That's one point where he was all wrong. Nothing helps so much, when the sucker is at all sentimental, as a clever, good-looking woman. And Larry'll come around to it all right. He'll see the sense of it, now that he's older and has had two years to think things over."
Old Jimmie nodded, showing his yellow teeth in a sly grin. "You said something a second ago: Maggie and Larry! They'll make a wonder of a team! I mean that she'll work under him with the rest of us. I've been thinking about it a long while.英文原著 · 《Children of the Whirlwind》
"I've told you the truth, Maggie; and you'll be sorry that you have not left--if not sorry soon, then sorry a little later."
He turned to Barney with a last shot; he could not leave the gloating Barney Palmer his unalloyed triumph. "I told you I had the straight dope on you, Barney. Here's some more of it. I know exactly what your game is, and I know exactly who your sucker is. We'll see if you put it over--you squealer! Good-night, all."
With that Larry walked out. Old Jimmie regarded his partner with suspicion. "How about that, Barney--you being a stool and a squealer?" he demanded.英文原著 · 《Children of the Whirlwind》
I also related my first experiment in the arboricultural line, when I cut from two thrifty rows of young cherry-trees any quantity of what I supposed to be 'suckers,' or 'sprouts,' and was thereafter informed by my gardener that I had cut off all his grafts!"英文原著 · 《Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum》
"Nature's Confectioner, the BEE, Whose suckers are moist ALCHYMIE, The still of his refining Mould, Minting the garden into gold." Cleveland's POEMS, ed. 1669, p.英文原著 · 《Lucasta》