"I think that what he discovered on his latest voyage was the effect of a banjo on the human mind," laughed Phyllis. "He was aboard Lord Earlscourt's yacht, the /Water Nymph/. Some other men were there also. One of them had an idea that he could play upon the banjo. He was wrong, Mr. Courtland thinks."英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
``None o' my boys,'' said the old woman, ``but Tom Green's son down the creek --he follers pickin' the banjo a leetle.'' ``Follows pickin' ''--the Blight did not miss that phrase.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
"I don't think I'll bother him," said Clayton, turning away with a laugh. "Good-night t" With a little cackle of incredulity, the old man closed the door. The camp had sunk now to perfect quiet; but for the faint notes of a banjo far up the glen, not a sound trembled on the night air.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Europa》
According to the unprejudiced testimony of those who, before the war, in his own country, had owned slaves, those of the "Southland" were always content, always happy. When not singing close harmony in the cotton-fields, they danced upon the levee, they twanged the old banjo. But these slaves of the Upper Congo were not happy. They did not dance. They did not sing. At times their eyes, dull, gloomy, despairing, lighted with a sudden sombre fire, and searched the eyes of the white man. They seemed to beg of him the answer to a terrible question. It was always the same question.英文原著 · 《A Question of Latitude》
About this musty museum hung or stood unredeemed seamen's jackets, men and women's evening wear, banjos, guitars, violins, umbrellas, and one huge green stuffed parrot sitting on top of the Duchess's safe. "I wanted to talk, not walk," he said. "Let's stay here."
He took her hands and looked down on her steadily. Under the yellow gaslight her face gleamed excitedly up into his, her breath came quickly. "Well, sir, what do you think of me?" she demanded. "Have I changed much?"
"Changed? Why, it's magic, Maggie! I left you a schoolgirl; you're a woman now.英文原著 · 《Children of the Whirlwind》
"I'll be right there to-night, Where the fields are snowy white; Banjos ringing, darkies singing, All the world seems bright."英文原著 · 《Four Short Plays》