And the dialect made the song seem different, almost new. Its charm seemed to have evaporated. Yet she remembered vaguely that it had charmed her. She sought for the charm, striving feebly to recapture it. The piano-organ hurt her, the hard voice hurt her. It sounded cruel and greedy. But the song--once it had appealed to her. Once she had leaned down to hear it, she had leaned down over the misty sea, her soul had followed it out over the sea.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
It has been nine years since you saw him," said Mrs. "Remember Isaac? Indeed I do. I shall never forget him. I wonder if he is still living?"
"Probably not. It is now four years since he was recaptured. I think it would have been impossible to keep him that length of time, unless, of course, he has married that Indian girl. The simplicity of the Indian nature is remarkable.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
"It took us just three minutes to get out of that street around to military headquarters, where Mellinger had things his own way. A colonel and a battalion of bare-toed infantry turned out and went back to the scene of the musicale with us, but the conspirator gang was gone. But we recaptured the phonograph with honors of war, and marched back to the ~cuartel~ with it playing 'All Coons Look Alike to Me.'英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
These miscreants were adepts in their profes- sion, for they had accomplished their purpose with much skill, almost under the very eyes of the foe, and had it not been for the invincible superstition of Slow Dog, they would have met with complete success. As it was, they caused us no little trouble and anxiety, but after a hot pur- suit of a whole day, with the assistance of the half- breeds our horses were recaptured.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
Behold the last remnant of my German sentimentality evaporates, but I am filled with a German desire for beer. Let us come into the studio, liebe Kinder, and have beer and music and laughter. We cannot recapture this hour or prolong it. But it was good, oh, so good! I thank God for this hour."
Sylvia put her hand on her brother's arm, looking at him with just a shade of anxiety. "Nothing wrong, Hermann?" she asked. "Wrong? There is nothing wrong unless it is wrong to be happy.英文原著 · 《Michael》