"Out of the strong came forth sweetness." The Beatitudes are the natural flowering-forth of the Ten Commandments. And the happiness of our lives was rooted in the stern, vigorous virtues of the people we lived among, drawing thence its bloom and song, and fragrance. There was granite in their character and beliefs, but it was granite that could smile in the sunshine and clothe itself with flowers. We little ones felt the firm rock beneath us, and were lifted up on it, to emulate their goodness, and to share their aspirations.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
The country here was mainly of granite. It out- cropped in dikes, it slid down the slopes in aprons, it strewed the prospect in boulders and blocks, it seamed the hollows with knife-ridges. Soil gave the impression of having been laid on top; you divined the granite beneath it, and not so very far beneath it, either. A fine hair-grass grew close to this soil, as though to produce as many blades as possible in the limited area.英文原著 · 《The Mountains》
We camped that night at a lake whose banks were pebbled in the manner of an artificial pond, and whose setting was a thin meadow of the fine hair- grass, for the grazing of which the horses had to bare their teeth. All about, the granite mountains rose. The timber-line, even of the rare shrub-like gnome- trees, ceased here. Above us was nothing whatever but granite rock, snow, and the sky.英文原著 · 《The Mountains》
How could they then prevent the pirates from landing? Cyrus Harding felt this strongly, and he asked himself what it would be possible to do. Before long, he would be called upon for his determination. But what was it to be? To shut themselves up in Granite House, to be besieged there, to remain there for weeks, for months even, since they had an abundance of provisions? So far good! But after that? The pirates would not the less be masters of the island, which they would ravage at their pleasure, and in time, they would end by having their revenge on the prisoners in Granite House.英文原著 · 《The Mysterious Island》
From the edge of the mound where stands the native village the effect of the temple is much less decorative, but its detailed grandeur can be better grasped from there; for from there one sees the great towers of the propylon, two rows of mighty columns, the red granite Obelisk of Rameses the great, and the black granite statues of the king. On the right of the entrance a giant stands, on the left one is seated, and a little farther away a third emerges from the ground, which reaches to its mighty breast.英文原著 · 《The Spell of Egypt》
He awakened by the sun, whose pitiless rays fell with all their force on the granite and produced an intolerable heat--for he had had the stupidity to place himself adversely to the shadow thrown by the verdant majestic heads of the palm trees. He looked at the solitary trees and shuddered--they reminded him of the graceful shafts crowned with foliage which characterize the Saracen columns in the cathedral of Arles.英文原著 · 《A Passion in the Desert》
♪ Alone in my temple in the middle of Peru ♪ ♪ A giant stone ball with nothing much to do ♪ ♪ But if you steal my idol ♪ ♪ I will roll right over you ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm six tons of granite and micaceous schist ♪ ♪ Yeah, I'm six tons of granite and ♪ ♪ Micaceous schist ♪ ♪ Yeah, I'm six tons of granite a美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
♪ Alone in my temple in the middle of Peru ♪ ♪ A giant stone ball with nothing much to do ♪ ♪ But if you steal my idol ♪ ♪ I will roll right over you ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm six tons of granite ♪ ♪ And micaceous schist ♪ ♪ Yeah, I'm six tons of granite and ♪ ♪ Micaceous schist ♪ ♪ I'm gonna crush you, I'm go美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
nna mush you ♪ ♪ You took my idol, I'm homicidal ♪ ♪ Gonna roll over you till your brains come out ♪ ♪ And your bones will crunch and your blood will spout! ♪ I'm not just a rock, baby, I'm also a boulder. ♪ 'Cause I'm six tons of granite ♪ ♪ Micaceous schist ♪ ♪ Yeah, I'm six tons of granite and ♪ ♪ Micaceous schist ♪美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
I was thinking about you last night while Katie and I were locked in a fascinating debate about counter granite.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》