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She no longer felt the keen air, but was sinking into a pleasant lethargy.
Từ trong câu: lethargy, long, feel, keen, air, sink, pleasant
Margaret Penrose, Dorothy Dale's Promise · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
We were just admiring these marvellous flowers, which will surprise her when she reappears."
Từ trong câu: marvellous, admire, flower, surprise
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
He felt that Miss Blenker was losing interest in him, though her smile persisted.
Từ trong câu: lose, feel, miss, interest, though, smile
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
He became aware that Mr. Jackson was clearing his throat preparatory to farther revelations.
Từ trong câu: throat, farther, become, aware, mr, clear, far
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
Archer checked the conventional phrases of self-accusal that were crowding to his lips.
Từ trong câu: conventional, crowd, check, phrase, self, lip
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
At length he saw that Madame Olenska had risen and was saying good-bye.
Từ trong câu: rise, length, saw, madame, say, good, bye
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
In the tops of the pine-tree the sparrows were emitting heart-rending cries.
Từ trong câu: sparrow, emit, top, pine, tree, heart, cry
Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Triumph of Death · Bản dịch tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
He was making a chimney of his hand to let the match light thoroughly.
Từ trong câu: chimney, make, hand, let, match, light, thoroughly
Various, The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science · Tiếng Anh · PD-US
Fitzgerald was singing a song and waving an empty mess-tin over his head.
Từ trong câu: mess, sing, song, wave, empty, tin, head
Patrick, 1890?-1963 MacGill, The Brown Brethren · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
Slowly the demon was working his will, and cold and weariness were his helpers.
Từ trong câu: working, slowly, work, cold
George Eliot, Silas Marner · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
A red-headed calf was observing her with alarmed doubt through the opposite hedge.
Từ trong câu: through, calf, observe, hedge, opposite, red, head, alarm
George Eliot, Silas Marner · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
Dunstan was waiting for this, and took his ale in shorter draughts than usual.
Từ trong câu: usual, wait, take, short, draft
George Eliot, Silas Marner · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
As if they were going to make practical men give in to such humbugs!"
Từ trong câu: humbug, go, make, practical, man, give
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
A young native in the uniform of Gook and Son was bending over me.
Từ trong câu: gook, young, native, uniform, son, bend
Harry Alverson Franck, A Vagabond Journey Around the World: A Narrative of Personal Experience · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
“Gee, I wish we were staying on while you are here,” Bob said cordially.
E. J. Craine, Airplane Boys Discover the Secrets of Cuzco · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
By the end of his first semester at Brandeis, things were falling into place.
Từ trong câu: semester, end, first, thing, fall, place
Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software · Tiếng Anh · en-US · Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details.
Such laziness, while admirable from an efficiency perspective, was troubling from a political perspective.
Từ trong câu: laziness, admirable, efficiency, perspective, trouble, political
Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software · Tiếng Anh · en-US · Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details.
To me, I was just starting to appreciate the cynical beauty of my situation.
Từ trong câu: cynical, start, appreciate, beauty, situation
Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software · Tiếng Anh · en-US · Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details.
He was trying at that moment to organise the company into a wedding procession.
Từ trong câu: organise, try, moment, company, wed
George Barr McCutcheon, The Flyers · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
In the passage several men were confabulating in mutters dulled by the intervening door.
Từ trong câu: confabulate, passage, several, man, mutter, dull, intervene, door
Louis Joseph Vance, The Lone Wolf Returns · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
She was tearing at the man's face with her fingernails and kicking him savagely.
Từ trong câu: fingernail, tear, face, kick
Bryce Walton, Freeway · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
All this while I was taking off my clothes: now I too was naked.
Từ trong câu: naked, take, off, clothes, now
Frank Harris, My Life and Loves, Vol. 1 (of 4) · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · PD-US
She was expecting the visit of her old school-fellow, little Suzanne de Tournay.
Từ trong câu: visit, expect, old, school, fellow, little
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
“I didn’t know,” Blakeney was saying jovially, “that you . . . er . . . were in holy orders.”
Từ trong câu: holy, know, say, order
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
Chauvelin, on ahead, jolted and jostled in the Jew’s vehicle, was nursing comfortable thoughts.
Từ trong câu: vehicle, nurse, ahead, comfortable, think
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
Barbara was blushing furiously, although she intended not to allow herself to grow angry.
Từ trong câu: blush, furiously, although, intend, allow, herself, grow, angry
Margaret Vandercook, The Red Cross Girls in the British Trenches · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
Pestalozzi was now working heart and soul at the engineering of this “new road.”
Từ trong câu: engineering, now, work, heart, soul, engineer, new, road
Robert Hebert Quick, Essays on Educational Reformers · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
They were now but twenty paces apart, and the Guerrilla was shortening the distance.
Từ trong câu: guerrilla, now, twenty, pace, apart, shorten, distance
Harrison Trow, Charles W. Quantrell · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
She was enjoying that little flush of exhilaration that comes to a woman, unpacking.
Từ trong câu: exhilaration, enjoy, little, come, woman, unpack
Edna Ferber, So Big · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · PD-US
He was giving idiomatic expression to a simple wish for dignity and self-respect.
Từ trong câu: idiomatic, give, expression, simple, wish, dignity, self, respect
J. Saunders Redding, On Being Negro in America · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US