Bunting had slipped into the room and shut the door behind her. But she was still standing with her back against the door, looking at the group in front of her. None of them were thinking of her - she thanked God for that! She could hear everything that was said without joining in the talk and excitement. "Listen to this!" cried Joe Chandler exultantly. "'Tain't given out yet - not for the public, that is - but we was all given it by eight o'clock this morning. Quick work that eh?" He read out:
"WANTED
A man, of age approximately 28, slight in figure, height approximately 5 ft. '8 in.英文原著 · 《The Lodger》
If wrong were done it was the woman who suffered. Now, since this poor girl was alone far off here in Greece, Mrs. Wainwright announced that she had such full sense of her duty to her sex that her conscience would not allow her to scorn and desert a sister, even if that sister was, approximately, the victim of a creature like Rufus Coleman. Perhaps the poor thing loved this wretched man, although it was hard to imagine any woman giving her heart to such. a monster.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
Some day, some day men and women will rise, they will reach the mountain peak, they will meet big and strong and free, ready to receive, to partake, and to bask in the golden rays of love. What fancy, what imagination, what poetic genius can foresee even approximately the potentialities of such a force in the life of men and women. If the world is ever to give birth to true companionship and oneness, not marriage, but love will be the parent.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
THE SEASONS OF BIRDS IN THE VICINITY OF NEW YORK OR, APPROXIMATELY, OF THE FORTY-SECOND DEGREE OF LATITUDE英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
Anything that a man has learned at school, in the newspapers, etc., we know approximately, but we have no knowledge of what a man has thought out for himself and what he has felt in his localized conditions, e. g., his home, his town, his travels, his relations and their experiences, etc.--However important this may be, we have no means of getting hold of it. [1] A. Mayer and J. Orth: Zur qualitativen Untersuchung der Assoziation. Ztschrft. Psychol. Physiol.英文原著 · 《Criminal Psychology》
23 '' 20.5 '' '' other crimes and offences ... 2.7 '' 8 '' '' defiance of parents ... 1 '' 10.5 ''
These figures, showing a greater frequency amongst females of precocious crimes against the person, and amongst males against property, are approximately repeated in Switzerland, where young prisoners in 1870-74 had been sentenced in these proportions:--
For crimes and offences against the person ... 12.1 per cent. '' '' '' morality ... 5.7 '' '' incendiarism... 4.3 '' '' theft ... 65.5 '' '' swindling ...英文原著 · 《Criminal Sociology》
Mr. Decker, approximately two and a half hours ago, we had someone sitting where you are now -- a young man from a fund that I'm not at liberty to name, and he was downright chatty.美剧 · 《Billions》
*Again, our top story--* *Fairview police detective Chuck Vance is dead* *after a hit and run accident* *that has left the community stunned.* *Detective Vance was crossing Lake Street* *approximately 11:00 P. M.* *when he was run down by a dark sedan.* Hello, sunshine. How you feelin' this mornin'?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》