"I cannot come, and am not in the mood for it if I could," was his answer. "What folly does she give way to? This is the ninth time she hath felt strangely, and I have felt as squeamish as she--but nine is more than I have patience for."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
He left me in no kind of doubt as to that. He's not used to being challenged and he won't be squeamish. You will have the whole of his Press against you, and every other journalistic and political influence that he possesses. He's getting a hold upon the working classes. The Sunday Post has an enormous sale in the manufacturing towns; and he's talking of starting another. Are you strong enough to fight him?"
She very much wanted to look at him, but she would not. It seemed to her quite a time before he replied. "Yes," he answered, "I'm strong enough to fight him.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
Larne smiled. "My dear boy, it's all right. You needn't be so squeamish. I want it to be quite on a business footing."英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
"To attain full growth, one mustn't be squeamish. To starve oneself emotionally's a mistake. All emotion is to the good--enriches life."英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
He has such a squeamish appytite, that all the world seems to DISAGREE with him. And what has he got to say to his delicate female frend? Why that-- Fust. is going to publish indescent stoaries about Lady O---, his sister, which everybody's goin to by. That Miss Gordon is going to be cloathed with an usband; and that all their matrimonial corryspondins is to be published too. That Lord H. is going to be married; but there's some thing rong in his wife's blood. Miss Long has cut Mr.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush》
The princesses are not ignorant that I have often shut my eyes upon certain affairs--. Enough; they must now testify their attachment for me. Why should they oppose the presentation of the comtesse? they were not so squeamish in the days of madame de Pompadour."
At these latter words I could not forbear laughing. La Vauguyon and de Richelieu left us and here the conversation terminated. The next morning they brought me a note from the duc de la Vauguyon. Thus it ran:--
MADAME,--Ready to serve you, I wish to have a few minutes' conversation with you.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry》
And I think whatever you heard in that meeting made you squeamish.美剧 · 《Billions》
Whatever you heard in that meeting made you squeamish.美剧 · 《Billions》
We put your site on the map, boy-o, so don't get squeamish now about sunk cost.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
And, Mark... when Conway imploded, we recognized that you were a little squea-- squeamish about stepping in.美剧 · 《House of Cards》