"Who was it that gave the prescription to Mrs. Vandam originally? She is dead and cannot tell. The others won't tell, for the person who gave her that prescription was the person who later substituted the fatal capsule in place of the harmless. The original prescription is here. I have been able to discover from it nothing at all by examining the handwriting. Nor does the texture of the paper indicate anything to me. But the ink--ah, the ink.英文原著 · 《The Silent Bullet》
Travel is needed, and a punctilious following out of prescriptions, by no means unpleasant, and varied daily. Two /gentlemen/" (laying a stress on the word in its English sense) "can understand each other. I give you warning that if you accept my proposal, you shall be a judge of my conduct at every moment. I will do nothing without consulting you, without your superintendence, and I will answer for the success of my method if you will consent to follow it. Yes, unless you wish to be Mme. d'Aiglemont's husband no longer, and that before long," he added in the Marquis' ear.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
What beautiful woman is ever eccentric? catch her! she can get a husband without. That doctress will prescribe Harrington a wedding-ring; and, if he swallows it, it will be her last prescription. She will send out for the family doctor after that, like other wives."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
She walked him into a cottage: there was a little dead wood burning on that portion of the brick floor called the hearth. A pale old man sat close to the fire, in a wooden armchair. She felt his pulse, and wrote him a prescription.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Then she walked out of the cottage, and Severne followed her: he ventured to say that was a novel prescription.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"It does seem presumptuous. But, at least, I could do you a little good if you could be got to try my humble prescription."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
As an instruction, as a direction rather than a prescription of form. as an instruction, as a direction rather than a prescription of form.演讲 · 《Treat design as art ~ Paola Antonelli》