Ding dong! Ding dong! Ding dong! Ding dong! Ding dong! Ding dong! They all chanted A-dam Sweat-er' in time with the striking clock. In the same way the Tories would chant: `Grab - all Close - land!英文原著 · 《The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists》
WHY THE PETERKINS HAD A LATE DINNER. THE trouble was in the dumb-waiter. All had seated themselves at the dinner-table, and Amanda had gone to take out the dinner she had sent up from the kitchen on the dumb-waiter. But something was the matter; she could not pull it up. There was the dinner, but she could not reach it. All the family, in turn, went and tried; all pulled together, in vain;the dinner could not be stirred.英文原著 · 《The Peterkin Papers》
You went to sleep--a long sleep; no dreams. A nap after dinner! Dinner! His tongue sought his palate! he could eat a good dinner! That dog hadn't put him off his stroke! The best dinner he had ever eaten was the one he gave to Jack Herring, Chichester, Thornworthy, Nick Treffry and Jolyon Forsyte at Pole's. Good Lord!英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
"Maybe not," retorted his brother, "but both Strangwise and Nur-el-Din know that the jewel was originally entrusted to her charge. Nur-el-Din did not, it is true, tell Miss Mackwayte what the silver box contained but the latter may have found out, at least the dancer might suppose so; while Strangwise might think the same. Therefore, both Strangwise and Nur-el-Din had an interest in detaining Miss Mackwayte, and I think Strangwise forestalled the dancer. When Nur-el-Din discovered it, both Rass and her maid paid the penalty of their betrayal."英文原著 · 《Okewood of the Secret Service》
Tuesday. We came to Oxford, a very sweet place: paid our guide 1l. 6d.; barber, 2s. 6d.; book (Stonhenge,) 4s.; boy that showed me the colleges before dinner, 1s. To dinner; and then out with my wife and people, and landlord; and to him that showed us the schools and library, 10s.; to him that showed us All Souls' College and Chichly's picture, 5s. So to see Christ Church with my wife, I seeing several others very fine alone before dinner, and did give the boy that went with me, 1s. Strawberries, 1s. Dinner and servants, 1l.英文原著 · 《The Diary of Samuel Pepys》
Let them be served on gold-- The wealthy and the great; Two lovers only want A single glass and plate! Ring ding, ring ding, Ring dingding-- Old wine, young lassie, Sing, boys, sing!英文原著 · 《The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac》