Blue ointment was substituted, and improvement commenced. As the induration cleared up, outlying patches of the affected skin were left surrounded by normal integument. No pitting could be produced even after the tension of the skin had decreased during recovery. The lowest rectal temperature was 98 degrees F. In a little more than four months the skin became normal. The treatment with mercurial ointment was stopped some time before recovery. Possibly the most interesting of the examples of skin-anomaly was the "elephant-man" of London. His real name was Merrick.英文原著 · 《Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine》
Then Mr. Hardie rested his senatorial head on his hand and pondered deeply. Skinner too reflected on this strange freak of Fortune: and the result was that he burst in on his principal's reverie with a joyful shout: "The bank is saved! Hardie's is good for another hundred years. The banker started, for Skinner's voice sounded like a pistol-shot in his ear, so high strung was he with thought. "Hush! hush!" he said, and pondered again in silence. At last he turned to Skinner.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
Hardie suppressed a start, and said nothing. Skinner bowed low with a mixture of his old cringing way, and a certain sly triumphant leer, so that his body seemed to say one thing, and his face the opposite. Hardie eyed him, and saw that his coat was rusty, and his hat napless: then Mr. Hardie smelt a beggar, and prepared to parry all attempts upon his purse. "I hope I see my old master well," said Skinner coaxingly. "Pretty well in body, Skinner; thank you."
"I had a deal of trouble to find you, sir. But I heard of the great lawsuit between Mr. Alfred and you, and I knew Mr.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
Skinner never came. Hardie waited till one o'clock. Two o'clock. No Skinner. Hardie went home hugging his five hundred pounds, but very uneasy. Next day he consulted Peggy. She shook her head, and said it looked very ugly. Skinner had most likely got angrier and angrier with thinking on the assault.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
ODYSSEUS This, as thou seest, is the skin that holds it, old sir. SILENUS Why, that would not give me so much as a mouthful. ODYSSEUS This, and twice as much again as will run from the skin. SILENUS Fair the rill thou speakest of, delicious to me. ODYSSEUS Shall I let thee taste the wine unmixed, to start with? SILENUS A reasonable offer; for of a truth a taste invites the purchase. ODYSSEUS Well, I haul about a cup as well as the skin. SILENUS Come, let it gurgle in, that I may revive my memory by a pull at it.英文原著 · 《THE CYCLOPS》
Notwithstanding these drawbacks, my physical health was good, which, I confess, surprised me, for this among other reasons: It is said that a burn of two thirds of the surface destroys life, because then all the excretory matters which this portion of the glands of the skin evolved are thrown upon the blood, and poison the man, just as happens in an animal whose skin the physiologist has varnished, so as in this way to destroy its function. Yet here was I, having lost at least a third of my skin, and apparently none the worse for it.英文原著 · 《The Autobiography of a Quack》
Bryan has a particular set of skills, skills acquired over a long career, skills that make him -- The object of a stewardess's desperate lust.美剧 · 《Billions》