Oh, by the way, I have made up my mind to take that treasurership--beastly nuisance, eh? Goin'? Where?"
"Off with the dogs for a run somewhere."
"No, take the car--too beastly hot for riding, don't you know. Take my car. Or, I say, let's go up to the mine. Must get to know more about the beastly old thing, eh, what? We'll take the guns and Sweeper--we'll be sure to see some birds and get the evening shoot coming back. But, last word, my boy, give the girl a chance to say no.英文原著 · 《The Major》
Trent counted them carefully and thrust them into his pocket. Then he took up a pen and wrote his name at the foot of the assignment which the Jew had prepared. "Have a drink?" he asked. Da Souza shook his head. "The less we drink in this country," he said, "the better. I guess out here, spirits come next to poison. I'll smoke with you, if you have a cigar handy."
Trent drew a handful of cigars from his pocket. "They're beastly," he said, "but it's a beastly country.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
I know that this letter doesn't contain a word of the kind of news that you like to hear. But it's that beastly twilight hour of a damp November day, and I'm in a beastly uncheerful mood. I'm awfully afraid that I am developing into a temperamental person, and Heaven knows Gordon can supply all the temperament that one family needs! I don't know where we'll land if I don't preserve my sensibly stolid, cheerful nature.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
"I wish you wouldn't--I wish mother wouldn't--I hate it. Money! Beastly--beastly!" and a tearful sigh shivered itself into Bob Pillin's reddening ears.英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
I am waiting to see the sun rise. But upon my word I believe it's forgotten to rise. It is an awful climate, this. Now if we were in Africa the world would be blazing with sunlight at this hour of the morning. Just see that mist rolling over those cabbages. It is enough to give you rheumatism to look at it. Beastly climate--Beastly! Really I don't know why anything but frogs ever stay in England--Well, don't let me keep you.英文原著 · 《The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle》
I am stopping at a beastly little hole, which has the one merit of being opposite Miss Schuyler's lodgings. My sketch-book has deteriorated in artistic value during the last two weeks. Many of its pages, while interesting to me as reminiscences, will hardly do for family or studio exhibition. If I should label them, the result would be something like this:-英文原著 · 《A Cathedral Courtship》