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One got the feeling that the paper was not being improved beyond a point, as this could make those at the editorial top dispensable.
Từ trong câu: get, feel, paper, improve, beyond, point, make, editorial
Various, Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press - Tiếng Anh, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
Perhaps the cynical games visible all round convinced one about not getting caught up in the meaningless emotionalism that was ruling both linguistic camps.
Từ trong câu: perhaps, cynical, game, visible, round, convince, get, catch
Various, Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press - Tiếng Anh, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
You have sometimes been in a train on the railroad when the engine was detached a long way from the station you were approaching?
Từ trong câu: detach, sometimes, train, railroad, engine, long, way, station
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Now if you were going to be in want of things needful, there would be some reason for your being annoyed at your loss.
Từ trong câu: annoyed, now, go, want, thing, reason, annoy, loss
165?-235? Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They were discussing the depressing peroration of the lecture they had just heard, the last lecture it was in the introductory course in zoology.
Từ trong câu: introductory, zoology, discuss, depress, lecture, hear, last, course
H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
As I was waiting, a man came out of a side room, and at a glance I was sure he must be Long John.
Từ trong câu: room, wait, man, come, out, side, glance, sure
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In what leisure he could get from these tasks he was working at a "Grecian History" to procure means to meet his daily liabilities.
Từ trong câu: liability, leisure, get, task, work, history, mean, meet
Arthur, 1875-1943 [Editor] Mee, The World's Greatest Books: Volume 09: Lives and Letters - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The clock struck ten while the trunks were carrying down, and the General had fixed to be out of Milsom Street by that hour.
Từ trong câu: fix, fixed, clock, strike, ten, carry, down, general
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“I do not know what I was thinking of” (blushing again that she had blushed before); “James only means to give me good advice.”
Từ trong câu: means, advice, know, think, again, mean, give, good
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
To increase that influence was coveted excitement; to cast it off might be to regain serenity; to leave it as it stood was tantalizing.
Từ trong câu: increase, regain, influence, excitement, cast, off, leave, stand
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
While the reddleman was grasping the stakes Wildeve seized the dice and hurled them, box and all, into the darkness, uttering a fearful imprecation.
Từ trong câu: grasp, stake, box, darkness
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Mrs. Yeobright was in this state of uncertainty when she was informed one morning that her son’s wife was visiting her grandfather at Mistover.
Từ trong câu: uncertainty, inform, mrs, state, morning, wife, visit, grandfather
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was standing on the hearthrug in the bedroom, looking upon the floor, her hands clasped in front of her, her bonnet yet unremoved.
Từ trong câu: bedroom, stand, look, floor, hand, front
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She began moulding the wax; and it was evident from her manner of manipulation that she was endeavouring to give it some preconceived form.
Từ trong câu: manipulation, give, wax, evident, manner, some, begin, form
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was backing toward the surface, her eyes fixed before her as they had been when she dragged the helpless girl to her doom.
Từ trong câu: fix, girl, toward, was, doom, helpless, eye, been
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The days sped, the long shine of the summer days, and, oh, my soul was growing in them like a weed in the sun!
Từ trong câu: speed, weed, sun, summer, shine, growing, day, long
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At the entrance to the banqueting hall hung the representation of a gold medal, which a lady painter was trying in vain to grasp.
Từ trong câu: banquet, medal, entrance, hall, hang, representation, gold, lady
marquise de Fontenoy, The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The great autumnal military manoeuvres were in progress, and a merry party, including a number of ladies, were riding home from the mimic battlefield.
Từ trong câu: manoeuvre, battlefield, mimic, great, military, progress, merry, party
marquise de Fontenoy, The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At the denunciating sound, the monks would be rendered aware that temptation was besieging a brother, and all the community would go to prayers.
Từ trong câu: temptation, sound, render, aware, brother, community, go
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“My dear lad, that was yesterday, when I was telling you silly stories, it was proper to tell me that, and not this morning.
Từ trong câu: silly, dear, yesterday, tell, story, proper, morning
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The cart was returning empty to Paris, and the two lackeys had agreed, for their transport, to slake the wagoner’s thirst along the route.
Từ trong câu: thirst, cart, return, empty, agree, transport, route
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
In fact, the evening before, a fever had seized him in the midst of the Parliament, while he was holding his Bed of Justice.
Từ trong câu: parliament, fact, evening, fever, midst, hold, bed, justice
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While she was eating, the wagon arrived with Willie's older brother, Charley, who had been to the far-off mill with the hired man.
Từ trong câu: hire, mill, wagon, eat, arrive, old, brother, far
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
An hour passed; the air below, which had all day been increasing in closeness, was now almost stifling, but our men lost no courage.
Từ trong câu: closeness, hour, pass, air, below, day, increase, now
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The dessert was not carried out till after nine; and at ten footmen were still running to and fro with trays and coffee-cups.
Từ trong câu: running, dessert, carry, out, till, nine, ten, still
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Some of the gentlemen were gone to the stables: the younger ones, together with the younger ladies, were playing billiards in the billiard-room.
Từ trong câu: play, billiards, stable, gentleman, go, young, one, together
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I leaned against a gate, and looked into an empty field where no sheep were feeding, where the short grass was nipped and blanched.
Từ trong câu: grass, sheep, feed, lean, gate, look, empty, field
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
If he had but been able to look to a distance, and see how what they call the spirit of the age was tending!
Từ trong câu: tend, able, look, distance, see, call, spirit, age
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The soldier was a young commissioned officer who was having an artificial jaw supplied to replace the one shot off in a Bolshevik encounter.
Từ trong câu: jaw, soldier, young, commission, officer, artificial, supply, replace
James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar: Two authentic diaries arranged and translated - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
So I put my arm over the back of the seat carelessly, and when nobody was looking I picked them up and pocketed them.
Từ trong câu: carelessly, put, arm, back, seat, nobody, look, pick
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US