With love, S. CLEMENS. The "Stoker" of this letter was Bram Stoker, long associated with Sir Henry Irving. Irving himself had also taken stock in the machine. The address, 169 Rue de l'Universite, whence these letters are written, was the beautiful studio home of the artist Pomroy which they had taken for the winter. Rogers, in New York:
169 RUE DE L'UNIVERSITE, PARIS, Dec. 27, '94. DEAR MR.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 4》
Joseph Bellamy Stoker! He is not an old man, the Rev. Joseph Bellamy Stoker. He may perhaps be a widower before a great while. --Does he know that you are working those slippers for him?"
"Dear me! no, Mr. Gridley. I meant them for a surprise to him.英文原著 · 《The Guardian Angel》
Presently the steamer drew to a wharf, and, with a loud clattering, firewood was dragged forth and cast into the stokehole with uncouth, warning cries of " Tru-us-sha! " [The word means ship' s hold or stokehole, but here is, probably, equivalent to the English " Heads below!"]英文原著 · 《Through Russia》
A few nights later a man, groaning beneath his balcony, disturbed his slumbers. He cursed the man, and turned his pillow to find the cooler side. But all through the night the groans, though fainter, broke into his dreams. At intervals some traditions of past conduct tugged at Everett's sleeve, and bade him rise and play the good Samaritan. But, indignantly, he repulsed them. Were there not many others within hearing? Were there not the police? Was it HIS place to bind the wounds of drunken stokers?英文原著 · 《A Question of Latitude》
On November 2nd, we find Lyell introducing Darwin as his guest at the Geological Society Club; on December 14th, Lyell and Stokes proposed Darwin as a member of the Club; between that date and May 3rd of the following year, when his election to the Club took place, he was several times dining as a guest.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
31st.--A man having taken a shop in Stoke, sometime ago, and selling goods vastly under the usual price, Mr. Haydon set up a shop against him, of whom I bought this morning four pair of gloves, at 7d. a pair; riding gloves, 9d.; and a pair of other gloves, 8d.英文原著 · 《Diary of William Bray》
Now Harry Stoke has gone in with a bundle Then Harry Stoke, whoever he is, is a fool.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》