"It does if you are a boy." "I don't see why." "Well, I can't help it if you don't. It does." "Why shouldn't a boy be spanked when he's naughty, just as well as a girl, I would like to know?" "Because he's a boy." Lily looked at Johnny Trumbull. The great fact did remain. He had been spanked, he had thrown his own aunt down in the dust. He had taken ad- vantage of her little-girl protection, but he was a boy. Lily did not understand his why at all, but she bowed before it. However, that she would not admit. She made a rapid change of base.英文原著 · 《The Copy-Cat》
Foretopgallant and royalmast. Spanker boom. Spanker gaff. Bowsprit. Jib boom and flying jib boom. Martingale boom. Crossjack yard. Mizzentopsail yard.英文原著 · 《Two Years Before the Mast》
In the morning an expedition was planned, and Uxmoor proffered his "four-in-hand." It was accepted. All young ladies like to sit behind four spanking trotters; and few object to be driven by a viscount with a glorious beard and large estates.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
I'm getting too well known. I do believe I'll try it. The shouting's easy enough." She turned to Joan. "Are you going to take up socialism?" she demanded. "I may," answered Joan. "Just to spank it, and put it down again. I'm rather a believer in temptation--the struggle for existence. I only want to make it a finer existence, more worth the struggle, in which the best man shall rise to the top.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
In spring and early summer the bobolinks respond to every poet's effort to imitate their notes. "Dignified 'Robert of Lincoln' is telling his name," says one; "Spink, spank, spink," another hears him say. But best of all are Wilson Flagg's lines:英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
Bud walked at least a rod toward Alpine before he swung short around in his tracks and started the other way. "No, I'll be doggoned if I will!" he said. "You can't tell about women, no time. She might spank the kid, or something. Or maybe she wouldn't feed it enough. Anyway, it's too cold, and it's going to storm pretty pronto. Yuh cold. old-timer?"英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》