"Where could we find a better? Unless, perhaps--" she glanced at her husband. "Where indeed!" the Professor fervently responded, quite failing to take the hint. The Vice-Warden resumed the thread of his discourse. "The reason I mentioned it, Professor, was to ask you to be so kind as to preside at the Election. You see it would make the thing respectable--no suspicion of anything, underhand--"
"I fear I ca'n't, your Excellency!" the old man faltered. "What will the Warden--"
"True, true!" the Vice-Warden interrupted. "Your position, as Court-Professor, makes it awkward, I admit.英文原著 · 《Sylvie and Bruno》
I can go heavily veiled. I don't think that the warden knows my father. He may. Anyhow, he doesn't know me; and he wouldn't tell on me if he did if I talked to him."
Her confidence in her charms, her personality, her earthly privileges was quite anarchistic. Cowperwood shook his head. "Honey, you're about the best and the worst there is when it comes to a woman," he observed, affectionately, pulling her head down to kiss her, "but you'll have to listen to me just the same. I have a lawyer, Steger--you know him. He's going to take up this matter with the warden out there--is doing it today.英文原著 · 《The Financier》
"The Children in the Wood" was entered in the books of the Stationers' Company on the 15th of October 1595 to Thomas Millington as, "for his Copie vnder th[e h]andes of bothe the wardens a ballad intituled, The Norfolk gent his will and Testament and how he Commytted the keepinge of his Children to his owne brother whoe delte moste wickedly with them and howe God plagued him for it." It was printed as a black-letter ballad in 167O. Addison wrote a paper on it in "The Spectator" (No. 85), praising it as "one of the darling songs of the common people."英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"By rights, Culross," said the warden, "I should not give this letter to you. It isn't the sort we approve of. But you're in for a good spell, and if there is anything that can make life seem more tolerable, I don't know but you're entitled to it. At least, I'm not the man to deny it to you."英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
"I return your letter," he wrote, without superscription, "and thank you for your anxiety about me. But the truth is, I had forgotten all about you in my trouble. You were not in the least to blame for what hap- pened. I might have known I would come to such an end. You thought I was good, of course; but it is not easy to find out the life of a young man. It is rather mortifying to have a private letter sent here, because the warden reads them all. I hope you will enjoy yourself this winter, and hasten to forget one who had certainly forgotten you till reminded by your letter, which I return.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Thou thyself hast sought the battlefield; fight out the battle manfully now thou art there. Courage, bishop, courage! Frowns cannot kill, nor can sharp words break any bones. After all the apron is thine own. She can appoint no wardens, give away no benefices, nominate no chaplains, an' thou art but true to thyself. Up, man, and at her with a constant heart. Some little monitor within the bishop's breast so addressed him. But then there was another monitor there which advised him differently, and as follows.英文原著 · 《Barchester Towers》
Reading between the lines of that story, I think the warden-- Warden's been fired.美剧 · 《Billions》
I told you, you go to the warden-- I'm not going to the warden. I went to Sean Cahill.美剧 · 《Suits》