"About my book, I will give you (Sir Joseph Hooker) a bit of advice. Skip the whole of Vol. I, except the last chapter, (and that need only be skimmed), and skip largely in the 2nd volume; and then you will say it is a very good book."英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Between her sobs and their accusations it took me half an hour to gather the truth. It seems that the church they attend is very modern and hygienic, like our doctor, and has introduced individual communion cups. Poor little Hattie had never heard of communion in her life. In fact, she wasn't very used to church, Sunday-school having always sufficed for her simple religious needs. But in her new home she attended both, and one day, to her pleased surprise, they served refreshments. But they skipped her. She made no comment, however; she is used to being skipped.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
What shall I talk about? My idea is this: to instruct the audience about Robert Fulton, and..... Tell me-was that his real name, or was it his nom de plume? However, never mind, it is not important--I can skip it, and the house will think I knew all about it, but forgot. Could you find out for me if he was one of the Signers of the Declaration, and which one? But if it is any trouble, let it alone, I can skip it. Was he out with Paul Jones? Will you ask Horace Porter?英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 5》
which like "a d" comes from the earliest of a series, though I should think from the entire skipping of the Zoea stage that it must be, like "a e," the result of a long line of ancestors. In fact, the essential point of our theory is, that characteristics are ever inherited by the young at earlier periods than they are assumed in due course of growth by the parents, and that this must eventually lead to the extinction or skipping of these characteristics altogether...英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
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Sam interrupted him. WHY!" he cried. "That's--that's Gertie's house! This isn't Trumet! IT'S EAST HARNISS! The next moment he was seized from behind. The skipper's arms were around his waist and the skipper's thin legs twisted about his own. They fell together upon the sand and, as they rolled and struggled, Issy's yells rose loud and high.英文原著 · 《The Depot Master》
...About my book I will give you a bit of advice. Skip the WHOLE of Volume I., except the last chapter (and that need only be skimmed) and skip largely in the 2nd volume; and then you will say it is a very good book.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》
You kind of skipped over the part where we get abducted and Nancy grace covers the year-long search美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I'll skip the foreplay, and that'll be my birthday gift to myself.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Do what every other American would do skip the hard work and put out a sex tape.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Right now, we are trying to set something up that will allow Skip to show his rehabilitation and for him to contribute to society.美剧 · 《Billions》
So, I went yesterday, I apologize, I skipped a few of the talks, So, I went yesterday, I apologize, I skipped a few of the talks,演讲 · 《Meet your microbes ~ Jonathan Eisen》