His other accomplishments are pallid in the light of his brilliant left hand. Once, at Derry--he attended a cock- fight, and beguiled an interval by emptying the pockets of a lucky bookmaker. An expert, who watched the exploit in admiration, could not withhold a compliment. `You are the Switcher,' he exclaimed; `some take all, but you leave nothing.' And it is as the Switcher that Haggart keeps his memory green.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
However, at six paces it is difficult to miss. Grushnit- ski, your wiles will not succeed! We shall exchange roles: now it is I who shall have to seek the signs of latent terror upon your pallid countenance. Why have you yourself appointed these fatal six paces? Think you that I will tamely expose my forehead to your aim? No, we shall cast lots. And then -- then -- what if his luck should prevail? If my star at length should betray me?英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
On one of the front chairs sat the young engineer and it was a question whether he or the prisoner saw the Blight's black plumes first. The eyes of both flashed toward her simultaneously, the engineer colored perceptibly and the mountain boy stopped short in speech and his pallid face flushed with unmistakable shame. Then he went on: ``He had liquered up,'' he said, ``and had got tight afore he knowed it and he didn't mean no harm and had never been arrested afore in his whole life.''英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
A telegram summoned the Blight a home next day. Marston was in bed with a ragged wound in the shoulder, and I took her to tell him good-by. I left the room for a few minutes, and when I came back their hands were unclasping, and for a Discarded Knight the engineer surely wore a happy though pallid face.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
He spoke with well-affected impatience. "Monty! always Monty! What do I want with him? It is you who should look after him, not I."
Trent turned quietly round and locked the door. Da Souza would have called out, but a paroxysm of fear had seized him. His fat, white face was pallid, and his knees were shaking. Trent's hand fell upon his shoulder, and Da Souza felt as though the claws of a trap had gripped him.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
In the Upper Congo, Everett had seen four white women. They were pallid, washed-out, bloodless; even the youngest looked past middle-age. For him women of any other type had ceased to exist. He had come to think of every white woman as past middle-age, with a face wrinkled by the sun, with hair bleached white by the sun, with eyes from which, through gazing at the sun, all light and lustre had departed. He thought of them as always wearing boots to protect their ankles from mosquitoes, and army helmets.英文原著 · 《A Question of Latitude》