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It appeared that Helen was going back into the past, choosing her words deliberately, comparing Theresa with the people she had known since Theresa died.
Từ trong câu: choose, deliberately, appear, go, back, past, word, compare
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“Well, I was coming to that,” said Evelyn M. She continued to rest her chin on her hands and to look intently ahead of her.
Từ trong câu: intently, well, come, be, continue, rest, chin, hand
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It happened that a French regiment of cuirassiers, with the fine clangour of its drums and trumpets, was passing under the window at the moment.
Từ trong câu: trumpet, happen, fine, drum, pass, window, moment
Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine: Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Now and then she looked inside the basket, for the thing she looked forward to most was laying all the rolls out on grandmother's table.
Từ trong câu: most, roll, now, look, inside, basket, thing, forward
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
The snow was lying so high around the hut that the windows looked level with the ground, and the door had entirely disappeared from view.
Từ trong câu: level, view, snow, lie, high, around, hut, window
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
There stood Peter already with his flock of goats, and the grandfather was just bringing his two out of the shed to join the others.
Từ trong câu: join, stand, already, flock, goat, grandfather, bring, out
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
"I must keep the hat, and the rolls are for grandmother," and she was rushing to stop Tinette when Fraulein Rottenmeier took hold of her.
Từ trong câu: rush, keep, hat, roll, grandmother, stop, take, hold
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
She was making a dash for the boy, when she saw something on the ground crawling towards her feet--a dreadful dark object--a tortoise.
Từ trong câu: dash, object, make, boy, saw, something, ground, toward
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
“Oh, Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, I don't know how to be glad enough that you let me come to live with you,” she was sobbing.
Từ trong câu: aunt, enough, how, let, live, glad, know, come
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Already, however, she was thinking what a long, long way off that rock must be, when back at the window it had looked so near!
Từ trong câu: already, must, rock, window, long, back, near, however
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Down-stairs in Miss Polly's room next the sun parlor, Miss Polly herself was hurrying into dressing gown and slippers, her face white and frightened.
Từ trong câu: gown, down, stair, miss, room, next, sun, herself
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Two friends were standing on the street and talking pleasantly to each other, when they were approached by a man whom they did not know.
Từ trong câu: pleasantly, friend, stand, street, talk, approach, man, know
Various, Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
She was screaming and dancing up and down in the midst of a group of friends and enemies, who were alternately coaxing and scolding her.
Từ trong câu: scream, enemy, midst, dance, dancing, group, up, down
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
"Any diamond mines?" ejaculated Miss Minchin, catching at the back of a chair and feeling as if a splendid dream was fading away from her.
Từ trong câu: fade, diamond, mine, miss, catch, back, chair, feel
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
"I had to keep a tight grip on the reins that time," he was thinking to himself--"a precious tight grip; but I did it."
Từ trong câu: grip, tight, keep, time, think, himself, precious
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She was constantly arranging her bracelet or smoothing her glove, and looking on this side and that to see if any one was observing her.
Từ trong câu: bracelet, constantly, arrange, smooth, glove, look, side, see
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
What pickles, preserves, cakes, and everything that would keep, were packed for me and sent aboard our ship which was lying in New York harbor!
Từ trong câu: pickle, aboard, packed, preserve, cake, everything, keep, pack
Various, Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Southeastern Massachusetts - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Just as he was speaking, a boy announced that Lælius was coming to call on him, and that he had already left his house.
Từ trong câu: already, left, call, announce, boy, speak, come, leave
Marcus Tullius, 107 BCE-44 BCE Cicero, Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The city of God which the great mediaeval popes were seeking to establish was a city of this world, if not of this world only.
Từ trong câu: mediaeval, city, god, great, seek, establish, world
Francis Sydney, 1863-1943 [Editor] Marvin, The Unity of Western Civilization - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
For it must be noted that new forces of expansion were making themselves felt, as the unity of the Church was being threatened from within.
Từ trong câu: expansion, note, new, force, make, themselves, feel, unity
Francis Sydney, 1863-1943 [Editor] Marvin, The Unity of Western Civilization - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
He strengthened the ships, and prepared his artillery, as if he were near a victorious enemy who was executing his threats with so great success.
Từ trong câu: victorious, strengthen, ship, prepare, near, enemy, execute, threat
Emma Helen, 1851-1911 [Editor] Blair, The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was much as though she were talking to some one from another world--an outsider; but one she had known long, one who understood.
Từ trong câu: outsider, much, though, talk, another, world, know, long
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Phillotson was not really thinking of the arithmetic at all, but of her, in a novel way which somehow seemed strange to him as preceptor.
Từ trong câu: novel, arithmetic, really, think, way, somehow, seem, strange
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He knew that Sue was sitting within its walls equally lonely and disheartened; and again questioned his devotional motto that all was for the best.
Từ trong câu: motto, equally, know, sue, sit, wall, lonely, again
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He was getting so romantically attached to Christminster that, like a young lover alluding to his mistress, he felt bashful at mentioning its name again.
Từ trong câu: attached, get, attach, like, young, lover, feel, mention
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
“You and my daughter have been living here together these three or four days, quite on the understanding that you were going to marry her.
Từ trong câu: daughter, understanding, live, together, four, day, quite, understand
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Sue was muddling helplessly in the kitchen, for she was not a good housewife, though she tried to be, and grew impatient of domestic details.
Từ trong câu: impatient, domestic, housewife, sue, kitchen, good, though, try
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
She entered under the archway of Oldgate College, where men were putting up awnings round the quadrangle for a ball in the hall that evening.
Từ trong câu: under, where, enter, quadrangle, ball, hall, college, man
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Numbers, however, were still surrounding him, who, for the safety of those in the already overladen boat, were, with much reluctance, left to their fate.
Từ trong câu: safety, surrounding, number, however, still, surround, already, boat
William O. S. Gilly, Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Evening advanced, the tide was flowing, and at last it was too late for them to cross the sands and ice till the next ebb.
Từ trong câu: tide, ebb, advanced, sand, ice, flow, evening, advance
William O. S. Gilly, Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US