Crocker talked to him by the hour of its delights. And Ellicott's chair! Yes, he could get rid of that. And Sue? Sue would wait--she had promised him she would; no, there was no doubt about Sue! She would love him all the better if he fought his battle alone. Only the day before she had told him of the wonderful feats of the White Knight, that the new English poet had just written about and that everybody in Kennedy Square was now reading. Above all there was the delight of another sensation --the sensation of a new move.英文原著 · 《The Fortunes of Oliver Horn》
"I was yesterday at our friend Z. Z----'s public lecture. I wonder how it is our alma mater -- don't speak of it after dark -- dare display in public such noodles and patent dullards as that Z. Z---- Why, he is a European fool! Upon my word, you could not find another like him all over Europe! He lectures -- can you imagine? -- as though he were sucking a sugar-stick -- sue, sue, sue; . he is in a nervous funk; he can hardly decipher his own manuscript; his poor little thoughts crawl along like a bishop on a bicycle, and, what's worse, you can never make out what he is trying to say.英文原著 · 《The Wife and Other Stories》
200 lb. potatoes boiled, and skinned and mashed ... 0 8 0 2 gallons of milk ... 0 2 4 12 lb. of suet, at 4 1/2 ... 0 4 6 1 peck of flour ... 0 4 0 Baking ... 0 1 8 --------- Expense 1 0 6 --------- Their ordinary suet pudding had been made thus:英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
2 bushels of flour ... 1 12 0 12 lb. suet ... 0 4 6 Baking ... 0 1 8 --------- Expense 1 18 2 Cost of the ingredients for the potatoes suet pudding ... 1 0 6 --------- Difference 0 17 8 ---------英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
Osgood and I are "going for" the puppy G---- on infringement of trademark. To win one or two suits of this kind will set literary folks on a firmer bottom. I wish Osgood would sue for stealing Holmes's poem. Wouldn't it be gorgeous to sue R---- for petty larceny? I will promise to go into court and swear I think him capable of stealing pea-nuts from a blind pedlar. Yrs ever, CLEMENS.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 2》
"'Mein Gott,' says he, 'you vas right. Ein halberdier have not got der right to dish up soup. Him I vill not discharge. Have anoder waiter if you like, und let mein halberdier go back und stand mit his halberd. But, gentlemen,' he says, pointing to the old man, 'you go ahead and sue mit der dress. Sue me for $600 or $6,000. I stand der suit.' And the boss puffs off down-stairs. Old Brockmann was an all-right Dutchman.英文原著 · 《Roads of Destiny》