Coroner," said Gregory Hall, in his subdued but firm way, "I cannot think these questions are relevant or pertinent. Unless you can assure me that they are, I prefer not to reply." "They are both relevant and pertinent to the matter in hand, Mr. Hall; but I am now of the opinion that they would better be asked of another witness. You are excused. I now call Miss Florence Lloyd."英文原著 · 《The Gold Bag》
In the same way we may ask of those who profess to have passed through trivial or tragic experiences whether they have absorbed the content of them; whether they licked up such living water as there was. It is a pertinent question in connection with many modern problems.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
"I shall never have a chance at a cathe- dral," he would reply. "And, besides, it always seems to me so material and so im- pertinent to build a little structure of stone and wood in which to worship God!"英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Whatever their rule may be to-day about the Prince and matches, as to us they have come to accept my friend's pertinent distinction: they don't expect us to keep or even to know their own set of rules.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
Occasionally the coliberti of D. are put before us as paying rents in money or in kind. Thus D. 38, Hants: 'In Coseham sunt 4 hidae quae pertinent huic manerio ubi T. erant 8 burs i. coliberti cum 4 carucis reddentes 50 sol. 8 den. minus.' D.英文原著 · 《Domesday Book and Beyond》
203 b; 'In eadem villa 12 homines 6 quorum erant in soca falde et alii 6 erant liberi.' Ibid. 361 b: '70 liberi... super hos homines habet et semper habuit sacam et socam et omnem eonsuetudinem et ad faldam pertinent omnes preter 4.' Ibid. 207: '17 liberi homines consueti ad faldam et commendati.' The term 'fold-worthy' occurs in a writ of Edward the Confessor; of the men of a certain district as are moot-worthy, he gives to St. Benet of Ramsey soke over such of the men of certain district as are moot-worthy, fyrd-worthy, and fold-worthy: Earle, Land Charters, p. 343: Kemble, iv.英文原著 · 《Domesday Book and Beyond》
Now, if you'll just bear with me a little while longer, I only have a couple more pertinent questions.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》