Those inscribed with the figure of _Serapis_, used to preserve against evils inflicted by earth. Figure of _Canopus_, against evil by water. Figure of a _hawk_, against evil from the air. Figure of an _asp_, against evil by fire.英文原著 · 《Bygone Beliefs》
110, p. 500; 114, 587; 117, 477. The same lines looked at directly or backwards seem, in Fig. 1, convex, in Fig. 2 concave. {illust. caption = FIG. 3.}
Still more significant is the illusion in Fig.英文原著 · 《Criminal Psychology》
Alving. That was just what I had to fight for incessantly, day after day. When Oswald was born, I thought I saw a slight improvement. But it didn't last long. And after that I had to fight doubly hard--fight a desperate fight so that no one should know what sort of a man my child's father was. You know quite well what an attractive manner he had; it seemed as if people could believe nothing but good of him. He was one of those men whose mode of life seems to have no effect upon their reputations. But at last, Mr.英文原著 · 《Ghosts》
that the way always," he said as though speaking of a long accepted fact. "Always fight over that place. Hundreds of years ago they fight about it; Indian people; they say hundreds of years to come everybody will still fight--never be settled what that place is, who it belong to, who has right to it. No, never settle. Deadman's Island always mean fight for someone."英文原著 · 《Legends of Vancouver》
But does not this line become doubled if we add another such line here? Certainly. And four such lines will make a space containing eight feet? Let us describe such a figure: Would you not say that this is the figure of eight feet? And are there not these four divisions in the figure, each of which is equal to the figure of four feet? And is not that four times four? Certainly. And four times is not double?英文原著 · 《Meno》
"Aw, your man's no good. He won't fight," cried Mop with unspeakable disgust. "I told you he wouldn't fight. Do you know why he won't fight? His mother belongs to that people, them Quakers, that won't fight for anything. He's a coward an' his mother's a coward before him."
The smile faded from Larry's lips. His face which had been pale flamed a quick red, then as quickly became dead white. He turned from Joe and looked at the boy who was tormenting him.英文原著 · 《The Major》