"Do you think Madame Barras has been hurt?" "Hurt!" he repeated. "How should Madame Barras be hurt?" "In the robbery," I said. "Robbery!" and he repeated that word. "There has been no robbery!" I replied in some astonishment. "Really, Sir Henry! You but now assured me that I would remember this night's robbery." The drawl got back into his voice. "Ah, yes," he said, "quite so. You will remember it." The man was clearly, it seemed to me, so engrossed with the mystery that it was idle to interrogate him.英文原著 · 《The Sleuth of St. James Street》
The robber captain thought this good counsel, and the next morning, when the young man went to bathe, he unhooked the sword from its nail and buckled it round his waist. On his return to the castle, the prince found the robber waiting for him on the steps, waving the sword above his head, and knowing that some horrible fate was in store, fell on his knees and begged for mercy. But he might as well have tried to squeeze blood out of a stone. The robber, indeed, granted him his life, but took out both his eyes, which he thrust into the prince's hand, saying brutally:英文原著 · 《The Crimson Fairy Book》
'Ye--es,' she replied slowly. 'At least, as I walked down the path a voice cried out "Robbery! Robbery! Robbery!" but that was all.'英文原著 · 《The Lilac Fairy Book》
Who is it he has come to amuse?' . "'It is Kazbich!' she exclaimed after a glance. "'Ah, the robber! Come to laugh at us, has he?'
"I looked closely, and sure enough it was Kazbich, with his swarthy face, and as ragged and dirty as ever. "'It is my father's horse!' said Bela, seizing my arm. "She was trembling like a leaf and her eyes were sparkling. "'Aha!' I said to myself. 'There is robber's blood in your veins still, my dear!'
"'Come here,' I said to the sentry.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
I could not be accused of neglecting my newspaper during the next few wretched days. I read every word that I could find about the attempted jewel-robbery in Palace Gardens, and the reports afforded me my sole comfort. In the first place, it was only an attempted robbery; nothing had been taken, after all. And then - and then - the one member of the household who had come nearest to a personal encounter with either of us was unable to furnish any description of the man - had even expressed a doubt as to the likelihood of identification in the event of an arrest!英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"But when the robbers fell to cheating one another, I got my first clues to the state of affairs. One of the robbed robbers came to me after dark, with facts, figures, and assertions. I knew I was ruined if I went to law. The judges were corrupt like everything else. But I did do one thing. In the dead of night I went to Ericson's house. I had the same revolver I've got now, and I made him stay in bed while I overhauled things. Nineteen hundred and odd francs was what I carried away with me.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
You know, Chestnut, the only thing that got me through that robbery was you.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
The world outside this campus may be in crisis-- driven there largely by men like you, modern-day robber barons who only care about acquiring more, more, more, more-- but here, this place, sir, this oasis, is the antidote.美剧 · 《Billions》
As I said to Ed Porter at the premiere of The Great Train Robbery, "Aah, the train's coming right at me." - What the hell is going on? - I don't know, Lenny.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
The wealthiest robber barons of the last century, the emperors on this planet, The wealthiest robber barons of the last century, the emperors on this planet,演讲 · 《Abundance is our future ~ Peter Diamandis》