| 单词 | shiftless |
| 例句 | The harder he worked, the deeper C.P. sank into the very rut that had swallowed his father, even as he watched the less talented and shiftless children of the wealthy prosper. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I kept up my shiftless poking about the place, wandering up and down from time to time by the longbeds. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z If Big Ma heard Vonetta and saw her standing like a shiftless bum on the comer, we’d be on the next plane back to New York City. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Grandma and Dad, Aunt Anne thought that all Irishmen were shiftless and that Tom Grieves was the most shiftless of all Irishmen. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z If Francie saw the good in her father, even though most people considered him a shiftless drunk, maybe I wasn’t a complete fool for believing in mine. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps you’re enjoying the show these shiftless millennials and hippie protestors are putting on for the press. It was, after all, the purpose behind the Incident at the Mess, wasn’t it? And your little video?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z While lots of white folks would buy moonshine from Norris, you could tell that at the same time everyone thought he was shiftless and no account. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people--his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Then Grandma would make a snide comment about Dad being shiftless. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In her former blindness she had known him as shiftless Johnny Taylor, tall and lean. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The only one who doesn’t think they’re all lazy and shiftless. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z With him was a man who was known only as Z. Mr. Trepid thought of Z as a shiftless man, slipping in and out of town like a slithery possum. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z How can you linger on this island, aimless and shiftless, while your people waste away?’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Bored, shiftless drifters played much better in short bursts on TV. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Elaine is not some shiftless next-door neighbor whom you can attack with impunity, some member of a competing tribe who must be dispatched with dispatch. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: My new housemate and a prescription for world peace 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z "Think of the Goof as a composite of an everlasting optimist, a gullible Good Samaritan, a half-wit, a shiftless, good-natured colored boy, and a hick," Babbitt told his staff in 1934. Sometimes we can go home again: “Atlanta” comes full circle in its final season, only richer 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z I feel like a lazy, shiftless bum, but I know that’s not who I really am. I fall asleep at work 2012-12-13T01:00:00Z Balty is a recognizable type: the bumbling, shiftless young man with neither talent nor accomplishments who ingenuously blurts out things he shouldn’t say yet manages via wile and luck to survive. Finding the Funny in 17th-Century History 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Just as a character starts to emerge, we are on to the next, a steady stream of shiftless men squandering money in bars and gambling dens while women struggle to hold families together. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis – review 2013-02-08T14:00:01Z Since Stuart is apparently a well-off Wall Street type who evinces considerable contempt for his younger brother’s shiftless ways, it seems incredible that he would park his new wife amid the squalor of Edgar’s life. Theater Review: ?Asuncion? at the Cherry Lane Theater ? Review 2011-10-28T02:00:00Z Episodes begin with Stuart on the phone to his mother, who still thinks Freddie is just his shiftless roommate. ‘Vicious’ Stars Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z “The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people,” Flannery O’Connor wrote with merciless accuracy, “those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.” Review: Book 5 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z But this narrative withholding, while infuriating at times, presents no real barrier to our engagement with the film’s unconventional look at the growing connection between a shy teenage girl and her shiftless father. Movie Review: Maya Kenig’s ‘Off White Lies’ 2012-12-07T01:50:18Z The characters in this show are always moving up and down the coast, restlessly, shiftlessly, searchingly—and, in what is a very American quirk, they are always doing so in a car. “True Detective” recap: After the shoot-out, nobody’s satisfied — now the real investigation begins 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z How can I stop people from calling me a shiftless Loser? Style Invitational Week 1360: The lyin’ about winter — a fictoid contest 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, movies about bored, shiftless drifters left viewers bored and restless. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z He was perfectly cast as Templeton the rat in Charlotte's Web and as Tony Soprano's shiftless, foolish cousin in The Sopranos. 2010-01-30T04:10:00Z As a shiftless 17-year-old I put down childish things and picked up The Waste Land after seeing Paulin on the Late Review, and spent three memorable years studying under him at university. The Review Show's move to BBC4 isn't a death sentence 2013-03-15T16:00:02Z While “shiftless” and “lonely” aren’t words that show up often in hardcore, they do nicely bookend Westerberg’s budding point of view. Why Rock Criticism Was Essential to the Replacements 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Wolf Alice succeeds with a shifting approach because the group is far from shiftless. Down the Rabbit Hole with Wolf Alice 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z In the writer-director's hands, what would seem to be an agreeably quirky slacker comedy about a shiftless small-time scam artist subtly morphs into a darkly piercing study of alienation. Watchful 'Buzzard' keeps you guessing 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z “These people belong to the shiftless, ignorant and worthless class of anti-social whites of the South,” one so-called expert declared—without ever having met Carrie Buck or her mother. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z Twin Oaks was settled in 1967, at the height of the hippie commune movement, by a group of eight people who were, at best, wary of the shiftless tendencies of some of their peers. I worked hard for no pay — and I dug it 2013-02-10T23:00:00Z Mitchell portrays white enslavers as noble, slaves as shiftless, docile and loyal. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z He’s 10 years older than Izzy although he acts like a slightly shiftless teenager, confiding at one point to Daniel that he spends too much time getting wasted. Review: ‘Indian Summer,’ Toes in the Sand and Chemistry in the Air 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Implied in this definition is the notion that these men came from little and were thus shiftless wanderers motivated only by the desire for quick money. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Throughout American history, some people, whether simply down on their luck or different from the majority, have been stereotyped as immoral, lazy, shiftless — in short, undeserving. Manchin's means-testing requirement is a recipe for building back worse 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z This strategy was based on the premise that an influx of ineligible and undeserving, shiftless or cheating people had caused the growth in program costs. The deeper history of "defund": How the "get tough" policies of the '70s and '80s led to disaster 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z He posted a YouTube video portraying several people in the camp harshly as violent and shiftless. How a commune-like encampment in Echo Park became a flashpoint in L.A.’s homelessness crisis 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z Or the shiftless hack who hated his profession? Review: Stan Lee: Genius or huckster? A new biography of the Marvel creator weighs in 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z In that classic American tale by Washington Irving published in 1819, an amiable but shiftless farmer strolls out of his colonial village to go hunting in the Catskill Mountains. While America was sleeping 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Publications and, later, films would portray Black men as unpredictable thieves or as lazy and shiftless "takers," as well as wanton rapists and subjugators of white people. A brief history of the "Lost Cause": Why this toxic myth still appeals to so many white Americans 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Stereotypes about "big government" or the "nanny state" are allied to stereotypes about "welfare queens" and other "lazy" or "shiftless" black people who are "living off" the taxpayers, understood to be white people. Donald Trump, the coronavirus and the power of white privilege 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The Ascent is deceptively quick thanks to the shiftless CVT, but, while I didn’t get to put it to the test, its 5,000-pound tow rating seems ambitious. Test drive: The 2020 Subaru Ascent is a big success 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Because it helps black people, it is denigrated as a government handout for “shiftless freeloaders”. Learning from the Germans: how we might atone for America's evils 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Like Lily, she resents the stereotype of the shiftless van dweller. Living on pennies with a million-dollar view: how car campers survive in beach parking lots 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The Reagan-era notion of "welfare queens" played up the "lazy and shiftless" stereotypes of the Lost Cause. A brief history of the "Lost Cause": Why this toxic myth still appeals to so many white Americans 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z He was shiftless, struggled to maintain relationships, and too often woke up with unexplained injuries or broken bones, in strange locations or beside unfamiliar partners. He Wanted to Prove He Could Stay Sober. So He Kept Vodka in His Closet. 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Almost everyone I know from monied professionals to shiftless layabouts is involved in the weed business. Opinion | I'm Just a Middle-Aged House Dad Addicted to Pot 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Meanwhile Richard Rodgers remained, at 39, one of Broadway’s marquee composers; but he was contemplating a future without Lorenz Hart, a lyricist and his long-standing collaborator, who had become a shiftless alcoholic. The great second act of Rodgers and Hammerstein 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z As a liberal Democrat, I don’t think the poor are lazy, shiftless and unmotivated. Opinion | Despite the abuse allegations, Rob Porter should still be in the White House 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Really, why not go all the way to shiftless? Opinion | Trump and Kelly deserve each other 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The skinflint materializes now and then to advise Dickens on storytelling and life choices, especially those involving the scribe’s shiftless though charming father. Review | ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ looks at the birth of ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Even at its most absurd, The Secret Service was rooted in mundane class conflict, keeping Eggsy tied to his shiftless family and council flat. Kingsman: The Golden Circle is as stylishly violent as the original — but more ridiculous 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Take away Dylann Roof’s pistol and he is just another shiftless high school dropout — the one voted Most Likely to Lose a Thumb Lighting Firecrackers. Opinion | Hatred doesn’t have to be taught 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Tourists, shoppers, the shiftless caught midday in their travels looked elsewhere. Subway Messiah 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Only by separating the noble “forgotten man” from the burdens of the “nasty, shiftless, criminal, whining, crawling, and good-for-nothing people,” Sumner believed, could “true liberty” be achieved. Donald Trump and History's Competing Visions of America's 'Forgotten Man' 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z That "lazy, shiftless criminals" stuff just lost all of it's logic and most of its appeal, even for old white guys with little exposure to black folks in the course of their day. Donald Trump Can’t Count on Those ‘Missing White Voters’ 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Plato, one of the earliest to see democracy as a problem, saw its typical citizen as shiftless and flighty: The Case Against Democracy 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z In the mental world he and those he listens to inhabit, blacks and other nonwhites are by definition shiftless burdens on society. America isn’t a hellhole 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z In contrast, poor whites had supposedly chosen to be “shiftless,” suggesting the possibility of intraracial tensions that weren’t immediately defined by a proximity to blackness. White Plight? 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Implicit was that the result of that search would be a lazy, lying, shiftless predator.” What Makes a Politician ‘Authentic’? 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z They’re the aimless, the shiftless, the thoughtless, and the luckless of the world, the kind of people who can’t seem to catch a break. Three types of onscreen losers at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Both are entitled to hope for the best, with the odd hint of forward momentum, but expect the worst, based on their shiftless seasons to date. Aston Villa v Liverpool: Premier League – live! | Niall McVeigh 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z People think of him as being on the road, aimless, shiftless. Kerouac’s knickknacks go on the road to author’s hometown 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Instead, they’ve taken the lazy path: moralizing about the irresponsibility of borrowers, declaring that debts must and will be paid in full, playing into stereotypes about shiftless southern Europeans. An economic game of chicken in Greece 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z All that business about not being concerned for the “very poor”? That bit about 47 percent of Americans who are shiftless moochers and lost to the Republican Party? Mitt’s latest Etch-a-Sketch moment: Romney pretends he’s not a “business person” 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality. Mayor de Blasio and the Police 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Both are entitled to hope for the best, with the odd hint of forward momentum, but expect the worst, based on their shiftless seasons to date. Aston Villa v Liverpool: Premier League – live! | Niall McVeigh 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Each August, Masden molds a shiftless batch of athletically gifted strangers, certified juvenile delinquents, into a cohesive force from scratch. Eight-Man Football, The Biggest - And Only - Game in Town I guess I dug the hole myself when my old Inventory Control Manager Morrie retired and I let my wife talk me into hiring her shiftless cousin Brian for the job. Here's A Job Ad I'd Like To See 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z No one has called Obama shiftless, but it’s easy to infer that from the criticisms. Martha’s Vineyard Diary: Let Obama Have His Vacation The implicit claim was that the party that once helped the white ethnic working class had villainously turned against them to help the lazy, shiftless blacks, instead. Ronald Reagan owns Cliven Bundy: He’s born of GOP racial and anti-government hostility 2014-04-25T16:00:00Z “What a contrast will there be between these dull, shiftless, stupid females and the intelligent, refined, active, and accomplished ladies who adorn the first society of the United States.” Is Ted Cruz the future of Texas? 2013-05-04T14:00:00Z Now, it may not mean anything to most Americans, but to those of us who are African-Americans, the second word is shiftless, and then there’s a third word that goes along with it. The right’s Colin Powell freakout 2013-01-16T00:04:00Z As late as 1936, a manpower assessment produced at the Army War College described black soldiers as shiftless, dishonest and lazy. In Road-Building, Black Soldiers Defied Prejudice 2012-07-24T03:41:11Z Its reporting is relentless in falsely portraying immigrants as shiftless lawbreakers who steal jobs from American citizens and drain the nation of scarce public resources. Fox News Latino: Shameless 2012-07-21T22:00:00Z Another reminded us of the kind of shiftless cousin who never stays focused. Restaurant Review: Almayass in Manhattan 2012-07-11T18:00:03Z The last class grades up insensibly into the shiftless, ne’er-do-well types which exist in every community. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z “But if we were not a helpless, shiftless nation a handful of boys couldn’t frighten us, could they?” The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z A bad comrade, this Saverny— A shiftless fellow, growing worse each day. The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda 2012-03-15T02:00:28.817Z He saw his mill, his house, his all gone from him, saw himself a drunken, ruined, shiftless loafer, cadging about public-houses! Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z “You had better leave Andy alone,” put in Chet, who saw that the shiftless man was working himself up into the worst possible humor. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z But he had not known nor had Bonne guessed how hopeless was the cause he was embracing, how blind its leaders, how shiftless its followers, how certain and disastrous its end! The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The opportunities for viciousness were too limited for him; he had been only a shiftless misfit. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z In practically every Southern city there are certain sections inhabited almost exclusively by the poorer, shiftless, more ignorant class of Negroes. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z She watched, while he, weak and shiftless, hung back in uncertainty, the inefficient he had ever been! Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z At these words the face of the shiftless man changed color, and his jaw dropped. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z Of course, he's as shiftless as a stray dog, but he's kind-hearted and has a sense of humor that tickles me. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z But every one knew her father was a penniless, shiftless drunkard. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z He also found that many of the people were so shiftless that they died of want and exposure. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z Why, ye see, Sandy is no very able-bodied, and maybe a little shiftless, and he fell sick about the middle o' winter. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z And then he, too, laughed heartily over the trick that had been played on Andy’s shiftless relative. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z My dear Doyle," Turnbull went on, "it is too comical to hear you talking of a shiftless planter—you, belonging as you do to the most happy-go-lucky race on the face of the earth. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z The man must have loved his daughter very much, however; for it was his nature to be shiftless. The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward 2012-02-03T03:00:19.757Z It goes to some shiftless state unwilling to pull its own weight. South Carolina is a Welfare Queen 2012-01-17T12:30:01Z At the mill-dam, a dozen lazy, shiftless fellows were fishing at the foot of the chute, and stared at our movements with expressionless eyes. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z Her shiftless father, for whom the boy entertained a deep contempt, had humored his daughter's ambitions so that she might in the end secure her teacher's certificate and contribute to his support. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z In Thomas, roving and shiftless, to whom was "reserved the honor of an illustrious paternity," are we alone interested. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z He was diligent in work, but his shiftless companion consumed a good share of his earnings. The Life of Benjamin Franklin Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes 2012-01-04T03:00:46.617Z It is charged with overseeing markets for financial products like credit cards and home loans in response to concerns that some shiftless lenders were preying on consumers in the lead up to the financial crisis. Many words, little action in consumer agency debate 2011-12-08T05:31:18Z The stately stone house was a den of the most abject and shiftless poverty, the like of which one could seldom see in the slums of a metropolis. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z After that she had been motherless and had kept house for a shiftless and surly father. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z My cousins, Rowan and James Herndon, were at that time operating a store, and tiring of their investment and the confinement it necessitated, James sold his interest to an idle, shiftless fellow named William Berry. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z She created for that family a far better home than it had ever known under the shiftless, thriftless management of an undisciplined mother. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z But the elder brother, brought up to the cut-and-dried routine of the potteries life, had little patience with what he looked on as the younger’s shiftless dreamings. The Boyhood of Great Inventors 2011-12-05T03:00:46.233Z The lectures waste the time of the student and exhaust the energy of the teacher; but unless the lecturers give them and the studious attend, how can the university know that the shiftless stay away? An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z But sometimes, even among the beavers, there are shiftless characters, like that Arkansas man who just wouldn't look after his roof. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z “See that you maintain an upright behavior, you shiftless woman!” Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z Case No. 68 told of a 12-year-old girl who, upon her mother’s death, had to take care of her “shiftless father and a large family of brothers and sisters.” Neediest Cases: Tradition of Giving, From the Famous and the Unknown - Neediest Cases 2011-11-05T21:59:50Z I never did see such a shiftless, useless lot as you are at the Four Corners. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z Oh, if you only mean that the initial mistake was in having the shiftless creatures here at all, I agree. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z He remained to the end a shiftless man of roving disposition without effectual ambition. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z When a team breaks in where the water is stagnant, a deliberate and calculating teamster may succeed in extricating his horses, while a shiftless man will let them drown. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z He calls them monteros, which means huntsmen, and they were probably the more shiftless descendants of this first class of settlers. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z "Those who make that kind of talk are only shiftless people with never a dollar of their own, consequently they don't know the value of one," the old man cried, angrily. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z The government of our large cities has from time to time been so notoriously corrupt as to indicate at least an easy-going, shiftless, civic spirit in the average free-born municipal voter. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z Nothing appeared to distinguish him from the other members of the shiftless Lincoln and Hanks family. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z Uncle Sam is represented as a landlord and President Grant as his tenant, a shiftless widow with a dog at her heels and a bottle of rum in the basket on her arm. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z Dorothy, married to the good-tempered and shiftless Stan, sometimes did not know which way to turn for the overdue quarter's rent. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z Since they married he just stays round here, contented and about as shiftless as anybody could be. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z His wife, who was about as shiftless as he was, was the Major's housekeeper. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z This striking without thought is better than hunting; She showed more terror than an animal, She was more shiftless.... King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z The State should be particularly vigilant against giving any encouragement to the lazy, the shiftless and the willfully inefficient. Why I am opposed to socialism 2011-08-30T02:00:37.547Z Generally the caddie is given to laziness; they are a shiftless company. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z Yes, it was not unlikely that she would want the things offered too much to heed the malicious and jealous advice of a shiftless father who thought only of his own pride and comfort. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z His lodging, one bare little room, was in the house of some people named Micawber, shiftless, careless, good-natured people, who were always in debt and difficulties. Charles Dickens' Children Stories 2011-08-20T02:00:15.847Z It reminded her of the shiftless man's roof, which needed shingling. Concerning Sally 2011-08-19T02:00:14.430Z There never seems to be any real misery among these shiftless people. Frontier Folk 2011-08-19T02:00:11.653Z “If the girl marries before that age, no shiftless man can get it away from her,” had been the spinster’s frank statement in her will. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z But the Indians, who perform all this kind of labor, are, as I have before had occasion to remark, proverbially lazy and shiftless. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z The wastes of choice chiefly affect the shiftless and the dull, men who cannot be harmed much by being wasted. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Sometimes a rush leaves a shiftless ne'er-do-well or two for the Ridge to reckon with, but even these rarely disregard the Ridge code. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Now, of all the laziest, shiftless beings there was no one who could start level with old Abe Pike, and this advice from him was rasping, but still he had his points. Tales from the Veld 2011-07-05T02:00:29.217Z A worthless, shiftless chap whose songs adorn the libraries of fat shopkeepers and paunchy Philistines one hundred years after the chap has died of malnutrition. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z Your uncle, Colonel Hunter, sort of got shiftless in the last years. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z Those whom she had met there, and who had been nice to her, those scatter-brained, kind-hearted, shiftless denizens of the vaudeville half-world, were once again removed from her reach. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Among the men, only the shiftless and more worthless are not in sympathy with Ridge ideas, and talk of money and what money will buy as the things of first value in life. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z In all their shiftless, drudging lives it had never once occurred to them that there was any fun to be gotten out of work. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z Hank was lazy and shiftless in many ways, but he had to keep up to the mark, though this he did not like. Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam 2011-06-07T02:00:13.313Z He's a shiftless old cuss, from th' look of things, so I don't anticipate any trouble at all. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z See to it these shiftless indentures tie him up like he was a bull. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z He had thought the worst that could be said of Charley was that he was a good-natured, rather shiftless fellow. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z They have always seemed so shiftless, so utterly unambitious. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z The Irish, for the maist part, e'en the great lairds, were idle and shiftless, and lived in a sort of squalid splendor within their castles, surrounded by bands of clansmen and swarms o' unpayed retainers. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z I recalled my own lack of affection after the years of sacrifice for the imbecile grandfather, my shiftless aunt. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Why else would he have paid that flock of shiftless runaways he called a crew with the last of his savings? Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z And Michael would have done as much for any shiftless man. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z The more shiftless and less intelligent preferred to take their ordinary wage, which was always a generous one, thinking 'a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush'. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z Them that are well-behaved have shiftless relations, and I'll get them drunk, and cause them to hurrah for 'Uncle Bill,' or 'Aunt Samantha,' or whoever it may be, in front of their fine houses. The Mystery of the Locks 2011-05-29T02:00:08.800Z His father had no patience with him, called him a shiftless dreamer, and threatened to burn the beloved books. Spinning-Wheel Stories 2011-05-28T02:00:23.707Z Do you never find scorn creeping into your heart in place of adoration when you mark the unpaid bills and the shiftless endeavor that strew his idle way? Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Mollie's ill-tempered mother was just about as shiftless; but for her there was some excuse. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z Not content with harassing us from morning to night with your shiftless, unwomanly ways, you must make a blunder like this. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z A number of minor offices were filled by Plainville citizens, and this rewarding of the faithful restored the credit of several shiftless Plainville families at the grocers’ and butchers’. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z “They seem a shiftless lot,” said the major. Aunt Jane?s Nieces on the Ranch 2011-04-14T02:00:48.280Z I was only a shiftless sort of ne'er-do-well till you came here and helped me to be strong again. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z They show at a glance whether a man is neat or untidy; careful or careless; methodical or shiftless, and what sort of taste he has. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z Martin, a shiftless fellow, had not even removed the harness from the drowned horse. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z In that region it always carried the idea of roughness or uncouthness, and it developed a derivative—"hoosiery"—which was used as an adjective or adverb to indicate something that was rough, awkward or shiftless. The Word Hoosier; John Finley Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume IV, Number 2 2011-03-21T02:00:12.857Z Why were they not ashamed of him as he stood there, tattered and muddy—the very picture of the aimless, shiftless wanderer that his father had been before him? Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z A few men yet followed for their livelihood the hunter's and trapper's life of laziness and hardship, for the most part unthrifty, and poor in everything but shiftless contentment and the wisdom of woodcraft. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z We sat and talked for a long time about America and Ireland, and intelligent fellows I found them, though perhaps with a little of the soldier's contempt for the shiftless civilian. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z "I used to think it was very shiftless to buy bakers' bread," she said one day, apologizing for the large loaf which Ben had transferred under his own arm. Miss Theodora A West End Story 2011-02-26T03:00:48.940Z Still it is enough to get along on, and with the necessity, and indeed, the opportunity of the chase gone, the bucks were able to wax lazy, drunken, and generally shiftless to their hearts' content. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z A shiftless idler, a hair-brained, irresponsible ne’er-do-well comes to no good end, and leaves better folk to take up his burdens. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z In general the class was regarded as idle and shiftless and a breeder of mischief. Your Negro Neighbor 2011-02-14T03:00:35.203Z No—nothing can be imagined so pitiable, so ridiculous, and, to borrow the Canadian word, "so shiftless." Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z He’s one of the most shiftless men I ever knew. Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z “He may be a close friend of the Hawkins family for all his talk about them being a shiftless lot.” Swamp Island 2011-01-28T03:00:22.400Z He was a disreputable old fellow, distinguished by shiftless garb and dirty gray hair. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z Awful beyond measure was Miss Jerusha on these occasions—enough to strike terror into the heart of every shiftless mortal on this terrestrial globe, could he only have seen her. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z And as to those often misquoted words of Christ, there will undoubtedly under the coöperative as well as the competitive system always be some shiftless, some poor. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z Such methods mean, of course, the lowest possible efficiency of labour—ignorant, hopeless, shiftless. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z They are lazy, shiftless, and they will steal, notwithstanding they have enough to eat and wear; but then I reckon I couldn't get along without them very well. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z God, are You trying to turn me back into the old shiftless life, into the old vagabond, aimless existence? The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z I should not wonder now if some shiftless, good-for-nothing vagabones was to 'low themselves for to get ketched in the storm and come to me to let 'em in and keep 'em all night. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z “Probably some shiftless person who isn’t willing to work for a living.” Voice from the Cave 2011-01-04T03:01:09.533Z I smoothed his headaches just as well, and listened to his music just as well, so he shiftlessly took it for granted that I loved him just as well. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z The woman had a horror of what she called shiftless ways. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z Among the people, as always, there were the good element and the bad or shiftless element. Betty Lee, Freshman 2010-12-20T17:12:25.800Z That is all except them that’s too shiftless and ornery to put up with ’em. The Vanishing Houseboat 2010-12-20T17:11:37.787Z I verily believe that the New England farmer of to-day is the most shiftless mortal north of the Mason and Dixon line–and he hasn’t hookworm for an excuse. The Idyl of Twin Fires The object is not, as in the case of slavery and peonage, to compel a shiftless race to work, but it is to develop the country by the introduction of an industrious race. Races and Immigrants in America The being whose wanton hand had stricken down the officer was a totally worthless character; shiftless, depraved, wicked. The Man from Jericho You do not believe me," he laughed; "you believe that we Easterns are all indolent, shiftless. The Man Who Rose Again She knew, too, that in the end he would consent to it, because he himself was continually befriending the poor, no matter how shiftless they might be. The Reclaimers Henry started to make money, in a small way, by collecting scrap iron, and selling it, but his shiftless parent nearly brought the business to grief. Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son But there's another class too—the most unbelievably shiftless, ignorant people in America. The Voice of the Pack A number of forms moved vaguely about—that pitiful, shiftless class which no small town can eliminate, who had merely come to "see the train come in." The Man from Jericho Having married unwisely, in order to better herself rather than because she loved, her shiftless husband had disgraced himself with an adventuress governess, leaving her with three children and something below £150 a year. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath "We have no such shiftless ways," he would remark, after he had furtively supplied a prisoner with hard-tack and coffee. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches "Well, it might be better," said the shiftless one. Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son He was a shiftless cuss that got out into the island somehow 'bout ten year ago, an' begun beggin' for a livin'. Rockhaven A shiftless man sometimes makes shiftless men more contented, softening enmities against life, and quieting clamors against discriminating nature. A Yankee from the West A Novel And then, if Benson did prove a shiftless fellow, he wanted to see what kind of a place he might be soon forced to own. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories "They are idle and shiftless, I acknowledge that; but is it not the natural result of generations of servitude and ignorance?" Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches Perhaps it’s a saner distribution, for it’s the improvident and shiftless of the world who go to the money-lender.” The Missioner It is not the irreclaimably destitute, shiftless, and worthless that it is truly beneficial or truly benevolent to attempt to reach and improve. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses The McAndrewses has corner lots in the New Jerusalem, and is surely the standard of morals until Cousin Abner went shiftless and wrote poems. A Man in the Open De Quincey loved the shiftless, nomadic life, and gloried in uncertainties and peradventures. The Vagabond in Literature He evidently has just that lively, good-natured, shiftless, irresponsible temperament which needs to be carefully trained in the bearing of responsibility. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York Homeless, shiftless, thriftless, they knew no other names save those which chance or the coarse buffoonery of their friends had endowed them with. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel All went well till lazy and shiftless immigrants arrived to enjoy the paradise also. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. It seems as if even Rip Van Winkle, in his most shiftless mood, ought to have been able to 61 support a large number of daughters under such conditions. The Women of Tomorrow One recalls his disgust with George Sand and her Bohemian circle, his hatred for spiritualism, his almost Philistine horror of the shiftless and lawless elements in life. The Vagabond in Literature Total lack of moral principle combined with an indolent, shiftless disposition had given him a distorted outlook on things. John Marsh's Millions It changed temporarily the shiftless, penniless soldier of fortune into a responsible human being, with obligations and duties. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel If millions of Americans are shiftless, shuffling, undisciplined and only vaguely and crudely patriotic, the cause is to be found in our neglect of the lessons of modern social life. American World Policies He recalled those tenants—sallow, ill-fed whites, shiftless blacks. The Shadow You have often reproved me for being shiftless and good-for-nothing. Edelweiss A Story That was the earnest exclamation of Mrs. Seabury, mother of Thornton; and it was her earnest conviction that her son was going to turn out to be an idle, unpractical, shiftless young man. Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 It was a search for a small boy who should know the river that revealed to me a new phase of life—slack, slovenly, and shiftless, but very interesting. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Many among the more settled Dutch farmers wonder how these uneasy nomads, with their shiftless ways and habits of unrest, first came to pursue such an existence. Tales of South Africa My father was a noble and pious man; he was considered a scholar of great discernment, with fine polemical gifts; but in life he was childishly simple and—why should I not say it?—shiftless. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The two men departed, complaining bitterly of those shiftless persons who did not know their own mind from one day to another, and put others to a vast amount of needless trouble. Edelweiss A Story But if it is “the heritage of the unfit,” if only the unambitious and shiftless have remained, then the village is probably doomed. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity That they were busy years as regards his trade is certain from the success he achieved in it; and that Ramsay was neither a lazy, thriftless, shiftless, or vicious apprentice his after career effectually proves. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series It tends to make and to keep in existence a body of shiftless men who otherwise would be obliged to turn their attention to mechanics, to trade, to agriculture. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. He might well have added “as shiftless;” for another man in his position would have been stirring himself to get that fine crop of melons into market. Dorothy on a House Boat Was this man, so bold in the face of death, the old, sensitive, shiftless Lenz? Edelweiss A Story It was said that her sons were unruly and her husband lazy and shiftless. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina Only a member of the haphazard Castleton family would have been capable of such a shiftless act. The Head Girl at the Gables And now there he stood, indifferent, bored if anything, shiftless, yet with some indefinite appeal, waiting to see what I would do. Neighbors Life Stories of the Other Half A poor, shiftless creatur’ with more babies under foot ’an she can count, herself. Dorothy on a House Boat He lived with his father, who was never called anything else than "Hank" Darby, and who was known as the most39 "shiftless" man in town. Dick Hamilton's Fortune The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son That started a little local talk, an' one or two men begun prospectin' in a shiftless sort o' way. The Boy With the U.S. Miners He was certainly one of the central figures in the beautiful, shiftless, Bohemian household on the hill. The Head Girl at the Gables My lodging, one bare little room, was in the house of some people named Micawber, shiftless, careless, good-natured people, who were always in debt and difficulties. Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read There lived, one time, a shiftless chap, who wasn't satisfied; To settle down and plug along he never could abide. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 They were a shiftless lot, and soon came to another halt, under some small trees. Boys of The Fort Or, A Young Captain's Pluck While the reb deserters were willing to share with us all the benefits to be derived from a break, they were too shiftless and lazy to fully enter into our plans for an escape. In and Out of Rebel Prisons Young chicks who have lost their mothers by death, and whose fathers are of a shiftless and improvident nature, may be fed on kumiss, two parts; moxie, eight parts; distilled water, ten parts. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories For miles they jolted over the execrable roads and through the shiftless, run-down country before they found anything worth while putting in the wagons. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro Whisky makes no man lazy, shiftless, dishonest, false, cowardly or brutal. The Economic Functions of Vice Petunia Blossom, and her shiftless husband and growing family, looked to "gran'pap's missus" for their Thanksgiving fowl. The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in The hard, hopeless life of the mountain farm, sustained only by a meager and ill-cooked diet, begat laziness and shiftless unconcern. Our Southern Highlanders At the mill was the same shiftless state of affairs. The Blue Goose Muslin looks shiftless, an', besides, I think it's unhealthy. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro There was nothing to do now but to go back to her brother's noisy shiftless house; to work against wind and tide of laziness and improvidence. The Life of Nancy "Lazy, shiftless, inconsequential critter," growled Bob Buckham, coming back to the dead eagle, as Lycurgus and his daughter moved slowly away across the field. The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in It was nothing but the mortification of a high-spirited woman at the acts of a man who was too shiftless to have any concern for his domestic honour. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition It is not the colour, dear madame, but the shiftless garment, which has wrought this change. Threads of Grey and Gold What happiness to dwell in the grounds of the "shiftless" farmer! Upon The Tree-Tops He is early disgusted with the dirty, grovelling life of your easy-going, shiftless, contented old campaigner, and inwardly resolves to adopt a genteeler regimen. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 Once the certainty that ultimately they are sure of their money would be gone, these leeches would no longer trouble the gay and shiftless young officer whom they now pursue with the persistence of bloodhounds. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day The personal uncleanness and shiftless condition of these lower classes were the true causes of the prevalence of leprosy and other loathsome diseases. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition But I was already adjudged a "shiftless lot," not steady, and was accordingly "turned down." The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself These are not worthless and shiftless Negroes, but persons who work hard from Monday morning until Saturday night. Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt Not the least need of it; nothing but shiftless management. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 It has its steady-goers, and it has its share of the shiftless, and also it has an occasional Socialist, and once in a while a rip-snorting Anarchist. Mystery Ranch He might have been slow and shiftless; but he was scarcely any more grown up than little Louise herself. The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended The neighbors declared that the Lockwood household would have been a very shiftless establishment had it not been for Mrs. Betsey. The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna or, The Crew That Won His wife, who had perhaps become tired of the family fortune as it never quite realized itself, tried to prod her shiftless husband into a greater activity. Clark's Field Don't tell me about pillow-cases made without felling," says Mrs. Alexander; "it's slovenly and shiftless. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 During these shiftless and unhappy years as a listless medical student and laggard apprentice the poet's chief solace was the public library of Manchester. The Hound of Heaven It had never dawned upon him that this shiftless, thriftless, worthless, sponging parasite was yet, after all and in spite of all, not mercenary in the issue of his thoughts; yet so it was. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI Oh, he's honest enough, as far as that goes, but shiftless—mighty shiftless. Elam Storm, The Wolfer Or, The Lost Nugget They were of the most shiftless type of mountain folk. The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains We cannot find employment for the weak, the lazy, or the shiftless. The Peace of Roaring River Love and money were two of the three things she cared for; the poor, shiftless family was the third. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Appeared shiftless and showed lack of initiative and intelligence. The Social Work of the Salvation Army Old Ezra said he was shiftless; but he certainly was not lazy, for he would work harder at doing nothing than any fellow I ever saw. Elam Storm, The Wolfer Or, The Lost Nugget Oh, I know they're a shiftless pair, but half the prejudice against them is that they are strangers. Kildares of Storm Sez he, “Men are most always more shiftless when you pay by the day.” Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife But the recruits from Glasgow turned out to be a shiftless lot and a constant source of annoyance to Selkirk's officers. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba Poor as this shiftless class usually is, many a cabin of rude logs nestles amid dainty trailing vines and bright hued blossoms, well worthy to adorn a far more pretentious mansion. The Mayflower, January, 1905 When Palla got out she spoke pleasantly to him as she paid him, and inquired about his father––a shiftless old gaffer who used, sometimes, to do garden work for her aunt. The Crimson Tide A Novel Coming to a whitewashed log-cabin overgrown with morning-glories—the only crop the shiftless Hendersons had been able to raise—she pounded on the closed door with the butt of her crop. Kildares of Storm The absurdity of the intelligent, tax paying but disfranchised woman being governed by the vote of the illiterate, shiftless loafer or pauper would be laughable were it not so serious. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V "Renters" are very often very poor, and sometimes shiftless—no money to spend on anything but the real necessities; sometimes even too poor to send their children to school. In Times Like These He was as shiftless a man as ever wore shoe-leather; he wasn't a bit of help to a woman. Diana There was a certain shiftless, sullen, yet authoritative air about him as he spoke. The Plunderer I have led a shiftless, uneventful life, yet I envy no one, for I am the genius of a new art—but stay a moment! Melomaniacs A large number of the feeble-minded are so nearly normal that they are considered merely shiftless or stupid. The Farmer and His Community They may be consumptive, epileptic, shiftless, immoral, or with a tendency to insanity. In Times Like These They're a shiftless lot," said Mrs. Starling rather evasively, "the whole of 'em. Diana It is my observation that the white of the black belt deal with the Negro more patiently and endure far more of shiftless methods than the average Northerner would tolerate for a day. The Negro Farmer Was she condemned to be altogether useless, shiftless, unprofitable? In a Little Town Some means should be devised to get them away from their general shiftless ways. Negro Migration during the War He looked stupid as well as shiftless, but the young pilot knew he wasn't. Marcy The Blockade Runner It's another thing when you have a shiftless man hanging round, and a dozen children or so, and expected to be civil to all the world. Diana He left the settlement in a state approaching anarchy; there were several good men in the district, but the majority were shiftless wanderers who would brook no exercise of authority. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State I knew Landley for a white man who had abandoned himself to a shiftless, vicious life with the Indians. Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys From another quarter came the remark that "instead of the old proverbial accusation—shiftless and unreliable—negro labor is being heralded as 'the only dependable labor extant, etc.'" Negro Migration during the War But here it bore relentless if mute testimony to the shiftless, untidy, disorderly ways of the Kapus household. A Bride of the Plains It was a shiftless and ruinous system; but the average Virginia planter was not over-quick at figures, nor even at reading and writing. James Madison In Germany they knew how to care for such things, but these Americans were so shiftless. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel The superficial might call him shiftless, but more profoundly envisaged, was he not rather an education in the art of living? Ghetto Comedies Evidences of the lazy and shiftless and the immoral are not frequent, because of a sort of spirit of thrift pervading the whole group. Negro Migration during the War Irma once more shrugged her shoulders in her habitual careless, shiftless way—shelving, as it were, the whole responsibility of her life, her fate, and her daughter upon some other power than her own will. A Bride of the Plains "The people are so shiftless," she complained, picking up her skirts and walking round a group of girls who were sitting on the sidewalk combing their hair. Rafael in Italy A Geographical Reader He was a shiftless man indeed who could not provide ample food for his own needs. Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 Between times he was a shiftless, indulgent, and somewhat henpecked little man of watery eyes, a mouth with several missing teeth, and a limp in one "sprung leg." The Roof Tree He had never inquired her reasons, being shiftless, but that fact he knew. Red Men and White He was not effeminate; he was not the puerile, shiftless creature the foregoing sentences may have led you to suspect. What's-His-Name Nothing is more shiftless looking than a dark rim of dirt or stain around a basin. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts It wuz weighted down with cheap little sawed out peaks and pints, and triangles perforated with holes for ornaments, but the hull thing looked shiftless, tippin’ and lop sided. Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands No doubt if school was not compulsory the dregs of the nation would slip out of the net, especially in those parts of the empire where the prevalent character is shiftless and easy going. Home Life in Germany Christmas a year back I was walking out with her, and some shiftless beggars got in the path and asked for money. Nancy Stair A Novel She had found that to help that sort of shiftless people only made them worse. The End of the Rainbow Of the two Cordovas, he found the girl Lucretia a mere walking vanity bag: idle, shiftless, eager for compliments, and without two ideas in her vain little head. Cleek, the Master Detective Jake Martin even loudly declared himself powerful sorry, but then business was business, and he supposed there would always be shiftless folk like Sandy in the world who could never get on. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Do you want him to be indolent, shiftless, unmanly and addicted to such as will bring him to shame, ruin and death? The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity But he is generally an ignorant, shiftless fellow, forever lamenting about his freedom, flaying the Yankees for taking him away from his master, who took care of him. Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. I don’t know but your mother had better have one of those shiftless Simmses than nobody at all. The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened We live what most people call a shiftless life. The Master Mummer My employer once said to me that he had heard and also read that Negroes were lazy, shiftless, and untrustworthy. Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements The children were lazy, shiftless, and dishonest; their work was of little use to Pestalozzi, because of their lack of skill and their bad habits. History of Education The rule that the free Negro was a shiftless being more to be pitied than envied by slaves, was not without many exceptions in North Carolina. Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. I’m thankful your ma’s got along so far, without any of those shiftless Simmses or Martins in to help her. The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened The vagrant, shiftless freedman was a social problem as well as economic. The New Nation This view of valuation for taxing purposes is sometimes opposed by mining men on the grounds that it taxes brains, skill, and initiative, and that it puts a premium on shiftless management. The Economic Aspect of Geology The incompetent, the shiftless and the vicious are no better off in the Army than they would be anywhere else. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army It was singularly easy to forgive Gregory that, for she now saw him as he was—shallow, careless, shiftless, a man without depth of character. Hawtrey's Deputy “But they are generally a lazy, shiftless set?” That Girl Montana He was shiftless, and often vagrant, and hence could be touched by poll-tax and residence requirements. The New Nation Not a dollar of mine shall fall through the pockets of that shiftless breed.” Mountain Blood A Novel A shiftless soldier is a sore trial to the sergeant responsible for him. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army Like Colonel Tolman, he had come to think that it was not the Indians who were killing; and the nesters, though a spiritless, shiftless lot, had always been honest enough. 'Me--Smith' Yet all these are under the ban—"shiftless." Little Brothers of the Air And judging from the darkness and the quiet, all the fat-faced, indifferent women were in bed and asleep, and the shiftless rats of men were still away. The La Chance Mine Mystery Natural selection will have its way: the shiftless and the lazy must go to the wall. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice To state the case tersely, the shiftless village is a hideous village, while the charm which we often realize without analyzing it comes of affectionate care and attention. Village Improvements and Farm Villages Instead of shiftlessly tossing the whole burden of responsibility for choice of topics to a hard driven editor, and whining, "Please give me an idea!" If You Don't Write Fiction She had made a hard and a more or less losing fight against poverty—the men folk of these hardy, valiant little women seem predestined to be shiftless. Judith of the Cumberlands He laughed and said that teaching school was not work—declared it to be the refuge of the lazy and the shiftless. The Jucklins A Novel The landlord introduced his guest into a room filled chiefly with that shiftless and noxious element of Southern society known as “mean whites.” A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales Squalid and poor and mean enough a dwelling, a shiftless clearing, a dirty family of children—yes. Penguin Persons & Peppermints "It is not in you, and, even if it was, I should not advise you to write it; for poets are generally beggars,—poor, shiftless members of society." The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. They only poor, shiftless people, just blow it in on foolishness.' The Huntress It was said to mean repudiation; that it was a movement of the shiftless and unscrupulous citizens which destroyed the credit of the State and disturbed social conditions wantonly. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Spoken to shiftless persons who complain loudly on the least trifle going wrong with them. The Proverbs of Scotland We can't make the negroes anything but what they are—shiftless and careless of everything but their own ease.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Long before she reached the buildings an air of shiftless dilapidation was manifest in the ill-lined barbed wire fences whose rotting posts sagged drunkenly upon loosely strung wire. The Gold Girl The shiftless one looked at Henry, and the boy grew uncomfortable, blushing through his tan. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" The Indians of Peru have become, for the most part, an idle, shiftless race. With Cochrane the Dauntless In the eyes of some, five thousand dollars would seem rather a small capital to warrant such a life; but it seemed a great deal to a shiftless character like him. Rufus and Rose Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready It was easy to forgive Gregory that, for she now saw him as he was—shallow, careless, shiftless, a man without depth of character. Masters of the Wheat-Lands In the first place "those Days" had been looked upon as shiftless and of little account. The Mission of Janice Day The shiftless one's simple admiration and faith appealed to him. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" By noting his eyes and the expression of his mouth the girl could judge whether he was just shiftless or untidy merely because his wife was too busy with the children to sew on buttons. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls "I must be hard up for a husband, to marry such a shiftless fellow as he is." Rufus and Rose Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready She incurred the bitter resentment of one of the teachers, who sought all means of humiliating and mortifying the sweet-natured, shiftless little creature. Emily Brontë Uncle Jason was frankly shiftless, although he was a good farmer and able to earn a fair wage at carpenter's work if he so desired. The Mission of Janice Day The shiftless one had truly said that Indians on the war path, seeking the greatest prizes that had ever come within their reach, would not bother about a patch of such isolated and difficult country. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" Everybody in the neighborhood must have looked in and then decided that I was lazy and shiftless. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls Something might turn up, he reasoned, in the shiftless manner characteristic of him. Rufus and Rose Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready I answered that often it was because they were shiftless. Little Lost Sister Thomas Lincoln was a good natured but shiftless man who never did any more work than was absolutely necessary to keep his family from starving. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. "Them rabbit steaks," replied the shiftless one, emerging from the bushes, but still covering Long Jim with his rifle. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" Rather lazy and shiftless, don't you think? or maybe they didn't know any better, poor young things who had never had a home before! Bird Stories The humor and unction of the shiftless one always amused him. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods He is shiftless but not without human instincts. An African Adventure He had always been a shiftless fellow, but he was no fool, and this his sister found out soon after she asked him to come and make his home with her. A Chosen Few Short Stories Here Henry and the shiftless one went forward alone, leaving the others to wait for them. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" So it is no wonder he was rather shiftless and easy-going. Bird Stories The morning was alive with their song and when they came to the deep creek, and saw a fish leap up now and then, the shiftless one no longer had the slightest doubt. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods Without this, a man will gain to himself that unenviable distinction described by the homely but expressive term shiftless. Anecdotes for Boys This is a pretty seasoned judgment on men in the mass, taking them as they come, the mobile men, the slow starters, the indifferent and the shiftless. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 "I don't think they'll be ready to move against us again for about two days," said the shiftless one. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" Clean and upright and longing to be merry in a dour world, he sank down among the spotted, the shiftless, the worthless. The Innocents A Story for Lovers Then the shiftless one propped his back against a bank of leaves between him and the trunk of a tree, and, with the rifle across his knees, watched. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The young man went his way, ambling along in shiftless indifference to where he was or the time of day. The Goose Man He will recognize the exceptions, and if he does not then take appropriate action, it is only because he is himself shiftless and is compassionate toward others of his own fraternity. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 Chance made the shiftless one glance at his comrade, and he was startled. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" The spirit of the shiftless one, great borderer that he was, rose to the crisis, but he said nothing. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand But after three or four hours the shiftless one became restless. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The shiftless don't want nothin' better than to say that they will leave the Lord to take care o' things, an' then fold their arms an' set down an' let things go to the devil. The Uncalled A Novel It was a barren prospect that stretched out before him: lazy, shiftless land clear over the brow of the hill that sloped away to the house. Stubble He was somewhat longer than the shiftless one in achieving the task, but in ten minutes he, too, slept. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" The water had washed most of the paint off the face of the shiftless one, leaving only stripes and bars. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand The mind of the shiftless one was made up, and occasionally he could be as resolute as Henry himself. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods There are some boys I know who would do well if their mothers were not shiftless and intemperate. Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant But on the whole he was an ineffectual, shiftless looking Negro, with hands that were always dangling and feet that always dragged. Stubble Henry, despite their desperate situation, could not withhold a smile, which, however, was hidden from the shiftless one by the darkness. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" But the shiftless one made no attempt to reload. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand But there was nothing more for him to say and he watched the shiftless one as he left the oasis, glided over the mud flat and disappeared in the forest to the west. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods He was shiftless and drunken; ugly tales were told of him. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 It was a forsaken looking place, and the people, as a rule, were poor and shiftless. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 A groan of weariness from the shiftless one was his only reply. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" "Keep your head low, Henry," exclaimed the undoubted voice of the shiftless one. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand It was Henry sending the signal to the shiftless one, and in an instant they heard a similar note in answer from a distant point. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods They all favoured the mother's people—sorter shiftless and dreamy. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 He isn't shiftless," said Nan quickly, "and it isn't his fault if he has got behind. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 He and the shiftless one instantly whirled about to help their comrade, but Tom and the warrior were now rolling over and over in the struggle of life and death. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" They waded among the bushes growing at the water's edge and the shiftless one, who was in advance, uttered a suppressed cry of pleasure. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand As they advanced further the signals were repeated and then the shiftless one came with swiftness and without noise through the bushes, rising up like a phantom before them. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods She was a faithful, hard-working creature and kept him out of the poorhouse, for he was a shiftless soul, not lazy, exactly, but just too fond of sitting. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 But he's kind of shiftless, for all that—no manager, as you might say. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 The shiftless one, still going rather weakly, led the way a few steps up the almost precipitous face of the rock toward some bushes growing in the crevices. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" "Those fellows will be on us in a minute or two, Sol," Henry whispered to the shiftless one, "unless we burn their faces." The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand The shiftless one chuckled, pleased at the compliment. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods Sam was a lazy, shiftless fellow, deserving all the hard things that came to be said of him. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 "I loved her very tenderly, but she married against my will a shiftless scamp who—" Worth lifted her hand slightly. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 The shiftless one, too, felt a deep content, although he had always been sure that Henry would come. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" The mouth of the shiftless one opened again, but this time in a wide grin of delight. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand Henry and the shiftless one, wheeling swiftly, fired and hit their targets. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods As for the Cranes—well, they were lazy and shiftless, for the most part. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 His father, old Sam Maybin, had been a shiftless and tricky rascal, as everybody knew, and had ended his days in the poorhouse. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 It was the shiftless one who at last broke the silence. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" "Don't you get trapped by wanderin' Indians, Henry," said the shiftless one. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand "You may be shore he's thinkin' o' harm to our people down below," said the shiftless one. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The coarser gossips affirm that Mrs. Ebling is lazy and shiftless, and that the doctor is disheartened and neglects his business. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science In teaching shiftless families to put by small sums, therefore, it is well to keep some definite object in view. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers The shiftless one saw his measuring look, and understood it. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" At the other end of the camp there were occasional shots, but Paul and the shiftless one slept on. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand He glanced at the shiftless one and saw in his eyes the same intense awed look which he knew was in his own. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The shiftless one and he had been right. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness "If I ran my business in this shiftless way——" Bill turned quickly toward him. The Snowshoe Trail "Do your best, Henry," said the shiftless one. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" The missing three appeared a minute or two later and were received by the shiftless one with the objurgations due to what he considered misspent energy. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand "An' I knowed it must be you, Henry," said the shiftless one, showing his double row of shining white teeth, "'cause you're the only one in the woods who kin understan' our signals." The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods Paul, the shiftless one, the silent one, and Long Jim were there. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness "Oh, no, not shiftless," put in Mr. Mason. Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves Then, in accord with the shiftless one's suggestion, they widened the den, and the three slept there, turns being taken at the watch. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" "Then why do they take Paul and Jim along?" asked the shiftless one. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand The shiftless one's mouth parted in a wide grin of admiration. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The shiftless one and the silent one, raising their heads, made glad reply. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness A shiftless Southern poor white asked a self-respecting old black man for three cents with which to pay his ferry fare across a river. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization Henry and the shiftless one fired with deadly aim, and Long Jim and Paul followed. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" "This here expedition is goin' to split," said the shiftless one. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand He watched the arrow so sharply outlined against the blue until it was gone in the vast sky, and a great wonder and awe filled the soul of the shiftless one. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The shiftless one regarded him with a measuring gaze. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness The Negroes were with few exceptions shiftless and improvident plantation laborers and renters. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization The shiftless one knelt just behind him, and in the stern was Paul, kneeling, too. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" The shiftless one knew what he was talking about, as there was no alarm in the night and early the next morning the army began its march again. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand The shiftless one, leaning against his bank of leaves, his rifle on his knee, was regarding the valley with an air of proprietorship. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The shiftless one bent upon him a reproving look. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness Third: Among the Negroes going North there is a shiftless, criminal element, whose tendency downward is aided by the prejudice against Negroes in labor circles of the North. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist I'm goin' to eat fur two or three hours," said the shiftless one, fastening an eager eye upon a splendid buffalo steak, "an' then I'm goin' to sleep on them robes over thar. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" Paul and Jim Hart went in one direction to look at the big Council House, but Henry, the shiftless one, and Tom Ross remained with Colonel Clark. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand Toward night the shiftless one awoke, and they ate the last of their food. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods “You speak too quick,” said the shiftless one. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness The land where the son of a shiftless drunkard can grit his teeth and say, "I'm going to be rich and famous some day!" Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries Shif'less Sol glanced again at his comrade, but Henry's face said nothing, and the shiftless one was not a man to ask many questions. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" Henry knew in his heart that the shiftless one was right. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand The shiftless one raised himself up a little, and looked in the direction that Henry had indicated. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods Call and reply went on for a little while, and then, after a long wait, he saw the figures of the four appearing among the trees, the shiftless one leading. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness Gossip and scandal ran riot; social jealousies abounded; and under what seemed entire democratic equality, the lazy, drunken, and shiftless envied the industrious and thrifty. A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America There was nothing of listlessness or despair in the face of the shiftless one. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" "It's all the same," said the shiftless one as he looked attentively at the steaming coffee pot. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand Then the shiftless one fell to in like fashion. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The admiring gaze of Jim Hart followed the shiftless one as long as he was in sight. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness A law carried out by a proper State entomological constabulary, if it may be so designated, would compel the idle and shiftless to clear their farms and gardens of noxious animals. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses The shiftless one only nodded in reply, but both as they ran tied their ammunition again around their necks, seeing at the same time that their powder horns were stopped up tightly. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" The chance of the shiftless one came presently. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand He knew that they were cannon, but he had hoped that the shiftless one would persuade him they were not. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods “You can trust us,” replied Henry, and he and the shiftless one started at once along the edge of the river toward the northeast, where the Indian camp lay. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness More frequently the temptation is to take an easy kind of work, rather than harder work; or to do our work shiftlessly rather than thoroughly. Practical Ethics The shiftless one felt a sharp, stinging pain in his side as a bullet glanced off his ribs, but he did not wince. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" "It doesn't do to be too keerless," said the shiftless one in a contented tone as he reloaded his rifle. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand No, Paul," said the shiftless one, "you didn't hear it but it came off anyway. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods “What do you think, Henry?” whispered the shiftless one. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness Why should I share my earnings with the shiftless vagabond, the good-for-nothing loafer? Practical Ethics He heard a splash behind him as Sol, too, sprang into the water of the Ohio, but the shiftless one remained in the shadow of the bank. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" The warriors appeared at the edge of the water while the boat's crew were still within range, but when Henry and the shiftless one raised their rifles they shrank back. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand "A whole day's rest," said the shiftless one, with deep approval. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods “Thar’s your development!” exclaimed the shiftless one, as a rifle was fired from the northern shore, and a bullet plashed in the water just ahead of them. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness In a shiftless way and with straitly limited income, he had done what he could do for her. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play Then he took it in a mighty clasp that the shiftless one returned as far as his strength would permit. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" It is not likely that they understood the words of the shiftless one, but certainly the derisive gestures that he made as he sat down were not lost upon them. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand "About how far would you say it is now to the cave?" he asked the shiftless one. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The shiftless one looked at the northern, then at the southern forest, and shook his head. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness One contingency the countrydweller prepared grimly against: roaming hordes of the hungry from the towns, driven to plunder by starvation which they were too shiftless to alleviate by purchasing concentrates, for sale everywhere. Greener Than You Think The sense of humor and joy of life had fully returned to the shiftless one. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" "I'm fur the boat an' the river," replied the shiftless one. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand The face of the shiftless one glowed as he spoke. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods But the shiftless one was already walking proudly back toward them. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness The war, bringing disruption and bankruptcy to so many shiftless and shortsighted people, made of Consolidated Pemmican one of the country's great concerns. Greener Than You Think Henry and the shiftless one stood by, watching eagerly, and the three in the boat at a little distance were also watching eagerly. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" "You're right, Henry," said the shiftless one, "but my blood was mighty hot for a minute." The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand His eyes turned toward the gap, where the shiftless one had placed the Angel with the Flaming Sword. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods “Will you tell us, Henry, what you found out while we wuz away?” asked the shiftless one. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness "Am I responsible for those too shiftless to fend for themselves?" Greener Than You Think It was one of the greatest griefs in the life of Solomon Hyde, called the shiftless one, that he was compelled to yield to Henry's advice. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" The shiftless one was now on the other side of the town, perhaps a mile away. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand Henry knew that the shiftless one would not like it, if he did not take his turn, and, making his leafy bed, he was soothed to quick sleep by the singing of the birds. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods Yet his heart would have leaped had he beheld the shiftless and the silent ones, making their way among the trees, the needed packs on their backs. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness Head bent, she moved on in the shiftless, hopeless fashion of the sort of humanity she was representing, furtively taking her bearings and making such sidelong observations as she dared. Special Messenger "Henry," said the shiftless one, "when that battle wuz about over I thought I saw you runnin' into the woods after a big warrior who looked like a chief." The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" The sun was then about an hour high, and, a little after twilight, the shiftless one returned with a package wrapped in a piece of deerskin. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand It was in the mind of the shiftless one that he too would like to go into that vast unknown North some day, if the fighting in Kentucky ever came to an end. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The shiftless one raised his head and inhaled its clear, sweet odors, the great heart under the deerskins and the great brain under the thatch of hair alike sending forth a challenge. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness It is now quite familiar— "Thriftless, shiftless, feckless." The Romance of Words (4th ed.) The shiftless one reached out his hand and touched Henry's lightly. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" Henry and the shiftless one looked each other squarely in the face. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand It was the shiftless one returning to their lair, and doubtless in triumph. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods “A lot of ’em are dancin’ the scalp dance,” said the shiftless one. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness Sary’s parents were shiftless and ignorant people and though Sary was almost fifteen years old, and a woman in size, she was still among children of ten and eleven. Chicken Little Jane The answer came from the southwest, and the shiftless one announced instantly that it was Paul. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" "Ah," said the shiftless one, "then we'll listen a little longer." The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand Ef the boys are besieged, an' we think they are," said the shiftless one, "they kin hold out quite a while even without our help. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods “You will come into the camp and hear the reports of the scouts,” said Blackstaffe, speaking in Miami, which both Henry and the shiftless one understood perfectly. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness His mother thought it a kind of shiftless business. A Little Girl in Old New York The shiftless one put his hand in his improvised bed and held up an oak leaf. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" Involuntarily he and the shiftless one glanced at each other, and each read the same in the other's eyes. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand Nevertheless both he and the shiftless one were apprehensive of wandering warriors who might see them from some covert, and their progress, of necessity, was slow. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods “The falls fur me!” replied the shiftless one, quickly. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness So, part of the year they revel in luxury, and during the rest they go shabby—like shiftless people. Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas The moonlight disclosed the broad grin and shining teeth of the shiftless one. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" Then Henry painted the shiftless one in the same fashion. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand But they mean too," said the shiftless one, courageously, "that so long as we hear 'em the boys are holdin' out. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods “An’ we’ve left the enemy behind!” sang the shiftless one, looking back at the white masses. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness |
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