| 单词 | reckoner |
| 例句 | But the sand reckoner was destined to meet his fate while reckoning in the sand. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Santa Baby” is one of the classic holiday flirtations, and Summer Walker is one of contemporary R&B’s great emotional reckoners — an optimal match. 12 New Christmas Songs for a Vast Array of Holiday Moods 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The philosophers, the reckoners—theirs to judge bad against good and find content that way. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z “Just so, your honour; I see your honour is a ready reckoner.” Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z You need not tell an old reckoner what is small and what is great. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z That's a good thing; a quick reckoner is valuable in business. Owen's Fortune Or, "Durable Riches" 2011-06-23T02:00:28.497Z That's ranching in a kind of outline which sort of reduces it to a question of figures which it wouldn't need a trick reckoner to work out. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z Grandmother was talkative, and she said: 'Go, Nastenka, into my bedroom and bring me my reckoner.' White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z Gianelli was too good a reckoner not to consider as a valuable secret, something which sooner or later might be employed against the hated Rinaldo. Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes 2011-02-16T03:00:40.700Z I have never known a man who early acquired a 77 fortune that was not a calculator and an acute reckoner of his own and other men’s chances. Francezka A few feet away, his father was carefully calculating, with the aid of a ready reckoner, the compound interest on a little pile of bills of exchange which lay before him. The New Tenant The artistic individuality shrinks before the calculating reckoner. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 On large matters he went right by the very largeness of his mind; but in small matters he suffered from the lack of any logical test and ready reckoner. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens It looks like a page out of a ready reckoner or a mathematician's nightmare. The Lost Valley Sad reckoners of the woes which men endure, Sharpening the pangs ye make pretence to cure, Poor comforters! in your attempts I see Nought but the pride which feigns unreal glee! The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism This story may serve to show how nature supplies man with a ready reckoner in his faculty of perception, which suffices well enough for the affairs of the simpler sort of life. Anthropology S: Read your book; your own self is sufficient as a reckoner against you this day. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side He never opened a book, save a manual of husbandry or a ready reckoner; he could conceive of no reason for walking, unless it were the business of the farm. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Fritz was the ready reckoner of the three, and quickly answered, "Twelve hundred horses, six hundred wagons, and six hundred drivers." Pixy's Holiday Journey Success is not the only or the final test of character, but it is the best rough-and-ready reckoner. Success (Second Edition) He isn't a hard reckoner; He's only glad when we return to Him, and put down our tired head upon His shoulder for a little. Father Payne And He is the most swift of reckoners. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Have we not seen birds, marvelously erect, that correctly write words dictated by their professors; cockatoos that count, as well as a reckoner in the Longitude Office, the number of persons present in a parlor? Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen Oh, you are a reckoner, but this time you have reckoned without your host. The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel “Just so, your honour, I see your honour is a ready reckoner.” Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong. Middlemarch You are a most accurate and honest reckoner. Mansfield Park He can do sums in his head, is a ready reckoner. The Forest Lovers That quiet old man, and keen reckoner, began quickly to put the dilapidated Castlewood accounts in order, of which long neglect, poverty, and improvidence had hastened the ruin. The Virginians The work of the professional reckoner in time developed similarly to that of the professional writer, and often the two were combined in one person. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization The Doctor was always a bad reckoner, either of money or anything else; and this is one of his rapid computations. The Journal to Stella He consulted a ready reckoner that was on the desk. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists This does not mean that we became skilful reckoners. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography She was much given to practical economics, dairy-farming, market-gardening, and industrial and commercial operations such as offered; and was thought to be a very strict reckoner of money. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 01 I'm no reckoner of time, that keeps its own score like an innkeeper, without my help. Montezuma's Daughter He could seem generous, but for all that he was a keen reckoner. The Alkahest He becomes an astoundingly quick and accurate reckoner without other aid than a moment's reflection. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography |
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