One two-foot shelf of books, consisting of several sterling works upon mathematics, in a damaged condition; five of Shakespeare's plays, expurgated for schools and colleges, and also damaged; a work upon political economy, and another upon the science of physics; Webster's Collegiate Dictionary; How to Enter a Drawing- Room and Five Hundred Other Hints; Witty Sayings from Here and There; Lorna Doone; Quentin Durward; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a very old copy of Moths, and a small Bible.英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
[6] A man has an animal of known ferocious habits, which escapes and does his neighbor damage. He can prove that the animal escaped through no negligence of his, but still he is held liable. It is, says the analytical jurist, because, although he was not negligent at the moment of escape, he was guilty of remote heedlessness, or negligence, or fault, in having such a creature at all. And one by whose fault damage is done ought to pay for it.英文原著 · 《The Common Law》
In the Roman law we find the similar principles of the noxoe deditio gradually leading to further results. The Twelve Tables (451 B.C.) provided that, if an animal had done damage, either the animal was to be surrendered or the damage paid for. /6/ We learn from Gains that the same rule was applied to the torts of children or slaves, /7/ and there is some trace of it with regard to inanimate things.英文原著 · 《The Common Law》
What is true as to damages in general done by ferocious wild beasts is true as to a particular class of damages done by domestic cattle, namely, trespasses upon another's land. This has been dealt with in former Lectures, and it is therefore needless to do more than to recall it here, and to call attention to the distinction based on experience and policy between damage which is and that which is not of a kind to be expected. Cattle generally stray and damage cultivated land when they get upon it. They only exceptionally hurt human beings.英文原著 · 《The Common Law》
He made his way down to the War Office. It seemed queer to find men at work still in their rooms. He sent Ambrose for an orderly and received a message from headquarters. "Damage to public buildings and property not yet estimated. All dockyards and arsenals safe, principal public buildings untouched. Only seventeen dead and forty injured reported up to five minutes ago. Great damage done to enemy fleet; remainder in full retreat, many badly damaged. Zeppelin just down in Essex, four aeroplanes between here and Romford."
Thomson threw down his revolver.英文原著 · 《The Kingdom of the Blind》
``Oh, you've got both,'' she said and she shook her head, as though she were thinking of the damage they had done. It was my time now--to ask questions.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
- And collateral damage? - It doesn't make much difference to the collateral damage whether it's damage by gas美剧 · 《The News Room》
Look, I can do damage control, but I have to know what the damage is.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Are you? Instead of having me do damage control, you're having me do damage to one of our own.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
The damage done to her nerves is not going to get undone, nor is the psych damage, but at least she'll look like other girls.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》