The Cinder Cone near Lassen's Butte is remarkable as being the scene of the most recent volcanic eruption in the range. It is a symmetrical truncated cone covered with gray cinders and ashes, with a regular crater in which a few pines an inch or two in diameter are growing. It stands between two small lakes which previous to the last eruption, when the cone was built, formed one lake. From near the base of the cone a flood of extremely rough black vesicular lava extends across what was once a portion of the bottom of the lake into the forest of yellow pine.英文原著 · 《Steep Trails》
The sun!" he cried. "There lies their weakness!"
The voice rose in pitch, grew strident. "Go back to the city! Go back to the city! Walter-- Drake. They are not invulnerable. The sun--strike them through the sun! Go into the city--not invulnerable --the Keeper of the Cones--strike at the Cones when-- the Keeper of the Cones--ah-h-h-ah--"
We shrank back appalled, for from the parted, scarcely moving lips in the unchanging face a gust of laughter, mad, mocking, terrifying, racked its way.英文原著 · 《The Metal Monster》
"Under a great spruce-tree--where the ground was soft and dry, OLD-man slept. The joy that thrilled creation disturbed him not, although the Sun was near. The bird-people looked at the sleeper in wonder, but the Pine squirrel climbed the great spruce-tree with a pine-cone in his mouth. Quickly he ran out on the limb that spread over OLD-man, and dropped the cone on the sleeper's face. Then he scolded OLD-man, saying: 'Get up--get up--lazy one--lazy one--get up--get up.'英文原著 · 《Indian Why Stories》
Over it I saw form a limpid cloud of the brilliant vapors. Whence came these sparkling nebulosities, these mists of light? It was as though the clustered, spinning disks reached into the shadowless air, sucked from it some unseen, rhythmic energy and transformed it into this visible, coruscating flood. For now it was a flood. Down from the immense wheel came pouring cataracts of green fires. They cascaded over the cones; deluged them; engulfed them. Beneath that radiant inundation the cones grew. Perceptibly their volume increased--as though they gorged themselves upon the light.英文原著 · 《The Metal Monster》
After a time the pleasant chill creeps down from the eternal snows. Some one throws another handful of pine-cones on the fire. Sleepily you prepare for bed. The pine-cones flare up, throwing their light in your eyes. You turn over and wrap the soft woolen blanket close about your chin. You wink drowsily and at once you are asleep. Along late in the night you awaken to find your nose as cold as a dog's. You open one eye.英文原著 · 《The Mountains》
"You are in the swim, and you must hold your own. You gamble with other men, and when you win you chuckle. All the time you're whittling your conscience away - if ever you had any. You're never quite dishonest, and you're never quite honest. You come out on top, and afterwards you hate yourself. It's a dirty little life!"
"Well," she remarked after a moment's pause, "you have surprised me very much. At any rate you are rich enough now to have no more to do with it."
He kicked a fir cone savagely away. "If I could," he said, "I would shut up my office to-morrow, sell out, and live upon a farm.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
And we had another place that was like a boardwalk, kind of a Coney Island. and we had another place that was like a boardwalk, kind of a Coney Island.演讲 · 《Life in Second Life ~ Philip Rosedale》