As soon as the merry meal and a brief interval of repose were over, it was unanimously voted to have some charades. A smooth, green spot between two stately pines was chosen for the stage; shawls hung up, properties collected, audience and actors separated, and a word quickly chosen.英文原著 · 《Eight Cousins》
So everyone but Mac, the gay Westerner, and Rose, took their places on the rocky seats and discussed the late beautiful and varied charade, in which Pokey frankly pronounced her own scene the "bestest of all."英文原著 · 《Eight Cousins》
Not until the eleven months' drought did Santa Rosa cease talking about Dry Valley Johnson's courtship of Panchita O'Brien. It was an unclassifiable procedure; something like a combination of cake- walking, deaf-and-dumb oratory, postage stamp flirtation and parlour charades. It lasted two weeks and then came to a sudden end.英文原著 · 《Heart of the West》
I attribute it to too much beer and bacon last night at your friend's house. I enjoyed it--I mean the evening, and for that matter the bacon--at the time. It really was extremely pleasant."
He yawned largely and openly. "I had no idea you could frolic like that, Mike," he said. "It was quite a new light on your character. How did you learn to do it? It's quite a new accomplishment."
Here again the veil was drawn. Was it last night only that Falbe had played the Variations, and that they had acted charades?英文原著 · 《Michael》
"I only thought something might happen, brother, if I should ever go to Paris! I was acting a charade in my fancy, and that was the solution of it!"英文原著 · 《The Golden Dog》
The only good thing is that I ran down his little charade.美剧 · 《Billions》
Pretty soon, this whole charade will completely unravel, and we will be humiliated.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》