Toogood, stepping to the open door, saw that the red-nosed clerk had taken his hat off and was very busy at his accounts. 'How do I pay my rent?' said Mr Stringer, the landlord. 'Well, sir, since this cursed gout has been so bad, it's hard enough to pay it at all sometimes. You ain't here to look for it, sir, are you?'
'Not I,' said Toogood. 'It was only a chance question.' He felt that he had nothing more to do with Mr Stringer, the landlord. Mr Stringer, the landlord, knew nothing about Mr Soames's cheque. 'What's the name of your clerk?' said he. 'The name of my clerk?' said Mr Stringer.英文原著 · 《The Last Chronicle of Barset》
The following observations are more precise. After trying heavier pieces of string and thread, I placed a loop of fine string, weighing 1.04 gr. (67.4 mg.) on a terminal sub-petiole: in 6 hrs. a curvature could be seen; in 24 hrs. the petiole formed an open ring round the string; in 48 hrs. the ring had almost closed on the string, and in 72 hrs. seized it so firmly, that some force was necessary for its withdrawal. A loop weighing 0.52 of a grain (33.7 mg.) caused in 14 hrs.英文原著 · 《The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants》
There is a string around his neck," and Betty pointed excitedly to a thin cord which was almost concealed in the thick curly hair. "Good gracious! Eb, look! It is the string off the prize bullet pouch I made, and that Wetzel won on Isaac's wedding day. It is a message from Lew," said Betty
"Well, by Heavens! This is strange. So it is. I remember that string.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
So Epaminondas tied a string around the end of the loaf and took hold of the end of the string and came along home, like this. (Imitate dragging something along the ground.) When he got home his Mammy looked at the thing on the end of the string, and she said,--英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
So there is much yet to do after getting the strings. All the book and college can do is to give the strings--the tools. After that the violin must go into the great tuning school of life. Here the pegs are turned and the strings are put in tune. The music is the knowing. Learning is tuning. You do not know what you have memorized, you know what you have vitalized, what you have written in the book of experience. Gussie says, "I have read it in a book." Bill Whackem says," I know!"
Reading and Knowing
All of us are Christopher Columbuses, discovering the same new-old continents of Truth.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
High strung, like a violin string, they weep and moan for life, so relentless, so cruel, so terribly inhuman. In a desperate moment the string breaks. Untuned ears hear nothing but discord. But those who feel the agonized cry understand its harmony; they hear in it the fulfillment of the most compelling moment of human nature.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
She might be interested to know that I have refocused my research From bosonic string theory to heterotic string theory.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
I especially liked your paper on grand unification Using string-network condensates And were wondering how you determined That three-dimensional string-nets provided A unified picture of fermions and gauge bosons?美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
* If I didn't have you * * Life would be dreary * * I'd be string theory without any string * * I'd be binary code without a one * * A cathode ray tube without an electron gun * * I'd be Firefly, Buffy and Avengers without Joss Whedon * * I'd speak a lot more Klingon * * Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam * * An美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Many scientists, in fields ranging from genetics to string theory, Many scientists, in fields ranging from genetics to string theory,演讲 · 《Open science now! ~ Michael Nielsen》