One day, as he painfully dragged himself down a residence street, he tried to collect his thoughts and form some plan for the future. He had no trade, understood no handiwork; he could fell trees. He looked at the gaunt, scrawny, transplanted speci- mens that met his eye, and gave himself up to the homesickness that filled his soul. He slept that night in the shelter of a sta- ble, and spent his last money in the morn- ing for a biscuit.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
O Phoebus! who didst fence the hill of Ilium with a fair coronal of towers, and thou, ocean-god! coursing o'er the main with thy dark steeds, wherefore did ye hand over in dishonour your own handiwork to the war-god, master of the spear, abandoning Troy to wretchedness?英文原著 · 《Andromache》
"I have forgotten nothing at Grand Isle," he said, not looking at her, but rolling a cigarette. His tobacco pouch, which he laid upon the table, was a fantastic embroidered silk affair, evidently the handiwork of a woman.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
It was while playing the part of Cupid's exile that Johnny added his handiwork to the long list of casualties along the Spanish Main by his famous manipulation of the shoe market, and his unparalleled feat of elevating the most despised and useless weed in his own country from obscurity to be a valuable product in international commerce.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
A considerable amount of speculation was had concerning the object of his sojourn there, until one day he silenced this by opening a small shop for the sale of tobacco, ~dulces~ and the handiwork of the interior Indians--fibre-and-silk-woven goods, deerskin ~zapatos~ and basketwork of tule reeds. Even then he did not change his habits; for he was drinking and playing cards half the day and night with the ~comandante~, the collector of customs, the ~jefe politico~ and other gay dogs among the native officials.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
He was tempted to call Cash's attention to his handiwork, but Cash was too sick to be disturbed, even if the atmosphere between them had been clear enough for easy converse. So he stifled the impulse and addressed himself to Lovin Child, which did just as well.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》