"You' squaw come--sure. Hurt here--bad." He struck his forehead with his hand. "You' squaw come--make good."
"All right," said Cameron. "I shall bring her myself. Good-by!"
Together they passed out of the teepee, Cameron keeping close to the Indian's side and talking to him loudly and earnestly about the boy's condition, all the while listening to the Inspector's voice from behind the row of teepees. "Ah!" he exclaimed aloud as they came in sight of the Inspector mounted on his horse. "Here is my friend, Inspector Dickson. Hello, Inspector!" he called out.英文原著 · 《The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail》
Subsequently were added to my staff, and accompanied me in the field, Brigadier-General W. Barry, chief of artillery; Colonel O. Poe, chief of engineers; Colonel L. Easton, chief quartermaster; Colonel Amos Beckwith, chief commissary; Captain Thos. Baylor, chief of ordnance; Surgeon E. Kittoe, medical director; Brigadier-General J. Corse, inspector-general; Lieutenant-Colonel C. Ewing, inspector-general; and Lieutenant- Colonel Willard Warner, inspector-general.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-2》
He always did object to our marriage."
The Inspector was silent. Cameron was silent too. His boyish face, for he was but a lad, seemed to have grown old in those few minutes. The Inspector wore an ashamed look, as if detected in a crime. "And because he is not clever enough to catch this man they must come for my husband to do it for them. He is not a Policeman. He has nothing to do with the Force."
And still the Inspector sat silent, as if convicted of both crime and folly. At length Cameron spoke.英文原著 · 《The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail》
"I am going East. No, this is no sudden resolve. I have thought of it for some time, and now I will go."
"Well, you must wait at least till Allan returns. You must say good-by to him." She followed the doctor anxiously back to his seat beside the Inspector. "Here," she cried, "hold baby a minute. There are some things I must attend to. I would give him to the Inspector, but he would not know how to handle him."
"God forbid!" ejaculated the Inspector firmly. "But I tell you I must get home," said the doctor in helpless wrath.英文原著 · 《The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail》
"Whoever shall win or lose in the space of twenty-four hours, by gaming or betting, the sum of twenty-five dollars, shall be found guilty of a misdemeanour, and upon conviction shall be condemned to pay a fine equal to at least five times the value of the sum lost or won; which shall be paid to the inspector of the poor of the township. He that loses twenty-five dollars or more may bring an action to recover them; and if he neglects to do so the inspector of the poor may prosecute the winner, and oblige him to pay into the poor's box both the sum he has gained and three times as much besides."英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》
"Mother opened them the first day you left us alone. I told her you wouldn't like it, but she said she was housekeeper; she said how it was her duty to inspect everything. I wanted to inspect, too. We was jes' rummagin'--that's what it was. After the things were all pulled out, mother got the rocker and wouldn't do anything. It was gettin' late, and I was frightened and poked 'em back in a hurry. Mother wanted to rummage ag'in the other day and I wouldn't let her; then, she wouldn't let me have the keys so I could fix 'em up."英文原著 · 《He Fell In Love With His Wife》
I have a shirt that says "federal bikini inspector," but there is simply no such branch of the U.S. government.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》