To save three-quarters, count sixty. To save it all, count sixty-five. --Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. The Thug said:
"How many of you English are passionately devoted to sporting! Your days and months are passed in its excitement. A tiger, a panther, a buffalo or a hog rouses your utmost energies for its destruction--you even risk your lives in its pursuit. How much higher game is a Thug's!"
That must really be the secret of the rise and development of Thuggee. The joy of killing!英文原著 · 《Following the Equator》
I wouldn't be a thug, not even if--but never mind about that, it has nothing to do with the argument, and it is not noble in spirit besides. If I am better than a thug, is the merit mine? No, it is His. Then to Him be the praise. That is the right spirit. They "presume" the lad severed his "presumed" connection with the Stratford school to become apprentice to a butcher. They also "presume" that the butcher was his father. They don't know.英文原著 · 《Is Shakespeare Dead》
[7] See Plut. "Ages." xix. (Clough, iv. 23); the words {e thugater autou} were supplied from this passage by Casaubon.英文原著 · 《Agesilaus》
The English trader did business in India two hundred years and more before he ever heard of it; and yet it was assassinating its thousands all around him every year, the whole time. CHAPTER XLIV. The old saw says, "Let a sleeping dog lie." Right.... Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it. --Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. FROM DIARY:
January 28. I learned of an official Thug-book the other day. I was not aware before that there was such a thing.英文原著 · 《Following the Equator》
It is a curious people. With them, all life seems to be sacred except human life. Even the life of vermin is sacred, and must not be taken. The good Jain wipes off a seat before using it, lest he cause the death of-some valueless insect by sitting down on it. It grieves him to have to drink water, because the provisions in his stomach may not agree with the microbes. Yet India invented Thuggery and the Suttee. India is a hard country to understand. We went to the temple of the Thug goddess, Bhowanee, or Kali, or Durga.英文原著 · 《Following the Equator》
The way to temptation is declared closed by Act of Parliament and by amendment to the constitution of the United States. Yet oddly enough the moral tone of the world fails to respond. The world is apparently more full of thugs, hold-up men, yeg-men, bandits, motor-thieves, porchclimbers, spotters, spies and crooked policemen than it ever was; till it almost seems that the slow, old-fashioned method of an effort of the individual soul may be needed still before the world is made good.英文原著 · 《My Discovery of England》
with Hollander and his thugs. Or should I say your thugs?美剧 · 《Lie to me》
You know what? Papi was right Once a thug, always a thug美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》
Um, an hour ago, your little thug friend here threatened to cut me so deep, I'd have a vagina.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
She will be winning if I didn't have two from a poor white hell billy thuggery.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》