Sophronia would have liked to call him Joash, but her husband wouldn't hear of it. At length the father took to calling him "Dusenberry," and this nickname was adopted under protest. Captain Hiram sang the baby to sleep every night. There were three songs in the Captain's repertoire. The first was a chanty with a chorus of
John, storm along, storm along, John, Ain't I glad my day's work's done. The second was the "Bowline Song."
Haul on the bowline, the 'Phrony is a-rollin', Haul on the bowline! the bowline HAUL! At the "haul!" the Captain's foot would come down with a thump.英文原著 · 《The Depot Master》
Taro took up his soup-bowl with both hands. He was in a hurry. "Oh, Taro!" Take said. "What would Mother say! You must be more polite. You know that isn't the way to hold your bowl." Taro set his bowl down again, and took it up carefully with one hand, just as you see him in the picture. Take began to eat her rice. She had two little sticks in her right hand.英文原著 · 《The Japanese Twins》
But within was neither man nor beast; neither boar nor dogs, but only a fountain with marble round it, and on the edge a golden bowl, richly wrought, which pleased Pryderi greatly. In a moment he forgot about his dogs, and went up to the bowl and took hold of it, and his hands stuck to the bowl, and his feet to the marble slab, and despair took possession of him.英文原著 · 《The Lilac Fairy Book》
The spoon is first shown with the quicksilver concealed in the handle, the bowl is then dipped just within the rim of the pot containing the molten lead, but not into the lead itself, and, at the same instant the quicksilver is allowed to run into the bowl. The spoon is then shown with the quicksilver (which the audience takes to be the melted lead) in the bowl, and when placed in the mouth, the quicksilver is again allowed to run into the handle.英文原著 · 《The Miracle Mongers》
FOLLIOTT. No wassail-bowl for me. Give me an unsophisticated bowl of punch, which belongs to that blissful middle period, after the Jacquerie was down, and before the march of mind was up. But, see, who is floundering in the water?英文原著 · 《Crotchet Castle》
An immense bowl of spiced wine, with roasted apples hissing on its surface, was borne into the hall by four men, followed by an empty bowl of the same dimensions, with all the materials of arrack punch, for the divine's especial brewage. He accinged himself to the task with his usual heroism, and having finished it to his entire satisfaction, reminded his host to order in the devil英文原著 · 《Crotchet Castle》
Is observing the self-assembly of his Cheerios in his cereal bowl. is observing the self-assembly of his Cheerios in his cereal bowl.演讲 · 《Everyday inventions ~ Saul Griffith》