| 单词 | shiftlessness |
| 例句 | She saw such behavior as a troubling sign of the rising shiftlessness of the age. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Diversions visually suppressed shiftlessness or illicitness, or anything a bouncer had been instructed to keep out of a club. Should I button up or button down? 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z If you were satisfied with taking on all duties, and your hubby’s shiftlessness, you wouldn’t have written in. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Husband second-guesses having his elderly mom move in 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Some residents bristle at what they consider the willful shiftlessness of people living on the streets. Column: How do we stay humane when housing homeless people comes with a view to your backyard? 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z But DeSantis’ little veto represents a paradigm shift in abetting legislative shiftlessness. Florida editorial roundup 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Speaking to a small group of students and instructors at Renton Technical College, Biden acknowledged “the middle class is hurting,” but said he gets angry at those who accuse out-of-work people of shiftlessness. Biden tours Renton college, tells group ‘The middle class is hurting’ 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Indeed, the circumstances of the Janitor’s arrest only furnished new proof of the ineptitude and shiftlessness of those whose business it was to ferret out Nihilism. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z It will not do to impute the latter entirely to the natural shiftlessness of the Irish people, as if they would rather beg than work. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z And that Mrs. Whiting did, though she shook her head over what she termed “extravagance and shiftlessness.” Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z The cleanest and healthiest towns on earth are on the Canal Zone, and the last word in shiftlessness and inefficiency is also here. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z I recall one special effort to impress upon her the great misery she was preparing for herself by her shiftlessness. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z This same poverty and shiftlessness you find among the peasants almost everywhere. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z For, after all, though a woman ought to see that a man's buttons are sewed on, you can't say that mere shiftlessness is a sin. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z The Cuban settler of that class had in course of time to acquire a habitual indifference toward the morrow, which developed into shiftlessness. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z Streets knee-deep in mire, mud-floored houses, through which pigs wander at will, shiftlessness, dirt, insanitation are the register of the wet season in interior Panama. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z Many, many authors foregather, from various causes—tradition, inclination, general shiftlessness. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z In the future, as inevitably as history develops from a fact into a fable, the waste would be exalted into liberality, the shiftlessness into efficiency. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z “When you compare these peasants and their spotless homes, to the filth and shiftlessness of the peasants in Ireland, you cannot help but wonder what causes the vast difference in living,” said Polly. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z But water's not the only thing as shows their shiftlessness. Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs 2011-09-03T02:00:18.353Z Labor saves us from the chaos of sloth, the pains of shiftlessness. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z Vice can be bought on the "hire system," by which a person gets into debt pleasantly—which introduces shiftlessness into life. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z Beneath the waste and extravagance and incompetence, a tremendous spirit was moving; and out of the general aspect of bureaucratic shiftlessness, America was gathering her strength. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Mother says she’s ashamed of her own shiftlessness whenever she looks at it. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z When I made the discovery a good many years ago that I could never hope to become anything, I made up my mind to distinguish myself for shiftlessness. The Mystery of the Locks 2011-05-29T02:00:08.800Z Invention, poetry, music, artistic taste, philanthropy, intensity, and originality, are sometimes of a higher order among these persons, but desultory, half-finished work and shiftlessness are much more common. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z She was slipping back into shiftlessness, into minute untidiness—into actual slovenliness. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z But yet again are we brought back to the ignorance, shiftlessness and criminality of the Negro. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z Along the waterfront he has a reputation for shiftlessness.” Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z Such a system has encouraged dishonesty, and wastefulness; it has made many landlords cruel and greedy, it has increased the helplessness, hopelessness and shiftlessness of the Negro. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z For it is nothing but heedlessness and shiftlessness that prevents us from making salt enough for a supply. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams The Association’s report for 1909 showed that intemperance, imprisonment, desertion, ‘shiftlessness and inefficiency,’ all told, accounted for not 12 per cent of those brought to want. The Menace of Prohibition Where there is a habit of work, there are seldom the laziness and shiftlessness which especially cause or stimulate sexual vice. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them A few minutes walk brought the three friends to a dilapidated cabin on the beach, whose appearance and surroundings testified, in unmistakable language, to the poverty and shiftlessness of its occupant. No Moss The Career of a Rolling Stone I detest every vestige of those old ideas of theirs; I hate the pride and shiftlessness of all this land. East Angels Scarcely any thing is a greater misfortune than shiftlessness. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend What is to prevent thousands of other rural townships, which are now losing population, gradually sinking to the low level of personal shiftlessness and institutional uselessness which are the marks of degeneracy? The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity At the set time for the disbursement of alms, the mendicants thronged the institution, and, by the liberality of the donors, were encouraged to continue in a life of shiftlessness and beggary. Women of England He was not even the owner of a good name, and led her a terrible life with his drunken shiftlessness, and hindrance of all her own better aims. Strangers and Wayfarers This was in accordance with my theory—the prevailing theory—that poverty is the child of sin, that lack of work is the fruit of shiftlessness. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 Hence the contagion of crime and shiftlessness spreads to decent families and tends to undermine them. Our Southern Highlanders But his demeanor was creditable, he seemed quite free of any taint of the shiftlessness which his appearance might have suggested, and his amusement at the scouts’ bantering nonsense was open and pleasant. Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp It is a mooted question whether shiftlessness causes dressing-sacks, or dressing-sacks cause shiftlessness, but there is no doubt about the loving association of the two. Threads of Grey and Gold He was a black atom, drifting hither and thither without an owner, blown about by all the winds of circumstance, and given over to shiftlessness. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches Mr. Meynell tried to waylay him at the new address, a chemist's shop in Drury Lane, but with characteristic shiftlessness the poet forgot to call there for possible letters. The Hound of Heaven Commonly it is a symbol of shiftlessness and unconcern. Our Southern Highlanders Naturally the Christian rulers couldn’t stand for that sort of shiftlessness in a heathen! The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine We quarrel with the stupidity, shiftlessness, and ignorance of men, and not with the providence of God. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside It is unquestionably true that a large number of these men register by their actions instability, irregularity and general shiftlessness. Negro Migration during the War These transformations are the successive steps of a real reformation, and every step puts the man at a greater and safer distance from past shiftlessness and viciousness. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science “Tight houses,” sheathed or plastered, are universally despised, partly from inherited shiftlessness, partly for less obvious reasons. Our Southern Highlanders I alternated between passive submission to island laziness, shiftlessness, slovenliness, dirt, and active assertion of Ohio vim. An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China His vices, his drinking, cigarette smoking and general shiftlessness were, she argued, the result of bad associates. The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life To leave the flag out at night, unattended, is proof of shiftlessness, or at least carelessness. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts The outcome of such education will be that, instead of the downtrodden child of ignorance, shiftlessness, and moral weakness, we shall generate the thoroughly rounded man of prudence, foresight, responsibility, and financial independence. Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Capital is Roger North's picture of Bob Wright's ludicrous shiftlessness whenever the influence of his powerful relations brought the loquacious, handsome, plausible fellow a piece of business. A Book About Lawyers You can call it what you’ve a mind to, liberality or shiftlessness. Mountain Blood A Novel The same evidence of shiftlessness could be seen on every hand. Crooked Trails and Straight He was intolerant of laziness—"shiftlessness" the country phrase ran—but he had the reputation of being a just taskmaster and he could be very kind. Rainbow Hill The eating-house, the rooms and hallways, were all of that desolate shabbiness which comes from shiftlessness joined with poverty. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West The farmer did the best he could for them while they stayed, and for his survivors; but he was burdened with a large family, a miserably poor farm, deep poverty, and hopeless shiftlessness. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 When she incessantly denounced the “shiftlessness” of letting a new threshing machine stand unprotected in the open, he eventually built a shed for it. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays He often accused himself of shiftlessness and begged her to make sure that he dictated certain matter before he escaped for the evening. The Job An American Novel The causes of poverty are accident, sickness, inability to secure work, laziness, improvidence, intemperance, ignorance, and shiftlessness. Practical Ethics Nothing will end the moral shiftlessness of this country but the death of the freebooter. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West Rochester, despite all his wickedness, frivolity, shiftlessness and general unworthiness—or perhaps because of these things—had been able to make this woman love him, take his part against his family and return to him. The Man Who Lost Himself Not only the malice of nature and the rage of enemies, but human shiftlessness against him too? A Matter of Proportion He recognized all her admirable qualities, which filled in the shortcomings of his shiftlessness with admirable exactitude. The Dew of Their Youth Industry, economy, the love of fresh air, the enjoyment of the early morning, the hatred of laziness, shiftlessness, sharp practise and all that savors of graft, grab and get-by-any-means—these characteristics were strong in both. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen The squalor and shiftlessness which were plainly in evidence about the houses which he saw filled him with disgust and a dreary hopelessness. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day One of the charges against the Negro has been his shiftlessness, both as far as his personal industriousness is concerned, and as far as the care of his home and things about him. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 The shiftlessness which left the sewing-machine useless junk in a family of eight was a Trotter characteristic. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale No matter if I do have t' go t' the poorhouse on account of yer shiftlessness. Janet of the Dunes But no such exigency could be pleaded to excuse the dirt and discomfort and lack of the commonest provision of outhouse decency at most of these places—'twas mere shiftlessness. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska He cannot be severely censured when their shiftlessness is borne in mind. Mary Wollstonecraft Cox, with all his shiftlessness, knew when to hold his tongue; and so, after plying him with several drinks, Rivers was obliged to let him go, without finding out what he wanted. The Expressman and the Detective In some men it results in paralysis of the energies, changing the character into shiftlessness. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony Idleness and shiftlessness may be set down as causing a large part of the failures of the world. Pushing to the Front Faculty is the greatest virtue, and shiftlessness the greatest vice, of Yankee man and woman. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Under the first head come drink, immorality, laziness, shiftlessness and inefficiency, crime and dishonesty, a roving disposition. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 You're going to cut out the cafés and the lobster suppers, and I'm going to cut out my shiftlessness and indolence. The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life The foreman of a Southern mill, who was much troubled by the shiftlessness of his colored workers, called sharply to two of the men slouching past him. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Dirk was a great broad-shouldered, slouching fellow, with a general air of shiftlessness about him. Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught She will stand just about one week of their shiftlessness. Quin The shiftlessness of the native builders in the use of the more convenient material brings its own penalty during this season in a necessity for constant watchfulness and frequent repairs to keep the houses habitable. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 A general air of shiftlessness and squalor pervaded the settlement. The Colonel's Dream The total absence of all attempts at artificial ornamentation gave the future Mrs. Poteet an appearance of forlorn shiftlessness that was not even slightly justified by the facts. Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White True, it would be much lonelier, but that was far more endurable than the sight of such shiftlessness and ignorance. Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Out in the yard, in a fabulous net of gilded mist they stood, to bathe under the spouting gourd, the mingling of a new day's poetry and the shiftlessness of an old man. An Arkansas Planter So in the odour of shiftlessness Abel's father had died; so after ninety years his grandparents still sat by the hearth to which his mother had called him. The Miller Of Old Church The colonel had never thought of young Dudley as being at all energetic, but so ill-kept a place argued shiftlessness in a marked degree. The Colonel's Dream Meantime, what he saw and heard all around him, poverty, inequality, greed, shiftlessness, low views of life, ceaseless and poorly remunerated toil, made incessant demands upon him. Life of Father Hecker Such utter shiftlessness as everything about the cluster of tumble-downs betokened he had never imagined. Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught In no life are the grit and efficiency of the well-bred in such marked contrast with the puling whine and shiftlessness of the settler from the cesspool of the city slums. The Canadian Commonwealth It does him no credit to have the flag floating above a home that proclaims his shiftlessness. The Vitalized School I will admit that many of the children come from what we call the poor whites, but after all their main vice is shiftlessness, and Maria is not very likely to become contaminated with that.” By the Light of the Soul A Novel Stories were told of her dirt and shiftlessness, of the hens which roosted in her kitchen. Pembroke A Novel All this closeness and contempt for shiftlessness and prodigality were perfectly consistent with a large and hospitable way of living; for during many years of his life he kept open house at Mt. Four American Leaders The whole scene seemed to me affected and middle-class, untidy, too, with an un-English note about it of shiftlessness; the æsthetic dresses were extravagant, the enthusiasms pumped up and exaggerated. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 In the long period of his preparation he must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able who shoulder him aside. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson He had not been at the Double A long, but he had seen signs of shiftlessness here and there. Square Deal Sanderson Rats, weeds, extravagance, general shiftlessness are still doing business at the old stand, unmolested. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder His mother inherited the shiftlessness and carelessness which is part and parcel of "poor white." page 130These things are incontestable, they must be looked in the face. American Men of Action The more we know of their mode of life, the more are we inclined to marvel at its utter shiftlessness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 A raggedness, a poverty, a shiftlessness, characterized external Washington. Children of the Market Place This is a triumph over the lax, uncleanly shiftlessness of the Southern settlement. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls Mamie Sue says that Belle says Roxanne is shiftless, but Belle is unable to distinguish shiftlessness from noble composure under difficulties. Phyllis Invention, poetry, music, artistic taste and originality are occasionally of a high order, and the memory is sometimes phenomenal; but desultory, half-finished work, and shiftlessness are the rule. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment She had needed them to combat Len's shiftlessness and slack good nature. Half Portions "A pretty affair," said Mrs. Lively, "to payout five dollars just for somebody's shiftlessness!" Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 But you've got to remember that it was the easy shiftlessness of the South that made such conditions possible. The Boy With the U.S. Census The idleness and shiftlessness of certain members of his race—undoubtedly altogether too numerous—are dwelt upon as characteristic of the entire family. The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights In normal people there is a slight consciousness of mental processes, but the mind rarely watches itself work; the neurasthenic is unable to concentrate, and gets charged with inconstancy and shiftlessness. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment Too often he allows what little garden he has to be choked with weeds through his shiftlessness. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution I give this rather shocking example of sophomoric shiftlessness for the purpose of illustrating my attitude toward my educational opportunities and what was possible in the way of dexterously avoiding them. The "Goldfish" We staid and sober citizens generally object strenuously to living in actual contact with the unpunctuality, unreliability, unreasonableness, shiftlessness, and general irresponsibility that are the invariable concomitants of this picturesqueness. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado They remembered what he had once said to a district judge whom he heard bitterly inveighing against their ingratitude, immorality, shiftlessness, and general worthlessness. The Purple Heights She had seen men slouching around in old straw hats-and shoddy gray trousers and negligée shirts with the tie askew, and the clothes had spelled poverty or shiftlessness. Starr, of the Desert When Perkins had been in the town three years, the anecdotes illustrating his shiftlessness multiplied, and his name was a synonym for that trait of character known in the vernacular as "no-'count." The Court of Boyville Here was no poverty, but the shiftlessness of a sot, trampling good things into the mire! The Maid-At-Arms General shiftlessness and inertia extended also to those branches wherein the Californian was supposed to excel. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado When she did so, he saw that her fingers were clasped tightly to hold her from shivering, and he raved inwardly at his shiftlessness the while he hurried to light a fire in the stove. The Long Shadow What stories of bravery in defeat, of faith in the midst of disaster, of family devotion in spite of squalor and subterfuges and all imaginable shiftlessness and shiftiness. The Precipice It is as easy to transmit shiftlessness, idleness and lax habits as disease. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment Yet, under this surface elegance and display, one could scarcely choose but note how everywhere an amazing shiftlessness reigned in the patroon's house. The Maid-At-Arms They were often lazy and shiftless, but they never deified laziness and shiftlessness or made them into a cult. The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 And Nana, between her mother's toil and her father's shiftlessness, ran wild about the streets. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction When things grew insupportable in their shiftlessness the master lashed out an order and got what he demanded; then soon matters sank back again to their old state. The Purchase Price We do but emerge now from a period of deliberate happy-go-lucky and the influence of Herbert Spencer, who came near raising public shiftlessness to the dignity of a national philosophy. An Englishman Looks at the World The only cure for the evils which come from ignorance and shiftlessness is the abolition of ignorance and shiftlessness; and this is slow work. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins It is hardly surprising that nine years of persevering shiftlessness should have resulted in nothing but the ability to procure the bare necessaries of life. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains From it he had brought home a broken constitution, a maimed body and confirmed habits of shiftlessness and drunkenness. The Cost The lawlessness of our lads the increased license of our girls, the general shiftlessness from the home-making point of view of the product of our factories and schools are far from reassuring. In Darkest England and the Way Out Wain lived in an old plantation house, somewhat dilapidated, and surrounded by an air of neglect and shiftlessness, but still preserving a remnant of dignity in its outlines and comfort in its interior arrangements. The House Behind the Cedars And, indeed, the merchants tell many a true tale of shiftlessness and cheating; of cotton picked at night, mules disappearing, and tenants absconding. The Souls of Black Folk I think she suffers from her husband's shiftlessness. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains The great sin of sins, in her eyes,—the sum of all evils,—was expressed by one very common and important word in her vocabulary—"shiftlessness." Uncle Tom's Cabin It would injure the polish of the piano, and what was her guest to think of such shiftlessness. The Indian Lily and Other Stories Varney's gaze went round the circle of faces and saw inefficiency, shiftlessness, and failure everywhere stamped upon them. Captivating Mary Carstairs Here it was that the Home was ruined under the very shadow of the Church, white and black; here habits of shiftlessness took root, and sullen hopelessness replaced hopeful strife. The Souls of Black Folk The Tiverton folk who disapproved of her shiftlessness in letting the golden hours, run thus to waste, did grudgingly commend her for airing well. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life As thoroughly as before he went over everything, but much more quickly, not having the accumulated shiftlessness of former boys to contend with. The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys And to avoid that horror of the real Yankee's dreams, "shiftlessness," she was to take up a small select school for employment. Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er He had always known that Manley had an aversion to laboring with his hands, but he was unprepared for such an exhibition of shiftlessness. Lonesome Land And it was obvious, at a glance, that the corridor in which we stood was spacious and airy, with a clean limestone pavement; that the disorder and shiftlessness of the Tombs was absent here. The Subterranean Brotherhood Elim paused with an impatient snort at this exhibition of shiftlessness. The Happy End But by 1577 his prosperity declined, apparently through his own shiftlessness, and for many years he was harassed with legal difficulties. A History of English Literature In the picture of the Micawber family, with its tears and smiles and general shiftlessness, we have a suggestion of Dickens's own family life. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World He pictured mentally the guard he had burned beyond the coulee to protect them from just this danger, and his heart squeezed tight at the realization of his own shiftlessness. Lonesome Land But what the bigotry of Louis XIV and the shiftlessness of Louis XV could not do in nearly a century, was accomplished by this tampering with the currency in a few months. Fiat Money Inflation in France This "roving disposition" cannot fairly be charged to shiftlessness. The Life of Abraham Lincoln Inmates were in many cases allowed to enter and leave the institution at will, a privilege which encouraged shiftlessness and improvidence. Problems in American Democracy Everywhere was an unlovely disorder and confusion, which spoke of shiftlessness and lack of care. The Law of the Land The wretched smoky fire they maintained was the final triumph and revelation of their utter shiftlessness. Nature's Serial Story In addition, naturalization should be permitted only after a number of years, during which the immigrant would be in danger of deportation for proved criminality, vicious indulgence, intemperance, shiftlessness, troublesome agitation, and other undesirable traits. Problems of Conduct Interspersed with these were the inevitable log-cabins and dingy hovels, speaking plainly of the poverty and shiftlessness of some of the inhabitants. Four Months in a Sneak-Box And not only would socialism discourage ambition by abolishing private enterprise, but it might encourage inefficiency and shiftlessness. Problems in American Democracy In the days of his own extravagance and shiftlessness he had once or twice asked Tom to accompany him to the Old Bowery or Tony Pastor's, but Tom had always steadily refused. Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks Everything about it betokened not only poverty but shiftlessness. Marjorie's Vacation We do but emerge now from a period of deliberate happy- go-lucky and the influence of Herbert Spencer, who came near raising public shiftlessness to the dignity of a natural philosophy. Problems of Conduct Surely it was impossible after that to despise them for shiftlessness and talkative idling in peignoirs; impossible to despise them for anything whatever! The Old Wives' Tale The hope of great or sudden wealth has been the mainspring of enterprise in California, but it has also been the excuse for shiftlessness and recklessness, the cause of social disintegration and moral decay. California and the Californians They cannot be held responsible if they were unable in a single generation to eradicate in the Indian the ingrained heredity of shiftlessness of all the generations that had gone before. California Romantic and Resourceful A plea for the collection, preservation and diffusion of information relating to Pacific coast history Indians do not appreciate a strong talk on shiftlessness the way they should, with a vision of a long cold winter ahead of them. Sowing Seeds in Danny It may even be worse than wasted; it may encourage shiftlessness, it may pauperize. Problems of Conduct Instead, she could not help laughing at the tales of his masculine shiftlessness. Australia Felix The whole scene seemed to me affected and middle-class, untidy, too, with an un- English note about it of shiftlessness; the aesthetic dresses were extravagant, the enthusiasms pumped up and exaggerated. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1 His cheek reddened at his previous hasty indictment of the settlers' ignorance and shiftlessness, and the thought that he had probably committed his employers to his own rash confidence and superiority of judgment. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation The air of absolute shiftlessness must have been repellent to Mrs. Saltillo's orderly precision, and for a moment I pitied her. Stories in Light and Shadow It not only runs the continual risk of encouraging shiftlessness and dependence, but it does not go to the root of the matter. Problems of Conduct Hiram saw that the fences were in bad repair and that the back of the premises gave every indication of neglect and shiftlessness. Hiram the Young Farmer The father remained at home, taking advantage of this opportunity to survey his fields in their Sunday solitude, thus keeping a closer oversight on the shiftlessness of his hands. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Personally I find that my shiftlessness in regard to some of my work is appalling. Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business Some perverse spirit seemed to possess him and drive him out of his easy-going shiftlessness. The Heritage of the Sioux He repeated to his tut-tutting father that he did not wish to go to college or law-school, and Babbitt was equally disturbed by this "shiftlessness" and by Ted's relations with Eunice Littlefield, next door. Babbitt He had a genuine conviction that lack of physical persistence in any task involving money must be due to some subtle weakness of character itself, to some profound shiftlessness or slyness. The Turmoil, a novel The Kamtchatkans say that when the mountain goblins have got their stoves well heated up, they throw overboard, with true barbaric shiftlessness, all the brands not needed for immediate use, which makes a volcanic eruption. Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology |
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