Statistics.--From an examination of 28 cases of spontaneous combustion, Jacobs makes the following summary:--
(1) It has always occurred in the human living body. (2) The subjects were generally old persons. (3) It was noticed more frequently in women than in men. (4) All the persons were alone at the time of occurrence. (5) They all led an idle life. (6) They were all corpulent or intemperate. (7) Most frequently at the time of occurrence there was a light and some ignitible substance in the room. (8) The combustion was rapid and was finished in from one to seven hours.英文原著 · 《Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine》
The picture is full of movement, of contrasted light and darkness, full altogether of abomi- nations. Mixed up with them all is the great name of religion, so that the drama wants nothing to make it complete. What episode was ever more perfect - looked at as a dramatic occurrence - than the murder of the Duke of Guise? The insolent prosperity of the victim; the weakness, the vices, the terrors, of the author of the deed; the perfect execution of the plot; the accu- mulation of horror in what followed it, - give it, as a crime, a kind of immortal solidity.英文原著 · 《A Little Tour In France》
LADY HUNSTANTON. I assure you, dear, that the country has not that effect at all. Why, it was from Melthorpe, which is only two miles from here, that Lady Belton eloped with Lord Fethersdale. I remember the occurrence perfectly. Poor Lord Belton died three days afterwards of joy, or gout. I forget which. We had a large party staying here at the time, so we were all very much interested in the whole affair.英文原著 · 《A Woman of No Importance》
Add to this that she now felt for her husband that pity closely bordering upon contempt, which withers all affection at last. Even if she had not learned from conversations with some of her friends, from examples in life, from sundry occurrences in the great world, that love can bring ineffable bliss, her own wounds would have taught her to divine the pure and deep happiness which binds two kindred souls each to each.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
While these incidents took place in the yard, an apparently trifling occurrence had changed the relative positions of three characters in this story. The Marquis had scarcely left the room before his wife looked first towards the key on the mantel-shelf, and then at Helene; and, after some wavering, bent towards her daughter and said in a low voice, "Helene your father has left the key on the chimney-piece."英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
"Well, I don't know," said Harrington, sympathizingly. Severne remarked, "Such an occurrence puts pleasure out of one's head." This he said, with his eyes on his plate, like one repeating a lesson. "Vizard, I entreat you," said Uxmoor, almost vexed. "It will only make me more unhappy if you don't."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
In what I can only pray will not be a regular occurrence, Bill Stearn will take a page from the Otis Redding songbook and try a little tenderness.美剧 · 《Billions》
Oh, come on! It's not like this is an everyday occurrence for me.美剧 · 《Friends》