| 单词 | sottish |
| 例句 | Much of this sottish drinking was meant to drown sorrows, and forget the troubles and hardships of black life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Those convulsive chuckles alerted the audience that Knight is not the callow person that he plays, nor is Stewart that sottish prig. The joy of corpsing: why giggling fits the theatre 2010-10-21T09:36:00Z The main point of distinction between the Cluricaune and the Shefro, arises from the sottish and solitary habits of the former, who are rarely found in troops or communities. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Catholics and Protestants had exchanged the kiss of Judas; and Dublin resigned herself to sottish conviviality. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Just as before, he took his "pleasure" coming and going to town, and living the life of sottish ease, as became a man of fashion and a court soldier. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z My Grandfather was not at all of Montaigne's opinion that order in the management of life is sottish, but looked upon it rather as "Heaven's first law." Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z But this was not from the sottish satisfaction of wine: the light came from that subtle window in his soul, from which once more the shutters had been thrown back. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Schooled as he had been to sights of debauchery by his service with Cuter Malone, Brent was appalled—sickened by the sottish degeneracy of his surroundings. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z A few hours afterwards, ’Ngaloo might have been seen marching about among Harry’s troops, with a sottish kind of a smile on his face. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z Yet withal, he was fairly well-intentioned, not a meddler, never wantonly unjust, willing to do kindnesses, if not fatiguing; a heavy, good-natured, heathenish, sottish lout of a king. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z To all the shallow sophistries or sottish errors, that tended to falsify his glorious dream of world-wide British unity, Franklin presented a merciless intellect. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z By this man young Urquhart is made drunk, and when as a butt he no longer amuses the sottish company they brutally turn him into the street. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z His sottish habits, also, have become most outrageous. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The Easy Chair has seen such frantic gobbling at a railway eating-room that it could only gaze in wonder at the sottish and, so to speak, drunken eating. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z That in consequence of this determination she "got herself acquainted" with another lover—not a Scottish and sottish soi-disant M. P., but a real, unadulterated, and genuine Irish Mem. Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' 2011-04-08T02:00:09.863Z He was really totally unfit to take charge of the boat, and I virtually took her down the canal, though with sottish obstinacy he insisted on remaining on the bridge. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z My first prediction is but a trifle, yet I mention it to show how ignorant these sottish pretenders to astrology are in their own concerns: it refers to Partridge the almanac-maker. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Besides, he was no sottish weakling, who could not trust himself to take one moderate dose of morphia without risking the danger of a renewal of the habit. Shadows of Flames A Novel Morally licentious and politically decadent the Venetians undoubtedly were; but they were neither brutal, nor cruel, nor savage, nor sottish. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The idea of making war can nowadays only enter the brain of a sottish bourgeois or a belated romantic. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels I suppose I 'll be called a drunkard next; there 's nothing more likely than I 'll be told it was my own sottish habits brought all this ruin upon me. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day And a swine-herd passed with his swine, Deformed; and I heard him growl; Two eyes of a sottish shine Leered under two brows as foul. Days and Dreams Poems Surely the finger of scorn ought to be pointed at the men who are base enough to wish, and sottish enough to attempt, to unsettle a whole language. Noah Webster American Men of Letters Here there were hungry faces, sottish faces, sickly faces, and an endless pushing and jostling around the costermongers' barrows. A Vanished Hand All's but naught, Patience is sottish, and impatience does Become a dog that's mad. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical A dozen pair of leering eyes were fixed upon him; a dozen mouths were wrinkled into sottish smiles, called up by his sufferings at that critical moment. The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer Behold their sottish idolatries, their absurd superstitions, their want of natural affection, their brutal excesses, their unfeeling oppression, their savage cruelty! A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. Where should a man find any one so sottish as would make a doubt which of these to prefer in his choice? The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I In the frequent intervals during which the royal authority was in the hands of sottish wastrels, the chance of independence was no doubt seized. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir On the tobacco growing round the town the blame of the calamity was thrown; and it was resolved to punish tobacco, the sottish rain-drinker and wicked rain-bringer. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce His hood had fallen back, displaying a bullet head, red cheeks and purple nose, while the wooden beads of this sottish counterfeit of a friar trailed from his girdle on the ground. Under the Rose Others are so notoriously sottish, that being over head and ears in the myrie puddle of gross ignorance, yet they will by no means see or acknowledge it. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery There was no mistake about it—every man was at once convinced of this from the vicar down to the most sottish of the anti-temperance gathering. True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Fair promises, with certain drawbacks, are made to children of the twenty-third day; and infants of the twenty-fourth day will be good-tempered, perhaps sottish. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales And while you cruise and lay down the same, and indeed during all that here ensueth of Directions for your following, avoid foolish Conversation and sottish Pleasantries with those about you; The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note As a first step Hanriot, a sottish but very determined battalion leader, was placed in supreme command of the national guard. The French Revolution A Short History As I would be no let or over-vehement in any thing, so I am not sottish or senseless of the common grievance of the commonwealth. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. He was an ill-conditioned, sottish fellow who treated her badly, but had given her a child. Lore of Proserpine A howling sottish mob mad with drink, clamouring, gesticulating, men and women jostling each other, embracing vulgarly, their eyes glassy, their faces flushed, was approaching the inn. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' A more sottish crew of rakes you never saw. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Many sottish-looking, or if not sottish with the beery texture of those whose only recreation is to be bestially merry at the drink-shop. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Thou callest, 'Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings;' but we have been foolish, sottish children, without understanding, wise to do evil, but to do good having no knowledge. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. The organs of the various benevolent societies come weekly or monthly to our doors, detailing scenes of sottish ignorance, of pollutions and misery, which cause philanthropy to weep. The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character But the monk was snoring deeply, and the bloated face which was turned towards him displayed that abandonment of repose which bespeaks a very sound and even sottish slumber. The Secret Chamber at Chad And can any be so sottish, as to think all those things the productions of chance? Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon So saying, one of this peevish, sottish band staggered close up to Israel. Israel Potter A few hours later, sodden, sottish, he lay without motion, face to the sky. Half A Chance This Prince, however dull and sottish, might have sense enough to see that be could no where be in a worse condition than he was in his Native Country. An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170 And therefore, Secondly, Wilt thou be so sottish and unwise, as to venture thy soul upon a little uncertain time? The Heavenly Footman But be they English, Irish, Scottish, What Protestant can be so sottish, While o'er the church these clouds are gathering To call a swarm of lice his brethren? The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 A sottish project; instead of feeding fifty, you starve a hundred. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings The Danish king drank inordinately; so did the whole of his suite: and they soon inoculated the English Court with their sottish tastes. The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance The sottish way of arguing; from what the parliament can do; from their power, &c. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 "The people will always be sottish and barbarous," he wrote to M. Bordes; "they are oxen needing a yoke, a goad, and a bit of hay." A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 A child enters the world in China; and unites, as a thing of course, with his sottish countrymen in the stupid worship of the idol Fo. The world's great sermons, Volume 03 Massillon to Mason None was anciently used for no before all words beginning with a vowel sound; as, "They are sottish children; and they have none understanding." The Grammar of English Grammars "I know not how to break this wretched news to my father," said the Rev. George, turning disconsolately from his sottish cousin to Conolly. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage First rendered reckless by imprisonment—then hopeless—then sottish—and, last of all, from utter despair of freedom, insane! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828 As a general principle and abstract proposition, Miggs held the male sex to be utterly contemptible and unworthy of notice; to be fickle, false, base, sottish, inclined to perjury, and wholly undeserving. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty My first prediction is but a trifle, yet I will mention it, to show how ignorant those sottish pretenders to astrology are in their own concerns. The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces But the little man suggested that the architecture of Gopher Prairie was haphazard, and that it was sottish to let the lake-front be monopolized by the cinder-heaped wall of the railroad embankment. Main Street He drew with a flourish, with actual animation, for sottish, debauched and power-crazed as this man was, he came of a race to whom danger was a cordial. The Certain Hour Oh Ronald," he murmured, "what a fool you are! what a drunken, sottish fool you are. The Amateur Gentleman And every citizen of Palmyra, save a few sottish souls, is with me. Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra The poet fears not to tell the reader in the outset that his hero was a desperate and sottish drunkard, whose excesses were as frequent as his opportunities. Wordsworth What makes, in many countries, the people rebellious and depraved, pages saucy and mischievous, students sottish and duncical? Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts, to see what the issue would be of that babbling strife and contention. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 She cries out against the wicked shepherds, against the sottish people. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) It can't hurt those sottish spirits to hear a new word, even if it be not all true. Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts In a few minutes more the scuffle ended shamefully enough for the sottish squireen. Two Years Ago, Volume I In a word, the cries which you utter when suffering from the insane fury of your sottish husband have reached even me, and I'm come to offer you a little advice and assistance. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 350, January 3, 1829 He has one motive more, and that is the concurrent ignorant judgment of the present age, in which his sottish fopperies pass with applause, like Oliver Cromwell's oratory among fanatics of his own canting inclination. Character Writings of the 17th Century My first Prediction is but a trifle; yet I will mention it to shew how ignorant those sottish pretenders to Astrology are in their own concerns. An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments Those picturesque villages are generally the perennial hotbeds of fever and ague, of squalid penury, sottish profligacy, dull discontent too stale for words. Yeast: a Problem Though Satir then had such a plenteous crop, An After Math of Coxcombs is come up; Who not content false Poetry to renew, By sottish Censures wou'd condemn the true. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III They were signed By sottish braves—the Long-Knife's tavern-chiefs— Who sell their honor like a pack of fur, Make favour with the pale-face for his fee, And caper with the hatchet for his sport. Tecumseh : a Drama Even the scanty pride that had survived in one degraded by sottish debauchery might have been nauseated by the contrast. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 Wilt thou be so sottish and unwise, as to venture thy soul upon a little uncertain time? Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 A non-praying man lives like a beast, nay worse, and with reference to his station, a more sottish life than he. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 As they were leaving, the young man's sottish companion became as respectful as he had previously been insolent. The Fortune of the Rougons These men of the past are ugly with their home-spun trousers, their long hair, their jackets with pockets under the arms, their sottish air, half drunkard, half saint. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Her husband had become so indolent and sottish, that all her exertions were needed to keep her little flock from suffering with cold and hunger. The Lights and Shadows of Real Life And even though I relate every fact as truly as the Holy Book itself, what will there be left of it by the time it has passed through a hundred sottish brains in Greenland yonder? The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days If, just about the time I first knew you, I had abandoned myself to a life of sottish despair, of course I should have charged Constance with the blame of it. Born in Exile Mrs. Barker, a washerwoman who had reformed her sottish husband, was henceforth a mere offence in the eyes of the vicar's wife. Our Friend the Charlatan Gabriel strove to restrain himself from breaking out into brutal language about the sottish Malins and his pound. Dubliners Military courage, the boast of the sottish German, of the frivolous and prating Frenchman, of the romantic and arrogant Spaniard, he neither possesses nor values. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 In plain English, the complaint of “My son Benjamin” was drunkenness, of the stupid, pig-headed, sottish kind. A House to Let Such, in a short word, was this ‘sottish man’ who crossed over the field to meet with our pilgrim when he was walking solitary by himself after his escape from the slough. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) If you would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with you.” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes People who saw him only over his bottle would have supposed him to be a man gross indeed, sottish, and addicted to low company and low merriment, but social and goodhumoured. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 |
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