Suddenly the dragoman wheeled and made demoniac signs. Coleman half-turned to survey the main body, and then paid his attention swiftly to the front. The white road sped to the top of a hill where it seemed to make a rotund swing into oblivion. The top of the curve was framed in foliage, and therein was a horseman. He had his carbine slanted on his thigh, and his bridle-reins taut. Upon sight of them he immediately wheeled and galloped down the other slope and vanished.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
The sun was high up and beginning to bite. The swift breeze seemed to Edna to bury the sting of it into the pores of her face and hands. Robert held his umbrella over her. As they went cutting sidewise through the water, the sails bellied taut, with the wind filling and overflowing them. Old Monsieur Farival laughed sardonically at something as he looked at the sails, and Beaudelet swore at the old man under his breath.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
The thick rope tautens as the firemen lay their weight to it. You can almost see the bristling fibers stand up on it.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
"Keep me! wha's this of it?" she cried, and then, "God's truth, it's the tautit laddie!"英文原著 · 《Catriona》
Maggie looked on at the three men, her girlish figure taut and hardly breathing. "Didn't know you were in New York," said Barney. "Well, here I am all right," returned Larry with his menacing cheerfulness. By now Barney had recovered from his first surprise. He felt it time to assert his supremacy. "How do you come to be here with Maggie?" he demanded abruptly. "Happened to catch sight of her on the street to-day. Trailed her here to the Grantham, and to-night I just dropped in."
Barney's tone grew more authoritative, more ugly.英文原著 · 《Children of the Whirlwind》
le Docteur Tautain, "Notes sur les Croyances et Pratiques Religieuses des Banmanas", "Revue d'Ethnographie", III. (1885), pages 396 sq.; A. Rancon, "Dans la Haute-Gambie, Voyage d'Exploration Scientifique" (Paris, 1894), page 445.)英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Have you ever touched the smooth, taut skin of a 48-year-old woman?美剧 · 《Modern Family》