You remember the old top-liner in the copy book-- Honesty is the Best Policy?" That's it. I'm working honestly for a graft. I'm the only honest man in the republic. The government knows it; the people know it; the boodlers know it; the foreign investors know it. I make the government keep its faith. If a man is promised a job he gets it. If outside capital buys a concession it gets the goods. I run the monopoly of square dealing here.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
No yellow in him. He never batted an eye, and I reckon he knew more about the danger than you did. If I was to choose being wrecked on a desert island with him or you, I'd take him a thousand times first. If--"
But a cry from the sailors interrupted him. "Merciful God!" Captain Doane breathed aloud. The great cow whale had turned about, and, on the surface, was charging straight back at them. Such was her speed that a bore was raised by her nose like that which a Dreadnought or an Atlantic liner raises on the sea. "Hold fast, all!" Captain Doane roared.英文原著 · 《Michael, Brother of Jerry》
It was the high-water mark of modern music-hall development. The perfect smoothness of the organization gave Barbara a great feeling of contentment for she knew how happy her father must be. Everyone had been so kind to him. "I shall feel a stranger amongst the top-liners of today, my dear," he had said to her in the car on their way to the hall. She had had no answer ready for she had feared he spoke the truth.英文原著 · 《Okewood of the Secret Service》
He was asking Laputa questions, to which came answers in that rich voice which on board the liner had preached the gospel of Christ. The tongue I did not know, and I doubt if my neighbours were in better case. It must have been some old sacred language - Phoenician, Sabaean, I know not what - which had survived in the rite of the Snake.英文原著 · 《Prester John》
I had heard him on board the liner, and had thought his voice the most wonderful I had ever met with. But now in that great resonant hall the magic of it was doubled. He played upon the souls of his hearers as on a musical instrument. At will he struck the chords of pride, fury, hate, and mad joy. Now they would be hushed in breathless quiet, and now the place would echo with savage assent. I remember noticing that the face of my neighbour, 'Mwanga, was running with tears.英文原著 · 《Prester John》
It would be national suicide if they didn't."
His daughter stared at him. She was unaware that it was the bootblack at the Canton he was now quoting. She began to think he knew more about foreign affairs than she had given him credit for. "Yes, sir," he went on; "we've got to travel - fast. This won't be a healthy neighborhood for non-combatants when the ruction starts. I'm going if I have to buy a liner!"
"Nonsense!" said the girl. "This is the chance of a lifetime. I won't be cheated out of it by a silly old dad.英文原著 · 《The Agony Column》