that the boys loved so dearly to "declaim;" and another poem by this last author, which we all liked to read, partly from a childish love of the tragic, and partly for its graphic description of an avalanche's movement:--英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
As the pair moved toward the stern, enormous and radiant green waves were crashing futilely after the steamer. Ireland showed a dreary coast line to the north. A wretched man who had crossed the Atlantic eighty-four times was declaiming to a group of novices. A venerable banker, bundled in rugs, was asleep in his deck chair.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
" Harrison Wainwright," she declaimed, "you are not going to allow this monstrous thing!英文原著 · 《Active Service》
Whereupon I marched up to the platform and declaimed that deathless lyric:英文原著 · 《Back Home》
CYRANO: No? (declaiming): The duel in Hotel of Burgundy--fought By De Bergerac and a good-for-naught!英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
Oh, for a rhyme, a rhyme in o?-- You wriggle, starch-white, my eel? A rhyme! a rhyme! The white feather you SHOW! I parry the point of your steel; --The point you hoped to make me feel; I open the line, now clutch Your spit, Sir Scullion--slow your zeal! At the envoi's end, I touch. (He declaims solemnly): Envoi. Prince, pray Heaven for your soul's weal!英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》