I hope my heart's big enough to hold them all." She remembered then that they could not understand half she was saying, and appealed to Viney. Viney liked Grant. "Viney, you tell me. Grant no come Hartley, no drunk, no yell, no catchum you dog, no ride in Hagar's wikiup? You tell me, Viney."
Viney and Lucy bobbed their heads rapidly up and down. Viney, with a sidelong glance at Hagar, spoke softly. "Good Injun Grant, mebbyso home Hartley," she admitted reluctantly, as if she would have been pleased to prove Hagar a liar in all things. "Me thinkum no drunk.英文原著 · 《Good Indian》
Yelping, snapping curs, both of you." He played the dog as a fisherman plays a trout. "That dog, him Viney dog. Viney heap likum. You no killum, Good Injun." The Indian, his arms folded in his blanket, stood upon the porch watching calmly the fun. "Viney all time heap mad, you killum," he added indifferently. "Sure it isn't old Hagar's?"
"No b'long-um Hagar--b'long-um Viney. Viney heap likum."
Grant hesitated, circling erratically with his victim close to the steps. "All right, no killum--teachum lesson, though.英文原著 · 《Good Indian》
Viney! I brought back your dog," he drawled. "He tried to bite me--heap kay bueno* dog. Mebbyso you killum. Me no hurtum--all time him Hartley, all time him try hard bite me. Sleeping Turtle tell me him Viney dog. he likum Viney, me no kill Viney dog. You all time mebbyso eat that dog--sabe?英文原著 · 《Good Indian》
They require no support. But the vine entwines about the trellis, and thus climbs heavenward. So Christ in His humanity was
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dependent upon divine power. "I can of Mine own self do nothing," He declared. John 5:30. "I am the true Vine." The Jews had always regarded the vine as the most noble of plants, and a type of all that was powerful, excellent, and fruitful. Israel had been represented as a vine which God had planted in the Promised Land. The Jews based their hope of salvation on the fact of their connection with Israel.英文原著 · 《The Desire of Ages》
But the heavenly Husbandman never lost sight of His plant. After men thought they had killed it, He took it, and replanted it on the other side of the wall. The vine stock was to be no longer visible. It was hidden from the rude assaults of men. But the branches of the Vine hung over the wall. They were to represent the Vine. Through them grafts might still be united to the Vine. From them fruit has been obtained.英文原著 · 《The Desire of Ages》
Below the Town of the Grape Vines, which shortens to Las Uvas for common use, the land dips away to the river pastures and the tulares. It shrouds under a twilight thicket of vines, under a dome of cottonwood-trees, drowsy and murmurous as a hive. Hereabouts are some strips of tillage and the headgates that dam up the creek for the village weirs; upstream you catch the growl of the arrastra. Wild vines that begin among the willows lap over to the orchard rows, take the trellis and roof-tree.英文原著 · 《The Land of Little Rain》
The jets are on the ground, the choppers are in the hangar, And the residences, Hamptons, the city apartment, Aspen, miami, the vineyard, all empty.美剧 · 《Billions》
I mean, the place has got a gym, a library, vending machines with candy bars, salt 'n vinegar chips, and soda pop.美剧 · 《Billions》
But then that summer when her mom got sick, like really sick, and all her cool friends were off vacationing in Martha's Vineyard, - I was there for her. - Why?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》