Sherman will make a speech. At midnight I am to attend a meeting of the Owl Club. I love you ever so much, my darling, and am hoping to get a word from you yet. Following the procession, which he describes, came the grand ceremonies of welcome at Haverley's Theatre. The next letter is written the following morning, or at least soiree time the following day, after a night of ratification. To Mrs. Clemens, in Hartford:
CHICAGO, Nov. 12, '79.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 3》
Sir--The following lines, which profess to have been written by a friend of mine at three o'clock in the morning after the dinner of Wednesday last, have been presented to myself with a request that I should forward them to you. I would suggest to the writer of them the following quotation from "Love's Labour's Lost."英文原著 · 《Canterbury Pieces》
But if any denotation is to be depended upon, and in the end some one has to be, it is necessary to determine whether the perception has been made with the end or the root of the tongue.[1] Longet, following the experiments of certain others, has brought together definite results in the following table:
TASTE TONGUE-TIP TONGUE ROOT Glauber's salts . salty bitter Iodkalium . `` `` Alum. sour sweet Glycerine . none `` Rock candy. `` `` Chlorate of strychnine `` `` Natrium carbonate . `` alkaloid
[1] A. Strindberg.英文原著 · 《Criminal Psychology》
The two following chapters contain a detailed discussion of the objections drawn from the supposed great differences between the mental powers of men and animals. Darwin at once admits that the differences are enormous, but not that any fundamental difference between the two can be found. Very characteristic of him is the following passage: "In what manner the mental powers were first developed in the lowest organisms, is as hopeless an enquiry as how life itself first originated. These are problems for the distant future, if they are ever to be solved by man." (Ibid. page 100.)英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Lady Isabel was sitting, the following morning, moody and out of sorts. Captain Levison, who had accompanied Mr. Carlyle in the most friendly manner possible to the park gate on his departure, and then stolen along the hedgewalk, had returned to Lady Isabel with the news of an "ardent" interview with Barbara, who had been watching for his going by at the gate of the grove. She sat, sullenly digesting the tidings, when a note was brought in. It proved to be an invitation to dinner for the following Tuesday, at a Mrs. Jefferson's--for Mr. and Lady Isabel Carlyle and Miss Carlyle.英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
By way of beginning, I summoned Maignan and put him through a severe examination. Later, I sent for the rest of my household-- such, I mean, as had accompanied me--and ranging them against the walls of my chamber, took a flambeau in my hand and went the round of them, questioning each, and marking his air and aspect as he answered. But with no result; so that after following some clues to no purpose, and suspecting several persons who cleared themselves on the spot, I became assured that the chain must be taken up at the other end, and the first link found among Madame de Verneuil's following.英文原著 · 《From the Memoirs of a Minister of France》
What? He's not still following her. You think he's still following her?美剧 · 《Friends》
The men we stopped in the SUV, the ones following you to school, they weren't following Dylan.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》