The very rattle of the shingle under my feet and the jingle of my navy scabbard seemed offensive in the perfect hush, and, too awed to be frightened, I presently turned away from the dreadful shine of those cliffs and felt my way along the base of the wall on my own side. There was no means of escape that way, and presently the shingle beach itself gave out as stated, where the cliff wall rose straight from the surface of the lake, so I turned back, and finding a grotto in the ice determined to make myself as comfortable as might be until daylight came.英文原著 · 《Gulliver of Mars》
At their feet the calm sea rose and fell over the shingle with an intermittent swash, regular as the breathing of a sleeper; for it seemed indifferent or ever favourable to the love-making going on hard by.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
I discover nothing about him so amusing as the fact that he lived in a tan-colored little tenement, which was neither clapboarded nor shingled, and finally got an epidermis from the discarded shingles of the Old South Church when the roof of that edifice was repaired.英文原著 · 《An Old Town By The Sea》
Monsieur Ratignolle was prepared to take things seriously; the mets, the entre-mets, the service, the decorations, even the people. He looked up from his pompano and inquired of Arobin if he were related to the gentleman of that name who formed one of the firm of Laitner and Arobin, lawyers. The young man admitted that Laitner was a warm personal friend, who permitted Arobin's name to decorate the firm's letterheads and to appear upon a shingle that graced Perdido Street.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
In moments like that men become superhuman. It all happened in an instant. He reached the arrow, kicked it over the wall, and then dashed the bucket of water on the blazing shingles. In that single instant, wherein his tall form was outlined against the bright light behind him, he presented the fairest kind of a mark for the Indians. Scores of rifles were levelled and discharged at him. The bullets pattered like hail on the roof of the block-house, but apparently none found their mark, for the man ran back and disappeared. "It was Clarke!" exclaimed Col. "No one but Clarke has such light hair.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
"An' that was a big un," he said slowly. The little man stopped his cackling. "There ye lie," he said, smoothly. "He was small."
They looked one another full in the eyes. "That's a matter of opinion," said the Mas-. "It's a matter of fact," said the other. The two stared at one another, silent and stern, each trying to fathom the other's soul; then they turned again to the brink of the. Beneath them, plain to see, was the splash and furrow in the shingle marking the Killer's line of retreat.英文原著 · 《Bob Son of Battle》
So how would it work-- I keep my own shingle?美剧 · 《Billions》
Well, I guess we all know just how much that shingle of yours is worth.美剧 · 《Billions》
um, I think you have been the most consistent male relationship in my life. you're so stable and reliable, and I just... always thought you'd be around. which is funny, because I don't really know anything about you. well, how about this-- I fix your shingle, and when i'm done, you can ask me anything you want. great.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》