Animated by this reflection, he stumps faster, and looks a long way before him, as a man with an ambitious project in abeyance often will do. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
Cut them well back, so the stumps cannot be seen. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
Boffin will get all the eagerer for waiting a bit,' says Silas, screwing up, as he stumps along, first his right eye, and then his left. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
They turned off the main road, past a black patch of common-garden, where sooty cabbage stumps stood shameless. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Stir your stumps and get some more sticks. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
What would you think of a man who stared in ecstasy upon a desert of stumps and said: Oh, my soul, my beating heart, what a noble forest is here! 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
I once prevailed on the barber to give me some of the suds or lather, out of which I picked forty or fifty of the strongest stumps of hair. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
And it don't wear your legs to stumps in talking over a poor fellow's ways as it do to stand up in hornpipes. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
The fuel within the Federal lines was exhausted, even to the stumps of trees. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.