英语词汇“sponger”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Slow Poke, a sponger, was our first customer. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I will all right if he’s down there tomorrow. But you leave that bag alone. It don’t belong to that sponger any more.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But I fear it won't do any good, as next week Kelly is taking them to be humiliated by Kelvin MacKenzie shouting "you are lazy, fat spongers" at them. TV review: The Bill and Lorraine Kelly's Big Fat Challenge 2010-08-25T07:00:00Z

By committing suicide, this individual might insure his own genetic survival; from a biological standpoint, the older brother’s offspring will have a better chance of thriving if the sponger no longer exists. The Two Faces of Suicide 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

The son of Yemeni immigrants, he grew up street smart and aimless in the seedy Tenderloin district, an inveterate loafer, sponger, bungler and charmer. ‘The Monk of Mokha’ is Dave Eggers’s Latest PG-13 Story About the American Dream 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Given that Magnus is a sponger, a con man, Catholic convert and gay, he comes across as a second cousin to that comparably fascinating outcast, Frederick Rolfe, the self-styled Baron Corvo. Review | We blog, we tweet, we post to Facebook: Let’s instead savor the art of the essay 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Migrants fleeing violence or seeking a better life in the US were reframed through Trump’s racist prism as an unstoppable torrent of dark-skinned psychopaths and spongers. A world of walls: the brutish power of man-made barriers 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

If he hadn’t been an American and an in-law, he was the sort of character who would have fascinated Kipling: he was a boisterous but charming drinker, bankrupt, sponger, and tale-spinner. Rudyard Kipling in America 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

By the late sixties, versions of the anti-Communism rhetoric had found new targets: welfare spongers, Big Government, and, of course, hippies. A Tight, Chaotic Primary Race in California's Forty-Ninth District 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

One recent evening Lethen called his wife and her far-right friends “spongers.” Divided by ideology, united in marriage 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Scott gave evidence at their 1979 trial, during which he was infamously vilified by the presiding judge as "a sponger, a whiner and a parasite". Hugh Grant, politics and a murdered dog 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

One recent evening Mr. Lethen called his wife and her far-right friends “spongers.” A Very German Love Story: When Old Left and Far Right Share a Bedroom 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

There's always spongers who just soak up everything that they can get hold of, drug-wise. The UK city where sex work is banned, but hasn't stopped 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

A TV critic for The Times picked up on this, writing in 1986 that Bread "reinforces the cultural stereotype of the inhabitants of that self-destructive city as a bunch of spongers abusing the welfare state". Carla Lane's sitcom Bread and its legacy in Liverpool - BBC News 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

He was caught on tape seemingly writing off the 47% of Americans who do not pay federal income tax as incorrigible spongers, for example. The presidency: The remaking of the president 2012-11-08T16:00:19Z

They then compared the results of these simulations with field data on the genetic relationship between the spongers, to estimate the role of mothers teaching their offspring in transmitting the skill. Dolphin 'sponging' spans centuries 2012-10-22T06:52:05Z

At Republican rallies, lots of Romney supporters describe an America unmanned by welfare, and divided between taxpayers and spongers. Lexington: There goes the neighbourhood 2012-09-20T15:00:32Z

And because the practice is socially learned, researchers agree that spongers are culturally distinct from other dolphins. Spongeworthiness Defines Dolphin Clique 2012-08-04T01:45:03.247Z

And the nobility—was it not a caste of spongers and land-robbers? The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z

In general, he was a sponger and possessed a million faults, but also certain social qualities for which he was esteemed. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z

The study created a new technique to calculate the likelihood that the offspring of a "sponger" would learn the ability and pass the skill on. Dolphin 'sponging' spans centuries 2012-10-22T06:52:05Z

“Nobody becomes a sponger without their mother being a sponger, but not all daughters becomes spongers,” she said. Observatory: Dolphin Tool Helps to Find Fare on Seafloor 2011-07-25T19:34:59Z

Although not nearly as graceful as sponging dolphins, "which are really elegant in their moves," Patterson says, the human sponger nonetheless managed to scare up a hidden prey fish every 9 minutes. Why Dolphins Wear Sponges 2011-07-20T22:48:01Z

But Fortune favours the brave sponger, as she often does unworthy people, and in Mr. Jogglebury Crowdey, an eccentric individual whose acquaintance Sponge had made in the hunting-field, he found another host. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z

The , of a welfare crackdown on spongers and "bludgers" and of rivers of gold from the mining boom mark II that no longer flow with quite the same mighty thunder as of old. Bryant's Australia 2011-05-10T12:49:11Z

The following persons are also classed as thieves: pickpockets, spongers, smugglers, forgers, counterfeiters, embezzlers, and those who misappropriate funds entrusted to them. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z

Then the captain insisted on the boys going with him to the coral-reefs, where the spongers were at work, and a very pleasant afternoon did they spend. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z

The German backlash was severe, with the media denouncing Greek spongers and feckless southern Europeans while attacking Merkel for betraying the principles supposed to underpin the euro. Year of bullying, bluff and bailouts leaves euro fighting for its life 2010-12-15T20:50:18Z

His dress is minutely described, and faithfully depicted by Leech, in the etching in which we see the sponger conducting a very portly Mrs. Jawleyford, followed by her daughters, to the 139 dining-room. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z

It was partly due to his aloof tone and partly his message which, though he did not say it explicitly, implied that Europeans were lazy and all too often spongers. Is Europe not working? 2010-05-03T08:00:00Z

Others are broader, like “sponger; deadbeat” and “a dull, lazy or boring person.” F.Y.I.: Readers? Questions Answered 2010-04-03T00:26:00Z

And every blackguard and sponger who came along I accepted at his own valuation. Hard Pressed

Elbow your way out of all those frauds—poseurs, spongers, leeches, fleas, and bugs—who try to fasten themselves to you. Rambles in Womanland

Even the “sponger” felt the difficulty of parrying such a palpable notice to quit. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z

A shell took off a sponger's head, but the sponge-staff was caught by another before it fell, and the gun fired again without a pause. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign

Then Don Juan got in a rage, called him a sponger, and sent him off with offensive epithets. The Grandee

In consequence of this unintentional neglect he very naturally fell more and more into the hands of the bar-room spongers who loitered about the hotel corridors. Money Magic A Novel

These avian "spongers" have a wide geographical range, inhabiting the greater part of the United States and southern Canada, except the extensive forest regions and some portions of the southern states. Our Bird Comrades

The sponger ran his sponge into the muzzle of the cannon, cleaned out the barrel, and an Indian next to him, evidently trained for the purpose, handed him a fresh charge. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River"

Let him not permit idle spongers in the village, who are goblins of cursed consequences; and the whiter they are, the worse. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

What was the good of bringing a lot of spongers into the neighbourhood? The Grandee

Should we not be willing to do our part to get these things, or must we be a sponger, a coward, or shirker and let our fellow man do all? Citizenship A Manual for Voters

Once more the thousand voices of the warriors joined in a terrible cry of wrath and menace, but the young forester reloaded calmly, and the sponger, smitten down, fell beside his comrade. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods

But you might have searched in vain through His Majesty's two regiments of Dragoons for a bigger rake, a more accomplished sponger, or a viler rogue than Cosme de Lespoisset. The Seven Wives Of Bluebeard 1920

In some countries their acquaintance with them is confined to a few spongers, borrowers, and dependents; of a better class of Christian they know nothing. The Jewish State

But he only replied, "Please take it, Doctor; I am sponger of that gun, and I shall do my duty; but I shall be killed to-night!" The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886

It is inhabited by some six hundred people—mostly official loafers and spongers of the worst type. Tom Gerrard

The cannoneers swarmed around it, there was a quick movement of a sponger, an order, a falling into place of rigid artillerymen, then bang! and another up-rush of smoke. Lorraine A romance

When I reached Naples I had some trouble with this personage, who, with the peculiar faculty which belongs to the race of hangers-on and spongers, had somehow found me out, and came to borrow money. The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)

"If ever there was a sponger for baccy, George, it's him," said the mate, in a confidential whisper. Light Freights

Hear lots 'bout Everglades, an' go down coast with sponger on sailboat, tuh see if worth while. Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat

Only the spongers were indifferent; but they had, of course, to look around for another liberal spendthrift. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary

"Did the sponger send up them doctors yet?" said Morris with a far-away look in his bloodshot eyes, as he entered his place of business at half past seven one morning in March. Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

The Susan B. had changed her colour, it was true, but she was a well-known sponger, and I noticed no one among the group ashore that I recognised. Pieces of Eight

There was a flash, a roar, and before Desmond could see the effect of the shot Bulger had closed the vent, the gun was run in, and the sponger was at work cleaning the chamber. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India

Maybe the fact that Beeching, with all his faults, had never reached Harry's depths as a sponger, preserved him from this particular crime. Jan A Dog and a Romance

The sponger has no mercy and no manliness; he is always a person with violent appetites, and he will procure excitement at the cost of his manliness and even of his honesty. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary

He saw the rammers and spongers gather about the gun. The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty

I am going down in the sponger to the mouth of Goose River, to keep watch there; and you must stay where you are, and keep watch here. Pieces of Eight

He would accept the chances of trouble and assist this poor little chap, whose condition seemed so miserable, as the slave of the trio of big, rough spongers. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf

The deck of the sponger was piled with the result of the work of the week. Dick in the Everglades

It vexed me often to see a fine, generous lad surrounded by spongers who rooked him at every turn; but what could one do? The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary

Then a sponger fell, and then the gunner himself was slain by the bullet. The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty

Then we walked down to his row-boat, and soon he was aboard the sponger. Pieces of Eight

Signs of life were to be seen aboard, and smoke arising from the cabin gave evidence that the three rough spongers were getting their frugal breakfast. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf

The sponger lay at anchor on the sponging ground for nearly a week before the water was clear enough for work. Dick in the Everglades

Do you call it hospitality to squander my money on the cheap spongers you are continually inviting here? The Lady of Big Shanty

"Can't be your uncle's light, Mark, where we saw the spongers on the way down," commented Chester thoughtfully. The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty

I'm going to leave you here—and I'm going to charter the sponger out there. Pieces of Eight

He expected that the trio of spongers would not be likely to pull out without some show of threatening the four who comprised the crew of the motor-boat. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf

Each day the spongers in the dingies worked farther from the sloop and each day more time was lost when the sloop made its round to pick up the spongers for dinner. Dick in the Everglades

We have fallen on times when nothing can equal the cynicism of spongers. The Man Who Laughs

The gunners, the cannoneers, the spongers, the rammers and the ammunition passers were cut down with deadly certainty. The Shades of the Wilderness A Story of Lee's Great Stand

"At one o'clock we left this hole of a place, where we were more beset with beggars and spongers than at any place since we had been in Italy." Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I.

Will, not to be outdone, picked up the instrument with which he did most of his shooting, his beloved camera, and waited for a chance to snap off the ugly faces of the spongers. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf

A string of four dingies trailed behind the sponger and as many poles, each thirty feet long, with a sponge-hook at one end, lay upon the deck. Dick in the Everglades

Also, the impecunious spongers at his clubs spread his fame as a "tight-wad" because he refused to let them "stick him up" for even a round of drinks. The Price She Paid

I can still picture the great Dumas, loud of voice and exuberant in gesture whilst holding forth to a band of young "spongers," on whom he was spending his last napoleons. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71

The picaresque method consisted in delineating the habits of outcasts, bohemians, spongers, swindlers, and vagrants. Initiation into Literature

A shout from the sharpie had told that the spongers believed they meant to run off, and at the same time one of them was seen flourishing a gun. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf

Since I left home I've rolled up quite a fortune as a fireman and a sponger and I can pay my little bills and have money to burn besides. Dick in the Everglades

That word "sponger" as it came to Dan caused him to straighten himself up and step forward more quickly. The Fourth Watch

The rammer and sponger lay by the side of the small field-piece. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories

What! you do not blush to call yourself a sponger? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

The old familiar click announced that he had secured a picture of the three spongers at a time when they stood out plainly. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf

He was a confirmed sponger who was in debt all round, but spent his time in smoking and talking with his friends. A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola;

"Sucker and sponger!" how those words stung him. The Fourth Watch

The parrot replaced the rammer by the side of the sponger, and waited for further orders, standing erect close to the rear of the gun. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories

And when we want to distinguish you for the benefit of any one who does not know you, but has occasion to find you out, we must say 'the sponger,' naturally? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

"Then you really expect trouble with those rascally spongers?" demanded his chum. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf

A breeze caused the surface of the harbor to dance and dimple merrily, the sound of laughter came from the water-front where barefoot spongers and fishermen were busy with their boats and gear. Rainbow's End

He was a sucker--a sponger! living upon others! The Fourth Watch

You will become a dependent in this house, a hanger-on, a sponger. Love, the Fiddler

So much the greater the sponger's art, which beats prophecy in the certainty of its conclusions upon problems so difficult. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

He did not care to go too near that sharpie, for the recollection of the three rough spongers or fishermen on board deterred him from wanting to renew their acquaintance. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf

The schooner was a sponger bound for Nassau; its blackbird crew spoke English and they willingly helped the strangers overside, laughing and shouting in a child-like display of excitement. Rainbow's End

Then to think he should care for him, Dan Flitter, so small, who could neither read nor write, who was nothing but a sponger. The Fourth Watch

"We gets them all along the reef as far as Key Biscayne," said the old sponger; "but the best comes from Rock Island, up the coast nigh to St. Mark's." Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida

It follows that, if sponging was the negative of art, the sponger would not save his life by its means? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

He hoped the listening spongers would be unable to locate him in the darkness. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf

With the minute keenness of the shameless sponger he was aware of every source in Coralio from which a glass of rum, a meal or a piece of silver could be wheedled. Cabbages and Kings

"They are spongers," he had often said, "and people cannot afford to have such useless people around." The Fourth Watch

To be sure," said the old sponger; "an' that's the way we sees the sponges lying on the bottom. Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida

Banqueter was the word used for sponger in his day; what does he say? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

Instead of consulting people of experience—ps, ps, ps—first sponger that comes along. The Nabob

Dionysius reckoned him the best of all spongers; he had indeed a special gift that way; the prince used to send his cooks to him daily for instruction. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

I hate a sponger, and so did my father. The Fourth Watch

Oh, there are plenty of authorities; but I will specify Aristoxenus the musician, a weighty one enough, and himself attached as a sponger to Neleus. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

That it was a bit of larceny—Epicurus having nothing, and the sponger much, to do with Pleasure—I will soon show you. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

On the other hand, no one can point to a sponger who ever cared to philosophize. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

But of course, if never to be hungry, thirsty, or cold, is to be happy, the sponger is the man who is in that position. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

He was not a sponger, but a man working for his breakfast. The Fourth Watch

Cold hungry philosophers you may see any day, but never a cold hungry sponger; the man would not be a sponger, that is all, but a wretched pauper, no better than a philosopher. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

If the latter, he is a sponger, and not what he says he is; if the former, he will not have a pleasurable life. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

It tickles me, this queer match between sponger and philosopher. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

But come now, if you don't mind, to the sponger's military behaviour; and also tell me whether there is any sponging recorded of the ancients. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

He felt he was no longer a sponger, a useless being. The Fourth Watch

My dear fellow, the most uneducated of us has surely heard enough of Homer to know that he makes the best of his heroes spongers. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

No, the sponger needs no pressing to get him to table; he is devoted to his profession; it is the other apprentices who hate theirs, to the point of running away, sometimes. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

It is not for ten Ajaxes or Achilleses that he prays; no, Troy would have been taken long ago, if he had had in his host ten men like—that old sponger. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

I know the passages; but I do not feel sure of the sense in which they were spongers. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

And so Fraser was a sponger, and a sucker too, getting so many good things and giving nothing back. The Fourth Watch

Nestor I take to have been an exceedingly good and skilful sponger on royalty; Agamemnon was not his first patron; he had served his apprenticeship under Caeneus and Exadius. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

And it is worth your notice that a parent's usual reward for a child who makes progress in the ordinary arts is just the thing that the sponger gets regularly. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

A great number of the barbarians, including Sarpedon the son of Zeus, fell to this sponger. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

It took only one man, Achilles, to slay Hector; Paris was enough for Achilles himself; but two men and a God went to the killing of the sponger. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

It was mean, and yet what was he himself but a sponger? The Fourth Watch

Yes, you have proved him a good man; but can you show him to have been not Achilles's friend, but a sponger? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

And whereas all other arts are practised solely for the sustenance they will ultimately bring, the sponger has his sustenance from the day he starts. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

And by the way it is not Idomeneus, though he was son of Zeus, that he describes as 'peer of Ares'; it is the sponger Meriones. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

This sponger it was, then, who delivered Athens from tyranny, and now adorns the marketplace in bronze, side by side with the object of his passion. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

But what sort of a guess do you make at the sponger's behaviour in war? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

That is how the spongers differ from the rhetoricians and philosophers in war. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

But the sponger has thirty festivals a month; every day is a red-letter day with him. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

To market and courts the sponger gives a wide berth they are the haunts of chicanery; there is no satisfaction to be got out of them. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

What impression does one get of the sponger's actual life, when one compares it with the other? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

No one could be more careless of the pebbles on the shore than the sponger is of money; he would as soon touch fire as gold. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

Ah, but you see, he is not a sponger if that happens. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

Well, the sponger does that; why is he privileged to offend? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

He could not be a sponger under those conditions. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

We are discussing the sponger, not the non- sponger. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

If the courageous is so in virtue of his courage, the sensible sensible in virtue of his sense, then the sponger is a sponger in virtue of sponging. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

Take that away, and we shall be dealing with something else, and not with a sponger at all. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

Again, while knavery and folly are no bar to rhetoric, mathematics, or copper-working, no knave or fool can get on as a sponger. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

There is no sponger's apology extant, and you will never hear of anybody's bringing a suit against one. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

Now I suppose you will tell me that the sponger's life may be better than theirs, but his death is worse. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

No one can adduce a sponger's death to match these; he eats and drinks, and dies a blissful death. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

A soldier without his arms, a dress without its purple, a horse without its trappings, are poor things; and a rich man without his sponger is a mean, cheap spectacle. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

I must first mention that no sponger was ever in love with Philosophy; but many philosophers are recorded to have set their hearts on Sponging, to which they still remain constant. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

The sponger gives lustre to the patron, never the patron to the other. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

There is a nasty sound about the word sponger, don't you think? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

单词	sponger
例句	sponger Slow Poke, a sponger, was our first customer. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I will all right if he’s down there tomorrow. But you leave that bag alone. It don’t belong to that sponger any more.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z But I fear it won't do any good, as next week Kelly is taking them to be humiliated by Kelvin MacKenzie shouting "you are lazy, fat spongers" at them. TV review: The Bill and Lorraine Kelly's Big Fat Challenge 2010-08-25T07:00:00Z By committing suicide, this individual might insure his own genetic survival; from a biological standpoint, the older brother’s offspring will have a better chance of thriving if the sponger no longer exists. The Two Faces of Suicide 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The son of Yemeni immigrants, he grew up street smart and aimless in the seedy Tenderloin district, an inveterate loafer, sponger, bungler and charmer. ‘The Monk of Mokha’ is Dave Eggers’s Latest PG-13 Story About the American Dream 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Given that Magnus is a sponger, a con man, Catholic convert and gay, he comes across as a second cousin to that comparably fascinating outcast, Frederick Rolfe, the self-styled Baron Corvo. Review \| We blog, we tweet, we post to Facebook: Let’s instead savor the art of the essay 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Migrants fleeing violence or seeking a better life in the US were reframed through Trump’s racist prism as an unstoppable torrent of dark-skinned psychopaths and spongers. A world of walls: the brutish power of man-made barriers 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z If he hadn’t been an American and an in-law, he was the sort of character who would have fascinated Kipling: he was a boisterous but charming drinker, bankrupt, sponger, and tale-spinner. Rudyard Kipling in America 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z By the late sixties, versions of the anti-Communism rhetoric had found new targets: welfare spongers, Big Government, and, of course, hippies. A Tight, Chaotic Primary Race in California's Forty-Ninth District 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z One recent evening Lethen called his wife and her far-right friends “spongers.” Divided by ideology, united in marriage 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Scott gave evidence at their 1979 trial, during which he was infamously vilified by the presiding judge as "a sponger, a whiner and a parasite". Hugh Grant, politics and a murdered dog 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z One recent evening Mr. Lethen called his wife and her far-right friends “spongers.” A Very German Love Story: When Old Left and Far Right Share a Bedroom 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z There's always spongers who just soak up everything that they can get hold of, drug-wise. The UK city where sex work is banned, but hasn't stopped 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z A TV critic for The Times picked up on this, writing in 1986 that Bread "reinforces the cultural stereotype of the inhabitants of that self-destructive city as a bunch of spongers abusing the welfare state". Carla Lane's sitcom Bread and its legacy in Liverpool - BBC News 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z He was caught on tape seemingly writing off the 47% of Americans who do not pay federal income tax as incorrigible spongers, for example. The presidency: The remaking of the president 2012-11-08T16:00:19Z They then compared the results of these simulations with field data on the genetic relationship between the spongers, to estimate the role of mothers teaching their offspring in transmitting the skill. Dolphin 'sponging' spans centuries 2012-10-22T06:52:05Z At Republican rallies, lots of Romney supporters describe an America unmanned by welfare, and divided between taxpayers and spongers. Lexington: There goes the neighbourhood 2012-09-20T15:00:32Z And because the practice is socially learned, researchers agree that spongers are culturally distinct from other dolphins. Spongeworthiness Defines Dolphin Clique 2012-08-04T01:45:03.247Z And the nobility—was it not a caste of spongers and land-robbers? The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z In general, he was a sponger and possessed a million faults, but also certain social qualities for which he was esteemed. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z The study created a new technique to calculate the likelihood that the offspring of a "sponger" would learn the ability and pass the skill on. Dolphin 'sponging' spans centuries 2012-10-22T06:52:05Z “Nobody becomes a sponger without their mother being a sponger, but not all daughters becomes spongers,” she said. Observatory: Dolphin Tool Helps to Find Fare on Seafloor 2011-07-25T19:34:59Z Although not nearly as graceful as sponging dolphins, "which are really elegant in their moves," Patterson says, the human sponger nonetheless managed to scare up a hidden prey fish every 9 minutes. Why Dolphins Wear Sponges 2011-07-20T22:48:01Z But Fortune favours the brave sponger, as she often does unworthy people, and in Mr. Jogglebury Crowdey, an eccentric individual whose acquaintance Sponge had made in the hunting-field, he found another host. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z The , of a welfare crackdown on spongers and "bludgers" and of rivers of gold from the mining boom mark II that no longer flow with quite the same mighty thunder as of old. Bryant's Australia 2011-05-10T12:49:11Z The following persons are also classed as thieves: pickpockets, spongers, smugglers, forgers, counterfeiters, embezzlers, and those who misappropriate funds entrusted to them. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z Then the captain insisted on the boys going with him to the coral-reefs, where the spongers were at work, and a very pleasant afternoon did they spend. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z The German backlash was severe, with the media denouncing Greek spongers and feckless southern Europeans while attacking Merkel for betraying the principles supposed to underpin the euro. Year of bullying, bluff and bailouts leaves euro fighting for its life 2010-12-15T20:50:18Z His dress is minutely described, and faithfully depicted by Leech, in the etching in which we see the sponger conducting a very portly Mrs. Jawleyford, followed by her daughters, to the 139 dining-room. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z It was partly due to his aloof tone and partly his message which, though he did not say it explicitly, implied that Europeans were lazy and all too often spongers. Is Europe not working? 2010-05-03T08:00:00Z Others are broader, like “sponger; deadbeat” and “a dull, lazy or boring person.” F.Y.I.: Readers? Questions Answered 2010-04-03T00:26:00Z And every blackguard and sponger who came along I accepted at his own valuation. Hard Pressed Elbow your way out of all those frauds—poseurs, spongers, leeches, fleas, and bugs—who try to fasten themselves to you. Rambles in Womanland Even the “sponger” felt the difficulty of parrying such a palpable notice to quit. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z A shell took off a sponger's head, but the sponge-staff was caught by another before it fell, and the gun fired again without a pause. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign Then Don Juan got in a rage, called him a sponger, and sent him off with offensive epithets. The Grandee In consequence of this unintentional neglect he very naturally fell more and more into the hands of the bar-room spongers who loitered about the hotel corridors. Money Magic A Novel These avian "spongers" have a wide geographical range, inhabiting the greater part of the United States and southern Canada, except the extensive forest regions and some portions of the southern states. Our Bird Comrades The sponger ran his sponge into the muzzle of the cannon, cleaned out the barrel, and an Indian next to him, evidently trained for the purpose, handed him a fresh charge. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" Let him not permit idle spongers in the village, who are goblins of cursed consequences; and the whiter they are, the worse. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century What was the good of bringing a lot of spongers into the neighbourhood? The Grandee Should we not be willing to do our part to get these things, or must we be a sponger, a coward, or shirker and let our fellow man do all? Citizenship A Manual for Voters Once more the thousand voices of the warriors joined in a terrible cry of wrath and menace, but the young forester reloaded calmly, and the sponger, smitten down, fell beside his comrade. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods But you might have searched in vain through His Majesty's two regiments of Dragoons for a bigger rake, a more accomplished sponger, or a viler rogue than Cosme de Lespoisset. The Seven Wives Of Bluebeard 1920 In some countries their acquaintance with them is confined to a few spongers, borrowers, and dependents; of a better class of Christian they know nothing. The Jewish State But he only replied, "Please take it, Doctor; I am sponger of that gun, and I shall do my duty; but I shall be killed to-night!" The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 It is inhabited by some six hundred people—mostly official loafers and spongers of the worst type. Tom Gerrard The cannoneers swarmed around it, there was a quick movement of a sponger, an order, a falling into place of rigid artillerymen, then bang! and another up-rush of smoke. Lorraine A romance When I reached Naples I had some trouble with this personage, who, with the peculiar faculty which belongs to the race of hangers-on and spongers, had somehow found me out, and came to borrow money. The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) "If ever there was a sponger for baccy, George, it's him," said the mate, in a confidential whisper. Light Freights Hear lots 'bout Everglades, an' go down coast with sponger on sailboat, tuh see if worth while. Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat Only the spongers were indifferent; but they had, of course, to look around for another liberal spendthrift. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary "Did the sponger send up them doctors yet?" said Morris with a far-away look in his bloodshot eyes, as he entered his place of business at half past seven one morning in March. Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures The Susan B. had changed her colour, it was true, but she was a well-known sponger, and I noticed no one among the group ashore that I recognised. Pieces of Eight There was a flash, a roar, and before Desmond could see the effect of the shot Bulger had closed the vent, the gun was run in, and the sponger was at work cleaning the chamber. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Maybe the fact that Beeching, with all his faults, had never reached Harry's depths as a sponger, preserved him from this particular crime. Jan A Dog and a Romance The sponger has no mercy and no manliness; he is always a person with violent appetites, and he will procure excitement at the cost of his manliness and even of his honesty. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary He saw the rammers and spongers gather about the gun. The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty I am going down in the sponger to the mouth of Goose River, to keep watch there; and you must stay where you are, and keep watch here. Pieces of Eight He would accept the chances of trouble and assist this poor little chap, whose condition seemed so miserable, as the slave of the trio of big, rough spongers. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf The deck of the sponger was piled with the result of the work of the week. Dick in the Everglades It vexed me often to see a fine, generous lad surrounded by spongers who rooked him at every turn; but what could one do? The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary Then a sponger fell, and then the gunner himself was slain by the bullet. The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty Then we walked down to his row-boat, and soon he was aboard the sponger. Pieces of Eight Signs of life were to be seen aboard, and smoke arising from the cabin gave evidence that the three rough spongers were getting their frugal breakfast. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf The sponger lay at anchor on the sponging ground for nearly a week before the water was clear enough for work. Dick in the Everglades Do you call it hospitality to squander my money on the cheap spongers you are continually inviting here? The Lady of Big Shanty "Can't be your uncle's light, Mark, where we saw the spongers on the way down," commented Chester thoughtfully. The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty I'm going to leave you here—and I'm going to charter the sponger out there. Pieces of Eight He expected that the trio of spongers would not be likely to pull out without some show of threatening the four who comprised the crew of the motor-boat. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf Each day the spongers in the dingies worked farther from the sloop and each day more time was lost when the sloop made its round to pick up the spongers for dinner. Dick in the Everglades We have fallen on times when nothing can equal the cynicism of spongers. The Man Who Laughs The gunners, the cannoneers, the spongers, the rammers and the ammunition passers were cut down with deadly certainty. The Shades of the Wilderness A Story of Lee's Great Stand "At one o'clock we left this hole of a place, where we were more beset with beggars and spongers than at any place since we had been in Italy." Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. Will, not to be outdone, picked up the instrument with which he did most of his shooting, his beloved camera, and waited for a chance to snap off the ugly faces of the spongers. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf A string of four dingies trailed behind the sponger and as many poles, each thirty feet long, with a sponge-hook at one end, lay upon the deck. Dick in the Everglades Also, the impecunious spongers at his clubs spread his fame as a "tight-wad" because he refused to let them "stick him up" for even a round of drinks. The Price She Paid I can still picture the great Dumas, loud of voice and exuberant in gesture whilst holding forth to a band of young "spongers," on whom he was spending his last napoleons. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 The picaresque method consisted in delineating the habits of outcasts, bohemians, spongers, swindlers, and vagrants. Initiation into Literature A shout from the sharpie had told that the spongers believed they meant to run off, and at the same time one of them was seen flourishing a gun. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf Since I left home I've rolled up quite a fortune as a fireman and a sponger and I can pay my little bills and have money to burn besides. Dick in the Everglades That word "sponger" as it came to Dan caused him to straighten himself up and step forward more quickly. The Fourth Watch The rammer and sponger lay by the side of the small field-piece. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories What! you do not blush to call yourself a sponger? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 The old familiar click announced that he had secured a picture of the three spongers at a time when they stood out plainly. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf He was a confirmed sponger who was in debt all round, but spent his time in smoking and talking with his friends. A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; "Sucker and sponger!" how those words stung him. The Fourth Watch The parrot replaced the rammer by the side of the sponger, and waited for further orders, standing erect close to the rear of the gun. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories And when we want to distinguish you for the benefit of any one who does not know you, but has occasion to find you out, we must say 'the sponger,' naturally? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 "Then you really expect trouble with those rascally spongers?" demanded his chum. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf A breeze caused the surface of the harbor to dance and dimple merrily, the sound of laughter came from the water-front where barefoot spongers and fishermen were busy with their boats and gear. Rainbow's End He was a sucker--a sponger! living upon others! The Fourth Watch You will become a dependent in this house, a hanger-on, a sponger. Love, the Fiddler So much the greater the sponger's art, which beats prophecy in the certainty of its conclusions upon problems so difficult. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 He did not care to go too near that sharpie, for the recollection of the three rough spongers or fishermen on board deterred him from wanting to renew their acquaintance. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf The schooner was a sponger bound for Nassau; its blackbird crew spoke English and they willingly helped the strangers overside, laughing and shouting in a child-like display of excitement. Rainbow's End Then to think he should care for him, Dan Flitter, so small, who could neither read nor write, who was nothing but a sponger. The Fourth Watch "We gets them all along the reef as far as Key Biscayne," said the old sponger; "but the best comes from Rock Island, up the coast nigh to St. Mark's." Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida It follows that, if sponging was the negative of art, the sponger would not save his life by its means? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 He hoped the listening spongers would be unable to locate him in the darkness. The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf With the minute keenness of the shameless sponger he was aware of every source in Coralio from which a glass of rum, a meal or a piece of silver could be wheedled. Cabbages and Kings "They are spongers," he had often said, "and people cannot afford to have such useless people around." The Fourth Watch To be sure," said the old sponger; "an' that's the way we sees the sponges lying on the bottom. Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida Banqueter was the word used for sponger in his day; what does he say? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Instead of consulting people of experience—ps, ps, ps—first sponger that comes along. The Nabob Dionysius reckoned him the best of all spongers; he had indeed a special gift that way; the prince used to send his cooks to him daily for instruction. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 I hate a sponger, and so did my father. The Fourth Watch Oh, there are plenty of authorities; but I will specify Aristoxenus the musician, a weighty one enough, and himself attached as a sponger to Neleus. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 That it was a bit of larceny—Epicurus having nothing, and the sponger much, to do with Pleasure—I will soon show you. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 On the other hand, no one can point to a sponger who ever cared to philosophize. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 But of course, if never to be hungry, thirsty, or cold, is to be happy, the sponger is the man who is in that position. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 He was not a sponger, but a man working for his breakfast. The Fourth Watch Cold hungry philosophers you may see any day, but never a cold hungry sponger; the man would not be a sponger, that is all, but a wretched pauper, no better than a philosopher. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 If the latter, he is a sponger, and not what he says he is; if the former, he will not have a pleasurable life. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 It tickles me, this queer match between sponger and philosopher. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 But come now, if you don't mind, to the sponger's military behaviour; and also tell me whether there is any sponging recorded of the ancients. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 He felt he was no longer a sponger, a useless being. The Fourth Watch My dear fellow, the most uneducated of us has surely heard enough of Homer to know that he makes the best of his heroes spongers. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 No, the sponger needs no pressing to get him to table; he is devoted to his profession; it is the other apprentices who hate theirs, to the point of running away, sometimes. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 It is not for ten Ajaxes or Achilleses that he prays; no, Troy would have been taken long ago, if he had had in his host ten men like—that old sponger. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 I know the passages; but I do not feel sure of the sense in which they were spongers. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 And so Fraser was a sponger, and a sucker too, getting so many good things and giving nothing back. The Fourth Watch Nestor I take to have been an exceedingly good and skilful sponger on royalty; Agamemnon was not his first patron; he had served his apprenticeship under Caeneus and Exadius. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 And it is worth your notice that a parent's usual reward for a child who makes progress in the ordinary arts is just the thing that the sponger gets regularly. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 A great number of the barbarians, including Sarpedon the son of Zeus, fell to this sponger. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 It took only one man, Achilles, to slay Hector; Paris was enough for Achilles himself; but two men and a God went to the killing of the sponger. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 It was mean, and yet what was he himself but a sponger? The Fourth Watch Yes, you have proved him a good man; but can you show him to have been not Achilles's friend, but a sponger? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 And whereas all other arts are practised solely for the sustenance they will ultimately bring, the sponger has his sustenance from the day he starts. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 And by the way it is not Idomeneus, though he was son of Zeus, that he describes as 'peer of Ares'; it is the sponger Meriones. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 This sponger it was, then, who delivered Athens from tyranny, and now adorns the marketplace in bronze, side by side with the object of his passion. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 But what sort of a guess do you make at the sponger's behaviour in war? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 That is how the spongers differ from the rhetoricians and philosophers in war. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 But the sponger has thirty festivals a month; every day is a red-letter day with him. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 To market and courts the sponger gives a wide berth they are the haunts of chicanery; there is no satisfaction to be got out of them. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 What impression does one get of the sponger's actual life, when one compares it with the other? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 No one could be more careless of the pebbles on the shore than the sponger is of money; he would as soon touch fire as gold. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Ah, but you see, he is not a sponger if that happens. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Well, the sponger does that; why is he privileged to offend? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 He could not be a sponger under those conditions. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 We are discussing the sponger, not the non- sponger. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 If the courageous is so in virtue of his courage, the sensible sensible in virtue of his sense, then the sponger is a sponger in virtue of sponging. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Take that away, and we shall be dealing with something else, and not with a sponger at all. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Again, while knavery and folly are no bar to rhetoric, mathematics, or copper-working, no knave or fool can get on as a sponger. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 There is no sponger's apology extant, and you will never hear of anybody's bringing a suit against one. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Now I suppose you will tell me that the sponger's life may be better than theirs, but his death is worse. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 No one can adduce a sponger's death to match these; he eats and drinks, and dies a blissful death. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 A soldier without his arms, a dress without its purple, a horse without its trappings, are poor things; and a rich man without his sponger is a mean, cheap spectacle. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 I must first mention that no sponger was ever in love with Philosophy; but many philosophers are recorded to have set their hearts on Sponging, to which they still remain constant. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 The sponger gives lustre to the patron, never the patron to the other. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 There is a nasty sound about the word sponger, don't you think? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
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