"A man's heart does not beat by the calendar. Nature made the heart to beat with love, ages before man measured time, and prattled of hours and days and weeks," he retorted. "I'm not the same man I was a week ago. Nor an hour ago. What does it matter ~ I am--the man I am NOW." He looked at her more calmly. "An hour ago," he pointed out, "I didn't dream I should kiss you. Nor you, that you would let me do it."
"I didn't! I couldn't help myself.英文原著 · 《Good Indian》
MY DEAR FRIEND: I received two days ago your letter of the 25th past; and your former, which you mention in it, but ten days ago; this may easily be accounted for from the badness of the weather, and consequently of the roads. I hardly remember so severe a win ter; it has occasioned many illnesses here. I am sure it pinched my crazy carcass so much that, about three weeks ago, I was obliged to be let blood twice in four days, which I found afterward was very necessary, by the relief it gave to my head and to the rheumatic pains in my limbs; and from the execrable kind of blood which I lost.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1766-71》
IN a flash of memory Rome saw the girl as vividly as when he last saw her years ago. They had met at the mill, he with his father, she with hers. There was a quarrel, and the two men were held apart. But the old sore as usual was opened, and a week later Rome's father was killed from the brush. He remembered his mother's rage and grief, her calls for vcngeance, the uprising, the fights, plots, and ambushes. He remembered the look the girl had given him that long ago, and her look that day was little changed.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
Seated, she looked bigger, more graceless, than before. But Hermione saw that she was not really middle-aged. Hard life and trouble doubtless had combined to destroy her youth and beauty early, to coarsen the outlines, to plant the many wrinkles that spread from the corners of her eyes and lips to her temples and her heavy, dusky cheeks. She was now a typical woman of the people. Hermione tried to see her as a girl, long ago--years and years ago. "I know your son Ruffo very well," she said. Maddalena's face softened. "Si, Signora.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
"Oh, no; he never said an unkind word to me; and I was not always so forbearing, for I passed months of torment. I saw that affection, which was my all, gliding gradually away from me; and the tortured will cry out. I am not an ungoverned woman, but sometimes the agony was intolerable, and I complained. Well, that agony, I long for it back; for now I am desolate."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
" I thought you said a moment ago-" The professor spoke with an air of puzzled hesitancy. "I thought you said a moment ago that he wouldn't succeed in anything but journalism."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
The one that started seven minutes ago? It started seven minutes ago.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
urt Monroe A private detective who lost his license a couple years ago Apparently he is from Chicago I don't if this is helpful but... years ago, he is apparently from Chicago I, I don't know if this is helpful but I just feel terrible about what happened illness can take on many forms those of the美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
- Hey, you just got in five minutes ago! - Three minutes ago!美剧 · 《Friends》
A century ago, a century and a half ago, de Tocqueville wrote, in regards to America and Russia, the following: "Their point of departure and their paths diverse, nevertheless, each seems called by some secret desire of providence, to one day hold in their hands the destinies of half the world." Wel美剧 · 《House of Cards》