A most unpleasant situation, sir! "At length I said to her:
"'Would you like us to go and take a walk on the rampart? The weather is splendid.'
"This was in September, and indeed it was a wonderful day, bright and not too hot. The mountains could be seen as clearly as though they were but a hand's-breadth away. We went, and walked in silence to and fro along the rampart of the fortress. At length she sat down on the sward, and I sat beside her. In truth, now, it is funny to think of it all! I used to run after her just like a kind of children's nurse!英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
And now the desire for expression was running strong. He wanted to state his situation; if he did not state he would have to act; and as he walked back to the club dinner he turned over possible interlocutors in his thoughts. Lord Rampound sat with him at dinner, and he came near broaching the subject with him. But Lord Rampound that evening had that morbid running of bluish legal anecdotes which is so common an affliction with lawyers, and theology sinks and dies in that turbid stream.英文原著 · 《Soul of a Bishop》
There then they cleared the space outside the gate, and lifted up the Bearing Warrior, and bare him back from the rampart. For so fierce had been the fight and so eager the storm of those that had followed after him that they must needs order their battle afresh, since Thiodolf's wedge which he had driven into the Roman host was but of a few and the foe had been many and the rampart and the shot-weapons were close anigh. Wise therefore it seemed to abide them of the second battle and join with them to swarm over the new-built slippery wall in the teeth of the Roman shot.英文原著 · 《The House of the Wolfings》
Beneath the rampart is a tidal river, and on the other side, for a long distance, the mossy walls of the immense garden of a seminary. Three hundred years ago, La Rochelle was the great French stronghold of Protestantism; but to-day it appears to be a'nursery of Papists.英文原著 · 《A Little Tour In France》
And yet when I eyed the transfigured scene it did not seem exactly like a bonfire or any ritual illumination. It was too chaotic, and too close to the houses of the town. All one side of a cottage was painted pink with the giant brush of flame; the next side, by contrast, was painted as black as tar. Along the front of this ran a blackening rim or rampart edged with a restless red ribbon that danced and doubled and devoured like a scarlet snake; and beyond it was nothing but a deathly fulness of light.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
Texted me while you were rampaging through the office.美剧 · 《Billions》
Big VC player-- Rebecca Cantu-- wants to put in a hundred million and ramp up the timetable to production.美剧 · 《Billions》
Nothing like suppressing the voice of the disenfranchised-- No, we should let people too lazy or stupid to even register vote from their cell phones, so fraud runs rampant-- This needs to be punted down the road until tech and security concerns are better vetted, so let's just button it up with a qu美剧 · 《Billions》
Naturally, I assume you'll want your eques of equities, your consul of compliance, to join you in the assault on the ramparts of government regulators.美剧 · 《Billions》
And the only way that rampaging mob coming down the street will stop And the only way that rampaging mob coming down the street will stop演讲 · 《An independent diplomat ~ Carne Ross》