His mind was a bit out of register as we say in the printing business. His vocabulary was rich and vivid and stimulating. 'Somebody broke into the arsenic today,' he announced, one evening, at the supper table. 'The arsenic,' said somebody, 'what arsenic?'
'Why the place where they keep the powder,' he answered. the arsenal.'
'Yes, the arsenal,' he said, cackling with laughter at his error. Then he grew serious. 'Stole all the ambition out of it,' he added. 'You mean ammunition, don't you, Solomon?' his wife enquired.英文原著 · 《Eben Holden》
There is also a House of Correction at Christiania for trifling misdemeanours, where the women are confined to labour and imprisonment even for life. The state of the prisoners was represented to the prince, in consequence of which he visited the arsenal and House of Correction. The slaves at the arsenal were loaded with irons of a great weight; he ordered them to be lightened as much as possible.英文原著 · 《Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark》
Kearney and Major Cooper, his adjutant-general, and found my classmate, Lieutenant McNutt, of the ordnance, stationed at the arsenal; also Mr. Deas, an artist, and Pacificus Ord, who was studying law. I spent a week at St. Louis, visiting the arsenal, Jefferson Barracks, and most places of interest, and then became impressed with its great future. It then contained about forty thousand people, and my notes describe thirty-six good steamboats receiving and discharging cargo at the levee.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-1》
I took up my quarters at the old United States Arsenal, which was in fine order, and had been much enlarged by the Confederate authorities, who never dreamed that an invading army would reach it from the west; and I also found in Fayetteville the widow and daughter of my first captain (General Childs), of the Third Artillery, learned that her son Fred had been the ordnance-officer in charge of the arsenal, and had of course fled with Hardee's army.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-2》
In Nature's workshop he does not succeed who has ready an arsenal of tools for every conceivable emergency, but he who can make a tool at the spur of the moment. The ordeal of the practical test is Charles Darwin's glorious conception of Natural Selection.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
My attention was presently recalled to him, however, in a rather remarkable manner. One morning Don Antonio d'Evora, Secretary to the Spanish Embassy, and a brother of that d'Evora who commanded the Spanish Foot at Paris in '94, called on me at the Arsenal, to which I had just removed, and desired to see me. I bade them admit him; but as my secretaries were at the time at work with me, I left them and received him in the garden--supposing that he wished to speak to me, about the affair of Saluces, and preferring, like the King my master, to talk of matters of State in the open air.英文原著 · 《From the Memoirs of a Minister of France》
She brought all the crazy in her arsenal, and I did not crack.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
I mean, we've had a nuclear arsenal for decades, and we're fine. I mean, outside of a couple…美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》