The first-comers were Zoe and Harrington. They entered the noble hall, inscribed their names, and, by that simple ceremony, were members of a club, compared with which the greatest clubs in London are petty things: a club with spacious dining-rooms, ball-rooms, concert-rooms, gambling-rooms, theater, and delicious gardens. The building, that combined so many rich treats, was colossal in size, and glorious with rich colors and gold laid on with Oriental profusion, and sometimes with Oriental taste.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
The Fire-Tender said that we are imposed on by forms. The nuggets of wisdom that are dug out of the Oriental and remote literatures would often prove to be only commonplace if stripped of their quaint setting. If you gave an Oriental twist to some of our modern thought, its value would be greatly enhanced for many people.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-1》
What had they recovered with his body? The girl spoke impulsively, her words crowding one another. And the Oriental seemed able only to disengage the last query from the others. "Unfortunately," he said, "some band of the desert people had passed before our expedition arrived, nothing was recovered but the body. It was not mutilated." They had been standing. The girl now indicated the big library chair in which she had been huddled and got another for herself. Then she wished to know what they had learned about her father's death. The Oriental sat down.英文原著 · 《The Sleuth of St. James Street》
"We trusted Lord Eckhart. We have found all English honorable." "Lord Eckhart is partly German," the girl went on. The man's voice in reply was like a foot-note to a discourse. "Ah!" He drawled the expletive as though it were some Oriental word. The girl continued. "You have perhaps heard that a marriage is arranged between us." Her voice was steady, low, without emotion. For a long time there was utter silence in the room. Then, finally, when the Oriental spoke his voice had changed.英文原著 · 《The Sleuth of St. James Street》
Indeed, nothing we know of the Oriental line of thought conveys any suggestion of the idea of transformation of species, whereas that idea is distinctly formulated in the traditional views of Anaximander.英文原著 · 《A History of Science-1》
We shall perhaps best understand this period, and its seeming retrogressions, if we suppose that the average man of the Middle Ages was no more credulous, no more superstitious, than the average Roman of an earlier period or than the average Greek; though the precise complexion of his credulity had changed under the influence of Oriental ideas, as we have just seen illustrated by the narrative of Xiphilinus.英文原著 · 《A History of Science-1》