Sallow face, sprinkled with freckles. Old woman. Face whitey-gray. Young butcher. Face a general red flush. Jaundiced man--mustard yellow. Elderly lady. Colorless skin, with two conspicuous moles.英文原著 · 《Following the Equator》
And how much of _morality_ is in the kind of insight we get of anything; "the eye seeing in all things what it brought with it the faculty of seeing"! To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. Raphael, the Painters tell us, is the best of all Portrait-painters withal. No most gifted eye can exhaust the significance of any object. In the commonest human face there lies more than Raphael will take away with him.英文原著 · 《Heroes and Hero Worship》
On the following day Fergus called his servant. "Has that dog stopped shivering yet?" he asked. "It has not, sir," said the servant. "Bring the beast here," said his master, "for whoever else is dissatisfied Fionn must be satisfied."
The dog was brought, and he examined it with a jaundiced and bitter eye. "It has the shivers indeed," he said. "The shivers it has," said the servant. "How do you cure the shivers?" his master demanded, for he thought that if the animal's legs dropped off Fionn would not be satisfied. "There is a way," said the servant doubtfully.英文原著 · 《Irish Fairy Tales》
FELIX. 'Tis stern, 'tis just--as fate; When justice drags a halting foot, too late, She is not justice--for the vengeful mob (Whose hearts for Polyeucte ne'er cease to throb), Usurps her place, and, spurning curb and rein, The felon crowns, and all our work is vain. My sceptre trembles, and all insecure Totters my crown,--a prey for every boor. Then, swift, Severus hears the welcome news, The jaundiced mind of Decius to abuse. Shall I, the rabble's lord, obey the rabble's will?英文原著 · 《Polyuecte》
But you have got a shorter journey before you at present, and that is to Raby Hall."
"Raby Hall! I shall never see it again. I have no strength to move. I am worn out with the battle of life. Stay with me here, and close my eyes."
"Of course I shall stay with you," said Jael, and began to gossip with every appearance of carelessness. Next morning, with infinite difficulty, she persuaded the poor jaundiced lady to show her Aberystwith. She took the tickets herself, and got her patient half-way to Hillsborough; next day, with less difficulty, to Raby Hall. All had been settled before.英文原著 · 《Put Yourself in His Place》