Indeed, she smiled, seeing her power over him; she seemed even about to laugh outright; but the smile turned to a quick look of alarm, and she bent her head suddenly to listen to something below. At last she did speak. "Somebody's comm'! " she said. " You'd better git out O' the way," she went on, hurriedly. "Somebody's comm', I tell ye! Don't ye hear?英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
Captain Crewe laughed outright at this. He was young and full of fun, and he never tired of hearing Sara's queer speeches.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
I can hold Edith's - I beg your pardon, my wife's hand in mine and I am happy. I have no ambition to be a millionaire. I was very ambitious to win my wife."
Scarlett Trent looked at him for a moment open mouthed and open-eyed. Then he laughed outright and a chill load fell from the heart of the man who for a moment had forgotten himself. The laugh was scornful perhaps, but it was not angry. "Well, you've shut me up," he declared. "You seem a poor sort of a creature to me, but if you're content, it's no business of mine. Here buy yourself an overcoat, and drink a glass of wine.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
Refused. Twenty pounds? Refused also. Forty pounds? Still refused. Passepartout jumped at each advance; but the Indian declined to be tempted. Yet the offer was an alluring one, for, supposing it took the elephant fifteen hours to reach Allahabad, his owner would receive no less than six hundred pounds sterling. Phileas Fogg, without getting in the least flurried, then proposed to purchase the animal outright, and at first offered a thousand pounds for him.英文原著 · 《AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS》
"Raising the very devil?" she asked. " How do you mean?" She was palpably interested for his answer. She waited for his reply for an interval, and then she asked him outright. " Rufus Coleman do you mean that I am not a respectable woman ?英文原著 · 《Active Service》
The professor got angry. "Nonsense! Nonsense! I do not believe that he brought her. If I ever saw a spectacle of a woman bringing herself, it was then. You keep chanting that thing like an outright parrot."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
If you don't show, you can expect a suspension, if not outright firing.美剧 · 《Billions》
I think there's a merger coming, if not an outright purchase-- And Axe Cap will have positions in both companies, ready for the ride up on the announcement.美剧 · 《Billions》
Otherwise, I suggest you leave before I consider an outright ban.美剧 · 《Billions》
Whether it was an insincere promise to a campaign donor, or the artful evasion of a reporter's question, or an outright lie to his constituents, Victor did what he had to to get what he wanted.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》