His sons were Benjamin, Joshua, Eliphalet, and William, the latter my grandfather. Grandsons: Eliphalet, William, James, Caleb, Harris, Asa, and John, the last mentioned being my father. END OF FOOTNOTE]
WRY. John Wry emigrated from Yorkshire to Nova Scotia about 1780, and settled in Sackville. He bought from William Maxwell the farm on which the Brunswick House now stands and made his home there. The Maxwells were from New England, and had been in the country some years. John Wry married a Miss Maxwell. The late Christopher Wry of Jolicure was a son of John Wry.英文原著 · 《The Chignecto Isthmus And Its First Settlers》
But rather a busy loving courtier, and a heartless threatening Thraso; a self-wise seeming school-master; a wry-transformed traveller: these, if we saw walk in stage names, which we play naturally, therein were delightful laughter, and teaching delightfulness: as in the other, the tragedies of Buchanan {89} do justly bring forth a divine admiration.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
Within was a scene of eloquent disorder. Drawers had been pulled out, and now stood on end, their contents heaped upon the carpet. Wardrobe doors stood open; empty stud-cases strewed the floor; a clock, tied up in a towel, had been tossed into a chair at the last moment. But a long tin lid protruded from an open cupboard in one corner. And one had only to see Lord Thornaby's wry face behind the lid to guess that it was bent over a somewhat empty tin trunk.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
The director yielded, and drew up the engagement in duplicate. Ashmead then borrowed the music and came back to the inn triumphant. He waved the agreement over his head, then submitted it to her. She glanced at it, made a wry face, and said, "Two months! I never dreamed of such a thing."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
...she will seek comfort in the open arms of the wry stranger at the next table.美剧 · 《Friends》
The Wrysons had way more money than we did, but run away he would, at least once a month and come straight to our place.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
BGM: At the End pt.1 by Wryder ♪ Oh, and when the storms come ♪ ♪ Flooding through the hall ♪ ♪ Rising to the landing ♪ ♪ Tearing pictures from the walls ♪ ♪ The currents pull us underneath ♪ ♪ That bright tide rips us out ♪ ♪ Into a tangled coral reef ♪ ♪ Where we could never drown ♪ ♪ Now that ♪ ♪美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》