban and Arriere Ban His imagination saw the primrose path of the future stretch before him in a golden glow. The Vision Splendid |
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