As to Conyers and McClellan at the Naval Academy I know nothing. Of Napier I know nothing. Of Smith I prefer to say nothing. Of Williams I do express the belief that his treatment was impartial and just. He was regularly and rightly found deficient and duly dismissed. The article seems to imply that he should not have been "found" and dismissed simply because he was a negro. A very shallow reason indeed, and one "no fair-minded man" will for an instant entertain.英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
Seeing through the matter at once, Otis took the plaintiff aside, confronted him with the receipt and denounced him to his face as a rascal. The man gave down and begged for quarter, but Otis was inexorable; he went back to the bar and stated to the court that reasons existed why the case of his client should be dismissed. The court, presided over by Judge Hutchinson, afterward Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of Massachusetts, expressed its surprise at the turn of affairs, complimented Otis for his honorable course as an advocate, commended his conduct to the bar, and dismissed the case.英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
Levice has had an attack of hysteria. "Nothing at all," the world said, and dismissed it as carelessly as most of the quiet turning-points in a life-history are dismissed.英文原著 · 《Other Things Being Equal》
She pressed her cheek against the side of the oriel window, over which the ivy grew thickly. She was so intent that she could not withdraw her gaze. She watched him as he turned away, having received his dismissal, and she pressed her face closer that she might follow him as he rode down the long avenue of oak-trees, his servant riding behind.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
And there, at her side, was bowing, in cinnamon and crimson, with jewelled buttons on his velvet coat, the beautiful being whose fair locks the sun had shone on the morning she had watched him ride away--the man whom the imperial beauty had dismissed and called a popinjay.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
- Oh! How was teaching last night? - Oh, it was great. You get to say stuff like: "Hey, the bell doesn't dismiss you. I dismiss you." - Oh, nice. - Yeah.美剧 · 《Friends》
If you don't make a motion to dismiss this-- I did file a motion to dismiss, but it doesn't matter, because Cahill filed subpoenas to depose you and your son-in-law first, and until those depositions happen, the court won't file on the motion.美剧 · 《Suits》
That's because you hide it behind a superior, dismissive, and pessimistic mask, but I see past all that.美剧 · 《Billions》
All right, look, you can't know this, but it didn't go away when we moved for dismissal.美剧 · 《Billions》