"Come on now, Sol!" pleaded Sim. "I want to hear the rest of that about you and Williams. You left off in the most ticklish place possible, out of spite, I do believe. I'm hangin' on to that boat in the breakers until I declare I believe I'm catchin' cold just from imagination."
"Wait a minute, Sim," said the depot master. Then he turned to his assistant. "Issy," he said, "this is about the nineteenth time you've done just this sort of thing. You're no earthly use and I ought to give you your clearance papers. But I can't, you're too--well-- ornamental.英文原著 · 《The Depot Master》
Now you just hand that Sim Butler his clearance papers and go work for Bob's wife. The wages are double what you get here, and--'
"She didn't wait to hear the rest. Just sailed out of the room with her nose in the air. In a minute, though, back she come and just put her head in the door. "'I'm much obliged to you, Mr. Wingate,' says she. 'I know you mean well. But you ain't had your fate foretold, same's I have.英文原著 · 《The Depot Master》
The fact itself was no surprise to them; the clearance had naturally been one of the first of the sweeping changes of the Treherne regime. But though they knew it well, they had wholly forgotten it; and its significance returned on them suddenly like a sign in heaven.英文原著 · 《The Trees of Pride》
As to old Seymour, he had to be treated differently; he had to be left to the last. The only way to move him was to appeal to him in confidence as an old friend, to let him into the secret of the clearance. The priest did really admire Miss Rome as she achieved all these three objects in one selected action.英文原著 · 《The Wisdom of Father Brown》
The sort of vulnerability that stops you from getting government security clearance.美剧 · 《Billions》