"That night I mentions the matter to Ogden. "'They're drawing the tendrils of the octopus around Black Bill,' says I. And then I told him about the deputy sheriff, and how I'd described him to the deputy, and what the deputy said about the matter.英文原著 · 《Options》
Gringuet's deputy! ho!" he said. "Why, you fool, M. Gringuet's deputy arrived two hours before you. You must get up a little earlier another time. They are poor tricksters who are too late for the fair. And now be silent, and it may save you a stripe or two to-morrow."英文原著 · 《From the Memoirs of a Minister of France》
For Tom's first thought was that a formal information had been lodged somewhere, and that his father was arrested. But Newspaper Row evidently was unsuspicious of any arrest. Tom even walked down to the old jail, and made an absurd errand to see the Deputy-Marshal. But the Deputy- Marshal was at his Christmas dinner. Tom told all this in the hall to Beverly and to Matty. Everything had failed, and papa was gone. Who could the man in the shaggy coat be? The three went together into the parlor.英文原著 · 《The Brick Moon》
I met Mr. Crewe and dined with him, where there dined one Mr. Hickeman, an Oxford man, who spoke very much against the height of the now old clergy, for putting out many of the religious fellows of Colleges, and inveighing against them for their being drunk. It being post-night, I wrote to my Lord to give him notice that all things are well; that General Monk is made Lieutenant of Ireland, which my Lord Roberts (made Deputy) do not like of, to be Deputy to any man but the king himself. [John, second Lord Robartes, advanced to the dignity of Earl of Radnor, 1679. 1685.]英文原著 · 《The Diary of Samuel Pepys》
When he felt this delirious joy growing calmer, when he thought to have drunk the whole of its proud intoxication, he had only to say to himself, "Deputy! I am a Deputy!" And the triumphal cup foamed once more to the brim. It meant the embargo raised from all his possessions, the awakening from a nightmare that had lasted two months, the puff of cool wind sweeping away all his anxieties, all his inquietudes, even to the affront of Saint-Romans, very heavy though that was in his memory.英文原著 · 《The Nabob》
"But hell with your gun, eh?" The deputy sheriff grinned again, but when the other turned his head toward him, his smile went out, suddenly while the wrinkle of mirth still lay in his cheek. The deputy stroked his chin and looked thoughtful.英文原著 · 《The Seventh Man》
Always a lovely word to hear, but I'm not some deputy anymore.美剧 · 《Billions》
But we both know why you're not a deputy anymore, so I am asking you to do this one for me.美剧 · 《Billions》
I just need you to loop me in with the new deputy.美剧 · 《Billions》