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Danh sách câu dẫn chứng (16.308 câu)
He was holding his watch in his hand, and looking over her shoulder down the hill side, measuring time against distance.
Từ trong câu: hill, distance, watch, shoulder, measure, hold, hand, look
John Galsworthy, Jocelyn - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The wind was sighing a mournful tune in gentle crescendo through the patient olives, whose knotted stems creaked a sad accompaniment.
Từ trong câu: patient, stem, wind, sigh, mournful, tune, gentle, sad
John Galsworthy, Jocelyn - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Fool! when with the touch of her fingers upon his, cold and light though it was, his head was going round!
Từ trong câu: fool, though, touch, finger, cold, light, head, go
John Galsworthy, Jocelyn - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The brown was fading out of his face, he was hollow-eyed, and moved like a man recovering from an illness.
Từ trong câu: fade, illness, recover, brown, out, face, hollow, eye
John Galsworthy, Jocelyn - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Her nerves were on edge, the strain of the situation, whether she would or no, was being forced upon her reason.
Từ trong câu: whether, nerves, nerve, edge, force, situation, strain, reason
John Galsworthy, Jocelyn - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The fences of the farm were going to decay, and everything around seemed to wear an aspect of ruin and dilapidation.
Từ trong câu: decay, fence, farm, go, everything, around, seem, wear
Various, Robert Merry's Museum, Volumes V-VI (1843) - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
On the succeeding day, while he was observing the man laying up the hay, he had a still more severe attack.
Từ trong câu: severe, hay, succeed, day, observe, man, lay, up
John Ferriar, An essay towards a theory of apparitions - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In an hour more we were flying over Mexico, the most ancient, and paradoxically, the least known country on the continent.
Từ trong câu: paradoxically, hour, fly, ancient, least, know, country, continent
Jack Williamson, The second shell - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
One morning I was sitting at my solitary breakfast, when at last a long letter from Sergy was brought to me.
Từ trong câu: solitary, breakfast, morning, sit, last, long, letter, bring
Varvara Dukhovskaia, The diary of a Russian lady - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then suddenly, from those cities, there was coming up toward us as though from a single voice a single, mighty cry!
Từ trong câu: city, mighty, suddenly, come, up, toward, though, single
Edmond Hamilton, Cities in the air - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But that lessening gave me two items of information: He was about my height and he was looking directly at me.
Từ trong câu: lessen, give, item, information, height, look, directly
Arthur Jean Cox, The nobles are coming - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
More and more Puritans were coming to prefer the church of "covenant membership" to the birthright membership of the English Establishment.
Từ trong câu: establishment, prefer, membership, come, church
M. Louise Greene, The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Trader Le Meskime was in a dither; the show of arms was scaring away natives who had come to buy toddy.
Từ trong câu: dither, trader, show, arm, scare, away, native, come
S. M. Lambert, A Yankee doctor in paradise - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A man could have crawled on his belly faster than Murch was going, and yet I could not gain upon him.
Từ trong câu: crawl, belly, man, fast, go, gain
L. Cope Cornford, The last buccaneer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A fire was lit, and whilst the digging was in progress a stone and two pieces of iron were being heated.
Từ trong câu: whilst, fire, light, dig, progress, stone, piece, iron
George Whitfield Ray, Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
When she woke she was in her own little room, the stars were shining and Belle was standing beside the bed.
Từ trong câu: shine, wake, little, room, star, stand, beside, bed
Adriana Spadoni, The noise of the world - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A man was squatting on the mat before her apartment door with crossed ankles, knees high, forearms draped on his knees.
Từ trong câu: ankle, apartment, knee, man, door, cross, high
Alfred Bester, "Who he?" - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Before a fifty-foot moonscape cyclorama, a symphony orchestra was rehearsing "The Music Of The Spheres" from Gustave Holst's "The Planets."
Từ trong câu: moonscape, fifty, foot, symphony, orchestra, rehearse, music, sphere
Alfred Bester, "Who he?" - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was wonderful what confidence this woman of the world placed in the young creature whose life she was breaking up.
Từ trong câu: wonderful, creature, confidence, woman, world, place, young, life
Ann S. Stephens, The soldier's orphans - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While he was completing his financial arrangements for passage, Grunya disappeared below to inform her father of Hall’s presence aboard ship.
Từ trong câu: disappear, passage, aboard, arrangement, complete, financial, below, inform
Jack London, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They were not bites; they were long raking cuts, as if the flesh had been torn by heavy blunt-pointed claws.
Từ trong câu: bite, flesh, heavy, long, cut, point
Harper Williams, The thing in the woods - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
"Why," he said, after a pause of anxious watching, "Farmer Hughes must have known what he was talking about, after all!"
Từ trong câu: anxious, farmer, pause, watch, know, talk
H. C. Adams, Stories jolly: stories new: stories strange & stories true - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The thread would break, or the spindle slip from her hand, because she was turning Boryna’s words over in her mind.
Từ trong câu: thread, break, slip, hand, because, turn, word, mind
Władysław Stanisław Reymont, The peasants, [vol. 2] - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
"About Golden Eyes--you were going to tell me something--it's been on my mind all through that little sparring match."
Từ trong câu: match, golden, eye, go, tell, something, mind, little
Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Now we were racing down toward that last span whose ancientness had set it apart from all the other soaring arches.
Từ trong câu: soar, now, race, down, toward, last, span, set
Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
We were just talking over our plans for the day at breakfast when Emma came in with a telegram for father.
Từ trong câu: telegram, breakfast, talk, plan, day, come, father
Amy Le Feuvre, "Us, and our donkey" - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
My aunt was walking up and down the room when I returned, crimping the borders of her nightcap with her fingers.
Từ trong câu: border, walking, aunt, walk, up, down, room, return
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I informed her that my reason was tottering on its throne, and only she, Miss Mills, could prevent its being deposed.
Từ trong câu: inform, reason, miss, prevent
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was up (and, as I believe to this hour, looking for that man) before anybody in the house was stirring.
Từ trong câu: anybody, hour, stir, up, believe, look, man, house
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“Yes yes” he would say, in the Cape Cod fashion, and always, when a customer was leaving the shop: “Come again.”
Từ trong câu: shop, customer, fashion, cod, yes, always, leave, come
John Hay, Nature's year - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US