But I had to finish my flight. "Such quiet faces are gone now in the breathless, competing North: ground into oblivion between the clashing trades of the competing men and the clashing jewels and chandeliers of their competing wives--while yours have lingered on, spared by your very adversity. And that's why I shall miss your old people when they follow mine--because they're the last of their kind, the end of the chain, the bold original stock, the great race that made our glory grow and saw that it did grow through thick and thin: the good old native blood of independence."英文原著 · 《Lady Baltimore》
His courtesy was genuine. Still, we did not call ourselves ladies. We did not forget that we were working-girls, wearing coarse aprons suitable to our work, and that there was some danger of our becoming drudges. I know that sometimes the confinement of the mill became very wearisome to me. In the sweet June weather I would lean far out of the window, and try not to hear the unceasing clash of sound inside. Looking away to the hills, my whole stifled being would cry out英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
`The time is short, Evr��monde,' said the Spy, in a warning Voice. `I know it well,' answered Carton. `Be careful of my friend, I entreat you, and leave me. `Come, then, my children,' said Barsad. `Lift him, and come away!'
The door closed, and Carton was left alone. Straining his powers of listening to the utmost, he listened for any sound that might denote suspicion or alarm. There was none. Keys turned, doors clashed, footsteps passed along distant passages: no cry was raised, or hurry made, that seemed unusual.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
So the twain went on singing their song, with two others, a few steps off, singing another, a dirge--a clashing of sleepiness, health, and vague melancholy. But they did not feel dull, and the hours flew by.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
Alt the end Coleman arose and strolled out of the. room, smoking a cigarette. He did not betray, a sign. Before. the door clashed softly behind him, Nora laughed a little defiantly, perhaps a little loudly. It made every man in the grill-room perk up his ears. As for her courtiers, they were entranced. In her description of the conquering man, she had easily contrived that each one of them wondered if she might not mean him.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
It wasn't honest, healthy love--the love that unites, that makes a man willing to take as well as to give, that I felt for you; it was worship that separates a man from a woman, that puts fear between them. It isn't good that man should worship a woman. He can't serve God and woman. Their interests are liable to clash. Nan's my helpmate--just a loving woman that the Lord brought to me and gave me when I was alone--that I still love. I didn't know it till last night. She will never stand in my way. I haven't to put her against my duty.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
I know in the box score this'll just go down as a motion to enjoin, but I'm looking at a clash of the titans.美剧 · 《Billions》
Being in the cockpit was like hitting the stage with The Clash.美剧 · 《Billions》
I have to pick a shade that won't clash with the splatter of blood from when I blow my brains out after talking to Katie about paint swatches all day.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
I'm sorry my platinum records clashed with the chic minimalism of your new sun room.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
(Video) Narrator: We are in the middle of a tremendous clash between the old and the new. (Video) Narrator: We are in the middle of a tremendous clash between the old and the new.演讲 · 《The web is more than better TV ~ Peter Hirshberg》
For the starving kids in Africa? Well, we've got a bit of a clash with our gig in Camden and wondering if you could push yours back a week.电影 · 《Killing Bono (2011)》
They can't prevent me from graduating because of a personality clash, can they?电影 · 《Patch Adams (1998)》