Venerable

(adj.) impressive by reason of age; 'a venerable sage with white hair and beard' .

整理:威廉

• I must either wrong my three dear girls or my venerable father, who is entirely dependent on me, in the Vale of Taunton; or some one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Well, then, I spoke to her in my well-known merry way, and she said, 'O that what's shaped so venerable should talk like a fool! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I see him now, excellent and venerable old man! 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Early in the morning, I sauntered through the dear old tranquil streets, and again mingled with the shadows of the venerable gateways and churches. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I was greatly surprised to see so many elderly people--I might almost say, so many venerable people. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Immediately, the venerable parent--on a cold winter's night, it is said--anathematized and turned her out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The city basked under the noon-day sun, and the venerable walls formed its picturesque boundary. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The venerable Mother of the Republics is scarce a fit subject for flippant speech or the idle gossipping of tourists. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I won't,' said the inexhaustible baby, '--allow--you--to--make--game--of--my--venerable--Ma. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• That was all, but he understood it, and looked relieved, as he said to himself, with a venerable air. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The book brought out (it was never changed, but when finishedrecommenced) was a venerable volume, old as the hills--grey as the H?tel de Ville. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Perched on its eternal hills, white and domed and solid, massed together and hooped with high gray walls, the venerable city gleamed in the sun. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The venerable Isaac is subjected to an alembic, which will distil from him all he holds dear, without any assistance from my requests or thy entreaty. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• We have already noted the earlier adventures of this venerable relic before the days of Muhammad in chap. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The venerable inhabitants of that venerable pile seemed, in those times, to be encamped there like a sort of civilised gipsies. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Most famous of all was Bede, known as the Venerable Bede (673-735), a monk of Jarrow (on Tyne). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Venerable, venerable pile-- Pairdon, Doctor, zis is not ze Louvre--it is-- What is it? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Our venerable instructor was a great deal older, and not improved in appearance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• And they prepare to bear the venerable burden to the Sol's Arms. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A threadbare and venerable device, but useful upon occasion. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Nothing could exceed the love and respect which the younger cottagers exhibited towards their venerable companion. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Venerable parent promptly resorts to anathematization, and turns him out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• That church, whose dark, half-ruinous turrets overlooked the square, was the venerable and formerly opulent shrine of the Magi. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Only the stately phraseology and the measured speech of the sons of the Prophet are suited to a venerable antiquity like this. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• You are so sprightly, Mr. George, returns the venerable grandfather. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The only use you can put him to, says the venerable sage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• My two venerable favourites, Mr. Helstone and Mr. Yorke, it is true, are fine old beaus, infinitely better than any of the stupid young ones. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We form rather more than half the list of white passengers on board a small steamer bound for the venerable Moorish town of Tangier, Africa. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Venerable parent dies. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• No doubt you will find some sights to amuse you in this venerable city, and I hope to bring back a more favourable report to you before evening. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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