Daguerreotypy, while the father of them all, is now hardly practised as Daguerre practised it, and has become a small subordinate sub-division of the great class. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
This was the reason why Asclepius and his sons practised no such art. 柏拉图.理想国.
On returning from Mrs. Vesey's, I instructed Marian to write (observing the same caution which I practised myself) to Mrs. Michelson. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
A quick glance of her practised eye showed her, even through the deep dark shadow, the sculls in a rack against the red-brick garden-wall. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
She brought his cigar and lighted it for him; she knew the effect of that manoeuvre, having practised it in former days upon Rawdon Crawley. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
He had invented a shorthand of his own, which he taught me, but, not having practised it, I have now forgotten it. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
The wild look of anguish and utter despair that the woman cast on him might have disturbed one less practised; but he was used to it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
Of the former methods, when gold was found loose in sand or gravel, washing was the earliest and most universally practised, and was called panning. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
They have occasionally been practised in most other countries. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Presently her brow cleared; and then even my ear, less practised, caught the iron clash of a gate swung to, steps on gravellastly the door-bell. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
It is practised very extensively, Karkov said. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
At Crawley's charming little reunions of an evening this fatal amusement commonly was practised--much to good-natured little Mrs. Crawley's annoyance. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
It was the kind of masculine solidarity that he himself often practised; now he sickened at their connivance. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
She did most heartily grieve over the idleness of her childhoodand sat down and practised vigorously an hour and a half. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
The hurried, agitated peal seemed more urgent than if the summons had been steadily given by a practised hand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Practised eyes knew that it did not go as heavily as it would if both workmen had been coming up, and that only one was returning. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
This method of hunting is practised by the Masai to-day, and could only have been worked out by a people in a land where lions were abundant. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
This was such an entirely new view of the Terpsichorean art as socially practised, that Mrs Lammle looked at her young friend in some astonishment. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
I wore a real one and felt like a gunman until I practised firing it. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
Frauds are more easily practised, and occasion a greater loss in the most precious metal. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
This knowledge before was either preserved in secrecy, or accidentally or empirically practised, or unknown. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
Miss Ginevra's school-studies were little better than nominal; there were but three things she practised in earnest, viz. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
This thy daughter hath practised the art of healing, hath she not? 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
They practised farming in a scientific way, and had good systems of irrigation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Can this be a mere masquerade-attitude for effect, practised in an empty room? 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
Between that time and 1770 he practised melting small pieces of blistered steel (iron bars which had been carbonised by smelting in charcoal) in closed clay crucibles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The clergy were to be freed from lay jurisdiction and from taxation, and exemplary cruelties were to be practised upon the heretics. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
North of the Mason and Dixon line farming was practised mainly upon British or Central European lines by free white cultivators. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.