7.One of the great secrets of England's success with savage races has been her consideration, her respect, her almost reverence of native customs, ceremonies, and potentates.
8.The current Tom Thumb being an 'Arab' potentate who had lived at a Strand hotel for a fortnight, and had disappeared without the formality of paying his bill.
现任 Tom Thumb 是一位“阿拉伯”君主,他曾在 Strand 一家酒店周,并且在没有正式支付账单情况下失踪。机翻
9.You do not know, you do not feel, that in your own distracted heart and disordered brain dwells the source of that unhappiness which all the potentates on earth cannot relieve.
10.But when it transpired that a gift of peculiar significance was to follow the congratulations, to give them weight, the inference prevailed that the white potentate and the black had taken simultaneous leave of their fourteen senses.
11.And there he fell in with a deep, dark, deadly, and destructive war, waged by the princes and potentates of those parts, both spiritual and temporal, against what do you think? One thing I am sure of.
12.Now, Phoebe's presence made a home about her, —that very sphere which the outcast, the prisoner, the potentate, —the wretch beneath mankind, the wretch aside from it, or the wretch above it, —instinctively pines after, —a home!
13.Apart from this, it would doubtless be an interesting interview. He had met many peculiar potentates in his time; he took a detached interest in them, and was shrewd as a rule in his assessments.