"Why not?" replied the prince. "They have been exceedingly wicked, it is true; but they are now intent upon being exceedingly good. Let us encourage them in this. If we mistrusted all who have ever done an evil act there would be fewer honest people in the world. And if it were as interesting to do a good act as an evil one there is no doubt every one would choose the good."英文原著 · 《The Enchanted Island of Yew》
Such were the comments on Dionysia's visit to Jacques, when the news became known. It flew at once all over town. The ladies "in society" could not recover from it; for people are exceedingly virtuous at Sauveterre, and hence they claim the right of being exceedingly strict in their judgment. There is no trifling permitted on the score of propriety.英文原著 · 《Within an Inch of His Life》
ANT., November 1899, p. 286, note. [157] -- Vijayanagar. [158] -- Masulipatam. [159] -- Scott's translation has "Ghondpore" (i. 166); Briggs (ii. 500) says "Condapilly."
[160] -- This evidently means Kanchi or Conjeeveram; but the story is exceedingly improbable. The distance was 250 miles, and the way lay through the heart of a hostile country.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
``Well, we Budds may not be what you call great people, but, thank God, none of us have ever been in the penitentiary,'' and he laughed loudly, thinking that he had scored a great and jolly point. The two young men looked exceedingly grave and Uncle Tommie panic-stricken. He plucked the Hon. Sam by the sleeve and led him aside:英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
Was these any evidence even remotely bearing on the sin of cruelty? Not a rap. The worse that the doctor could work himself up to saying was that though the children were "exceedingly" well, the conditions would be serious in case of illness. If the doctor will tell me any conditions that would be comic in case of illness, I shall attach more weight to his argument.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
It all seemed very solemn and mysterious to me. I knew from my father's and mother's absorbed manner then, and when we returned from church, that it was something exceedingly important to Them--something that they wished us neither to talk about nor to forget.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》