"Sixthly, in causing to be sent, by other hands, under the name of the aforesaid Dame de Lamotte, to a lawyer, on the eighth day o f April 1777 (at a time when he was in prison, and had been compelled to abandon the fable that he had paid the aforesaid sum of one hundred thousand livres in hard cash, and had substituted a pretended payment made in notes), the notes pretended to have been given by him in payment to the said Dame de Lamotte英文原著 · 《Derues》
Was there ever seen such a Paper; one end of it contradicting the other? Payment TO M. de Voltaire, and payment BY M. de Voltaire;-- with other blottings and foistings, which print and italics will not represent! Hirsch denies he ever signed this Paper. Is not that your writing, then: "APROUVE, A. Hirschel"?--"No!" and they convict him of falsity in that respect: the signature IS his, but the Paper has been altered since he signed it. That is what the poor dark mortal meant to express; and in his mulish way, he has expressed into a falsity what was in itself a truth.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 16》
Work is become a pleasure again--it is not labor any longer. March 7. Clemens has been reading the creditors' letters over and over again and thanks you deeply for sending them, and says it is the only really happy day she has had since Susy died. XXXVII
LETTERS, 1898, TO HOWELLS AND TWICHELL. LIFE IN VIENNA. PAYMENT OF THE DEBTS. ASSASSINATION OF THE EMPRESS
The end of January saw the payment of the last of Mark Twain's debts. Once more he stood free before the world--a world that sounded his praises.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 4》
No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of threepence. But no commodity will bear threepence, or will bear a penny, when the general feelings of men are irritated, and two millions of people are resolved not to pay. The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.英文原著 · 《Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke》
This is the last day for the old State's coyne to pass in common payments, but they say it is to pass in publique payments to the King three months still.英文原著 · 《The Diary of Samuel Pepys》
``You mean you want me to give myself to you in payment, or part payment, for the money you've loaned me?''英文原著 · 《The Price She Paid》
For instance, if I had suddenly received a $5 million lump-sum payment the same day that my husband dropped an investigation on the man making that payment, I might have fucking managed to say something about it.美剧 · 《Billions》
Hey, maybe we can talk the electric company into taking a down payment, You know, payment plan kind of deal.美剧 · 《Shameless》