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Danh sách câu dẫn chứng (16.315 câu)
About eight o'clock a slight breeze sprung up from the westward, and the vessel was standing under reefed mainsail, whole foresail, and topsail, and jib.
Từ trong câu: breeze, westward, eight, o'clock, slight, spring, up, vessel
William O. S. Gilly, Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He said he had not much time for anything but the papers; but he was going to have a complete library in his new place.
Từ trong câu: new, complete, library, much, time, anything, paper, go
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In our dealings with each other we should be guided by the Golden Rule, as I was saying to Mrs. Lapham before you came in.
Từ trong câu: guide, golden, rule, say, mrs, come
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She's pretty hard on her good-looking"--he was going to say girls, but as if that might have been rather personal, he said--"people."
Từ trong câu: good-looking, personal, pretty, hard, good, look, go, girl
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
"It's got such a funny expression--just the mate of the look in your eyes; as if you were just going to say something ridiculous.
Từ trong câu: mate, funny, get, expression, look, eye, go, something
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
On Wagon Hill the enemy was holding on to the front of the redoubt on the knoll and each attempt to dislodge him was unsuccessful.
Từ trong câu: unsuccessful, dislodge, wagon, hill, enemy, hold, front, attempt
Khuyết danh, A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Symons, who had come up impatiently from the lower ground to hurry up the assault, which he thought was being unnecessarily delayed, was mortally wounded.
Từ trong câu: hurry, impatiently, assault, come, up, low, ground, think
Khuyết danh, A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He had no information of the measures which were being taken, such as the dispatch of guns, to make the retention of Spion Kop possible.
Từ trong câu: dispatch, retention, information, measure, take, gun, make, possible
Khuyết danh, A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Mrs. Weston and Emma tried earnestly to cheer him and turn his attention from his son-in-law, who was pursuing his triumph rather unfeelingly.
Từ trong câu: cheer, pursue, son-in-law, triumph, mrs, try, turn, attention
Jane Austen, Emma - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He had met her before breakfast as he was returning from a walk with his little boys, when it had been just beginning to rain.
Từ trong câu: breakfast, meet, return, walk, little, boy, begin, rain
Jane Austen, Emma - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was giving Harriet information as to modes of agriculture, etc. and Emma received a smile which seemed to say, “These are my own concerns.
Từ trong câu: agriculture, mode, give, information, receive, smile, seem, concern
Jane Austen, Emma - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It seemed an unnecessary caution; Jane was wanting to give her words, not to Mrs. Elton, but to Miss Woodhouse, as the latter plainly saw.
Từ trong câu: unnecessary, latter, caution, seem, want, give, word, mrs
Jane Austen, Emma - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Critias, glancing at the door, invited my attention to some youths who were coming in, and talking noisily to one another, followed by a crowd.
Từ trong câu: noisily, glance, door, invite, attention, youth, come, talk
428? BCE-348? BCE Plato, Charmides - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Maurice, striding along beside her, was thinking of the irony of the "bouquet" she had thrown at him, and the innocence of that "Tell Eleanor"!
Từ trong câu: irony, bouquet, stride, beside, think, throw, tell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, The Vehement Flame - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
With ironical politeness Hook raised his hat to her, and, offering her his arm, escorted her to the spot where the others were being gagged.
Từ trong câu: offer, spot, escort, politeness, hook, raise, hat, arm
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The clapping stopped suddenly; as if countless mothers had rushed to their nurseries to see what on earth was happening; but already Tink was saved.
Từ trong câu: countless, stop, earth, clap, suddenly, mother, rush, see
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Would it not serve them jolly well right if they came back and found that their parents were spending the week-end in the country?
Từ trong câu: spend, country, serve, well, right, come, back, find
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They anchored with them in the province of Camarines, where they had heard that one ship and two pataches were being built for your Majesty.
Từ trong câu: anchored, anchor, province, hear, ship, build
Emma Helen, 1851-1911 [Editor] Blair, The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 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
I thought I heard a carriage last night, while we were drinking our tea, but it never entered my head that it could be them.
Từ trong câu: tea, think, hear, carriage, last, night, drink, never
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was a great satisfaction to Elinor that Mrs. Jennings, by being much engaged in her own room, could see little of what was passing.
Từ trong câu: engage, engaged, great, satisfaction, mrs, much, room, see
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
That brought every soldier and sailor under the eyes of the country whose interests they were upholding, and nerved each one to deeds of valor.
Từ trong câu: sailor, nerve, deed, bring, every, soldier, eye, country
Various, The American Missionary: Volume 43, No. 07, July, 1889 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Here then is a real basis of unity in the study of philology, unlike that imaginary abstract unity of which we were just now speaking.
Từ trong câu: imaginary, abstract, unlike, basis, unity, real, study, now
428? BCE-348? BCE Plato, Cratylus - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
Lady Caroline, however, could not have heard, for she continued to sip, her elbow on the table, and listen to what Mrs. Wilkins was saying.
Từ trong câu: elbow, lady, however, hear, continue, table, listen, mrs
Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Only Mrs. Fisher and Mr. Wilkins were drinking it, for Mrs. Arbuthnot, after eating nothing and being completely silent during lunch, had disappeared immediately afterwards.
Từ trong câu: disappear, drink, immediately, eat, afterwards, during, silent, afterward
Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
From Mrs. Fisher’s lips they merely heard, in reply to delicate questioning, that sitting in trains was not walking about; and they knew that already.
Từ trong câu: walking, train, reply, mrs, lip, merely, hear, delicate
Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
'Tell him,' said Sir John to Dr. Leyds who was interpreting, 'that if the trek is not stopped of course the result will be war!'
Từ trong câu: trek, tell, sir, dr, interpret, stop, course, result
Percy Fitzpatrick, The Transvaal from Within: A Private Record of Public Affairs - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
As he was passing Heise's harness shop a sudden deluge of rain overtook him and he was obliged to dodge into the vestibule for shelter.
Từ trong câu: shelter, pass, harness, shop, sudden, rain, oblige
Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was harrowing--he sweated under it--to be forced to torture her, of all women in the world; could anything be worse than that?
Từ trong câu: torture, force, woman, world, anything, bad
Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He had returned to North Dormer only on the third day after that encounter, arriving just as Charity and Verena were sitting down to supper.
Từ trong câu: third, encounter, supper, arrive, return, north, day, charity
Edith Wharton, Summer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
As he turned and faced Charity, she noticed that his lips were twitching a little; but the look in his eyes was grave and calm.
Từ trong câu: calm, turn, face, charity, notice, lip, little, look
Edith Wharton, Summer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US