Next moment they quietly eyed each other, as if they, the principals, had had no part in that expressive transaction. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
We may place our men, then, I think,' observed the officer, with as much indifference as if the principals were chess-men, and the seconds players. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.