one side of the lump is all over thick ice. So it is. All that water was inside the chalk last night, till it froze. And then it came squeezing out of the holes in the chalk in strings, as you may see it if you break the ice across. Now you may judge for yourself how much water a load of chalk will hold, even on a dry summer's day. And now, if you'll excuse me, sir, I must be off to market. Was it all true that the farmer said? Quite true, I believe.英文原著 · 《Madam How and Lady Why》
To a thinking mind few phenomena are more strange than the state of little ponds on the summits of chalk-hills, many of which are never dry in the most trying droughts of summer. On chalk-hills I say, because in many rocky and gravelly soils springs usually break out pretty high on the sides of elevated grounds and mountains; but no person acquainted with chalky districts will allow that they ever saw springs in such a soil but in valleys and bottoms, since the waters of so pervious a stratum as chalk all lie on one dead level, as well-diggers have assured me again and again.英文原著 · 《The Natural History of Selborne》
Probably the attribution is right: Chalkhill's tomb commemorates a man after Walton's own heart, but some have assigned the volume to Walton himself. Chalkhill is described, on the title-page, as 'an acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spencer,' which is impossible.英文原著 · 《Introduction to The Compleat Angler》
Are they right who hold that John Chalkhill was but a name of a friend, borrowed by thee out of modesty, and used as a cloak to cover poetry of thine own inditing? When Mr. Flatman writes of Chalkhill, 'tis in words well fitted to thine own merit:英文原著 · 《Letters to Dead Authors》
You want to know, then, what chalk is? I suppose you mean what chalk is made of? That is it. That we can only help by calling in the help of a very great giant whose name is Analysis. A giant? And before we call for him I will tell you a very curious story about him and his younger brother, which is every word of it true. Once upon a time, certainly as long ago as the first man, or perhaps the first rational being of any kind, was created, Madam How had two grandsons. The elder is called Analysis, and the younger Synthesis.英文原著 · 《Madam How and Lady Why》
But first we will let Analysis tell us what chalk is made of, as far as he knows. He will say--Chalk is carbonate of lime. But what is carbonate of lime made of? Lime and carbonic acid. And what is lime? The oxide of a certain metal, called calcium. What do you mean? That quicklime is a certain metal mixed with oxygen gas; and slacked lime is the same, mixed with water.英文原著 · 《Madam How and Lady Why》
All these rules and regulations -- arbitrary, chalked up by politicians for their own ends.美剧 · 《Billions》