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Whatever it was, it was coming slowly toward the entrance of the cave, and now, deep and forbidding, it uttered a low and ominous growl.
Từ trong câu: deep, whatever, forbid, come, slowly, toward, entrance, cave
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Early in the morning,--it was just after sunrise,--the kind Doctor Lester was driving home, after watching half the night out with a patient.
Từ trong câu: sunrise, early, morning, kind, doctor, drive, home, watch
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The beautiful girl who formerly made my affliction so bitter to me was passing at the moment, with her arm drawn affectionately through her father's.
Từ trong câu: affectionately, beautiful, girl, formerly, make, bitter, pass, moment
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
She was thinking, not of what the letters might have meant to others, but of what they had come to signify to her and Luke.
Từ trong câu: signify, think, letter, mean, other, come
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
You thought you were winning to a soft nest, children, where there were nought but larks and thrushes and maybe nightingales,--and we're all cuckoos.
Từ trong câu: maybe, lark, nought, think, win, soft, nest, child
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Fortunately, a mendicant passed, who, coming up to Athos to ask charity, Athos offered him half a crown to accompany him where he was going.
Từ trong câu: crown, charity, fortunately, pass, come, up, ask, offer
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Then he placed her in the boat, and as he was going to set foot in it himself, Athos handed him a sum of silver.
Từ trong câu: silver, boat, sum, place, go, set, foot, himself
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Stars were winking at the sleepy flowers on the prairie, when the party returned with a portion of the cattle, and no tidings of Willie.
Từ trong câu: sleepy, star, flower, party, return, portion, cattle
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“Miss,” said a servant who met me in the lobby, where I was wandering like a troubled spirit, “a person below wishes to see you.”
Từ trong câu: lobby, miss, servant, meet, wander, like, trouble, spirit
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was drawing to an end now; but the evening was even warm, and I sat at work in the schoolroom with the window open.
Từ trong câu: even, drawing, warm, draw, end, now, evening, sit
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was taking off my shawl in the hall, and shaking the water out of my loosened hair, when Mrs. Fairfax emerged from her room.
Từ trong câu: emerge, take, off, hall, shake, water, out, hair
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Meantime, Mr. Rochester affirmed I was wearing him to skin and bone, and threatened awful vengeance for my present conduct at some period fast coming.
Từ trong câu: skin, affirm, conduct, threaten, period, bone, meantime, mr
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then the scanty supply of food was distressing: with the keen appetites of growing children, we had scarcely sufficient to keep alive a delicate invalid.
Từ trong câu: growing, delicate, distressing, supply, food, keen, grow, child
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Strategy pointed conclusively to the Belgium route, and its advantages were clinched by the fact that France was relying on the illusory scrap of paper."
Từ trong câu: clinch, strategy, point, route, advantage, fact, rely, paper
Victor Lefebure, The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
His lips, loose and lascivious, now sucked indolently at the costly cigar he was smoking as he sat leaning far back in his desk-chair.
Từ trong câu: indolently, lip, loose, now, suck, costly, smoke, sit
George Allan England, The Air Trust - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Louis was practically fighting and beating half Europe single-handed, as he was now getting no effective help from England or his nominal ally, Sweden.
Từ trong câu: effective, practically, nominal, fight, beat, half, single, hand
Arthur, 1875-1943 [Editor] Mee, The World's Greatest Books: Volume 12: Modern History - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I did not notice the shortness of the left arm, but that may have been because his left hand was leaning on his sword-hilt.
Từ trong câu: shortness, notice, leave, arm, because, hand, lean, sword
Stanley Shaw, William of Germany - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The government, now thoroughly roused and alarmed, and persuaded that the time for "vigorous measures" had arrived, was grappling with the conspiracy in all directions.
Từ trong câu: time, thoroughly, vigorous, government, measure, arrive, alarm, direction
T. D., 1827-1914 [Commentator] Sullivan, Speeches from the Dock; Or, Protests of Irish Patriotism. Part I Speeches delivered after conviction by Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Orr, the brothers Sheares, Robert Emmet, John Martin, William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, Terence Bellew McManus, John Mitchel, Thomas C. Luby, John O'Leary, Charles J. Kickham, Colonel Thomas F. Burke, and Captain Mackay - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Often he was inclined to be pragmatic and sententious, and had a habit of saying unpleasantly bitter things when some careless joke was being made.
Từ trong câu: pragmatic, often, incline, habit, say, bitter, thing, careless
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was, indeed, the song of an exile shut up in "sea-worn Mull," who was complaining of the wearisome look of the neighboring islands.
Từ trong câu: wearisome, indeed, song, exile, shut, up, sea, wear
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
The husband knew her face and its varying moods so well that he could see she was laboring under some very powerful and deep emotion.
Từ trong câu: vary, deep, labor, powerful, husband, know, face, mood
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A little afterward, he was standing up in his place, and reading aloud a list of names which one of the stewards had given him.
Từ trong câu: aloud, reading, little, afterward, stand, up, place, read
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The Rev. Mr. Ware was sitting up, a minute afterward, in a ferment of awakened consciousness that he had never heard the piano played before.
Từ trong câu: play, consciousness, mr, minute, hear, sit, afterward, up
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“This you'll know too--the funeral march from the Second Sonata,” she was saying, before he realized that the end of the other had come.
Từ trong câu: march, funeral, know, second, say, realize, end, come
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was going to commune with God in the depths of the forest, that the Message next day might be clearer and more luminous still.
Từ trong câu: message, next, depth, forest, go, god, day, clear
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He had sandy hair and the rough hands of a workman; but he was speaking to Miss Madden in the confidential tones of an equal.
Từ trong câu: confidential, equal, workman, sandy, hair, rough, hand, speak
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Some workmen, one of them bearing a torch, were crouching along under the side of the train, pounding upon the resonant wheels with small hammers.
Từ trong câu: pound, resonant, torch, wheel, bear, side, train, small
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Some of those nearest this cleared space were kneeling now, and murmuring a low buzz of prayer to the click of beads on their rosaries.
Từ trong câu: buzz, click, prayer, space, near, clear, now, low
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They had special terms for clergymen, and made him feel as if these were being extended to him on a silver charger by kneeling admirers.
Từ trong câu: special, silver, term, make, feel, extend
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was conscious of a notion that his obligations to social respectability were increasing; it was certain that the embarrassments of a motherless family were.
Từ trong câu: obligation, increase, conscious, notion, social, certain, family
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US