To Color Back-grounds--To obtain a properly colored back ground is a matter of no little importance to the Daguerreotype operator. I had nearly exhausted all patience, and tried the skill of painters to obtain a back-ground that would be suitable to my purpose; but all to no avail. At last I adopted the following method, and at a cost of coloring of twenty-five cents, can now produce a back-ground far more valuable than those which had cost five dollars before.英文原著 · 《American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype》
Was it some hallucination? McNabbs lay down on the ground, and, after a close scrutiny, he could distinctly see several men stooping down and lifting themselves up alternately, as if they were looking on the ground for recent marks. The Major resolved to find out what these fellows were about, and without the least hesitation or so much as arousing his companions, crept along, lying flat on the ground, like a savage on the prairies, completely hidden among the long grass.英文原著 · 《In Search of the Castaways》
Uncheedah was the judge, and she stated, with- out any hesitation, that an animal must stand clear of the ground on the support of its legs, and walk with the body above the legs, and not in contact with the ground, in order to be termed a walker; while a creeper is one that, regardless of its legs, if it has them, drags its body upon the ground. Upon hearing the judge's decision, I yielded at once to my opponent.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
"'This ground is too flat for me,' said the Deer. 'Come up the hillside where the gulches cut the country, and rocks are in our way, and I will show you how to run. I can't run on flat ground. It's too easy for me.' another race with you on your own ground, and I think I can beat you there, too.'英文原著 · 《Indian Why Stories》
First. When ground is owned by parties who have gone south, and have leased the ground to parties now in the city who own the improvements on the ground ?英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-1》
"Topography: Villa surrounded by a large garden on three sides. The fourth side gives directly onto a wooded field that stretches to the river Neva. On this side the level of the ground is much lower, so low that the sole window opening in that wall (the window of Natacha's sitting-room on the ground-floor) is as high from the ground as though it were on the next floor in any other part of the house. This window is closed by iron shutters, fastened inside by a bar of iron.英文原著 · 《The Secret of the Night》
Get on the ground. Put your hands on the ground.美剧 · 《Lie to me》
He's using your suit to drive us into the ground, and driving us into the ground means losing these cases.美剧 · 《Suits》
Well, it matters, because Lindsey is innocent, and my guess is, Rosa borrowed your bike that night to meet someone off the grounds, and he or she moved her body back onto the grounds, but never knew about the bike.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》