Another modern play, THE SERVANT IN THE HOUSE, strikes a vital key in our social life. The hero of Mr. Kennedy's masterpiece is Robert, a coarse, filthy drunkard, whom respectable society has repudiated. Robert, the sewer cleaner, is the real hero of the play; nay, its true and only savior. It is he who volunteers to go down into the dangerous sewer, so that his comrades "can 'ave light and air." After all, has he not sacrificed his life always, so that others may have light and air?英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
Sewes: Dishes, or soups. The precise force of the word is uncertain; but it may be connected with "seethe," to boil, and it seems to describe a dish in which the flesh was served up amid a kind of broth or gravy. The "sewer," taster or assayer of the viands served at great tables, probably derived his name from the verb to "say" or "assay;" though Tyrwhitt would connect the two words, by taking both from the French, "asseoir," to place -- making the arrangement of the table the leading duty of the "sewer," rather than the testing of the food.英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
Peter Stockmann. And your reasoning leads you to this conclusion, that we must build a sewer to draw off the alleged impurities from Molledal and must relay the water conduits.英文原著 · 《An Enemy of the People》
"And there doesn't seem to be an animal," Mrs. Wood went on, "no matter how ugly
and repulsive it is, but what has some lovable qualities. I have just been
reading about some sewer rats, Louise Michel's rats "英文原著 · 《Beautiful Joe》
"Why didn't they cut your tail, too?" I said, looking at his long, slim tail,
which was like a sewer rat's.英文原著 · 《Beautiful Joe》
The girls' sewing classes are also in progress. A circle of benches under the copper beech tree accommodates the hand sewers, while the big girls take turns at our three machines. Just as soon as they gain some proficiency we will begin the glorious work of redressing the institution. I know you think I'm slow, but it's really a task to accomplish one hundred and eighty new frocks. And the girls will appreciate them so much more if they do the work themselves.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
You know, I used to be engaged to a man who lived in the sewers.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I never mind snaking through the sewer pipes, but with our legal powers currently curtailed-- We're not building a legal case, not right now.美剧 · 《Billions》