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Danh sách câu dẫn chứng (16.315 câu)
And there they were, arrived; and it was San Salvatore; and their suit-cases were waiting for them; and they had not been murdered.
Từ trong câu: murder, arrive, suit, case, wait
Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The costly pearl she had dissolved in it had not sweetened the draught; but it was intoxicating, and she drank it with feverish avidity.
Từ trong câu: draught, costly, pearl, dissolve, draft, drink
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
'During the day, as Mr. Huskisson was helping a wounded man back to the hospital, he had a very narrow shave of being shot.
Từ trong câu: shave, day, mr, help, wound, man, back, hospital
William E. Sellers, From Aldershot to Pretoria - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was raging at the perverseness of a pair of boots that refused to fit in his trunk, no matter how he arranged them.
Từ trong câu: fit, arrange, pair, boot, refuse, trunk, matter
Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
About this time there was a good deal of fighting on the left, where the Germans were trying to retake the St. Eloi craters.
Từ trong câu: crater, time, good, deal, fight, leave, try
Ralph Bignell, Sir, 1875-1952 [Editor] Ainsworth, The story of the 6th Battalion, the Durham Light Infantry - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
About the middle of March rumours of the impending attack became more numerous, and the intelligence reports containing prisoners' statements, etc., were not reassuring.
Từ trong câu: reassure, middle, march, rumor, attack, become, numerous, intelligence
Ralph Bignell, Sir, 1875-1952 [Editor] Ainsworth, The story of the 6th Battalion, the Durham Light Infantry - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Syme was leaning hard upon the steering wheel, and there was no sound but the rumble of the other pursuers riding into the town.
Từ trong câu: rumble, wheel, sound, steer, lean, hard, ride, town
G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Yet Brooks fancied that the long white fingers were trembling, and that the strange quiet of his features was one of intense self-repression.
Từ trong câu: repression, fancy, long, white, finger, tremble, strange, quiet
E. Phillips Oppenheim, A Prince of Sinners - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
While the chambermaid was at her work, a solitary lady, loitering about the corridor of the second storey, was watching her over the bannisters.
Từ trong câu: solitary, work, lady, corridor, second, story, watch
Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
His tunic had been cleaned with petrol and was hanging in a room to dry when the general, wearing pyjamas, entered smoking a cigarette.
Từ trong câu: pyjamas, clean, petrol, hang, room, dry, general, wear
Unknown, Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When the heart was striving to restore the balance of the circulation, by adopting the recumbent posture, we gave it less work to do.
Từ trong câu: recumbent, heart, strive, restore, balance, circulation, adopt, posture
Various, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 428 Volume 17, New Series, March 13, 1852 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was a very dark night, but we could see that they were carrying more than usual and that their equipment looked very bulky.
Từ trong câu: bulky, dark, night, see, carry, usual, equipment, look
John David Hills, The Fifth Leicestershire A Record of the 1/5th Battalion the Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During the War, 1914-1919. - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was showing me pictures of her family one day; she had photographs of servants going to a pub in a horse-drawn bus.
Từ trong câu: show, picture, family, day, photograph, servant, go, pub
Max Millard, 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s - Tiếng Anh, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
It was a hit in London, and the preview performances were doing well enough in New York to call for an official Broadway opening.
Từ trong câu: hit, preview, performance, do, well, enough, new, call
Max Millard, 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s - Tiếng Anh, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
"Well, if she was wearing a see-through blouse and no bra in her office, I'd certainly think she had poor taste," she laughs.
Từ trong câu: well, wear, see, bra, office, certainly, think, poor
Max Millard, 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s - Tiếng Anh, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
He was waiting on the native highway for the return of his master, quite confident that he would bring the bothersome trinkets with him.
Từ trong câu: bothersome, wait, native, highway, return, master, quite, confident
Harold MacGrath, The Adventures of Kathlyn - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was a trick of all these Popes to exact from the poor artist something different to what he was doing at the time.
Từ trong câu: trick, exact, poor, artist, something, different, do, time
Esther, 1865-1930 [Editor] Singleton, Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Miss Garland was wandering in another direction, and though she was consulting her catalogue, Rowland fancied it was from habit; she too was preoccupied.
Từ trong câu: catalogue, consult, habit, catalog, miss, wander, another, direction
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She had once told Rowland that she would show him, some day, how gracious her manners could be; she was now redeeming her promise.
Từ trong câu: manner, once, tell, show, day, now, promise
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Mr. Whitefoot, who but a twelvemonth later became a convert to episcopacy and was already cultivating a certain conversational sonority, devoted himself to Cecilia.
Từ trong câu: convert, mr, late, become, already, certain, devote, himself
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But her fright was over, though she was still catching her breath a little, like a person dragged ashore out of waters uncomfortably deep.
Từ trong câu: uncomfortably, drag, fright, though, still, catch, breath, little
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Behind him was a dark cloister; or at least, a cloister very partially illumined--along which two younger monks were pacing in full costume.
Từ trong câu: cloister, behind, dark, least, partially, young, monk, pace
Thomas Frognall Dibdin, A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And she looked straight at Valentin de Bellegarde, who was looking at her as a gentleman may when a “verdict” is expected of him.
Từ trong câu: verdict, look, straight, gentleman, expect
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“Hanged if I should want to have a greedy little adventuress like that know I was giving myself such pains about her!” said Newman.
Từ trong câu: greedy, hang, want, little, like, know, give, myself
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When he awoke, the morning was advanced and the sun was filling his window, and he heard, outside of it, the clucking of hens.
Từ trong câu: filling, morning, advance, sun, fill, window, hear, outside
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Had it come to that—that he was asking favors of conceited people, and appealing for sympathy where he had no sympathy to give?
Từ trong câu: sympathy, come, ask, favor, people, appeal, give
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As Newman asked these questions she had grown a little pale, as if she regarded what was coming as necessary, but not as agreeable.
Từ trong câu: necessary, ask, question, grow, little, pale, regard, come
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They marched him through the kitchen, where a Negro girl, her arms white with flour, was dithering in fright, and into the front hall.
Từ trong câu: dither, march, kitchen, girl, arm, white, flour, fright
H. Beam Piper, Murder in the Gunroom - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Mrs. Winstick had hidden behind the Superintendent of Stamps and Stationery, to whom she was explaining, between spoonfuls of strawberry ice her terrible situation.
Từ trong câu: stationery, mr, hidden, behind, superintendent, stamp, explain, strawberry
Sara Jeannette Duncan, Hilda: A Story of Calcutta - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The night was come, the gang had just finished feasting, an orgy was beginning; the can of liquor was passing from mouth to mouth.
Từ trong câu: gang, begin, just, mouth, beginning, finish, night, come
Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US