Then the door opened, and Ermengarde came in, rather staggering under the weight of her hamper. She started back with an exclamation of joy. To enter from the chill darkness outside, and find one's self confronted by a totally unanticipated festal board, draped with red, adorned with white napery, and wreathed with flowers, was to feel that the preparations were brilliant indeed.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
The young ladies, indignant at the contempt the big man had presumed to cast upon the constant soul of woman, turned two red faces and four sparkling eyes to each other, with the instinctive sympathy of the jointly injured; but remembering in time, turned sharply round again, and presented napes, and so sat sullen.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
He stood up beside her and smoothed her hair with his soft, magnetic hand. His touch conveyed to her a certain physical comfort. She could have fallen quietly asleep there if he had continued to pass his hand over her hair. He brushed the hair upward from the nape of her neck.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
Length--9 to 10 inches. About the size of the robin. Male--Black and white above, white beneath. White stripe down the back, composed of long hair-like feathers. Brightred band on the nape of neck. Wings striped and dashed with black and white. Outer tail feathers white, without bars. White stripe about eyes and on sides of the head.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
Female -- Similar, but without scarlet on the nape, which is white. Range -- Eastern North America, from Labrador to Florida. Migrations -- Resident all the year throughout its range.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
Length -- 5 to 5.5 inches. About an inch smaller than the English sparrow. Male and Female -- Not crested. Crown and nape and throat black. Above gray, slightly tinged with brown. A white space, beginning at base of bill, extends backwards, widening over cheeks and upper part of breast, forming a sort of collar that almost surrounds neck. Underneath dirty white. with pale rusty brown wash on sides.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》