The woodpecker well may despair of this feat -- Only the fly with you can compete! So much is clear; but I fain would know How you can so reckless and fearless go, Head upward, head downward, all one to you, Zenith and nadir the same in your view?" -- Edith M. Thomas.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
FOLLIOTT. No, sir, it makes their tendencies, not their power. Caesar would have been the first wrestler on the village common. Education might have made him a Nadir Shah; it might also have made him a Washington; it could not have made him a merry- andrew, for our newspapers to extol as a model of eloquence.英文原著 · 《Crotchet Castle》
And Mr. Elton did build him (spite of all I could say) a Bark or two on the Caspian;--most hopeful to the said Nadir Shah; but did it come to anything? It disgusted, it alarmed the Russians; and ruined Sir Jonas,--who is returning at this period, prepared to render account of himself at London, in a loftily resigned frame of mind. [Jonas Hanway, An Account of &c. (or in brief, TRAVELS: London, 3 vols. 4to, 1753), ii. "Arrived in Berlin," from the Caspian and Petersburg side, "August 15th, 1750."]英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 16》
At a time, when my unpopularity with a part of my readers had reached the nadir of its glory, and my name had become the central orb of the journals, to be attended through space with a perpetual rotation of revilement, I felt the necessity to retire to some quiet place and endeavour to forget my own existence.英文原著 · 《The Hungry Stones And Other Stories》
She really was--dashed pretty. Hoopdriver's feelings passed the nadir. When he spoke again there was the faintest flavour of the aristocratic in his voice.英文原著 · 《The Wheels of Chance》