Now, by some mischievous spirit of intuition or contrariety, Justice Hare was spending this evening at home, a thing he did not do once in six months unless he had friends with him. Things in real life do mostly go by the rules of contrary, as children say in their play, holding the corners of the handkerchief, "Here we go round and round by the rules of conte-rary; if I tell you to hold fast, you must loose; if I tell you to loose, you must hold fast." Just so in the play of life. When we want people to "hold fast," they "loose;" and when we want them to "loose," they "hold fast."英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
So that while the Quaker spirit helped the colonies to break loose from foreign control and become a nation, it helped the nation in turn to break loose from internal shackles. The nation stood free within itself as well as free from others. Yet the Quaker movement--and this is the argument--is itself the result of the English Bible, and the Quaker influence is the influence of the English Bible on history.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
Sylvia uttered a cry. "This is no punishment; it's murder! Who ordered this?"
"The Commandant," said Troke sullenly. "I don't believe it. Loose him!"
"I daren't mam," said Troke. "Loose him, I say! Hailey!--you, sir, there!" The noise had brought several warders to the spot. "Do you hear me?英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
No, I'll swear to the gun as it is now. Are you ever going to get my hair loose? I'm due at the office right this minute, I'll bet a molasses cooky." She looked at her watch, and groaned. "I'd have to telegraph myself back to get there on time now," she said. "Twenty-four--that fast freight--is due in eighteen minutes exactly. I've got to be there. Take your jackknife and cut what won't come loose. Really, I mean it, Mr.英文原著 · 《Good Indian》
"Wait, Gudrod, till the storm is past, -- Loose not thy long-ship while the blast Howls over-head so furiously, -- Trust not thy long-ship to the sea, -- Loose not thy long-ship from the shore; Hark to the ocean's angry roar! See how the very stones are tost By raging waves high on the coast! Stay, Gudrod, till the tempest's o'er -- Deep runs the sea off the Jadar's shore."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
Well, I cut him loose because I knew he was the kind of person who would do what he just did. bullshit. You cut him loose because you knew Mike Ross was coming back here.美剧 · 《Suits》