"Upstream, a tall shaft of granite rears its needle-like length. It is named 'Thunder Rock,' and wise men of the Paleface people say it is rich in ore--copper, silver and gold. At the base of this shaft the Squamish chief crouched when the storm cloud broke and bellowed through the ranges, and on its summit the Thunder Bird perched, its gigantic wings threshing the air into booming sounds, into splitting terrors, like the crash of a giant cedar hurtling down the mountain side.英文原著 · 《Legends of Vancouver》
Extract from a letter to Orion Clemens, in Carson City: 1862 If I do not forget it, I will send you, per next mail, a pinch of decom. (decomposed rock) which I pinched with thumb and finger from "Wide West" ledge awhile ago. Raish and I have secured 200 out of a 400 ft. in it, which perhaps (the ledge, I mean) is a spur from the W. W.--our shaft is about 100 ft. from the W. shaft. In order to get in, we agreed to sink 30 ft.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 1》
A berugged, bedraggled bundle of apologies, Miss Ophelia Arthur lay prone in her steamer chair, her cheeks pale, her eyes closed. Her conscience, directed towards the interests of her charge, demanded her presence on deck. Once on deck and apparently on guard, Miss Arthur limply subsided into a species of coma. Her charge, meanwhile, rosy and alert, sat in the lee of a friendly ventilating shaft. Beside her, also in the lee of the ventilating shaft, sat Mr. Harvard Weldon.英文原著 · 《On The Firing Line》
'Let the porter go forth, and I will tell him how he may know him. The head of his lance will leave its shaft, and draw blood from the wind, and descend upon its shaft again.' So the porter opened the gate and Bedwyr entered.英文原著 · 《The Lilac Fairy Book》
The Indian strove to leap backward an instant after delivering his stroke, but still clung to the spear-shaft. This hampered his action to a certain degree, yet in all probability that stout ashen shaft preserved his life, which that wound would otherwise have forfeited.英文原著 · 《The Lost City》
The opening was at the top of a narrow shaft that seemed to lead to the basement of the structure--apparently once the shaft of a dumb-waiter or a chute for refuse or soiled clothes. Barney put his ear close to it. The voices that came from below were those of a man and a woman. He heard every word distinctly. "We must search the house, fraulein," came in the deep voice of a man. "Whom do you seek?" inquired a woman's voice. Barney recognized it as the voice of his captor. "A Serbian spy, Stefan Drontoff," replied the man.英文原著 · 《The Mad King》
Earl also thinks the theme from Shaft was stolen from a cassette tape he sent out in 1975.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》