Said the old priest, ``A diamond is a congealed drop of sunlight.'' Now that is literally scientifically true, that a diamond is an actual deposit of carbon from the sun. The old priest told Ali Hafed that if he had one diamond the size of his thumb he could purchase the county, and if he had a mine of diamonds he could place his children upon thrones through the influence of their great wealth.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
"They that think that Water is a god have gone astray. It also hath been made for the use of men. It is under their lordship: it is polluted, and perisheth: it is altered by boiling, by dyeing, by congealment, or by being brought to the cleansing of all defilements. Wherefore Water cannot be a god, but only the work of God.英文原著 · 《Barlaam and Ioasaph》
CYRANO (whose face stiffens at once): Impossible! My blood congeals to think That other hand should change a comma's dot.英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
And I beheld therein a terrible throng
Of serpents, and of such a monstrous kind,
That the remembrance still congeals my blood英文原著 · 《Inferno》
Their eyes, which first were only moist within,
Gushed o'er the eyelids, and the frost congealed
The tears between, and locked them up again.英文原著 · 《Inferno》
Thereby Cocytus wholly was congealed. With six eyes did he weep, and down three chins
Trickled the tear-drops and the bloody drivel.英文原著 · 《Inferno》
Just a moment ago, I had a minor epiphany Regarding the polymer degradation phenomenon While scraping congealed nachos off a plate.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》