In an hour's time the doctor returned from his expedition. "There is indeed a conspiracy against you," he said. "I found the captain of dragoons at Grush- nitski's, together with another gentleman whose surname I do not remember. I stopped a moment in the ante-room, in order to take off my goloshes. They were squabbling and making a terrible up- roar. 'On no account will I agree,' Grushnitski was saying: 'he has insulted me publicly; it was quite a different thing before' . "'What does it matter to you?' answered the captain. 'I will take it all upon myself.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
Of Lycophron, the fellow-grammarian and poet of Callimachus, we have nothing left but the Cassandra, a long iambic poem, stuffed with traditionary learning, and so obscure, that it obtained for him the surname of [Greek text: skoteinos] the dark one. I have tried in vain to read it: you, if you will, may do the same.英文原著 · 《Alexandria and her Schools》
Proceeding, he read:
"Ilderim, surnamed the Generous, sheik of the tribe of Ilderim, to the son who succeeds me. "All I have, O son, shall be thine in the day of thy succession, except that property by Antioch known as the Orchard of Palms; and it shall be to the son of Hur who brought us such glory in the Circus--to him and his forever. "Dishonor not thy father. ILDERIM THE GENEROUS, Sheik."
"What say you?" asked Ben-Hur, of Simonides. Esther took the papers pleased, and read them to herself. Simonides remained silent. His eyes were upon the ship; but he was thinking. At length he spoke.英文原著 · 《Ben-Hur》
Hist., lib. 18, cap. 37, etc. CHAPTER LXXXIII. EVENTS AT GRANADA SUBSEQUENT TO THE SUBMISSION OF EL ZAGAL. Who can tell when to rejoice in this fluctuating world? Every wave of prosperity has its reacting surge, and we are often overwhelmed by the very billow on which we thought to be wafted into the haven of our hopes. When Yusef Aben Comixa, the vizier of Boabdil, surnamed El Chico, entered the royal saloon of the Alhambra and announced the capitulation of El Zagal, the heart of the youthful monarch leaped for joy.英文原著 · 《Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada》
Firstly has come before us one Jehan, surnamed Tortebras, a citizen of Tours, keeping by licence the hostelry of La Cigoyne, situated on the Place du Pont, and who has sworn by the salvation of his soul, his hand upon the holy Evangelists, to state no other thing than that which by himself hath been seen and heard.英文原著 · 《Droll Stories-2》