REWARDS and PUNISHMENTS are the only means by which mankind can be controlled and directed; and yet, how often do we see them dispensed in the most careless--most imprudent--and most improper manner!--how often are they confounded!--how often misapplied!-- and how often do we see them made the instruments of gratifying the most sordid private passions!英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
As often as he found his body swinging to the song, so often did he sternly check himself and resolutely set another air going in his head, only to find himself in a short space swinging along again to the old song to which he and his brother had so often made their canoe slip in those great days that now seemed so far away.英文原著 · 《The Doctor》
As often as the thought of the artist presented itself to her she fought to put it from her. Yes, yes, he came to see her often, very often. Perhaps he loved her yet. Well, suppose he did? He had always loved her. It was not wrong to have him love her, to have him with her. Without his company, great heavens, her life would be lonely beyond words and beyond endurance Besides, was it to be thought, for an instant, that she, she, Laura Jadwin, in her pitch of pride, with all her beauty, with her quick, keen mind, was to pine, to droop to fade in oblivion and neglect? Was she to blame?英文原著 · 《The Pit》
Some of us begin down in the shade on the bottom branches, and we do not even get invited. We often become discouraged as we look at the top-branchers, and we say, "O, if I only had his chance! If I were only up there I might amount to something. But I am too low down."
We can grow. Everybody can grow. And afterwhile we are all in the barrel of life, shaken and bumped about. There the real people do not often ask us, "On what branch of that tree did you grow?" But they often inquire, "Are you big enough to fill this place?"
The Fatal Rattle! Now life is mainly routine.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
Nae questions he spiered her concerning her health, He looked at her often, but aye 'twas by stealth; When his heart it grew grit, and often he feigned To gang to the door to see if it rained.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
It was the moment for which each had so often longed, with which both had so often tortured themselves by living in imagination, that now, that it was theirs, they were fearful it might not be true.英文原著 · 《A Charmed Life》
"A tendency to act without regard to consequences, often at the expense of personal safety." - "Having accidents more often" -Ok, you know what?美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Before your 18th birthday, did a parent or other adult in the household often or very often swear at you, insult you, put you down, or humiliate you?美剧 · 《Shameless》
And it's often not until she hits puberty and she's growing and developing breasts, And it's often not until she hits puberty and she's growing and developing breasts,演讲 · 《Is anatomy destiny ~ Alice Dreger》