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“It seemed best that I quartered either by myself or among the other warriors, and I was awaiting an opportunity to ask your advice.
Từ trong câu: either, opportunity, advice, quarter, best, await, seem, myself
Edgar Rice Burroughs, A princess of Mars - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“But doesn’t it astound you?” said I. I tried to lift his lethargy to the wonderment and admiration that was thrilling in my mind.
Từ trong câu: lethargy, try, lift, admiration, thrill, mind
E. Temple Thurston, The Patchwork Papers - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A few minutes later, in the kitchen, when Tom was stuffing his mittens into his pockets, he felt the small package and produced it.
Từ trong câu: package, minute, late, kitchen, stuff, pocket, feel, small
Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Tom Akerley His Adventures in the Tall Timber and at Gaspard's Clearing on the Indian River - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was studying hard, he said, and couldn’t spare the time to run out to the nearest stationery store for a couple of notebooks.
Từ trong câu: stationery, study, hard, spare, time, run, out, near
Burt L. Standish, Dick Merriwell's Backers; Or, Well Worth Fighting For - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
His mind was so wrought up by the rich pattern which life was weaving before his eyes that he could scarcely sleep at nights.
Từ trong câu: weave, mind, up, rich, pattern, life, eye, scarcely
Theodore Dreiser, A Book About Myself - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“‘Well, you’ll find lots of it,’ says I, thinking he was joking, and then I found it was precious coral he was talking of.
Từ trong câu: coral, well, find, lot, think, joke, precious, talk
H. De Vere Stacpoole, Ocean Tramps - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The Absolute only knew what fiendish plans even now were being framed, while the victors strove to recover a measure of strength, and sanity.
Từ trong câu: fiendish, absolute, know, plan, even, now, frame, recover
Albert, -1957 dePina, Keeper of the Deathless Sleep - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Three times in the past year he reportedly had made valuable hauls of emeralds which were being taken out of the mine for shipment.
Từ trong câu: shipment, time, past, year, make, valuable, take, out
Don Palmer, Boy Scout Explorers at Emerald Valley - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“This young physicist one day was looking at the rough spots produced on the metal target of an x-ray tube by electron bombardment.
Từ trong câu: target, electron, young, day, look, rough, spot, produce
Upton Sinclair, Mental Radio - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I had arms, and men, and horses; I possessed extraordinary riches; and can it be any wonder that I was unwilling to lose them?
Từ trong câu: unwilling, arm, man, horse, possess, extraordinary, wonder, lose
69?-122? Suetonius, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
During these transactions in Britain, Nero himself was exhibiting, in Rome or some of the provinces, such scenes of extravagance as almost exceed credibility.
Từ trong câu: credibility, transaction, himself, exhibit, province, scene, extravagance, almost
69?-122? Suetonius, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She did it up in a newspaper and carried it to the pawnshop with tears, for she was bringing the greatest sacrifice of all.
Từ trong câu: pawnshop, up, newspaper, carry, tear, bring, great, sacrifice
Jacob A. Riis, The Peril and the Preservation of the Home Being the William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1903 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains, men-carrying, were plunging home through the rain from New York.
Từ trong câu: electric, light, go, west, egg, now, train, man
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
We gave ourselves to God with all our hearts, to be his for ever: eternity looked very near to me while I was praying.
Từ trong câu: eternity, give, ourselves, god, heart, ever, look, near
David Brainerd, The Life of Rev. David Brainerd, Chiefly Extracted from His Diary - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The mere presence of Billy Mink had awakened that inborn fear, and each Rat was thinking only of himself and how he could escape.
Từ trong câu: inborn, mere, presence, fear, rat, think, himself, escape
Thornton W. Burgess, Billy Mink - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
With admirable good-breeding, he feigned to be absolutely unconscious of the crowd of women who were pressing and whispering so close to him.
Từ trong câu: feign, admirable, breeding, unconscious, good, breed, absolutely, crowd
Sydney C. Grier, The Advanced-Guard - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
At that moment a woman brought me a towel and a small bar of soap, so I asked her what was going on outside.
Từ trong câu: moment, woman, bring, towel, small, bar, soap, ask
Norman F. Joly, The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: A Personal View - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
Another instance was destroying stocking-knitting frames so not too many apprentices could be employed contrary to the regulations of the stocking knitters guild.
Từ trong câu: another, instance, destroy, stock, frame, many, apprentice, employ
S. A. Reilly, Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III - Tiếng Anh - en-US, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
Now a lamp was burning in the house, but it was turned low, for the kerosene was nearly dry, and I had no shillings.
Từ trong câu: kerosene, now, lamp, burn, house, turn, low, nearly
Basil Thomson, South Sea Yarns - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They invented a skillet and stove out of twisted metal, and shortly had wolfed down the hash and were prowling further into the city.
Từ trong câu: invent, prowl, stove, twisted, out, twist, metal, shortly
Robert W. Krepps, Don't Panic! - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The flames were breaking out through a board partition which cuts off a portion of our room, making an entry to the adjoining room.
Từ trong câu: adjoin, adjoining, partition, flame, break, out, board, cut
James J. Williamson, Prison Life in the Old Capitol and Reminiscences of the Civil War - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Fury had seized upon him; he was about to shout "Help!" and the worst of it was that rage was rising in me also.
Từ trong câu: rage, seize, shout, help, bad, rise
Paul Bourget, The Story of André Cornélis - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But the month of September was near its close; a winter campaign would be of small avail: money, arms, and trained men, were wanting.
Từ trong câu: want, winter, campaign, september, month, near, close, small
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But now he merely nodded and walked down the runway and across to the cement house where Strayer was still pacing back and forth.
Từ trong câu: runway, now, merely, nod, walk, down, across, house
Francis Lynde, David Vallory - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Booker T. Washington was included in the delegation as a token that there was backing from all portions of the community for the project.
Từ trong câu: not, include, back, portion, community, project
Norman Coombs, The Black Experience in America - Tiếng Anh - en-US, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
At the same time White supremacy advocates were uneasy because their views had not been universally accepted, and they were adopting a stronger defense.
Từ trong câu: time, white, advocate, uneasy, because, view, accept, adopt
Norman Coombs, The Black Experience in America - Tiếng Anh - en-US, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
Mike was sitting at a table with several men in their shirt-sleeves, eating from a bowl of tuna fish, chopped onions and vinegar.
Từ trong câu: tuna, sit, table, several, man, shirt, sleeve, eat
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
But Bootup the Whale did not understand their language, so she asked her rider--for he knew Clam--what they were chanting to her.
Từ trong câu: clam, whale, understand, language, ask, rider, know
Charles Godfrey Leland, Algonquin Legends of New England - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
We were progressing slowly, and had reached that very important part where the "fly," as an ocular witness, gives his substantial and straightforward evidence.
Từ trong câu: straightforward, progress, slowly, reach, important, part, fly, witness
Vera, The Doctor's Daughter - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
But Columbus himself was not yet out of this "wearisome world," and was troubling his weary brain far too much about its petty details.
Từ trong câu: wearisome, himself, out, world, trouble, weary, brain, far
Mildred Stapley Byne, Christopher Columbus - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US