Tails

例句/造句/用法:

• 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. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
• 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. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
• It was the Manchus who obliged the Chinese to wear pig-tails as a mark of submission. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Only to jerk their tails up and down. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
• He probed the glowworms with a bit of stick, and rolled them over, till the bright side of their tails was upwards. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• I fancy that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his coat-tails. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• The adults stood aloft upon their toes and their mighty tails, their talons pruning every available leaf and twig. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• The horses were generally very strong, formed much like the Norman horse, and with very heavy manes and tails. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• Plenty of subjects going about, for them that know how to put salt upon their tails. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• 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·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• There was a group of sober little donkeys with naked, dusky children clambering about them, or sitting astride their rumps, or pulling their tails. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• Her woolly hair was braided in sundry little tails, which stuck out in every direction. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• I felt another pull at my coat-tails. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• 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·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• The moment afterwards, I felt a soft pull at my coat-tails, and a small voice whispered, Look here, sir! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.

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