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As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an embarrassed air, and making creases in it with her nails.
Từ trong câu: twist, speak, thus, bill, hand, embarrass, air, make
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
This great affair was being discussed in a low voice, and the two heads at work touched each other: “Let us begin by finding names.
Từ trong câu: finding, great, affair, discuss, low, voice, head, work
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was putting away the silverware in the cupboard near the head of the bed.
Từ trong câu: crossing, apartment, silverware, moment, cross, madame, put, away
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
Then tearing the woman’s chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl’s bleeding wrist.
Từ trong câu: tear, hastily, wear, strip, bleed, wrist, cloth, make
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
However, the peril was urgent, the last bounds of delay had been reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from the prisoner.
Từ trong câu: urgent, delay, however, last, bound, reach, stand, pace
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month of February, and was singing at the top of his voice.
Từ trong câu: february, pale, thin, linen, trousers, month, sing, top
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming tiresome.
Từ trong câu: tiresome, evening, little, nothing, eat, remember, dine, precede
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her.
Từ trong câu: embarrassing, reason, anything, gratitude, toward, owe, happiness, embarrass
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion.
Từ trong câu: roof, wander, point, out, across, top, tree, light
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
Two candles were burning on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the other in the neck of a cracked carafe.
Từ trong câu: copper, neck, crack, burning, burn, flat, perfectly, green
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within him.
Từ trong câu: dismay, misfortune, perceive, sort, calm, injustice, give, way
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body.
Từ trong câu: relieve, moment, lie, near, stone, door, post, cartridge
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white stockings and white gloves, was arranging roses round all of the dishes that were to be served.
Từ trong câu: dish, glove, black, coat, knee, white, arrange, rose
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
A little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back.
Từ trong câu: newcomer, little, light, fall, permit, recognize, see, man
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her child was happy, “and was coming on well,” submitted, and forwarded the twelve francs.
Từ trong câu: submit, mother, persuade, belief, child, happy, come, well
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur M.; he heard a noise, and saw a group some distance away.
Từ trong câu: noise, morning, away, group, be, pass, hear, saw
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her lodge, still in a thorough fright, and absorbed in sad reflections.
Từ trong câu: thorough, lodge, fright, evening, day, worthy, old, woman
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
The planet was, in fact, very near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted to it a horrible ruddy hue.
Từ trong câu: horizon, mist, dense, planet, fact, near, layer, horrible
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
At the same moment the board he was standing on slipped from under him; he threw out his arms, uttered a shriek, and fell overboard.
Từ trong câu: overboard, moment, board, stand, slip, throw, out, arm
Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 [Editor] Warner, Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: Volume 05 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Sea and sky, indeed, looked in harmony with unnatural sensations; as though some dread burst of passion were gathering intensity under their apparently sluggish calm.
Từ trong câu: intensity, unnatural, sea, sky, indeed, look, harmony, sensation
Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 [Editor] Warner, Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: Volume 05 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Julia's daughter, who was washing "white people's clothes" around the side of the house, invited us into the living room where her mother was seated.
Từ trong câu: clothes, wash, invite, daughter, seat, living, white, around
United States. Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A pitifully thin attempt has been made to represent that the mistrusted party was France, and that the Kaiser was trying to buy her off.
Từ trong câu: thin, trying, attempt, make, represent, party, try, buy
Various, New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
The rain had ceased, and the clouds were trooping off like some herd of monsters hurrying in disorderly array into the gloom of the horizon.
Từ trong câu: disorderly, rain, cease, cloud, off, like, herd, monster
Émile Zola, A Love Episode - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
We had been reduced to the ignominy of cultivating a toleration of what was called treacle, and even that nauseous compound was drifting towards extinction.
Từ trong câu: extinction, reduce, cultivate, call, even, compound, drift, toward
T. Phelan, The Siege of Kimberley Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902); Eighteen Weeks in Eighteen Chapters - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The city was growing more rapidly than ever and the streets and byways met one another at every sort of angle, forming a tangled maze.
Từ trong câu: tangled, city, grow, rapidly, ever, street, meet, another
Charles Hemstreet, The Story of Manhattan - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Barnum was running his circus in New York then, and Mike and I decided to see the show and took a day off to go.
Từ trong câu: circus, run, new, decide, see, show, take, day
Dave Ranney, Dave Ranney Or, Thirty Years on the Bowery; An Autobiography - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Lord John was standing at gaze with his finger on the trigger of his elephant-gun, his eager hunter's soul shining from his fierce eyes.
Từ trong câu: trigger, eager, fierce, stand, gaze, finger, elephant, gun
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Summerlee was wiping the blood from a cut in his forehead, while I was tying up a nasty stab in the muscle of the neck.
Từ trong câu: stab, muscle, blood, wipe, neck, tie, forehead, nasty
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
My answer is, that there was not one of us who was not working for this end, but that our work had been in vain.
Từ trong câu: working, answer, vain, work, end
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
We had little time to watch them, however, for in an instant they had overtaken the fugitives and were making a dire slaughter among them.
Từ trong câu: slaughter, little, time, watch, however, instant, make, among
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US