Across the room, between two windows, stood a flat-topped desk. A little pile of white and brown lay upon it close to the opposite edge. After a moment of rest I crossed the room to investigate. The white was the bleached human bones--the skull, collar bones, arms, and a few of the upper ribs of a man. The brown was the dust of a decayed military cap and blouse. In a chair before the desk were other bones, while more still strewed the floor beneath the desk and about the chair. A man had died sitting there with his face buried in his arms--two hundred years ago.英文原著 · 《The Lost Continent》
Stryver?' asked Mr. Lorry, in his business character. `Why, no, thank you; this is a private visit to yourself, Mr. Lorry; I have come for a private word.'
`Oh indeed!' said Mr. Lorry, bending down his ear, while his eye strayed to the House afar off. `I am going,' said Mr. Stryver, leaning his arms confidentially on the desk: whereupon, although it was a large double one, there appeared to be not half desk enough for him: `I am going to make an offer of myself in marriage to your agreeable little friend, Miss Manette, Mr. Lorry.'
Oh dear me!' cried Mr.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
Baker took a manuscript and after glancing about the room, walked over to a man at another desk, Here is something that. I think might do," he said. The man at the desk read the first two pages. " But where is the photogragh " " he asked then. "There should be a photograph with this thing."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
" Oh, I forgot," said Baker. He brought from his desk a photograph of the babe that had been born lacking arms and one eye. Baker's superior braced a knee against his desk and settled back to a judicial attitude. He took the photograph and looked at it impassively. " Yes," he said, after a time, " that's a pretty good thing. You better show that to Coleman when he comes in."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
Aslaksen (with a smile). (Points to the desk.) Mr. Sheriff Stensgaard was your predecessor at that editorial desk.英文原著 · 《An Enemy of the People》
Two men came in, one going over to the desk where he apparently wrote a check, the other came straight to the window. Bud looked into the heavily bearded face of a man who had the eyes of Lew Morris. He shifted his position a little so that he faced the man's right side. The one at the desk was glancing slyly over his shoulder at the bookkeeper, who had just returned to his work.英文原著 · 《Cow-Country》
Every desk in the Department of Justice is my desk.美剧 · 《Billions》
But today it was a desk And unfortunately, we didn't have an extra desk That must have been ugly It was Patty was rammed with this Oh I am so sorry.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Sat at my desk and saw photographs of someone else's children sat at my desk and saw photographs of someone else's children演讲 · 《The council of dads ~ Bruce Feiler》