Certain of his magazines would come to-night. He sauntered down the deserted street, pausing before the establishment of Selby Brothers. From the door of this emerged one Elmer Huff, clerk at the City Drug Store. Elmer had purchased a package of cigarettes and now offered one to Merton. "'Lo, Mert! Have a little pill?"
"No, thanks," replied Merton firmly. He had lately given up smoking--save those clandestine indulgences at the expense of Gashwiler--because he was saving money against his great day. Elmer lighted one of his own little pills and made a further suggestion.英文原著 · 《Merton of the Movies》
Witch-elm. The broad-leaved or wych elm (Ulmus montana), indigenous to Scotland. Forked branches of the tree were used in the olden time as divining-rods, and riding switches from it were supposed to insure good luck on a journey. In the closing stanzas of the poem (vi. 846) it is called the "wizard elm." Tennyson (In Memoriam, 89) refers to英文原著 · 《The Lady of the Lake》
Elmer Cowley ran out of the woods leaving the half-wit sitting on the log before the fire. Presently the old man arose and climbing over the fence went back to his work in the corn. "I'll be washed and ironed and starched," he declared. "Well, well, I'll be washed and ironed." Mook was interested. He went along a lane to a field where two cows stood nibbling at a straw stack. "Elmer was here," he said to the cows. "Elmer is crazy. You better get behind the stack where he don't see you.英文原著 · 《Winesburg,Ohio》
One night, just at supper-time, Elmer Lonnie said: "Hello, pa!" and then they heard pa whispering and Elmer Lonnie came in looking very solemn - or trying to - and said: "Ma, Miss Waldo wants to know if you won't please step over there a minute."英文原著 · 《Back Home》
Tradition rather than history has preserved thus much. In the early part of the present century a row of great elms, known as the Paddock elms, stood in what is now the sidewalk on the west side of Tremont Street skirting the Granary Burying Ground. These trees were cut away and the first section of the burial space was invaded with the spade. Tomb No. 40, over which the iron railing now passes, was divided down as far as where the occupants are lying. Within the sepulchre were several bodies. One was the body of Nathaniel Cunningham, Sr. Another was Ruth Cunningham, his wife.英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
When the lid of one coffin in this invaded tomb was lifted, it was found that a mass of the living roots of the old strong elm near by had twined about the skull of the sleeper, had entered through the apertures, and had eaten up the brain. It was the brain of James Otis which had given itself to the life of the elm and had been transformed into branch and leaf and blossom, thus breathing itself forth again into the free air and the Universal Flow.英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
We call her the "Nightmare on Elm Street," Because she sold a lot of houses on Elm Street.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
I worked at Target the Christmas they ran out of tickle me Elmo,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
It's grinding, focused work, it's sitting on their bed for weeks, months at a time, working slip cuts, perfecting the Elmsley Count-- so that the audience never sees where the cards really are.美剧 · 《Billions》
Just a cup with a picture of Elmo on it, dressed as a farmer.美剧 · 《Friends》