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The doctor left Pollyanna at her own door, smiled at Nancy, who was sweeping off the front porch, then drove rapidly away.
Từ trong câu: porch, rapidly, front, doctor, leave, door, smile, sweep
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was speaking with evident difficulty.
Từ trong câu: evident, speak, difficulty
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was gazing, instead, at a leaf on the ground a little distance away--and it was not even a pretty leaf.
Từ trong câu: leaf, distance, gaze, instead, ground, little, away, even
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She was picking up one object after another now, and putting each down, in an aimless fashion quite unlike her usual decisiveness.
Từ trong câu: usual, unlike, aimless, fashion, object, pick, up, another
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Miss Polly asked the question as if in spite of some force within her that was urging her not to ask it.
Từ trong câu: force, within, urge, miss, ask, question, spite
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She was thinking now that she always had known that Milly Snow was “queer,” but she had not supposed she was crazy.
Từ trong câu: known, crazy, think, now, always, know, snow, queer
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Miss Polly was leaning forward eagerly.
Từ trong câu: lean, miss, forward, eagerly
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She says when he calls out 'Hep--Hep!' she feels just as if the next minute he was going to yell 'Hurrah!'
Từ trong câu: yell, call, out, feel, next, minute, go
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The smoke was driving straight upward in a quivering current, and in Lake Magog's depths another island seemed to be on fire.
Từ trong câu: quiver, smoke, drive, straight, upward, current, lake, depth
Various, Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
He was hammering through, in spite of heavy opposition from trans-continental lines, a short cut across the Rocky Mountains from Denver.
Từ trong câu: trans, hammer, spite, heavy, opposition, continental, line, short
William MacLeod Raine, Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
From time to time when the correspondent was presenting his ideas the president reached out his hand and picked up a paper.
Từ trong câu: correspondent, time, present, idea, president, reach, out, hand
Norval A. Hawkins, Certain Success - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
One of her favorite fancies was that on "the outside," as she called it, thoughts were waiting for people to call them.
Từ trong câu: outside, favorite, fancy, call, think, wait, people
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She had shut her eyes, and was twisting her face in strange convulsive contortions, her hands hanging stiffly clenched at her sides.
Từ trong câu: hanging, hang, twist, shut, eye, face, strange, hand
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
In her proud little heart she wanted them to see that she was trying to earn her living and not accepting charity.
Từ trong câu: accept, proud, earn, charity, living, little, heart, want
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
This fragata, they say, was carrying three consignments of gold; but our men, upon seeing that they were lost, threw it overboard.
Từ trong câu: consignment, carry, gold, man, see, lose, throw, overboard
Emma Helen, 1851-1911 [Editor] Blair, The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 11 of 55 1599-1602 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
An old mouse was running in and out over the stone doorstep, carrying peas and beans to her family in the wood.
Từ trong câu: family, stone, carry, mouse, bean, an, old, run
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
And the term ‘justice’ implied that the same three principles in the State and in the individual were doing their own business.
Từ trong câu: imply, term, justice, principle, state, individual, do, business
428? BCE-348? BCE Plato, The Republic - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
For two hundred and fifty years, I believe the way for the redemption of the Negro was being prepared through industrial development.
Từ trong câu: believe, fifty, industrial, prepared, hundred, prepare, development, year
Booker T., 1856-1915 [Contributor] Washington, The Negro Problem - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
From all of those actions there resulted eager conjectures that all that tempest was threatening the Filipinas, and particularly their capital, Manila.
Từ trong câu: conjecture, threatening, action, result, eager, threaten, particularly, capital
Emma Helen, 1851-1911 [Editor] Blair, The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He, a stone-mason’s apprentice, nineteen years of age, was working for half wages till he should be out of his time.
Từ trong câu: apprentice, nineteen, working, stone, year, age, work, half
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
“I don’t care a damn,” he was saying, “for any provost, warden, principal, fellow, or cursed master of arts in the university!
Từ trong câu: principal, master, care, damn, say, fellow, art, university
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He whisked Sue’s clothing from the chair where it was drying, thrust it under the bed, and sat down to his book.
Từ trong câu: book, chair, clothing, dry, bed, sit, down
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The fire was increasing fearfully; so much so, that Lieutenant Tailour describes the lower deck 'burning like the flame in an oven.'
Từ trong câu: oven, fire, increase, much, describe, low, deck, burn
William O. S. Gilly, Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The change he could make, even with one afternoon's work, in the effectiveness, the carrying power, of a dance number was astonishing.
Từ trong câu: effectiveness, change, make, even, work, carry, power, dance
Henry Kitchell Webster, The Real Adventure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He heard Charles Bellingham telling funny stories to Irene and trying to amuse the girl; she was laughing, and seemed very happy.
Từ trong câu: funny, story, hear, tell, try, amuse, girl, laugh
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She might have got it into her head that we were looking down on her; and those insipid people are terribly stubborn.
Từ trong câu: terribly, stubborn, get, head, look, down, people
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The days were going by in a monotony of adversity to him, from which he could no longer escape, even at home.
Từ trong câu: escape, monotony, adversity, day, go, long, even, home
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He did not offer to go, upon this conclusion of his business, but hoped he was not keeping her from her mother.
Từ trong câu: conclusion, offer, go, business, hope, keep, mother
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Nanny got on with her better than the rest, and saw possibilities for her in the country to which she was going.
Từ trong câu: possibility, good, better, rest, get, saw, country, go
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
"I was thinking perhaps a white marble chimney-piece, treated in the refined Empire style, would be the thing for that room."
Từ trong câu: empire, marble, think, perhaps, white, chimney, piece, treat
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US