"There was a doctor to attend a sick man! If Doc Millikin had your case, he made the terrors of death seem like an invitation to a donkey-party. He had the bedside manners of a Piute medicine-man and the soothing presence of a dray loaded with iron bridge-girders. When he laid his hand on your fevered brow you felt like Cap John Smith just before Pocahontas went his bail.英文原著 · 《Roads of Destiny》
All of a hundred feet they stretched; a slender, lustrous girder crossing unguessed depths of gloom. From far, far below came the faint whisper of rushing waters. I faltered. For these were the blocks that had formed the body of the monster of the hollow, its flailing arms. The thing that had played so murderously with the armored men. And now had shaped itself into this anchored, quiescent bridge. "Do not fear." It was the woman speaking, softly, as one would reassure a child. "Ascend.英文原著 · 《The Metal Monster》
Does it look like I'm here to rivet the girders?美剧 · 《Billions》
Sawing, hammering, eating out of a lunch pail As my working-class fellows and I Sit perched precariously on a girder high above the metropolis.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》