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We learned that the trench by which we were going in was named Surrey Lane, in honor of the West Surreys who constructed it.
Từ trong câu: lane, construct, learn, go, name, honor, west
Herbert W. McBride, The Emma Gees - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
An hour later, as they were standing at the door, just ready to take to their sleigh, they heard the scraping of a fiddle.
Từ trong câu: fiddle, hour, late, stand, door, ready, take, hear
Hamlin Garland, Other Main-Travelled Roads - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He waited for her in the large hall of the hotel, where the couriers, the servants, the foreign tourists, were lounging about and staring.
Từ trong câu: lounge, large, foreign, servant, hall, tourist, wait, hotel
Henry James, Daisy Miller: A Study - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
For myself, I felt elated at the thought that we were nearing the end of our task, and I caught something of Holmes’s gaiety.
Từ trong câu: end, gaiety, feel, think, we, elated, myself, our
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was strange to me to be standing there with those two wild Punjaubees waiting for the man who was coming to his death.
Từ trong câu: wild, strange, stand, wait, man, come, death
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He took a kind of fancy to me then, and would hardly go back to his woods, but was always hanging about my hut.
Từ trong câu: hanging, fancy, take, kind, hardly, go, back, wood
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women.
Từ trong câu: continuous, cargo, discharge, front, stream, four, up, shirt
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In the uncertain, shadowy light I could see dimly that there were glancing, glimmering eyes peeping down at us from every cranny and corner.
Từ trong câu: shadowy, uncertain, glance, light, see, eye, down, every
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Willie Woodley and Mrs. Westgate at this moment were sitting in silence, and the young man’s ear caught these last words of Lord Lambeth’s.
Từ trong câu: ear, mrs, moment, sit, silence, young, catch, last
Henry James, An International Episode - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Outwardly, Europe of the Middle Ages presented a sad contrast to the magnificence of an Empire which was fading to remoteness year by year.
Từ trong câu: outwardly, middle, age, present, sad, contrast, empire, fade
Alice Birkhead, Heroes of Modern Europe - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
More slowly, Evadne retraced the downward path, and lingered on the banks of the ravine, where the bitter waters were sobbing among the rocks.
Từ trong câu: retrace, slowly, downward, path, linger, bank, bitter, water
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Without pretence of a trial, they were shooting the people one by one, as they were pointed out to them by a petty constable.
Từ trong câu: petty, trial, shoot, people, point, out
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
With these examples to guide them, the Bavarians, tired of soft promises and smooth words, were clamouring for a fresh hand at the helm.
Từ trong câu: helm, example, guide, tire, soft, promise, smooth, word
Horace Wyndham, The Magnificent Montez: From Courtesan to Convert - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A great uproar was raised, but he was unsuspected; while Dub, an awkward blunderer who was always getting caught, was punished for Buck’s misdeed.
Từ trong câu: unsuspected, awkward, raise, great, always, get, catch, punish
Jack London, The call of the wild - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He was lying on his side, dead where he had dragged himself, an arrow protruding, head and feathers, from either side of his body.
Từ trong câu: either, lie, side, dead, drag, himself, arrow, head
Jack London, The call of the wild - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Owing to the grain blockade, due to car shortage, feeling was running high in the West and the farmers eyed the new legislation closely.
Từ trong câu: shortage, owe, grain, due, car, feel, run, high
Herbert Joseph Moorhouse, Deep Furrows - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
That fool-helmsman, his hands on the spokes, was lifting his knees high, stamping his feet, champing his mouth, like a reined-in horse.
Từ trong câu: horse, mouth, knee, hand, high, foot, stamp, fool
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The dish towels would freeze too, as they hung on the line in the kitchen over the stove, while the stove was going, too.
Từ trong câu: towel, dish, freeze, hang, line, kitchen, stove, go
Lucy Leavenworth Wilder, 1865-1935 [Editor] Morris, Old Rail Fence Corners: The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Our batteries were not firing, but the colonel had already asked the battery commanders whether any shells, particularly gas shells, had come their way.
Từ trong câu: already, battery, whether, commander, particularly, gas, way, shell
George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, Pushed and the Return Push - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Another official envelope I opened showed that Records were worrying whether a particular regimental sergeant-major was an acting or a temporary sergeant-major.
Từ trong câu: worrying, another, official, envelope, open, show, record, worry
George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, Pushed and the Return Push - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
An Army Field Brigade was forming its waggon lines in a field off the roadside amid sharp angry cries of "Keep those lights out!"
Từ trong câu: sharp, amid, angry, roadside, army, field, form, line
George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, Pushed and the Return Push - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He reported only fleeting glimpses of Huns, but could guess pretty well the spots at which they were congregating, and issued his orders accordingly.
Từ trong câu: congregate, report, fleet, glimpse, guess, pretty, well, spot
George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, Pushed and the Return Push - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Trenches were being dug, and our B Battery had pulled their six guns behind the mile-long ridge that ran southward from the village.
Từ trong câu: southward, dig, battery, pull, six, gun, behind, mile
George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, Pushed and the Return Push - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Through the opening in the floor the faint gleam of the stable lantern was enticing, and Diamond thought he would run down that way.
Từ trong câu: gleam, open, floor, faint, stable, diamond, think, run
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
With the city swollen in population through a steady influx of refugees, few fresh supplies were coming in and hoarded supplies were rapidly diminishing.
Từ trong câu: steady, swell, swollen, refugee, diminish, city, population, fresh
Joel R. Moore, The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While we were fighting the Bolsheviki in Archangel, the National Geographic Society, in a bulletin, published to our people certain facts about the country.
Từ trong câu: geographic, fight, national, society, bulletin, publish, people, certain
Joel R. Moore, The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As she did not improve, we took her to the veterinary and he found that she was suffering from inflammatory rheumatism of the joints.
Từ trong câu: inflammatory, improve, take, find, suffer, joint
Michael Moukhanoff, Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I suppose he thought I was never better satisfied with my condition than at the very time during which I was planning my escape.
Từ trong câu: planning, suppose, think, never, better, satisfied, condition, time
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I suppose that's glamour—a goldeny, misty, lovely feeling, as if my soul were wandering about with his—not in my body at all.
Từ trong câu: misty, suppose, lovely, feel, soul, wander, body
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
In his study—a pleasant room, if rather tidy—John Freeland was standing before the fire smoking a pipe and looking thoughtfully at nothing.
Từ trong câu: pipe, smoking, standing, study, tidy, pleasant, room, rather
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US