The two magazines published by the mill-girls, the "Lowell Offering" and the "Operatives' Magazine," originated with literary meetings in the vestry of two religious societies, the first in the Universalist Church, the second in the First Congregational, to which my sister and I belonged.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
The "Operatives' Magazine" had a decidedly religious tone. We who wrote for it were loyal to our Puritanic antecedents, and considered it all-important that our lightest actions should be moved by some earnest impulse from behind. We might write playfully, but there must be conscience and reverence somewhere within it all. We had been taught, and we believed, that idle words were a sin, whether spoken or written. This, no doubt, gave us a gravity of expression rather unnatural to youth.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
The "Operatives' Magazine" and the "Lowell Offerig" were united in the year 1842, under the title of the "Lowell Offering and Ma- gazine."英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Before the year 1845, several of my friends had emigrated as teachers or missionaries. One of the editors of the "Operatives' Magazine" had gone to Arkansas with a mill-girl who had worked beside her among the looms. They were at an Indian mission--to the Cherokees and Choctaws. I seemed to breathe the air of that far Southwest, in a spray of yellow jessamine which one of those friends sent me, pressed in a letter. People wrote very long letters then, in those days of twenty-five cent postage.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
"But how did it happen?" he asked. "Weren't they rather quick in selling the Martha?"
"Had to. You know the reef at Poonga-Poonga. She's not worth tuppence on it if any kind of a sea kicks up, and it's ripe for a nor'wester any moment now. The crowd abandoned her completely. Didn't even dream of auctioning her. Morgan and Raff persuaded them to put her up. They're a co-operative crowd, you know, an organized business corporation, fore and aft, all hands and the cook.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
"Under present conditions the antagonism of economic and social interests results in relentless war among the social units, and creates an insurmountable obstacle in the way of a co-operative commonwealth.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
- Why? - He's got operatives, pros -- with him, on him.美剧 · 《Billions》
Any chance the, uh, operative Could've copied the hard drive on this?美剧 · 《Billions》
We are pursuing information about an operative we believe is a direct link between Mr. Axelrod and the contaminant that sabotaged the juice company.美剧 · 《Billions》
Mr. Connerty, what do you know about the operative so far?美剧 · 《Billions》