In the spring of 1846 I was a first lieutenant of Company C,1, Third Artillery, stationed at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina. The company was commanded by Captain Robert Anderson; Henry B. Judd was the senior first-lieutenant, and I was the junior first-lieutenant, and George B. Ayres the second-lieutenant. Colonel William Gates commanded the post and regiment, with First-Lieutenant William Austine as his adjutant. Two other companies were at the post, viz., Martin Burke's and E. Keyes's, and among the officers were T. Sherman, Morris Miller, H.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-1》
I should not have written that final sentence. I want you to think, just now, about the great hulk of a man that sat in his big chair beyond me at the window. It was like Rodman to turn up with an outlandish human creature attending him hand and foot. How the thing came about reads like a lie; it reads like a lie; the wildest lie that anybody ever put forward to explain a big yellow Oriental following one about. But it was no lie. You could not think up a lie to equal the actual things that happened to Rodman. Take the way he died!.... The thing began in India.英文原著 · 《The Sleuth of St. James Street》
If I should dare to call him `friend.! Should I dare? What forbids me to do so? The fact that that implies a lie. A lie? I know not what the result will be, but I shall be sorry if I do not speak the truth. Therefore, it is best to admit that I should not like to speak a lie. yet he would not speak a lie were he to call me his sweet friend!英文原著 · 《Four Arthurian Romances》
Hilda, still holding the photograph, stared at the doorway through which they had disappeared. ``You lie!'' she repeated, as if they were still there. Then again, a little catch in her voice: ``You lie!'' And after a longer interval, a third time, with a sob in her throat: ``You lie! I know you lie!'' She sat at the table and held the photograph before her. She kissed it passionately, gazed long at it, seeing in those bold handsome features all that her heart's love believed of him.英文原著 · 《The Fortune Hunter》
"Ye Scottishmen spend a' our king's goud, And a' our queenis fee."-- "Ye lie, ye lie, ye liars loud, Fu' loud I hear ye lie;英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
I worry that he has my family genes where we can lie and lie and lie and lie without feeling one ounce of guilt.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
but that's a white lie white lie that's the kind you want to tell, a white lie美剧 · 《Lie to me》
Okay, but you just said it was a lie. So... was it a lie? I-I... I mean, we seem to have different interpretations of a lie.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
Why doesn't the news ever call a lie a lie, but we know it's a lie?美剧 · 《The News Room》