You may imagine with what alacrity we complied; and yet I am bound to confess that I had never liked Nab at school. I still remember my term in his form. He had a caustic tongue and fine assortment of damaging epithets, most of which were levelled at my devoted skull during those three months. I now discovered that he also kept a particularly mellow Scotch whiskey, an excellent cigar, and a fund of anecdote of which a mordant wit was the worthy bursar. Enough to add that he kept us laughing in his study until the chapel bells rang him out.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
Through the bars of the double line of windows on the second and the third stories peer the murky faces and towsled heads of some of the inmates. One of the latter spits his furthest into the yard--evidently with the intention of hitting myself: but all his efforts prove vain. Another one shouts with a mordant expletive:英文原著 · 《Through Russia》
"Take it, and get out." The contempt in her voice rang still sharper, mordant.英文原著 · 《Within the Law》
I don't mean to get mordantly morbid, but did I get all adorably adorned to get bored manning doors? No more!美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》