The greater thread has gone."
The Chief Commissioner understood. The silence which followed was broken by the loud and insistent ringing of the telephone bell. "Hullo," said Mansus rising quickly; "that's Kara's bell"
With two quick strides he was at the telephone and lifted down the receiver. "Hullo," he cried. "Hullo," he cried again. There was no reply, only the continuous buzzing, and when he hung up the receiver again, the bell continued ringing. The three policemen looked at one another. "There's trouble there," said Mansus.英文原著 · 《The Clue of the Twisted Candle》
He knew that it was as easy to ``deal'' with the Hull stripe of honest, high minded men as it was difficult to ``deal'' with the Victor Dorn stripe. Hull he called a ``sensible fellow''; Victor Dorn he called a crank. But--he respected Dorn, while Hull he held in much such esteem as he held his cigar-holder and pocket knife, or Tony Rivers and Joe House.英文原著 · 《The Conflict》
Was out on licence, and got saved at the Hull Barracks. At that time he had neglected to report himself, and had destroyed his licence, taking an assumed name. When he got saved he gave himself up, and was taken before the magistrate, who, instead of sending him back to fulfil his sentence, gave him up to the Army. He was sent to us from Hull by our representative, is now in our factory and doing well. He is still under police supervision for five years. Kelso. Also a licence man. He had neglected to report himself, and was arrested.英文原著 · 《In Darkest England and The Way Out》
When all the rice is gathered and dried, the hulling begins. A round hole is dug about two feet deep and the same in diameter. Then the rice is heated over a fire-place, and emptied into the hole while it is hot. A young man, having washed his feet and put on a new pair of mocca- sins, treads upon it until all is hulled. The women then pour it upon a robe and begin to shake it so that the chaff will be separated by the wind. Some of the rice is browned before being hulled.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
"'He was at Hull on Thursday or Friday was a sevennight: as he came from Yorke, he took Hull in the way. He had heard, that Sir Roger Twisden was questioned for the like Petition.英文原著 · 《Lucasta》
Once you change out the sails and all the planks that make up the hull, whose ship is it?美剧 · 《Billions》
So what you're seeing here is actually cotton hulls from Texas, in this case. So what you're seeing here is actually cotton hulls from Texas, in this case.演讲 · 《Are mushrooms the new plastic ~ Eben Bayer》