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The screw was turning noisily; the vessel throbbed with the labour of the engines; but she was at a standstill.
Từ trong câu: standstill, screw, turn, noisily, vessel, labor, engine
Norman Duncan, The Adventures of Billy Topsail - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But the prestige of legitimacy was wanting; and that want has been the downfall of everything that has been tried.
Từ trong câu: downfall, prestige, want, everything, try
Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 65, No. 400, February, 1849 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The speech was wanting in dignity, and a pacific attitude should be more dignified; it was drawn up by Guizot.
Từ trong câu: dignify, pacific, speech, want, dignity, attitude, draw, up
Dorothée, duchesse de Dino, Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The rate at which the piano, cornet and violins were going, seemed to impart wildness to the half-drunken crowd.
Từ trong câu: piano, cornet, rate, violin, go, seem, half, crowd
Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
She was searching the place with her eyes.
Từ trong câu: search, place, eye
Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Women and men were holding up their babies, all done up in queer tight bandages, that they too might see.
Từ trong câu: queer, bandage, woman, man, hold, up, baby, tight
Various, Strange Teas, Dinners, Weddings and Fetes - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
“I was passing your door when I saw it on the cushion, so I went in to look at it.”
Từ trong câu: cushion, door, pass, saw, go, look
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She was suspicious of Anne’s big words and dramatic gestures and imagined that the child was making fun of her.
Từ trong câu: suspicious, gesture, dramatic, big, word, imagine, child, make
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The yard was quite dark as they turned into it and the poplar leaves were rustling silkily all round it.
Từ trong câu: turn, leaf, quite, yard, round, dark
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I was reading it at dinner hour, and I had just got to the chariot race when school went in.
Từ trong câu: race, chariot, read, dinner, hour, get, school, go
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“Dear, dear,” she exclaimed, “you’re the last folks I was looking for today, but I’m real glad to see you.
Từ trong câu: folk, dear, last, look, today, real, glad, see
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The men were complaining that their wages and prize money had not been paid, and were in a mutinous condition.
Từ trong câu: mutinous, man, complain, wage, prize, money, paid, condition
John S., 1836-1911 [Editor] Barnes, The logs of the Serapis--Alliance--Ariel, under the command of John Paul Jones, 1779-1780 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
At the time of the catastrophe he was standing in the compartment immediately under the base of the conning-tower.
Từ trong câu: catastrophe, con, time, stand, compartment, immediately, base, tower
Percy F. Westerman, The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge, April 1918 - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The world did not move in those days; it rested on three great whales which were swimming in the ocean.
Từ trong câu: whale, world, move, day, rest, great, swim, ocean
Louise Seymour Houghton, The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
By the second and third centuries A.D. the overtaxed and overstrained imperial machine was already staggering towards its downfall.
Từ trong câu: staggering, downfall, second, third, century, have, machine, already
H. G. Wells, The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
The disease went on undiminished, and it became necessary to inform him that his life was drawing to an end.
Từ trong câu: disease, drawing, go, become, necessary, inform, life, draw
Various, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXIX., October, 1852 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At the other end of the table grandmother was sitting, and I next to her, for I was "Grandma's boy."
Từ trong câu: grandmother, end, table, sit, next, boy
N. P. Gravengaard, A Christmas Gift to the American Home and the Youth of America - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The landscape was undulating, with great valleys well supplied with groves, the whole forming a panoramic view of unsurpassed elegance.
Từ trong câu: panoramic, unsurpassed, landscape, great, valley, well, supply, whole
Thomas W. Silloway, The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland and Scotland: A Description of Cities, Cathedrals, Lakes, Mountains, Ruins, and Watering-places. - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was about two o'clock in the morning, also, that Mr. Nicholas Nuttall was wending his way, somewhat; unsteadily, homeward.
Từ trong câu: homeward, o'clock, morning, mr, way, somewhat
B. L. Farjeon, Grif: A Story of Australian Life - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
While Miss Crevey was making these small sales, Jacqueline had time to examine the dragon cup and saucer at leisure.
Từ trong câu: saucer, miss, make, small, sale, time, examine, cup
Beulah Marie Dix, The Turned-About Girls - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was verging upon the close of his fifty-third year of cautious profligacy, clandestine vindictiveness, and strictly-regulated vices.
Từ trong câu: regulate, cautious, strictly, close, fifty, third, year, vice
Various, The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was impossible for the firemen to work well at that height, and the flames were creeping to the air.
Từ trong câu: height, air, impossible, flame, work, well
Various, The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
These trousers were showing the wear and tear of the campaign, and needed pressing badly, being also used for pajamas.
Từ trong câu: pajamas, trousers, show, wear, tear, campaign, need, press
Walter W. Ward, Springfield in the Spanish American War - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While the Chamber was revising the Finance Bill, the Senate had to deal with a question of no less importance.
Từ trong câu: finance, revise, chamber, bill, deal, question, less, importance
Anonymous, The Annual Register 1914 A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad for the Year 1914 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was staying at the "Moonstone" for the hunting, accompanied by a maid, a couple of grooms, and six horses.
Từ trong câu: groom, stay, hunt, accompany, couple, six, horse
L. Allen Harker, Children of the Dear Cotswolds - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
As we were walking together, homeward bound, a little later, I said: "My dear fellow, you've got yourself into trouble.
Từ trong câu: homeward, walk, together, bound, little, late, dear, fellow
Bernard G. Richards, Discourses of Keidansky - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He tried to tell her as tactfully as possible how much harm she was doing by refusing the imperial request.
Từ trong câu: harm, tactfully, try, tell, possible, much, do, refuse
Lyndon Orr, Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 2 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
On one occasion Burr was quite unjustly suspected by Washington of looking over the latter's shoulder while he was writing.
Từ trong câu: unjustly, occasion, quite, suspect, look, shoulder, write
Lyndon Orr, Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 2 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Anne was still sitting there when a shadow fell over the grass and she looked up to see Mrs. Allan.
Từ trong câu: grass, still, sit, shadow, fall, look, up, see
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Several times while they were putting away the horse Anne caught Priscilla looking at her in a furtive, puzzled way.
Từ trong câu: puzzled, several, time, put, away, horse, catch, look
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US