Then they stood on the bank shivering, and so chagrined and so grieved, that they merited holiest compassion. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Her honest ostentatious nature made the sharing of a merited dishonor as bitter as it could be to any mortal. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
But he may have merited it. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
Excuse me, my Lady, Sir Leicester considerately interposes, but perhaps this may be doing an injury to the young woman which she has not merited. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
His complexion was white with agitation, and he looked as if fearful of his reception, and conscious that he merited no kind one. 简·奥斯汀.理智与情感.
Paul would not stand any prolonged experience of this sort of dialogue I knew; but he certainly merited a sample of the curt and arid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
I should say she merited the distinction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
I merited severity; he looked indulgence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
If it were a sceptre, he has merited it, and would become it. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
She wished him all the happiness which he merited out of his ill-gotten gains. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
You may have done wrong with regard to Mr. Dixon, but this is a punishment beyond what you can have merited! 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
I will give the hoary bigot no advantage over me; and for Rebecca, she hath not merited at my hand that I should expose rank and honour for her sake. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
For, though your accusations were ill-founded, formed on mistaken premises, my behaviour to you at the time had merited the severest reproof. 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
Andrea del Sarto glorified his princes in pictures that must save them for ever from the oblivion they merited, and they let him starve. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
The busy little dressmaker quickly snipped the shirt away, and laid bare the results of as furious and sound a thrashing as even Mr Fledgeby merited. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
A compliment, said the Marquis, to the grandeur of the family, merited by the manner in which the family has sustained its grandeur. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.