Some sailors being aloft in the main-topsail rigging, the captain had ordered them to race down, threatening the hindmost with the cat-of-nine-tails. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
I am sure that you cannot fail to be delighted with the traces of heredity shown in the p's and in the tails of the g's. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
It was the Manchus who obliged the Chinese to wear pig-tails as a mark of submission. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Only to jerk their tails up and down. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
He probed the glowworms with a bit of stick, and rolled them over, till the bright side of their tails was upwards. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
I fancy that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his coat-tails. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
The adults stood aloft upon their toes and their mighty tails, their talons pruning every available leaf and twig. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
The horses were generally very strong, formed much like the Norman horse, and with very heavy manes and tails. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
Plenty of subjects going about, for them that know how to put salt upon their tails. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
In a barber's window I saw tails of hair with the prices marked, and one black tail, not so thick as mine, was forty dollars. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
There was a group of sober little donkeys with naked, dusky children clambering about them, or sitting astride their rumps, or pulling their tails. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Her woolly hair was braided in sundry little tails, which stuck out in every direction. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
I felt another pull at my coat-tails. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
And if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty, cried Jo, pulling off her net, and shaking down a chestnut mane. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
The moment afterwards, I felt a soft pull at my coat-tails, and a small voice whispered, Look here, sir! 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.