The intercolumns of the lower range of pilasters are thirty-three ornamental windows and six niches, and of the upper range thirty- seven windows and about thirty niches, many whereof are adorned with columns, entablature, and pediments; and at the east end is a sweep, or circular space, adorned with columns and pilasters, and enriched with festoons, fruit, incense-pots, &c., and at the upper part is a window between four pieddroits and a single cornice, and those between two large cartouches.英文原著 · 《London in 1731》
Bear fountains at sides of Palaces of Manufactures and Liberal Arts, north of Tower of Jewels; three on each wall in flat niches; coloring, pink wall, turquoise blue, green; lights concealed under water; when water is flowing, wavering light like heat waves; niches hardly noticeable when water is not flowing.英文原著 · 《The City of Domes》
Incredible blossomings of crystal and of metal whose lullabies and cradle songs were singing symphonies of flame. It was the birth chamber of the City! The womb of the Metal Monster! Abruptly the walls of the niche sparkled out, the glittering eye points regarding us with a most disquieting suggestion of sentinels who, slumbering, had been caught unaware, and now awakening challenged us. Swiftly the niche closed--so swiftly that barely had we time to spring over its threshold into the corridor. The corridor was awake--alive! The power darted out; gripped us. Up it swept us and on.英文原著 · 《The Metal Monster》
Finally he saw before him the Nevsky Prospect, where the bullets rained like hail not long since upon a people dressed for festivities and very joyous. Nichevo! Nichevo! All that was so soon forgotten. They forgot yesterday as they forget to-morrow. The Nihilists? Poets, who imagined that a bomb could accomplish anything in that Babylon of the North more important than the noise of its explosion! Look at these people who pass.英文原著 · 《The Secret of the Night》
Nevir ane word that ladie spak; (Mim be maydens men besyde.) But that stout steid did nicher and schaik; (Small thingis humbil hertis of pryde.)英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Mort: the note sounded at death of the deer. Mote I thee: May I thrive. First English - theon, to thrive. Mote: meeting for decision of cases in ecclesiastical or civil law, or for other public purposes, as ward-mote, etc. Strong men were said to oppress the weak by being "mighty to mote." Nicher: neigh. Numbles: liver, kidneys, etc. French - nombles. The word was often written in English umbles and humbles.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
It's called "niche casting." Stop telling me what stuff is called!美剧 · 《Modern Family》
You have me in a niche... Certain events... Certain restaurants... Certain people...美剧 · 《Sex and the city》
I was happily carving out a niche for myself on the race circuit when I was unexpectedly flagged down by someone irresistible.电影 · 《Easy Virtue (2008)》