"I must just recur to stamps; my little man has calculated that he will now have 6 stamps which no other boy in the school has. Here is a triumph. Your last letter was plaistered with many coloured stamps, and he long surveyed the envelope in bed with much quiet satisfaction."英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》
With a sudden darting movement he thrust the confession in among the burning coals. And a smile licked at the folds in his dark face, like those flames licking the sheets of paper, till they writhed and blackened. With the toe of his boot he dispersed their scorched and crumbling wafer. Stamp them in! Stamp in that man's life! Burnt! No more doubts, no more of this gnawing fear! Burnt?英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
In this was the germ of the stern resistance offered by the Americans to the Stamp Act. No man in the colonies did so much to confute the principles on which the Stamp Act rested as did James Otis.英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
The stamps were upon blue paper, and were to be attached to every piece of paper or parchment, on which a legal instrument was written. For these stamps the Government charged specific prices, for example, for a common property deed, one shilling and sixpence.英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
The captain stamped and stamped again with mingled vexation, agitation, and bewilderment. "Confound it!" he cried, "if this is neither Venus nor Mercury, it must be the moon; but if it is the moon, whence, in the name of all the gods, has she picked up another moon for herself?"
The captain was in dire perplexity.英文原著 · 《Off on a Comet》
"Say, Smoke, this ain't no stampede. It's a exode-us. They must be a thousand men ahead of us an' ten thousand behind. Now, you listen to your uncle. My medicine's good. When I get a hunch it's sure right. An' we're in wrong on this stampede. Let's turn back an' hit the sleep."英文原著 · 《Smoke Bellew》
If you had been able to find a stupid stamp in that horrid thing, I would've never even seen Earl's taxes美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
My mom and I waited in line for food stamps, Bob Seger lawn seats.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Every time the food stamps came, my mother was all, "Max who?"美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
That's a stamp. I used a stamp to defend Canada's borders. (Laughter) that's a stamp. I used a stamp to defend Canada's borders. (Laughter)演讲 · 《The future of lying ~ Jeff Hancock》