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When you picked up a telephone, you were not absorbing the cold output of a machine--you were speaking to another human being.
Từ trong câu: pick, up, telephone, absorb, cold, output, machine, speak
Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier - Tiếng Anh - en-US, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
If "cyberpunk" books were being banned by federal police in my own home town, I reasonably wondered whether I myself might be next.
Từ trong câu: book, ban, federal, police, home, town, reasonably, wonder
Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier - Tiếng Anh - en-US, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
As he was finishing his task, Tom, wearied with another brooding tramp, entered the house and went tiptoeing past the sitting-room door.
Từ trong câu: tramp, task, finish, another, enter, house, go, past
Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
By the date here, I was seven months old when this was done, and she was nursing me and her little nigger cub.
Từ trong câu: nurse, date, seven, month, old, little
Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The taste of the salt was strong in my mouth, and I was strangling with the acrid stuff in my throat and lungs.
Từ trong câu: taste, salt, lung, strong, mouth, stuff, throat
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
There was a ring of triumph in his voice, and his eyes, clear blue this morning as the sea, were sparkling with light.
Từ trong câu: ring, triumph, sparkling, voice, eye, clear, blue, morning
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
And I make free to say, as the days went by, that I found I was taking a certain secret pride in myself.
Từ trong câu: secret, pride, make, free, day, go, find, take
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
“The men were looking for land at any moment this morning, and the vessel should be in by night; don’t you think so?”
Từ trong câu: vessel, man, look, land, moment, morning, night, think
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The sparkling points of light flashed past me in an interminable stream, as though the whole sidereal system were dropping into the void.
Từ trong câu: system, sparkling, point, light, flash, past, stream, though
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The hunters were snickering, but she looked at me with a sympathy in her eyes which more than compensated for Wolf Larsen’s nastiness.
Từ trong câu: compensate, look, sympathy, eye, wolf
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He was in the same position in which I had left him, and his head was rocking—almost writhing—from side to side.
Từ trong câu: position, rock, almost, leave, head, side
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
While Maud was passing me the provisions and I was storing them in the boat, a sailor came on deck from the forecastle.
Từ trong câu: provisions, provision, pass, store, boat, sailor, come, deck
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
I gazed entranced, till the boat ran into the wind and the flapping sail warned me I was not attending to my duties.
Từ trong câu: entrance, gaze, till, boat, run, wind, sail, warn
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
A brisk wind was blowing into the cove, and though the water was calm, rapid work was required to get us safely out.
Từ trong câu: rapid, safely, require, wind, blow, though, water, calm
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
An endless creaking was going on all about me, the woodwork and the fittings groaning and squeaking and complaining in a thousand keys.
Từ trong câu: complain, key, thousand, endless, go, fit
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
New forms of community were emerging that stressed the actual contributions of the participants, rather than whatever prepackaged content they had in common.
Từ trong câu: new, form, community, emerge, stress, actual, contribution, participant
Douglas Rushkoff, Open Source Democracy: How online communication is changing offline politics - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
The salutations, however, were short, and onwards went the cortege, for the chapel bell was tolling in, and the king was always punctual.
Từ trong câu: onwards, toll, punctual, however, short, go, bell, king
Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 355, February 7, 1829 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.
Từ trong câu: lose, temper, contradict, nothing, never, much, life, feel
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the distant green leaves.
Từ trong câu: distant, follow, result, leaf, except, moving, green, move
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“Well, it must be removed,” said the King very decidedly, and he called the Queen, who was passing at the moment, “My dear!
Từ trong câu: pass, remove, removed, well, king, call, queen, moment
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Her friends were looking with round thoughtful eyes at her and him, and she could see that they had been talking of her.
Từ trong câu: round, talk, thoughtful, friend, look, eye, see
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The supply was getting less as the animals advanced in calf, and the supernumerary milkers of the lush green season had been dismissed.
Từ trong câu: advanced, dismiss, advance, season, supply, calf, lush, green
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Hastily flinging her cloak around her she opened the door and followed, putting out the candles as if she were never coming back.
Từ trong câu: hastily, cloak, around, open, door, follow, put, out
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The lantern hanging at her waggon had gone out, but another was shining in her face—much brighter than her own had been.
Từ trong câu: hanging, hang, go, out, another, shine, face, much
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
She soon distanced the churchgoers, except two youngish men, who, linked arm-in-arm, were beating up behind her at a quick step.
Từ trong câu: quick, distance, except, link, beat, step, soon, man
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
She found, to her dismay, that this was owing to their having eaten all the seed potatoes,—that last lapse of the improvident.
Từ trong câu: lapse, find, eat, potato, owe, seed, their, dismay
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He had traversed the greater part of this depression, and was climbing the western acclivity when, pausing for breath, he unconsciously looked back.
Từ trong câu: breath, climb, western, climbing, depression, great, part, pause
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The first report from the man on watch was that Duncan had driven to the South camp; the second, that Freckles was coming.
Từ trong câu: report, second, first, man, watch, drive, south, camp
Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The Angel fell fast asleep long before they had finished, and lay deeply unconscious, while the fight for Freckles' life was being waged.
Từ trong câu: wage, asleep, fast, deeply, unconscious, angel, fall, long
Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
There was an unusually large Luna cocoon, and the moth was bursting the upper end in its struggles to reach light and air.
Từ trong câu: burst, large, unusually, cocoon, upper, end, struggle, reach
Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US