The effect of this letter upon Lucretia was not as favorable as could have been desired. She declined to remove her handkerchief from her right hand, and she returned the "ring and bosom-pin" to her disconsolate admirer, while, not many months after, Mallett's rival led Lucretia to the altar. As for Mallett's agreement to pay Shepherd and Barnum five pounds of carpet-rags and twelve yards of broadcloth "lists" for their services, owing to his ill success, they compromised for one-half the amount.英文原著 · 《Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum》
"William and Margaret," by David Mallet, published in 1727, is another example of the tendency to the revival of the ballad in the eighteenth century.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
The sound of coopers' mallets rings through the skyey caves; for here, where Nature stints human industry of soil, the soil is everywhere tilled, and everywhere fertile.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
Yann and Sylvestre took their breakfast of biscuits, which they had to break with a mallet, and began to munch noisily, laughing at their being so very hard. They had become quite merry again at the idea of going down to sleep, snugly and warmly in their berths; and clasping each other round the waist they danced up to the hatchway to an old song-tune.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
Penetration or even complete transfixion of the brain is not always attended with serious symptoms. Dubrisay is accredited with the description of a man of forty-four, who, with suicidal intent, drove a dagger ten cm. long and one cm. wide into his brain. He had deliberately held the dagger in his left hand. and with a mallet in his right hand struck the steel several blows. When seen two hours later he claimed that he experienced no pain, and the dagger was sticking out of his head. For half an hour efforts at extraction were made, but with no avail.英文原著 · 《Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine》
(12) In October. (13) For pounding corn. (14) A mallet for breaking clods after ploughing. (15) The loaf is a flattish cake with two intersecting lines scored on its upper surface which divide it into four equal parts. (16) The meaning is obscure. A scholiast renders `giving eight mouthfulls'; but the elder Philostratus uses the word in contrast to `leavened'. (17) About the middle of November. (18) Spring is so described because the buds have not yet cast their iron-grey husks.英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
I'm not gonna scream or cry or pound your faces inwith a mallet, which, lord knows, is my right.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》