'Am I no gaun to the ploy, then?' said Maggie, in a disappointed tone.英文原著 · 《Redgauntlet》
Here he stopped, and fixed his eye on the person he addressed with an air of joyful recognition.--'Aye, aye, Mr. Herries of Birrenswork, is this your ainsell in blood and bane? I thought ye had been hanged at Kennington Common, or Hairiebie, or some of these places, after the bonny ploy ye made in the Forty-five.'英文原著 · 《Redgauntlet》
'Excellent, sir, excellent. When things come to the worst; they will mend; and to the worst they are coming. But as to that nonsense ploy of mine, if ye insist on hearing the particulars,' --said the laird, who began to be sensible that the period of telling his story gracefully was gliding fast away.英文原著 · 《Redgauntlet》
PLACK, a small copper coin, equal to one-third of an English penny. PLEACH, interweave. PLICATIONS, folds, wrinkles. PLOY, a frolic. POCK-PUDDING, a contemptuous term applied to Englishmen POINT D'ESPAGNE, Spanish lace. POKE, pocket. PORT ROYAL, a monastery near Paris which became the headquarters of the Jansenists, the opponents of the Jesuits. POSSE COMITATUS, the civil force of a county.英文原著 · 《Redgauntlet》
Our hero then sought out the Earl of Ployer, who had been brought up in England during the French wars, by whom he was refurnished better than ever. After this streak of luck, he roamed about France,英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-3》
RAY PEARSON and Hal Winters were farm hands em- ployed on a farm three miles north of Winesburg. On Saturday afternoons they came into town and wandered about through the streets with other fel- lows from the country.英文原著 · 《Winesburg,Ohio》
Electric Sun's offer was just a ploy to temporarily prop up Lumetherm.美剧 · 《Billions》
Is your watershed act just a ploy to jump into the spotlight and pad your transcript while you apply for Governor school?美剧 · 《House of Cards》
But when I got there, I realized it was all a ploy so he could propose.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
It's just this guy's cheap ploy to watch you be a lesblan for a night...美剧 · 《Sex and the city》