"This aint an electioneering trick, as you know. I can play them off as well as the next feller when there's need, kiss the babies and all that."英文原著 · 《He Fell In Love With His Wife》
When he reached Bevron, he saw Daumon talking earnestly with Francoise, the daughter of the Widow Rouleau. de Puymandour bowed graciously, and stopped to talk with the man, for he was just now seeking for popularity, as he was a candidate, and the elections would shortly take place; and, besides, he never failed to talk to persons who exercised any degree of influence, and he knew that Daumon was a most useful man in electioneering.英文原著 · 《The Champdoce Mystery》
For Mr. Elijah Gryce abounded in military metaphors and in denunciations of militarism. He was a square-jawed, blunt-featured man with a pugnacious cock of the eyebrow. He had been pickled in the politics of that countryside from boyhood, he knew everybody's secrets, and electioneering was the romance of his life.英文原著 · 《The Man Who Knew Too Much》