"What women love, and can't do without, if they are young and healthy and spirited, is--Excitement. I am one who pines for it. Now, society is so constructed that to get excitement you must be naughty. Waltzing all night and flirting all day are excitement. Crochet, and church, and examining girls in St. Matthew, and dining _en famille,_ and going to bed at ten, are stagnation. Good girls--that means stagnant girls: I hate and despise the tame little wretches, and I never was one, and never will be. But now look here: We have two ladies in love with one villain-- that is exciting.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"It's half a crochet, this objection of Carlyle's to interfere with Levison," suddenly uttered Richard, in the midst of some desultory conversation. "Don't you think so, Mr. Ball?"英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
How would YOU like to be caged up in that ridiculous tower to cook and crochet and brew beer and watch the train go by for recreation? The year round--the year round?"
Lucy rose quietly. "The train is coming now," she said. "Calm yourself, Jean. YOU will not have to live in the tower."
Jean laughed. When they were seated in the car again, she looked wistfully out at the heaps of ruins. "It must have been a mighty fortress once," she said. "Those stones were hewed before Charlemagne's time.英文原著 · 《Frances Waldeaux》
The parlor is taken bodily out of old English novels, a direct descendant, slightly furbished up and modernized, of the Village inn parlor of Goldsmith,--homely, clean, and comfortless. A cotton tidy over the rocking-chair bewrays, wrought into its crocheted gorgeousness, the name of Uncle Tom. This I cannot stand. Time may bring healing, but now the wound is still fresh. "O, you did Uncle-Tom it famously," I hurl out, doubling my fist at the British lion which glares at me from that cotton tidy. "I remember those days. O yes! you were rampant on Uncle Tom.英文原著 · 《Gala-Days》
"What do you say to that, sir? would you grind Death's scythe for him (at the list price) to thin the labor market?"
Grotait hesitated for once. In his heart he went with the file- cutter: but his understanding encumbered him. "Starvation," said he, "is as miserable a death as poisoning. But why make a large question out of a small one, with rushing into generalities? I really think you might let Mr. Little settle this matter with the individual workmen. He has got a little factory, and a little crochet; he chooses to lengthen the lives of six file- cutters.英文原著 · 《Put Yourself in His Place》
stuck between hipsters selling crochet iPad sleeves and salt peppers and salt pepper shakers.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Most of all, because you told me we would stay warm together under a crocheted blanket.美剧 · 《Shameless》
We can crochet panty hose if that's what it takes to be cool.美剧 · 《Suits》