"A spell was put upon the spot," Miriam went on, with a certain imaginative seriousness; for she loved romance and mystery so well, and was of a temperament so poetical, that the wildest fairy-tales had a sort of reality for her. "No one can find the treasure while the spell remains. But Kamaiakan understands the spell, and the conjuration which dissolves it; and when he dissolves it, the treasure will be found."英文原著 · 《The Golden Fleece》
I will lay you ten to one She cannot spell! How know you she can spell? You cannot spell yourself! You write command With a single M-C-O-M-A-N-D: Yours to Co-mand.英文原著 · 《The Love-Chase》
"Diamond mines spell ruin oftener than they spell wealth," said Mr. Barrow. "When a man is in the hands of a very dear friend and is not a businessman himself, he had better steer clear of the dear friend's diamond mines, or gold mines, or any other kind of mines dear friends want his money to put into. The late Captain Crewe--"英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
The family name was variously spelled, the dramatist himself not always spelling it in the same way. While in the baptismal record the name is spelled "Shakspeare," in several authentic autographs of the dramatist it reads "Shakspere," and in the first edition of his works it is printed "Shakespeare."英文原著 · 《Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare》
It was her great age that made her famous. More than a hundred years old, sir! One of our neighbors didn't believe in her age, and she heard of it. She cast a spell on his flock. I tell you, she sent a plague on his sheep, the plague of the Bots. The whole flock died; I remember it well. Some said the sheep would have had the Bots anyhow. Some said it was the spell.英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
I come now to another part of your letter, which is the orthography, if I may call bad spelling ORTHOGRAPHY. You spell induce, ENDUCE; and grandeur, you spell grandURE; two faults of which few of my housemaids would have been guilty. I must tell you that orthography, in the true sense of the word, is so absolutely necessary for a man of letters; or a gentleman, that one false spelling may fix ridicule upon him for the rest of his life; and I know a man of quality, who never recovered the ridicule of having spelled WHOLESOME without the w.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1750》
Spell "Boscodictiasaur." Um, I've never heard of a "Boscodictiasaur." Yeah, I just made it up. Spell it.美剧 · 《Friends》
I spelled monogamy wrong! -Will you let me-- I spelled it wrong!美剧 · 《Shameless》
I'm wearing my best suit." He spelled suit with a four, but that's pretty good for a horse.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Which will be voluntary, but which would spell out the key decision points which will be voluntary, but which would spell out the key decision points演讲 · 《The bottom billion ~ Paul Collier》