Engagements

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• Chance set me free of my London engagements to-day sooner than I had expected, and I have got here, in consequence, earlier than my appointed time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• He has many friends, and is at a time of life when friends and engagements are continually increasing. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
• Our total loss (not including Burnside's) in all these engagements amounted to 757 killed, 4,529 wounded and 330 missing. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• Had Canby been in other engagements afterwards, he would, I have no doubt, have advanced without any fear arising from a sense of the responsibility. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• Twice was his card found on the table, when they returned from their morning's engagements. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
• Ordinary people might have hesitated before setting aside their own engagements to suit the convenience of a stranger. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• A better army, man for man, probably never faced an enemy than the one commanded by General Taylor in the earliest two engagements of the Mexican war. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• At other times my engagements used to be with him to go over his business affairs at Menlo Park at night, if I was occupied in New York during the day. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• The former left them soon after tea to fulfill her evening engagements; and Elinor was obliged to assist in making a whist table for the others. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
• While I can have my mornings to myself, said she, it is enough--I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
• Sir Thomas, drawing back from intimacies in general, was particularly disinclined, at this time, for any engagements but in one quarter. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
• Sherman's loss in these last engagements in killed, wounded, and missing, was about sixteen hundred. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• Harriet, necessarily drawn away by her engagements with the Martins, was less and less at Hartfield; which was not to be regretted. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
• What engagements? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• All the engagements fought ought to have served to encourage the enemy. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• I wasn't made for long engagements. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• His professional engagements did not allow of his being put off, but both father and daughter were disturbed by its happening so. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
• Their other engagements were few, as the style of living in the neighbourhood in general was beyond Mr. Collins's reach. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
• I don't know what Mr. Tulkinghorn's engagements may be. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• These amazing engagements of minewhat have they been? 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
• I had been in all the engagements in Mexico that it was possible for one person to be in; but not in command. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• You forget, sir, previous engagements into which Captain Osborne had entered, the ambassador said, gravely. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• I know your engagements, said he, and I know you are out of sorts, Mr. Pip. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• I was in two engagements, and distinguished myself in each, Alvanly replied. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
• In Europe people don't understand our long American engagements; I suppose they are not as calm as we are. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• His own engagements had not allowed him leisure time to undertake the errand, and he had most kindly suggested that it should be transferred to me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You're awfully good, dear, but I never interfere with Mr. Selden's engagements. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• He was gallantly leading his brigade at the time, as he had been in the habit of doing in all the engagements in which he had previously been engaged. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• My engagements at present, replied Willoughby, confusedly, are of such a naturethatI dare not flatter myself He stopt. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
• What were Mr. Thornton's engagements? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.

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