Receiving a shake of the head, Bob Pillin stood by the fire and watched. The old "sport" liked to paddle his own canoe. Fancy having to lower yourself into a chair like that! When an old Johnny got to such a state it was really a mercy when he snuffed out, and made way for younger men. How his Companies could go on putting up with such a fossil for chairman was a marvel! The fossil rumbled and said in that almost inaudible voice:英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
CHARLES DARWIN TO THOMAS DAVIDSON. (Thomas Davidson, F.R.S., born in Edinburgh, May 17, 1817; died 1885. His researches were chiefly connected with the sciences of geology and palaeontology, and were directed especially to the elucidation of the characters, classification, history, geological and geographical distribution of recent and fossil Brachiopoda. On this subject he brought out an important work, 'British Fossil Brachiopoda,' 5 vols. (Cooper, 'Men of the Time,' 1884.)) Down, April 26, 1861.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》
Hugh Falconer, in Paleontological Memoirs, vol. II., p. [5] (p. Ibid., p. [6] (p. Ibid., p. [7] (p. Fossil Horses in America (reprinted from American Naturalist, vol.英文原著 · 《A History of Science-3》
"Wasting my time and money hanging about newspaper offices, listening to silly talk from old fossils," she told him. "And having learned that respectable journalism has no use for brains, you come to me," he answered her. "What do you think you can do?"
"Anything that can be done with a pen and ink," she told him. "Interviewing?" he suggested. "I've always been considered good at asking awkward questions," she assured him. He glanced at the clock. "I'll give you five minutes," he said. "Interview me."
She moved to a chair beside the desk, and, opening her bag, took out a writing-block.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
Hovstad. When I took over the "People's Messenger" my idea was to break up this ring of self-opinionated old fossils who had got hold of all the influence.英文原著 · 《An Enemy of the People》
He knows that quantity and not quality is the material for the political grinding mill, and, unless he is a sentimental reformer or an old fossil, he knows that politics can never be anything but a swamp.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
By analyzing speech patterns, vocal frequencies, tone, sentence structure, it tells us that this man wants to divest his university's billion dollar fund from fossil fuels.美剧 · 《Billions》
He knows he should divest his school from fossil fuels.美剧 · 《Billions》