| 单词 | quidnunc |
| 例句 | It was then sold in convenient pennyworths;—hence coffee-houses where wits, quidnuncs, and idlers resorted, were called “penny universities.” Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The quidnuncs' books about gardening are about as much calculated to give one delight, as the music the child gets out of the strings of an instrument that it broke for the pride of dissection. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z London had been bewildered, and its literary quidnuncs utterly puzzled, when such a story first came forth inscribed with an unknown name. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z Alas! capricious fate that governs these things turned my sweet, unconscious Ellen to one forever on the alert for the appearance of this long-legged quidnunc. The Heart's Country 2011-08-02T02:00:26.847Z The quidnuncs of society were as busy as bees. Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z The rest can wait until you tell me what new quidnunc tale was invented to lure you here.” Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z We have not now to haggle with the quidnuncs over the less or more of Art permissible in a garden, but to fight out the question whether civilisation shall have any garden at all. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z But although she sustained her part with great spirit, there were not a few quidnuncs, both male and female, who set the young lady down as having anything but her heart in it. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z A fine knot of Carlist quidnuncs, said I to myself, and turned away to another part of the meadow, where the cattle of the village were grazing. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z From my windows I could command the mid-basin in the Plaza, more for use than ornament, and as great a rendezvous of the quidnuncs as a village-pump. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z Some quidnunc inditeth a letter to Gladstone, The style of it, "Stand and deliver!" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93. September 17, 1887 A genuine quidnunc prefers even false news to no news; he prides himself upon having the first information of things that never happened. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Nevertheless, his life was simple and open enough, but he regulated all his actions with a mathematical exactness which, to the imagination of the quidnuncs, was in itself suspicious. Round the World in Eighty Days In what agony are the quidnuncs to know the hidden meaning of that bow and smile! Here and There in London Our quidnuncs between whiles go to a coffee-house, where they have several warm liquors made of the waters of Lethe, with very good poppy tea. The Tatler, Volume 3 Their eager curiosity did not fail to become very inconvenient, and we could well have dispensed with the 20,000 quidnuncs who accompanied us everywhere. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century But the quidnuncs would not accept this solution. Lady Anna If it will make no cure, it will probably make much pay; since Mesmer got upwards of 340,000 francs for his mumming exhibitions, to the spectacle loving quidnuncs of Paris. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 He even becomes a quidnunc, prying now and then into the personal affairs of his superiors. The Book of Khalid The nincompoops and quidnuncs and newspaper men ravenous for copy who prate about a “yellow peril” may, in this latter fact, find some slight excuse for their blatant lucubrations. The Empire of the East It was an exciting time, and quidnuncs of all parties were eagerly anticipating what the dark-skinned professor would say. From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington Our patriot tap Is old, well-kept and genuine stingo; Not the chill quidnunc's cold cat-lap, Nor crude fire-water of the Jingo, But sound as good old English ale, Full-bodied, fragrant, mild, and mellow. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 So thought the quidnuncs;9 nevertheless, Mr. Newman "went on fiddling." Cardinal Newman as a Musician One can flee the quidnuncs of the salon, but not the questioning perplexity of one’s heart. The Book of Khalid "He is a decided godsend to the quidnuncs of Paris." Edmond Dantès What may at first have seemed to be quite a Utopian enterprise to quidnuncs in American social and political circles is to him a very ordinary business. From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington He amazed all the quidnuncs by buying, for fifty thousand dollars, Rumford Dawes' old tract of rocks on the Brandywine, which everybody knew was perfectly useless. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 A hundred thousand readers every week For solace in his commentaries seek, Swear by his arguments, and swear at those Which rival quidnuncs artfully oppose. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916 By noon on the 21st of July the quidnuncs found out that the President had left that morning, on a special train and with a volunteer staff, for Manassas. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death To various opinions the quidnuncs give voice, But the best "choice of books" means—the books of your choice. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 24, 1892 The quidnuncs of the town, who chanced to see him, and who had heard something of the political movements of the day, thought, no doubt, that he was meditating his future ministerial career. Can You Forgive Her? On the other hand, the London quidnuncs make my seclusion a matter of wonder, and devise twenty romantic fictions to account for it. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Now east, west, north, and south, The quidnuncs are giving mouth, Till the Manager would gladly close his ears. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 9, 1892 The vans and carts had all departed, and the quidnuncs and observers of human nature, having gazed steadily at the yacht for some ten hours, had thought fit to depart also. The Lion's Share The drastic nature of the prophylactic was objected to; it was feared by the quidnuncs that the treatment might prove more injurious in its ultimate effects than the ills it was intended to ward off. The Siege of Kimberley The insignificancy of my manners to the rest of the world makes the laughers call me a quidnunc, a phrase I shall never inquire what they mean by it. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 The resuscitation of this classical metre had a queer effect upon the American quidnuncs. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 He looked neither to right nor left, but simply at his geese, and thus the quidnuncs of the market-place and the supporters of shop-fronts were unable to catch his eye. Tales of the Five Towns The true secret was that she feared the crowd of village idlers, quidnuncs, tattlers and newsmongers who all day gazed from Lousey Hard at the wonder-yacht. The Lion's Share The rumour-monger and the quidnunc—to whom only brief allusion has so far been made—had come to be regarded as distinct public nuisances. The Siege of Kimberley But talk not of things triune too openly, lest quidnuncs overhear, and L-B-CH-RE devise thereanent fresh heckling interrogations for the Treasury Bench. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 All through the night of the fifth of May there was a crowd on the Boulevard Suchet; and quidnuncs and night birds of every kind came trooping up to hear the latest news. The Teeth of the Tiger Moreover, when a quidnunc in the streets of Hanbridge sees somebody famous or striking, or notorious, he does not pretend that he has seen nobody. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Acknowledge, now, that I am worthy of a place under the shed I described, and that I should make no small figure among the quidnuncs of Olney…. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) Is the co-partnership still strong and stable, Or are there signs of quarrel More than mere querulous quidnuncs invent To break companionship and mar content? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 27, 1890 What a treasure trove to these venerable quidnuncs, could they have guessed the secret which Hepzibah and Clifford were carrying along with them! Composition-Rhetoric This part of the house may be considered the general resort of the gossippers and quidnuncs; and here, or in other more commodious places, materials for writing, paper, pens, lights, &c. are found. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827 The case, by technical processes, came before the Court of Session, where the diversity of opinion was, proportionably to the number of judges, as great as among the quidnuncs outside. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII These were the rarities that filled the columns of the papers and the voices of the quidnuncs when in 1856 they came to the hammer. De Libris: Prose and Verse This the great mother dearer held than all The clubs of quidnuncs, or her own Guildhall: 270 Here stood her opium, here she nursed her owls, And here she plann'd the imperial seat of fools. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 I will bet that its value has been exaggerated ten times at least amongst the quidnuncs here. The Virginians His mornings are spent at Galignani's news-room, where he forms one of a knot of inveterate quidnuncs, who read the same articles over a dozen times in a dozen different papers. The Crayon Papers Soon after this a gaping quidnunc came to Sir Charles and told him Lady Bassett was felling trees in North Wood. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day This was the day on which the quidnuncs had fixed as the probable date of the coup d'état. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 The subject would be discussed among the local quidnuncs, and the excitement of five years since would to some extent be revived. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales Already his mansion was nicknamed Dunkirk House, and the quidnuncs told how it was built out of the bribes which had made him contrive the sale of that port to France. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 Knowing all this, the quidnuncs complacently felt at first that they knew all. His Sombre Rivals At 8 A.M. we start, freely distributing our farewells as the Arabs and quidnuncs wave their hands. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley Everything was now explained: Louis XIV., foreseeing that the secret might be noised abroad, had built and named that castle so as to offer the quidnuncs a natural explanation of the ancient mystery. The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin At that period, the Orleans family were en mauvais odeur at the Tuileries, and consequently, this little incident created considerable gossip among the courtly quidnuncs. Reminiscences of Captain Gronow "I neither know him nor do I feel any aching void in consequence," I replied, pointedly interpolating, in two places, the quidnunc's flowers of speech. Such Is Life Many respectable money-lenders would have required "further information" before they would discount his bills; and "clubmen" in general—save, perhaps, those ancient quidnuncs who know everybody, from Adam downwards—had but little acquaintance with him. For the Term of His Natural Life But they who were inside, members themselves, and the club quidnuncs who were always rubbing their shoulders against members, knew better. The Prime Minister On the other hand, the London quidnuncs make my seclusion a matter of wonder, and devise twenty romantic fictions to account for it. Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 |
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