My reader is too intelligent not to divine that she was steeling herself to a terrible interview with Zoe Vizard--terrible mainly on account of the anguish she knew she must inflict.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
IT was a sad day for me when Mr. Lanfray, of Rockleigh Place, discovering that his youngest daughter's health required a warm climate, removed from his English establishment to the South of France. Roving from place to place, as I am obliged to do, though I make many acquaintances, I keep but few friends. The nature of my calling is, I am quite aware, mainly answerable for this. People cannot be blamed for forgetting a man who, on leaving their houses, never can tell them for certain when he is likely to be in their neighborhood again.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
He told me that he made it clear that he did not wish to get returns or reports from this branch of his life-work, for it would take a great deal of time in watching and thinking and in the reading and writing of letters. ``But it is mainly,'' he went on, ``that I do not wish to hold over their heads the sense of obligation.''英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
Despite his feeling of awkwardness, Coleman's mind was mainly occupied by pure astonishment. "Nora Black? " he said, as if even then he could not believe his senses. " How in the world did you get down here ?英文原著 · 《Active Service》
" No, sir ' " answered Peter Tounley. " He never said much about it. I think he usually contended that it was mainly an accident."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
Tennyson and Mr. Browning. It broke forth again, in 1842 and did not practically cease till England's greatest laureate sang of the "Crossing of the Bar." But while Tennyson put out his full strength in 1842, and Mr. Browning rather later, in "Bells and Pomegranates" ("Men and Women"), the third spring came in 1858, with Mr. Morris's "Defence of Guenevere," and flowered till Mr. Swinburne's "Atalanta in Calydon" appeared in 1865, followed by his poems of 1866. Rossetti's book of 1870 belonged, in date of composition, mainly to this period. In 1858, when "The Defence of Guenevere" came out, Mr.英文原著 · 《Adventures among Books》
Yes. We've lent them capital, but for infrastructure projects mainly.美剧 · 《Billions》
In part to help cover the costs of their patent issue. but mainly to make a fucking point.美剧 · 《Billions》
Okay, I'm gonna make this brief, mainly because I've got a dinner engagement with someone infinitely more interesting than you.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
In the process, we will gain about a million good jobs, mainly rural. In the process, we will gain about a million good jobs, mainly rural.演讲 · 《Winning the oil endgame ~ Amory Lovins》