The Ninth Ohio and the Second Minnesota were posted three-quarters of a mile to the right on the Robertsport road. Strong pickets were thrown out on the main road in the direction of the enemy, with cavalry pickets beyond. Our pickets were fired on and had a skirmish with the rebel pickets on the night of the 17th. On the 18th, the Fourth Kentucky, a battalion of the Michigan Engineers and Wetmore's Battery also reported to Thomas.英文原著 · 《The Army of the Cumberland》
Jack, bein' clean strain American, has better luck, an' Pickles is got. Shore, it's right an' on the squar'! "'You sees,' says Dan Boggs, 'this killin's bound to be right from the jump. It comes off by Pickles' earnest desire; Jack couldn't refoose. He would have lost both skelp an' standin' if he had. Which, however, if this yere 'limination of Pickles has got to have a name, my idee is to call her a case of self-deestruction on Pickles' part, an' let it go at that.'"英文原著 · 《Wolfville Days》
Of course it is. You are here in the land of perpetual spring, where frost and snow seldom, or never comes. Oh, look at the ferns under this rock! I must pick some. Pick away. I will warrant you do not pick all the sorts. I have got them all now. Not so hasty, child; there is plenty of a beautiful fern growing among that moss, which you have passed over.英文原著 · 《Madam How and Lady Why》
``None o' my boys,'' said the old woman, ``but Tom Green's son down the creek --he follers pickin' the banjo a leetle.'' ``Follows pickin' ''--the Blight did not miss that phrase.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
``Dave ain't going to pick YOU out, I tell ye. I heered Mr. Budd thar myself tell him he HAD to pick out some other gal.''英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
And off his head comes!'
The billet fell as he spoke, and he threw it into a basket. `I call myself the Samson of the firewood guillotine. See here again! Loo, loo, loo; Loo, loo, loo! And off her head comes! Now, a child. Tickle, tickle; Pickle, pickle! And off its head comes.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
s ever to sewing things up. So, BoJack sold the restaurant to Joey Pogo and me, and we relaunched it with my fiancée Pickles as a themed eatery. What is the theme? Pickles wanted small plates, Joey wanted lazy Susans, and I wanted the theme to be my face is on the front of the menu. So, we did all three! - What's the big idea? - I'm in the middle of eating! Huh? It's the perfect compromise because everybody got what they wanted, and nobody had to compromise! - And why is it called Ele-fee-no? - Ele-fi-no. Well, if you don't know, hell if I know!美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
That you can't pick your family, but you can pick your friends. that you can't pick your family, but you can pick your friends.演讲 · 《Why 30 is not the new 20 ~ Meg Jay》