'O women! O women! Good wives if ye be, Go, send for King Henrie, And bring him to me.'
King Henrie was sent for, He came with all speed, In a gownd of green velvet From heel to the head. 'King Henrie! King Henrie! If kind Henrie you be, Send for a surgeon, And bring him to me.'
The surgeon was sent for, He came with all speed, In a gownd of black velvet From heel to the head. He gave her rich caudle, But the death-sleep slept she. Then her right side was opened, And the babe was set free.英文原著 · 《Ancient Poems》
Then Nan got a-tremble at nostril; she was the daintiest doe; In the print of her velvet flank on the velvet fern She reared, and rounded her ears in turn. Then the buck leapt up, and his head as a king's to a crown did go英文原著 · 《Select Poems of Sidney Lanier》
But Symon still said nothing. He was standing as still as a statue, and looking steadily at the black velvet behind the glass screen. He was looking at the black velvet because there was nothing else to look at. Paul's Penny was gone.英文原著 · 《The Man Who Knew Too Much》
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: (Half opening his gown, showing a pair of tight red velvet breeches, and a green velvet vest, that he is wearing) Here again is a sort of lounging dress to perform my morning exercises in.英文原著 · 《The Middle Class Gentleman》
He stumbled and went with difficulty. He could go no further among these rocks and ravines, and he sat down at the foot of a tree to wait for day. He sat very still indeed. A great stillness came over the world, a velvet silence that wrapped about him, as the velvet shadows wrapped about him. The corncrakes had ceased, all the sounds and stir of animal life had died away, the breeze had fallen. A drowsing comfort took possession of him. He grew more placid and more placid still. He was enormously content to find that fear had fled before him and was gone.英文原著 · 《The Research Magnificent》
Flowers - Deep yellow, 1/2 to 3/4 in. broad, 5-parted, regular, solitary on stout peduncles from the leaf axils. Stem: 3 to 6 ft. high, velvety, branched. Leaves: Soft velvety, heart-shaped, the lobes rounded, long petioled. Fruit: In a head about 1 in. across, 12 to 15 erect hairy carpels, with spreading sharp beaks. Preferred Habitat - Escaped from cultivation to waste sandy loam, fields, roadsides.英文原著 · 《WILD FLOWERS》
They've totally underestimated the price point on those red velvet cupcakes.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
And we can put our red velvets over there by the random skull fragments.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Taking cues from artists like The Doors and The Velvet Underground, Taking cues from artists like The Doors and The Velvet Underground,演讲 · 《A brief history of goths ~ Dan Adams》