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Poor Mrs Atheling, sitting petrified in her husband’s easy-chair, did not know how the coin was being disposed of.
Từ trong câu: petrified, poor, mr, sit, easy, chair, know, coin
Mrs. Oliphant, The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Uncertainty in business conditions was producing a logical letup in advertising, and the boycott was borrowing impetus from this tendency.
Từ trong câu: logical, advertising, uncertainty, business, condition, produce, advertise, borrow
Samuel Hopkins Adams, Common Cause: A Novel of the War in America - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He came up and saw that they were watching a school of dolphins that were keeping ahead of the yacht.
Từ trong câu: dolphin, come, up, saw, watch, school, keep, ahead
Oric Bates, A Madcap Cruise - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He tried to escape, and said with a smile that he was being compromised, that he was a serious man.
Từ trong câu: compromised, try, escape, smile, compromise, serious, man
Émile Zola, The Rush for the Spoil (La Curée): A Realistic Novel - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were more and more in touch with the ideas of the Western world, and were broadening themselves through travel.
Từ trong câu: broaden, touch, idea, western, world, themselves, travel
Margaret Sanger, Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Clorinde imagined that it was all a mere caprice, a whim born of the boredom in which he was struggling.
Từ trong câu: boredom, imagine, mere, bear, struggle
Émile Zola, His Excellency [Son Exc. Eugène Rougon] - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Bankipore was suffering from one of the long droughts that have ever been the blight of this section of India.
Từ trong câu: blight, suffer, long, drought, ever, section
Harry Alverson Franck, A Vagabond Journey Around the World: A Narrative of Personal Experience - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But she was thinking how difficult it would be to describe him adequately in a letter to Miss Arabella Tiddle.
Từ trong câu: adequately, think, difficult, describe, letter, miss
Horace Annesley Vachell, Whitewash - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Even the lawmakers were looking for him; but he didn't go--and the result was what might have been expected.
Từ trong câu: lawmaker, even, look, go, result, expect
William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast: Volume 12 - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While the needful discussion was going on, Bergan looked around him, the better to understand the topography of the place.
Từ trong câu: topography, discussion, go, look, around, better, understand, place
W. M. L. Jay, Holden with the Cords - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The other members of the class were working spasmodically but they had not tied themselves down to such gruelling work.
Từ trong câu: gruelling, member, class, work, tie, themselves, down
Edward G. Cheyney, Scott Burton, Forester - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Round the carts stood wet horses, hanging their heads, and men were walking about with their heads covered with sacks.
Từ trong câu: sack, round, cart, stand, wet, horse, hang, head
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A third was parching some corn found in a thrown-away feed box, and congratulating themselves upon the lucky find.
Từ trong câu: congratulate, third, corn, find, throw, away, feed, box
John McElroy, Si Klegg, Complete, Books 1-6 - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
"The system was far from tops, so there was no way I was going to call it that," Stallman recalls.
Từ trong câu: system, far, top, way, go, call, recall
Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software - Tiếng Anh - en-US, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
Wired magazine, a funky, new publication offering stories on data encryption, Usenet, and software freedom, was flying off magazine racks.
Từ trong câu: wire, magazine, funky, new, publication, offer, story, data
Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software - Tiếng Anh - en-US, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
You had on a cloak and a low broad-brimmed hat, and were dodging in and out of the trees."
Từ trong câu: brim, cloak, low, broad, hat, out, tree
Henry, Mrs. Wood, Anne Hereford: A Novel - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She held a great pan filled with water in her lap, in which the onions were bobbing up and down.
Từ trong câu: lap, onion, hold, great, pan, fill, water, up
Carolyn Wells, Eight Girls and a Dog - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But seeing that he was going beyond his authority, he made it a point that the terms were only conditional.
Từ trong câu: conditional, see, go, beyond, authority, make, point, term
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 6. - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
And with a supreme effort he wrenched himself free from a sort of paralysis which was stealing away his senses.
Từ trong câu: paralysis, wrench, effort, himself, free, sort, steal, away
David Belasco, The Girl of the Golden West - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Ostensibly, they were paying for sham "consultancy services".
Từ trong câu: ostensibly, pay, consultancy, service
Samuel Vaknin, Crime and Corruption - Tiếng Anh, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
The frost had not given, and wild-life, hunger-nipped, was getting over the first paralysing fear of making tracks.
Từ trong câu: frost, paralyse, give, wild, life, hunger, get, first
Ashton Hilliers, The Master-Girl - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Living in economical obscurity nearly half the year round, her appearances at the palace were becoming more and more infrequent.
Từ trong câu: economical, live, nearly, half, year, round, appearance, palace
Ronald Firbank, The flower beneath the foot - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was coming on presently from the opera.
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Chauvelin, who was trying to conceal his impatience beneath his usual urbane manner, took a quick look at his watch.
Từ trong câu: conceal, try, beneath, usual, manner, take, quick, look
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was going along at a slow jog trot, and her driver had to give her long and frequent halts.
Từ trong câu: frequent, driver, jog, slow, go, give, long
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In short, Marshal MacMahon felt that the floodgates of revolution were being opened, and forthwith knocked down the lock-keeper.
Từ trong câu: floodgates, short, feel, revolution, open, knock, down, lock
H. M. Hyndman, Clemenceau, the Man and His Time - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Women were now willing to fit themselves for life independently of marriage, and for this end were seeking intellectual development.
Từ trong câu: independently, intellectual, woman, now, will, fit, themselves, life
Elizabeth Raikes, Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
On the third day, when we were sailing offshore in a light breeze, my sister came to me in tears.
Từ trong câu: offshore, third, day, sail, light, breeze, sister, come
William Bowen, Solario the Tailor: His Tales of the Magic Doublet - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“I was looking forward rather dismally to a midnight packing; O’Neill wants to get off quite early in the morning.”
Từ trong câu: dismally, look, forward, rather, midnight, pack, want, get
Mary Grant Bruce, Jim and Wally - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He lay still, almost motionless; but every word he uttered, every look and every gesture betrayed what was passing within.
Từ trong câu: motionless, lay, still, almost, every, word, utter, look
M. T. H. Perelaer, Baboe Dalima; or, The Opium Fiend - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US