On scrutiny they proved to be French compositions, written in a hand peculiar but compact, and exquisitely clean and clear. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
And again: Nothing can be more perfectly and beautifully adapted to its object than most of the moral compositions of Dr. Franklin. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
But he fed that furnace and he melted his different compositions. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
She kept his copy-books, his drawings, and compositions, and showed them about in her little circle as if they were miracles of genius. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Inventions in the field of medicine consist chiefly in those innumerable compositions and compounds which have resulted from chemical discoveries. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
We have in vain pored over the leaves of Mr. Pickwick's note-book, in the hope of meeting with a general summary of these beautiful compositions. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
He turned his attention afterwards to music; and it was in his attempts to devise some means of printing his compositions economically that he chanced to discover the art of Lithography. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
Some of the later books are frankly post-captivity compositions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
One of the most interesting and informing of these prehistoric compositions of the Aryans survives in the Greek _Iliad_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Many substitutes in the form of compositions of various ingredients have been devised and patented, but no real substitute for nature’s product has yet been found. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
The soul, I said, being, as is now proven, immortal, must be the fairest of compositions and cannot be compounded of many elements? 柏拉图.理想国.
It is true, that such slight compositions might not suit the severer genius of our friend Mr Oldbuck. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.