At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor.
With the dogs falling, Mercedes weeping and riding, Hal swearing innocuously, and Charles's eyes wistfully watering, they staggered into John Thornton's camp at the mouth of White River.
She had a plaintive way of saying, " When Papa was rich we did so–and–so, " which was very touching, and her long words were considered 'perfectly elegant' by the girls.
In the distance a deep sound that had been audible for some moments identified itself by a plaintive mooing like that of a gigantic cow and by the pearly spot of a headlight apparent half a mile away.
She had a plaintive way of saying, " When Papa was rich we did so-and-so, " which was very touching, and her long words were considered 'perfectly elegant' by the girls.
'If all men were to act as you advise, ' commented Shubin with a plaintive expression, 'none on earth would eat pine-apples; every one would be offering them to other people'.
Her low almost harsh voice rose a few notes, simulating a plaintive coquetry: " Say: 'Ickle durl, oo is de pwettiest sing'. What do you think you say" ?
她低沉几乎刺耳的声音提高了几个音符, 模仿哀怨的撒娇:“说:'Ickle durl, oo is de pwettiest sing'。你觉得你说的是什么” ?
To their ears came the sounds of dogs wrangling and scuffling, the guttural cries of men, the sharper voices of scolding women, and once the shrill and plaintive cry of a child.