Whether I am a fool or a villain I know not; but this is certain, I am also most deserving of pity -- perhaps more than she. My soul has been spoiled by the world, my imagination is unquiet, my heart insatiate. To me everything is of little moment. I become as easily accus- tomed to grief as to joy, and my life grows emptier day by day. One expedient only is left to me -- travel. "'As soon as I can, I shall set off -- but not to Europe. Heaven forfend! I shall go to America, to Arabia, to India -- perchance I shall die some- where on the way.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
At last she opened the door. " Father," she began at once. There was disclosed an elderly, narrow-faced man seated at a large table and surrounded by manuscripts and books. The sunlight flowing through curtains of Turkey red fell sanguinely upon the bust of dead-eyed Pericles on the mantle. A little clock was ticking, hidden somewhere among the countless leaves of writing, the maps and broad heavy tomes that swarmed upon the table.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
"Of course. He came tome here in Athens. and asked where you were. I told him you were in a peck of trouble. He acted quietly and somewhat queerly,. and said that he would try to look you up. He said you were friends of his. I warned him against trying it.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
No dismal stall escapes his eye, He turns o'er tomes of low degrees, There soiled romanticists may lie, Or Restoration comedies; Each tract that flutters in the breeze For him is charged with hopes and fears, In mouldy novels fancy sees Aldines, Bodonis, Elzevirs.英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
Nat." tome vi., page 284. MILLEPORA, a strong coral with cylindrical branches, of a pink colour, about two inches high, resembling in the form of its orifices M. aspera of Lamarck, 94 and 30, E. Chiloe 43, Tierra del Fuego 53. CORALIUM, 120, Barbary 33 N., Peyssonel in paper read to Royal Society May 1752. ANTIPATHES, 16, Chonos 45. GORGONIA (or an allied form), 160, Abrolhos on the coast of Brazil 18, Captain Beechey informed me of this fact in a letter. Ellis ("Nat.英文原著 · 《Coral Reefs》
From this region, after some difficulty and delay, the parlour- maid produced the W-Z volume of an Encyclopaedia and, in deference to the fact that the demand for it had come from Miss Van Vluyck, laid the ponderous tome before her.英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 2》
Look, uh, things got a bit weird earlier, so I... I want to make sure that we're still on for tomorrow to talk about the time I sneezed on Marisa Tomei.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》