I hate to leave that behind me. I heard a man get up in a prayer-meeting in our city and thank the Lord he was ``one of God's poor.'' Well, I wonder what his wife thinks about that? She earns all the money that comes into that house, and he smokes a part of that on the veranda. I don't want to see any more of the Lord's poor of that kind, and I don't believe the Lord does. And yet there are some people who think in order to be pious you must be awfully poor and awfully dirty. That does not follow at all. While we sympathize with the poor, let us not teach a doctrine like that.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
It was something else--as if you knew something about me. I don't know what you can have known. There was very little to know about me, except that I was intensely silly. Really, I was awfully silly that summer at Baden--you would n't believe how silly I was. But I don't see how you could have known that-- before you had spoken to me. It came out in my conversation-- it came out awfully. My mother was a good deal disappointed in Mrs. Vivian's influence; she had expected so much from it.英文原著 · 《Confidence》
"I don't know what I'm going to do--nothing at present. I'm awfully sorry, Keith; awfully sorry."英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
Oh, Jane! I only wish I had had such a chance! Did nothing happen, Jane? Oh, come on now, you are too awfully oysteresque. Didn't he come across at all?"
Jane's face glowed a dull red, but she made no pretence of failing to understand Ethel's meaning. "Oh, there is no nonsense of that kind with Larry," she said. "We are just good friends."
"Good friends!" exclaimed Ethel indignantly. "That's just where he is so awfully maddening.英文原著 · 《The Major》
"Why, Sam," observed Jadwin, looking up from the paper, "there's less than a hundred million bushels in the farmers' hands.... That's awfully small. Sam, that's awfully small."英文原著 · 《The Pit》