"You are going to ask what I mean by posing as Miss Prim," she said. "I have never said that I was Miss Prim. You took the word of an ignorant little farmer's boy and I did not deny it when I found that you intended bring- ing me to Mr. Prim, for I wanted to see him. I wanted to ask him to help me. I have never met him, or his daughter either; but my father and Mr. Prim have been friends for many years.英文原著 · 《The Oakdale Affair》
Thus it happened that of a Saturday and Sunday there was nearly always a mixed gathering of men at "The Green Tower, and after they had dined they would sit in the tower room and drink old Southern wines from the ex-Prime Minister's country, and talk, or tell each other stories. But the ex-Prime Minister made it a stringent rule that at least one guest should tell one story during his stay, for while he had been Prime Minister a Court official had been in his service whose only duty it was to tell him a story every evening, and this was the only thing he regretted of all his former privileges.英文原著 · 《Orpheus in Mayfair and Other》
At morning prime. Early in the morning. Prime is properly the first canonical hour of prayer, or 6 a.m. For its looser use here, cf. 25: "at evening and at prime."英文原著 · 《The Lady of the Lake》
The darkness of the upper hallway offered no obstacle to this familiar housebreaker. He passed the tempting luxury of Mrs. Prim's boudoir, the chaste elegance of Jonas Prim's bed-room with all the possibilities of forgot- ten wallets and negotiable papers, setting his course straight for the apartments of Abigail Prim, the spinster daughter of the First National Bank of Oakdale. Or should we utilize a more charitable and at the same time more truthful word than spinster? I think we should, since Abigail was but nineteen and quite human, de- spite her name.英文原著 · 《The Oakdale Affair》
(1) Time and I. Cardinal Mazarin was prime-minister of Louis XIV. of France. Time, Mazarin said, was his prime-minister. (2) It is always bad for those who are ready to put off action.英文原著 · 《Abraham Lincoln》
But to set this matter in a clearer light. Suppose 200,000 l. per ann. of the prime sum sent to India, is returned in commodities for our own consumption: and, Suppose 1/2 this sum, viz. 100,000 l. to be returned in such goods as are worn here, in the stead and room of the woollen manufactures. From 100,000 l. prime cost to India there may be expected goods that fell here for 400,000 l.英文原著 · 《An Essay on the East-India Trade》
The differential diagnosis for biliary tree scarring includes primary sclerosing cholangitis, liver failure, secondary to primary biliary cirrhosis -- Yeah, Shaun, we can add a few cancers to that list as well -- It's a long and ugly one.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
Lady past prime with tight clothes who wants sex from young men.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》