Very instructive series may also be observed among the Echinoderms and, what is very rare, we are able in this sub-kingdom to demonstrate the derivation of one class from another. Indeed, there is much reason to believe that the extinct class Cystidea of the Cambrian is the ancestral group, from which all the other Echinoderms, star-fishes, brittle-stars, sea-urchins, feather-stars, etc., are descended.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Now fall'n the brittle favourite lyes and burst! Amas'd LUCASTA weepes, repents and flies To her ALEXIS, vowes her selfe acurst, If hence she dresse her selfe but in his eyes.英文原著 · 《Lucasta》
"Exactly. That is the danger. He frightens nobody, not even himself, when he ought to wear a label round his neck marked 'Dangerous,' such as they have at other places where it is slippery and brittle. When he is here, I keep saying to myself, 'Too smooth, too smooth!'"英文原著 · 《Malbone》
She caught herself just starting in to listen. What nerves she had: rattling like brittle sticks! She wandered to the window, for the glisten Of a bright moon was tempting. Snuffed the wicks Of her two candles. Still she could not fix To anything. The moon in a broad swath Beckoned her out and down the garden-path.英文原著 · 《Men, Women and Ghosts》
BIANCA. The brittle thread is broken, The dull wheel wearies of its ceaseless round, The duller distaff sickens of its load; I will not spin to-night.英文原著 · 《Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous》
___(a) Shape
�� 235 Shape is the specific inward coherence of matter and its external border in space. �� 236 Density of matter, the relation of the weight of its mass to the volume. �� 237 Brittleness. �� 238 Magnetism. �� 239 The sphere, the shape of the real absence of shape. �� 240 Cohesion. �� 241 Crystallisation. �� 242 The body retains its individual determinacy in resistance to external force.英文原著 · 《Philosophy of Nature》
They hear, um,"aging," "brittle bones," um,"loss of sexual desire." Okay, before we go any further, can I check those diplomas?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
The rest is divvied up between a small savings account, This deceptive container of peanut brittle And the hollowed-out buttocks of a superhero action figure Who shall remain nameless for his own protection.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》