"Ready directly?" repeated my new sitter. "What do you mean, Mr. Artist, by ready directly? I'm ready now. What was your contract with the Town Council, who have subscribed for this picture? To paint the portrait. And what was my contract? To sit for it.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
But it's the Yaqui!...Crawlin' swift as a lizard! Can't you see him?"
It was a full moment before Jim's companions could locate the Indian. Flat as a snake Yaqui wound himself along with incredible rapidity. His advance was all the more remarkable for the fact that he appeared to pass directly under the dreaded choyas. Sometimes he paused to lift his head and look. He was directly in line with a huge whorl of lava that rose higher than any point on the slope. This spur was a quarter of a mile from the position of the rangers. "Shore he's headin' for that high place," said Ladd.英文原著 · 《Desert Gold》
He put on his hat directly, and accompanied her. Great was her innocent pleasure at that: it was the first time he had done her the honour. She took him to her poor people, and showed him off with innocent pride. "Hannah, this is my brother." Then in a whisper, "Isn't he beautiful?" Presently she saw him looking pale; unheard of phenomenon! "There now, you are ill," said she. "Come home directly, and be nursed."
"No, no," said he. "I only want a little fresh air. What horrid places what horrid sights and smells!英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
"What do you say, Miss Carden? What likeness can there be between my sister and a smith?" and he turned and frowned haughtily on Henry Little. Henry returned his look of defiance directly. But that very exchange of defiance brought out another likeness, which Grace's quick eye seized directly. "Why, he is still liker you," she cried. "Look, good people! Look at all three. Look at their great black eyes, and their brown hair.英文原著 · 《Put Yourself in His Place》
Little. "Oh, people don't go into hot-houses to see a cactus; they go to flirt or else gossip. I'll tell Mrs. White to set a short-hand writer in the great aloe, next party she gives. Confess, Mrs. Little, you went to criticise poor us, and there is no cactus at all."
"Miss Carden, I'm affronted. You shall smart for this. Henry, take her directly and show her the cactus, and clear your mother's character."
Henry offered his arm directly, and they went gayly off.英文原著 · 《Put Yourself in His Place》
_The principle of Antithesis_.--Certain states of the mind lead to certain habitual actions, which are of service, as under our first principle. Now when a directly opposite state of mind is induced, there is a strong and involuntary tendency to the performance of movements of a directly opposite nature, though these are of no use; and such movements are in some cases highly expressive.英文原著 · 《The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals》
What do you know about the tenant who lives in the apartment directly above you?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Whoever tipped me in monopoly money can go directly to jail.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
When I die, just shove my corpse into a cannon and blow me directly into the Trump casino.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Or we could use the saved gas directly to cover all of this balance, Or we could use the saved gas directly to cover all of this balance,演讲 · 《Winning the oil endgame ~ Amory Lovins》