| 单词 | spindle-shanked |
| 例句 | The long, spindle-shanked shadows of the horses had disappeared. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z Here everybody dances, old and young, and you'll see fat old married ladies waddle off with their gray and spindle-shanked husbands. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z The fire still smoldered, and the spindle-shanked dressing-table, with the glass set in its mahogany frame, cast unearthly shadows on the floor in the half-light. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z Well, you know, I was down at Thorman’s place one evening, and old Garthorpe came jogging up on that spindle-shanked nag of his. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z It is my business, and as long as I'm stuck here on this spindle-shanked contrivance of a stool I'll say what I think. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z She called her a spindle-shanked old hag and said she was going to tell the men about her false teeth. The Cottage of Delight A Novel So these spindle-shanked emperors and bishops and generals, who subtilise everything with their reason, disgust me. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) As for spindle-shanked, he filled his loose woolen clothes better than before. Aurora the Magnificent A mangy and spindle-shanked cur rushed yapping forth, roused by the tread of the horse’s hoofs. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z At the end he went back to the plane with a spindle-shanked boy with a lantern accompanying him. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 No more of your big-headed, spindle-shanked manikins: we shall have a chance then of seeing a man—that is, a perfect animal. Audrey Craven He was a tall, thin, spindle-shanked gentleman, very absent-minded, but a great scholar. In the Days of Drake Though some years my senior he was but a lean, spindle-shanked creature, whom I felt better able to give a buffet to than to take one from him. Athelstane Ford His delicate clothing and effeminate habits were derided by his playmates, who nicknamed him Batalus, after, we are told, a spindle-shanked flute-player. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The young fellows meant what they said; they were all the better for their roughing, and I wish the spindle-shanked youths who polk and flirt at Newport and Saratoga had manliness enough for such undertakings. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland "Done!" says I. "To think," groans Jack, blowing out his cheeks and striking himself a violent blow in the chest, "to think of a pale-faced, pranked-out, spindle-shanked, mealy-mouthed popinjay like him!" The Honourable Mr. Tawnish Oh, these dear spindle-shanked Schoolmen! they were people, respected reader, not to be sneezed at. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 The boy was flat-chested and spindle-shanked and used to bank on his physical weakness when lessons were to be evaded. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Here are two chairs worthy of us, generals among this spindle-shanked regiment. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette He himself plays the heroic parts; a spindle-shanked, barber's apprentice sort of fellow, takes the aged father parts; and there's a matron, well advanced in years, who acts the young missies. A Hungarian Nabob Yes, you spindle-shanked rascal, you may well wince. Little Novels of Italy He found relaxation in the vaudeville picture he had of the spindle-shanked hypocrite fretting in the cold so many miles distant. The Seventh Noon So he sent word that he would come down the next Saturday and knock “that mullet-headed, mealy-mouthed, spindle-shanked rat into the middle of next week,” and drive him from the hills. In Happy Valley Adam Wheezer was a tall, spindle-shanked old settler as dark as an Indian, and he wore a broad, hungry grin that always grew broader at the sight of a fat sheep. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales As for the little French girls, he was at any time uninterested in girls; and these spindle-shanked precocities walked on two-inch heels, and tried to fascinate him with the graces of mature coquettes. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World He was a tall, rakish-looking fowl, whose erect carriage and lack of tail-feathers made him look like a spindle-shanked urchin as he towered there among the busy hens. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul There's not a knave So spindle-shanked, so wry-faced, so infirm, Who looks at me, and smiles not on himself. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini He had reached middle-age to be sure, but he had a leg that many a spindle-shanked youngster might envy, nor was there any unbecoming protuberance at his waist. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories But among those very spindle-shanked, terra-cotta dwellers who cower at draughts and eat soda mints, the ancient struggle for supremacy wages fiercer than ever. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories A spruce, natty little body of a creature—to be the trollop of a spindle-shanked veteran, who, besides having one foot in the grave, and a nose fit for three, might be your great-grandfather?' The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828 Isn't there time enough left for that spindle-shanked hypocrite? The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II A hedge of forlorn fir-trees knee-deep in wooden tubs guarded its terrasse of round metal tables and spindle-shanked chairs; of which few were occupied. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama I may fall in battle," said he, "by the sword or shot of a brave Englishman, but never by a thrust from a spit in the hands of a spindle-shanked Frenchman! Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale Like a hare, it was very spindle-shanked and lean over back and breast; only the hinder-parts seemed well developed; the head was placed, between the two fore-paws…. Historical Miniatures She was taking her place, morbidly sensitive and a woman of eighteen, among little spindle-shanked girls in short skirts, and the little girls were more advanced than she. The Call of the Cumberlands This red-faced hussy here, when 'er was wanted to set the table, was off to see if that spindle-shanked Sim across at the Mayor's was safe and sound. The Yeoman Adventurer It provoked a smile or two from the more frivolous as the grey, gaunt, spindle-shanked old man stalked by, yet it was not without its pathetic side. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 One educated Minnesotan, with his machinery, must count for many spindle-shanked Hindoos with their wooden rakes. Round the World It was a fair lesson of humility for a man to find himself ranked beneath this high-shouldered, spindle-shanked, beardless bit of neutrality; and as such I took it duly to heart. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 He was short of stature, spindle-shanked, rachitic and malformed, and of his face, with its colossal nose, loose mouth and shallow brow, Giovio says that "it was the ugliest ever seen on man." The Life of Cesare Borgia Augustus was a freckle-faced, spindle-shanked little critter, with spectacles and a soft, polite way of speakin' that made you want to build a fire under him to see if he could swear like a Christian. The Depot Master Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden—what a sorry, set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! Typee She was a fine, robust figure of a woman in her early forties, and he thought, after all, that the hollow-chested, spindle-shanked kind were more ex-pensive to feed, on the whole, than their better-padded sisters. Story of Waitstill Baxter |
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