Raffles regarded me with that tantalizing smile of his which might mean nothing, yet which often meant so much; and in a flash I was convinced that our most jealous enemy and dangerous rival, the doyen of an older school, had paid him yet another visit.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
I never wrote a double ballade, and stanzas four and five of the Double Ballade of Primitive Man were contributed by the learned doyen of Anthropology, Mr. Tylor, author of Primitive Culture.英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
"Who is it?" whispered some of the men. "The citizen-governor," suggested one. "The new public executioner," ventured another. no!" quoth Pierre Maxime, the doyen of Boulogne fishermen, and a great authority on every matter public or private with the town; "no, no he is the man who has come down from Paris, the friend of Robespierre. He makes the laws now, the citizen-governor even must obey him. 'Tis he who made the law that if the woman up yonder should escape ..."
"Hush! ..." came in frightened accents from the crowd. "Hush, Pierre Maxine!英文原著 · 《The Elusive Pimpernel》