She smiled pleasantly, as if my supposed dislike of Mr. Sax rather amused her. What "the ruling passion" may be among men, I cannot presume to consider. My own sex, however, I may claim to understand. The ruling passion among women is Conceit. My ridiculous notion of my own consequence was wounded in some way. I assumed a position of the loftiest indifference.英文原著 · 《LITTLE NOVELS》
[637] -- Mangalore. [638] -- Unidentified. [639] -- ROUPA. Linen cloth. The word is not used of cotton, and the next sentence shows that cotton did not grow in that tract. [640] -- I hazard the suggestion that this may be a mistake of the copyist for "Avati." This place, now a village in the Kolar district of Mysore, was in the fifteenth century an important place, a ruling family having been founded here by the "Morasu Wokkalu" or "Seven Farmers" (Rice, "Mysore and Coorg," ii. The description applies to it fairly well. [641] -- Calicut.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
"Well," concluded Nathan, "I ask myself sometimes whether du Bruel is really deceived. Truly there is nothing more comic, nothing stranger than the sight of a careless young fellow ruling a married couple, his slightest whims received as law, the weightiest decisions revoked at a word from him. That dinner incident, as you can see, is repeated times without number, it interferes with important matters. Still, but for Claudine's caprices, du Bruel would be de Cursy still, one vaudevillist among five hundred; whereas he is in the House of Peers."英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
In the battle of Mynydd Carn, a young chief led the shining shields of the men of Gwynedd. He was Griffith, the son of a prince of the line of Cunedda and of a sea-rover's daughter. He was mighty of limb, fair and straight to see, with the blue eyes and flaxen hair of the ruling Celt. In battle, he was full of fury and passion; in peace, he was just and wise. His people saw at first that he could fight a battle; then they found he could rule a country. And it was he that was to say to the Norman: "Thus far shalt thou come, and no further."英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
In the more peaceful and humane days of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Henry Sidney became President of the Court of Wales. He was one of the best men of the day; and he was proud of ruling Wales and the border counties, "a third part of this realm," because his high office made him able "to do good every day."英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
{6} The links between the House of Cunedda and the three ruling families after the Norman Conquest rest on the authority of tradition rather than on that of records.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
You're not here to ask me to shade my rulings.美剧 · 《Billions》
It is. But as the states' rulings for legalization pile up, the likelihood of the high court changing with the times, grows.美剧 · 《Billions》
You know what, I got an essay to write, so if this isn't about the precipitous fall of the French ruling class-- But then I saw, the kid had a tell.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
No, we're confident that your ruling will reflect the pain and suffering endured by my client.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Early members became the Illuminati’s ruling council, or Areopagus. Early members became the Illuminati’s ruling council, or Areopagus.演讲 · 《Are the Illuminati real ~ Chip Berlet》