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Moreover, while she was speaking his attention had been attracted to a loosened pillowcase ominously fluttering and flapping a yard or two off.
Từ trong câu: pillowcase, moreover, speak, attention, attract, flap, yard, off
Abraham Cahan, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Veronica, who was talking animatedly to Vera, her escort, as she drew on her long gloves, looked equally charming in her own way.
Từ trong câu: animatedly, talk, escort, draw, long, glove, look, equally
Josephine, -1931 Chase, Marjorie Dean, College Freshman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The enemy was established at the north end of Koodoesberg, whence they shelled the works that were being constructed to protect the drift.
Từ trong câu: protect, end, enemy, north, construct, being, drift, establish
Louis Creswicke, South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 8) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Deep down, scarcely daring to breathe, lay the man they were seeking--an inch or two off--just an inch or two off.
Từ trong câu: breathe, deep, down, scarcely, dare, lay, man, seek
Louis Creswicke, South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 8) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In the streets groups were congregating at a time when people are usually given up to business, and uniforms everywhere dotted the thoroughfare.
Từ trong câu: congregate, street, group, time, people, usually, give, up
Louis Creswicke, South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 8) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Above all, and this idea was agonizing, was so repellant that she absolutely pushed it from her--suppose her father was deceiving her.
Từ trong câu: repellant, above, idea, agonize, absolutely, push, suppose, father
L. T. Meade, A Life For a Love: A Novel - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The train was moving now, and only the panting and energetic Miss Marsh hastened along beside it, her hand on the carriage window.
Từ trong câu: energetic, train, move, now, pant, miss, beside, hand
E. M. Delafield, The War-Workers - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Then, while straining her to his breast with the fondest parental commiseration; the tears, with which his eyes were overflowing, bedewed her cheeks.
Từ trong câu: parental, strain, breast, tear, eye, cheek
John [Editor] Bull, The New-York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository Forming an Interesting Collection of Original and Select Literary Productions in Prose and Verse - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He wondered what was coming and felt apprehensive; but his wildest conjectures could not anticipate what she had it in mind to say.
Từ trong câu: apprehensive, wonder, come, feel, wild, conjecture, anticipate, mind
F. E. Mills Young, The Shadow of the Past - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was evident how greatly he was suffering from all the disastrous events which had accumulated one after the other in terrible progression.
Từ trong câu: progression, evident, greatly, suffer, disastrous, event, accumulate, terrible
Various, Complete Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
He was sitting on the edge of a bookcase--a little brown man with a wrinkled, good-natured face, and wearing no clothes.
Từ trong câu: bookcase, sit, edge, little, brown, man, wrinkle, good
Lilian Gask, The Fairies and the Christmas Child - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And the snow was now coming down so thickly that Bert and Nan could see only a short distance out of the window.
Từ trong câu: thickly, snow, now, come, down, see, short, distance
Laura Lee Hope, The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Cotton tapes sewn in parallel rows, mohair braid, or strips of flannel were still being used to make the bathing dress more attractive.
Từ trong câu: tape, cotton, sew, parallel, row, strip, still, use
Claudia Brush Kidwell, Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was safe to conclude that she was threading her way through the intricate minefield that guarded the southern outlet of the Bosphorus.
Từ trong câu: minefield, safe, conclude, thread, way, guard, southern, outlet
Percy F. Westerman, The Fight for Constantinople: A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Needed philosophical and chemical apparatus were forthcoming, and a beautiful Art and Music hall was built on the site of Carvin's rock castle.
Từ trong câu: philosophical, chemical, forthcoming, need, beautiful, art, music, hall
William Robert Lee Smith, Charles Lewis Cocke, Founder of Hollins College - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Although he was not taking nourishment he was gently caressing the bruised part of his anatomy, but otherwise betraying no interest in things.
Từ trong câu: nourishment, although, take, gently, part, otherwise, betray, interest
Percy F. Westerman, The Wireless Officer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
As they went, others were going; the freighter which was the first to sail for Alexandria bade fair to be crowded with passengers.
Từ trong câu: freighter, go, other, first, sail, bid, fair, crowd
Elizabeth Miller, Saul of Tarsus: A Tale of the Early Christians - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Such had been the case even now; and there he sat, unconscious that a complete and total change was coming over his destiny.
Từ trong câu: destiny, total, unconscious, case, even, now, sit, complete
Various, The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 1, December, 1850 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But that was not so bad as the way I was kowtowed to everywhere because my father was making millions by selling cannons.
Từ trong câu: bad, so, but, was, not, my, father, everywhere
Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Always clever and unanswerable when he was defending nonsense and wickedness: always awkward and sullen when he had to behave sensibly and decently!
Từ trong câu: clever, awkward, defend, always, nonsense, behave
Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Thereupon we stopped before the excited man, who was trying vainly to calm himself while he asked nervously, "Can I show monsieur something?
Từ trong câu: nervously, stop, excite, man, try, calm, himself, ask
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. December, 1877 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
There was, it appeared, no spare room in the house; I felt positively abject at the thought of the trouble I was inflicting.
Từ trong câu: abject, appear, spare, room, house, feel, positively, think
E. Oe. Somerville, Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The door of his room was open, the light turned up; his mother, still in her evening gown, was standing at the window.
Từ trong câu: gown, door, room, open, light, turn, up, mother
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He furtively remarked the strained look on his daughter's face, as if she too were gazing at a picture that she couldn't buy.
Từ trong câu: remark, strain, look, face, gaze, picture, buy
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
What was wanting to Balzac in the hell of life, whose every spiral he descended, was virginity in love and ingenuousness in poetry.
Từ trong câu: spiral, want, hell, life, every, descend, love, poetry
Frederick Lawton, Balzac - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then it raised itself on its elbow and watched the fire and the four limpet-shells that were sizzling away in the corners.
Từ trong câu: elbow, raise, itself, watch, fire, four, shell, away
Ellery, 1872-1960 [Editor] Sedgwick, Atlantic Classics, Second Series - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I called him Freddy or Charlie same as you might yourself if you was talking to a stranger and wished to be pleasant.
Từ trong câu: stranger, pleasant, call, yourself, talk, wish
Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
But when I saw we were going to win hands down, I felt like a bear in a cage, hanging about doing nothing.
Từ trong câu: feel, hanging, doing, like, bear, were, cage, hang
Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Eliza, in telling Higgins she would not marry him if he asked her, was not coquetting: she was announcing a well-considered decision.
Từ trong câu: decision, marry, him, announce, tell, ask, well, consider
Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The verandah, too, was looking pleasant with its gay and sweet-scented creepers, which were already aspiring to the summit of the pillars.
Từ trong câu: verandah, look, pleasant, gay, sweet, already, summit
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc