While

(noun.) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; 'he was here for a little while'; 'I need to rest for a piece'; 'a spell of good weather'; 'a patch of bad weather'.

手打:普里西拉

• I have something beyond this, but I will call it a defect, not an endowment, if it leads me to misery, while ye are happy. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He made that brief reply warmly, dropping his hand on the table while he spoke, and turning towards us again. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• For a short while the world outside of Menlo Park held Edison's claims in derision. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Or her taste for peculiar people, put in Mrs. Archer in a dry tone, while her eyes dwelt innocently on her son's. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The next morning after the capture of Petersburg, I telegraphed Mr. Lincoln asking him to ride out there and see me, while I would await his arrival. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Miss Kate took out her sketch again, and Margaret watched her, while Mr. Brooke lay on the grass with a book, which he did not read. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• While there's a handful of fire or a mouthful of bed in this present roof, you're fully welcome to your share on it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• However, he told us between-whiles that he was doing it to such an extent that he wondered his hair didn't turn grey. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He finds time to look in between-whiles, when anybody else with half his work to do would be thinking about not being able to come. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• This the landlady of the Break of Day chirpingly explained, calling between whiles, 'Hola, my husband! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• There ought to have been some guardian, or such-like, whiles you was a minor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It died away into profound stillness between whiles. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• We spoke in whispers; listening, between whiles, for any sound in the room above. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He held her clasped in his left arm, and between whiles her low voice was heard tenderly imploring him to go away with her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Beyond this it was no more successful than the other experiments with which the winter was whiled away. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The time was whiled away pleasantly enough at Matamoras, while we were waiting for volunteers. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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