Petrovitch listened to her with a stupid laugh; and when the magnates crowded around him, offering their hands and assuring him of their friendship, he tremblingly and with effort stammered some unmeaning words, and falling upon his knees, he bowed his head in the dust before these great and powerful magnates, humbly kissing the hems of their garments, not suspecting that he was their equal in rank.英文原著 · 《The Daughter of an Empress》
In the smoking room, old voyagers were settling down comfortably while new voyagers were regarding them with a diffident respect. Among the passengers Coleman found a number of people whom he knew, including a wholesale wine merchant, a Chicago railway magnate and a New York millionaire. They lived practically in the smoking room. Necessity drove them from time to time to the salon, or to their berths. Once indeed the millionaire was absent, from the group while penning a short note to his wife.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that it will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
Now be it understood that these figures do not show the amount of money that Henry I and Henry II could obtain by a danegeld. They had to take much less. When it was last levied, the tax was not bringing in ?500, so many were the churches and great folk who had obtained temporary or permanent exemptions from it. We will cite Leicestershire for example. The total of the geld charged upon it was almost exactly or quite exactly ?00. On the second roll of Henry II's reign we find that ?5 7s. have been paid into the treasury, that ?2 8s. have been 'pardoned' to magnates and templars, that ?1 8s.英文原著 · 《Domesday Book and Beyond》
Clemens did, in fact, sail for England on the given date, and was lavishly received there. All literary London joined in giving him a good time. He had not as yet been received seriously by the older American men of letters, but England made no question as to his title to first rank. Already, too, they classified him as of the human type of Lincoln, and reveled in him without stint. Howells writes: "In England, rank, fashion, and culture rejoiced in him. Lord Mayors, Lord Chief justices, and magnates of many kinds were his hosts."英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 2》
Claude Bixby, mustard magnate with a flair for -- Uh, Phil -- Claude -- I-I love that you're doing all of this, but doesn't some tiny part of you feel guilty for ditching Guy?美剧 · 《Modern Family》