Threap: argue back pertinaciously. Throw: space of time. Tine: lose. Tirled: twirled. To-broke: "to" is intensive. Told: counted. Tone: the tone = that one, as the tother = that other; "that" being the old neuter of "the." Tray: surly, unwillingly. Icelandic - thra, obstinate.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"None _to_ the house," said the postman, "only one _from_ it, given me by Monsieur Trudaine. Hardly worth while," he added, twirling the letter in his hand, "to put it into the bag, is it?"英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
A hundred times Edna had pictured Robert's return, and imagined their first meeting. It was usually at her home, whither he had sought her out at once. She always fancied him expressing or betraying in some way his love for her. And here, the reality was that they sat ten feet apart, she at the window, crushing geranium leaves in her hand and smelling them, he twirling around on the piano stool, saying:英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
Saw the deep kindle countless ghostly candles as for mysterious night-festival,--and a luminous billowing under a black sky, and effervescences of fire, and the twirling and crawling of phosphoric foam;--英文原著 · 《Chita-A Memory of Last Island》
CYRANO (starting): Before this rabble?--I?. (He draws himself up, twirls his mustache, and throws back his shoulders): Wait!. .You shall see!英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
"I say that you are as great a fool as the rest. Adieu, friend Derues; go on as you have begun, and I shall be selling your 'sentence' some day"; and dispersing the crowd with a few twirls of her right arm, she passed on, crying--英文原著 · 《Derues》
Oh, I was the sloppy girl in the discotheque, just twirling and twirling美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》