He was king. And from one gradation to another, they entered Cologne with Severne seated between the two girls, each with a hand in his, and a great disposition to pet him and spoil him; more than once, indeed, a delicate head just grazed each of his square shoulders; but candor compels me to own that their fatigue and the yawing of the carriage at the time were more to blame than the tired girls; for at the enormity there was a prompt retirement to a distance. Miss Maitland had been a long time in the land of Nod; and Vizard, from the first, had preferred male companions and tobacco.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"Up to the date of this enormity, the Press had been pretty evenly divided for and against us. But now, to their credit, they were unanimous, and reprobated the juggle as a breach of public faith and plain morality. Backed by public opinion, one friendly professor took this occasion to move the university to relax the regulation of separate classes since it had been abused. He proposed that the female students should be admitted to the ordinary classes.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"Among the other offenses," continued the little man, "of which I now find my scoundrel of an apprentice to have been guilty, was the enormity of picking the lock of my desk, and prying into my private papers."英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
Without realizing in the least what he was doing he yielded to the impulse. Bending his head he kissed the tremulous lips. "Oh," whispered Betty, standing still as a statue and looking at him with wonderful eyes. Then, as reason returned, a hot flush dyed her face, and wrenching her hands free she struck him across the cheek. "For God's sake, Betty, I did not mean to do that! I have something to tell you. For pity's sake, let me explain," he cried, as the full enormity of his offence dawned upon him. Betty was deaf to the imploring voice, for she ran into the house and slammed the door.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
I intend to give Mr. his full revenge when I come to discuss the more recent enormity of steamboats; meanwhile, I shall only say of both these modes of conveyance, that--英文原著 · 《Chronicles of the Canongate》
He's only a bandit, and he stands to win no gold. If he ever gets out of here it 'll be by herculean labor and by terrible hardship. All for a poor little helpless woman--just a woman! My God, I can't understand it."
"Shore--just a woman," replied Ladd, solemnly nodding his head. Then there was a long silence during which the men gazed into the fire. Each, perhaps, had some vague conception of the enormity of Rojas's love or hate--some faint and amazing glimpse of the gulf of human passion. Those were cold, hard, grim faces upon which the light flickered. "Sleep," said the Yaqui.英文原著 · 《Desert Gold》