"You go an' fix them corner-stakes, Smoke," Shorty said. "There's a gravel under where I chopped ice for the coffee, an' I'm goin' to melt water and wash a pan of that same gravel for luck."英文原著 · 《Smoke Bellew》
``Davy,'' said Colonel Clark, gravely, ``I hope you will be younger when you are twenty.''
``I hope I shall be bigger, sir,'' I answered gravely.英文原著 · 《The Crossing》
CHAPTER XLVI
IN the autumn following the end of the Franco-German war, Dr. Bird and I visited all the principal battlefields. In England the impression was that the bloodiest battle was fought at Gravelotte. The error was due, I believe, to our having no war correspondent on the spot. Compared with that on the plains between St. Marie and St. Privat, Gravelotte was but a cavalry skirmish. We were fortunate enough to meet a German artillery officer at St.英文原著 · 《Tracks of a Rolling Stone》
The Spaniard regarded him curiously, fixing him with his eyes as though deep in consideration. At last he smiled gravely.英文原著 · 《A Charmed Life》
``We got that sled thar, but hit won't be big enough,'' he said gravely. ``An' our two-hoss wagon's out in the cornfield. We'll have to string the fish, leave 'em in the river and go fer 'em in the mornin'.''英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
"Where is he?" she demanded. And the next instant hearing the beast's restless feet grinding into the gravel outside as he fretted at having been kept waiting so long, she remembered what the stable- boy had said of having seen her favourite standing before the door, and struggling and dropping from the settle, she ran to look out; whereupon having done so, she shouted in triumph.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》