| 单词 | sottishness |
| 例句 | It would be vexatious to have to resign a modicum of personal liberty, but the sacking of the castle by a watchful enemy, who knew of its master's sottishness, would be a worse evil. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z How many groundless opinions and absurd institutions have not received a general sanction from the sottishness and intemperance of individuals? A Vindication of Natural Diet. 2012-02-02T03:04:34.883Z More than he himself thought the death of his once loved child stirred the human soul in him, and he was not able again to fall back into sottishness. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z The mind thus enslaved, necessarily loses its interest in the processes of other minds; and its tendency is to sink down into absolute stolidity or sottishness. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z With all his air of hopeless sottishness, that clings to him like a spotted garment, there is still something strange about the man that attracts the attention of Mark Gore. Portia or By Passions Rocked This is sottishness, rather than generalship, in our local commanders. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital There was no sottishness about it, no solitary drinking, no drinking for drink's sake, no drunkenness. The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon But where would be forthcoming a sermon forcible enough to restrain the shameful sottishness and the drink devil among us? Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost He could not hear Death's rattle at the door, He was so busy with his sottishness. The Message A feeling of consuming vengeance seethed in her heart; the patience she was forced to practise, much against her will, petrified in time into a mien of hypocritic sottishness. The Goose Man The people laughed at the grotesque appearance of some, and at the decrepit sottishness of others. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I Let me tell you too—en confiance—that while revelry may not always merge into ebriety, soberness, in too deep potations, may become a sort of sottishness. The Confidence-Man Finally he returned to Haworth to loaf at the village inn, shock his sisters by his excesses, and to fritter his life away in painful sottishness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Psha! he would break any poor heart with his incorrigible wildness and beastly sottishness in a month's time. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes The Lord is just waiting to save this dejected victim of alcohol from his hateful enemy who has made him what he is at this hour, and will forgive all his sottishness, his sins. Applied Psychology for Nurses Whoever has formed true ideas of the ignorance, credulity, negligence, and sottishness of common people, will always regard their religious opinions with the greater suspicion for their being generally established. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense I would show you how—by the faith of Saint Paul!—it as well befits a fool to talk folly and sottishness as it becomes a wise man to speak wisely. Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers "But what foolishness and craziness and sottishness for Ishmael to be in love with Miss Merlin!" exclaimed Hannah impatiently. Ishmael Or, In the Depths He entered with the corners of his mouth so turned down, as to give to his whole countenance the expression of habitual sottishness and debauchery. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) But for your stupidity and sottishness you might have known, by attending to the public gazette, that you had your full quantity of ten thousand acres of land allowed you. George Washington, Volume I I had heard tales of a growing sottishness, a decline in spirit, a squalid taste in pleasures. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies And how fewer of them would hold together, did not most of the wife's actions escape the husband's knowledge through his neglect or sottishness! The Praise of Folly But, besides, I know not what I should rather admire in him, his presumption or his sottishness. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 In fact, he had never had those tastes which bring a man to hopeless sottishness. Thyrza This King in mere sottishness slew many of his captains. A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): a contribution to the history of India Yet because of their sottishness and blindness men do not understand; but like brute beasts, for the sake of a little pleasure of this corruptible life, they incur death of the soul. The Imitation of Christ His sottishness and want of spirit, in that he thought that, without any other demonstration or sufficient argument, the world would be pleased to make his blockish and ridiculous impositions the rule of their devices. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 |
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