First English - gewis. For the prefix i-, answering to First English and German ge-, see Y-. This old adverb is often printed as if the prefix were the pronoun I and wis were a verb. Japes: trivial mockings. Jimp: slender. Kell: coif, woman's headdress. Kipples: rafters. Knowe: knoll, little hill.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Its giant brooms and mops seem to reach the starry rafters and Starless corners of the cosmos; it is a cosmic spring- cleaning.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
How the meeting-house rafters used to ring to that last hymn, sung to the tune of "Amsterdam!" Sometimes it seemed as if the very roof was lifted off,--nay, the roof of the sky itself--as if the music had burst an entrance for our souls into the heaven of heavens.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Besides the benches by the fireside and the bed, the only piece of furniture in the room was a coarse wooden table, with a loaf of black bread, a knife, and a pitcher of cider placed on it. Old nets, coils of rope, tattered sails, hung, about the walls and over the wooden partition which separated the room into two compartments. Wisps of straw and ears of barley drooped down through the rotten rafters and gaping boards that made the floor of the granary above.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
He lay with his arms folded across his breast, addressing apparently the smoky rafters. He was a Russian, a teacher of languages in Paris at the outbreak of the war, and had joined the French Army. "It is not only courage," he said, "that War brings out. It brings out vile things too. Oh, I'm not thinking merely of the Boches. That's the cant of every nation: that all the heroism is on one side and all the brutality on the other. Take men from anywhere and some of them will be devils. War gives them their opportunity, brings out the beast.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
Pewit, phoebe, phoebe; pewit, phoebe, they contentedly but rather monotonously sing as they investigate all the sites in the neighborhood. Presently a location is chosen under a beam or rafter, and the work of collecting moss and mud for the foundation and hair and feathers or wool to line the exquisite little home begins. But the labor is done cheerfully, with many a sally in midair either to let off superfluous high spirits or to catch a morsel on the wing, and with many a vivacious outburst of what by courtesy only we may name a song.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》