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Meantime the contractor was putting in blind culverts and otherwise so slighting his work that most of the road slid down the mountain that winter.
Từ trong câu: contractor, meantime, put, blind, otherwise, slight, work, road
Lincoln C. Andrews, Manpower - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Then he ordered his children (three daughters, eight, ten and thirteen) who were going to bed, to dress and recite their lessons for the stranger.
Từ trong câu: recite, order, child, daughter, eight, ten, thirteen, go
Various, Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part I. The People - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
In connection with the new church which he was building he was planning to have a day nursery and kindergarten and, if possible, a gymnasium.
Từ trong câu: planning, gymnasium, nursery, connection, new, church, build, plan
Various, Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part I. The People - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
"Wish we had a wheelchair for her," Aunt Martha confided to Jacqueline over the peaches that they were preserving, in the cool of the morning.
Từ trong câu: wheelchair, wish, aunt, confide, peach, preserve, cool, morning
Beulah Marie Dix, The Turned-About Girls - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Oh, Lorry, Lorry, if only I could have foreseen something, howsoever shadowy, of the evils that were impending when we brought those people on board!
Từ trong câu: shadowy, lorry, something, evil, bring, people, board
Louis Tracy, Flower of the Gorse - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Of course, the buffalo all scattered, and the bear was trying to bite the heifer and kill her, and she was trying to get away.
Từ trong câu: heifer, course, scatter, bear, try, bite, kill, get
George Bird Grinnell, Jack the Young Canoeman: An Eastern Boy's Voyage in a Chinook Canoe - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
A lot of rations had been landed and soon we were revelling in such delicacies as hardtack, "sowbelly" bacon, coffee, canned beef (?) and canned tomatoes.
Từ trong câu: tomato, canned, lot, ration, land, soon, delicacy, bacon
Walter W. Ward, Springfield in the Spanish American War - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At the half-way point of this century the early wheels of the West were crawling and creaking over trails where now rich cities stand.
Từ trong câu: crawl, half, way, point, century, early, wheel, west
Charles L., 1867-1951 [Editor] Barstow, The Westward Movement - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Ann the cook had taken the reins of authority from Augusta's hands and was now ruling the boarding house with a competent and jealous care.
Từ trong câu: competent, cook, take, authority, hand, now, rule, board
Richard Aumerle Maher, The Hills of Desire - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
In the gray of the morning, while she was still tossing feverishly, her maid knocked at the door and brought her a hastily scribbled note.
Từ trong câu: feverishly, gray, morning, still, toss, knock, door, bring
Lyndon Orr, Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 2 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He even allowed it to be supposed that he was planning a marriage with a rich young Swedish woman who had been naturalized in England.
Từ trong câu: planning, even, allow, suppose, plan, marriage, rich, young
Lyndon Orr, Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 2 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
So David Gray stole by the field paths to the village, and joined the army just as it was setting forth upon its adventurous march.
Từ trong câu: adventurous, gray, steal, field, path, village, join, army
Annie S. Swan, Adam Hepburn's Vow: A Tale of Kirk and Covenant - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then the girls tripped out to the kitchen, which was filled with appetizing odors emanating from the oven, where the chickens were already sizzling splendidly.
Từ trong câu: oven, girl, trip, out, kitchen, fill, chicken, already
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
And Mr. Sloane said he didn’t know, but they must be very sickly creatures, for you never heard tell of them but they were dying.
Từ trong câu: creature, mr, know, never, hear, tell, die
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Back came the echoes, as if a host of pixy people were mimicking her laughter in the purple woodlands and along the fir-fringed points.
Từ trong câu: host, back, come, people, laughter, purple, fringe, point
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She turned and went in very quickly; but a moment later she was waving a gay and smiling good-bye to them from the window.
Từ trong câu: quickly, gay, later, wave, turn, go, moment, late
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When Anne went home in the sweet June dusk, Mrs. Harrison went with her across the fields where the fireflies were lighting their starry lamps.
Từ trong câu: june, lighting, lamp, go, home, sweet, mrs, across
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
After tea she went down to see Mrs. Rachel; and when she returned she went to the east gable, where Anne was correcting school exercises.
Từ trong câu: exercise, correct, where, east, return, tea, go, down
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The old order was changing rapidly to give place to the new, as Anne felt with a little sadness threading all her excitement and happiness.
Từ trong câu: happiness, thread, rapidly, sadness, old, order, change, give
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The Colonel was there and one of the older officers, and Mackenzie was leaning over something long and still that lay stretched on the bed.
Từ trong câu: lean, old, officer, something, long, still, lay, stretch
Maud Howard Peterson, The Potter and the Clay: A Romance of Today - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“Tini got in such a dither to see Mrs. Webber that night, because Carl said he was flying out to see her before she left.
Từ trong câu: dither, get, see, mr, night, because, fly, out
Ruby Lorraine Radford, Nancy Dale, Army Nurse - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
We thought it a very unpromising sign, and had great fears that she was deserting the place and that we should see her no more.
Từ trong câu: unpromising, think, sign, great, fear, desert, place, see
George W. Peckham, Wasps, Social and Solitary - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Martha looked up from the joint that was turning on the spit, and settled herself into an easiful attitude that suggested a hope of gossip.
Từ trong câu: gossip, look, up, joint, turn, settle, herself, attitude
Halliwell Sutcliffe, Shameless Wayne: A Romance of the last Feud of Wayne and Ratcliffe - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And in less than five minutes from that time he was tearing through the streets on his way to Mr. Hobbs and the corner store.
Từ trong câu: street, less, five, minute, time, tear, way, mr
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She went to the window and stood with her face turned away for a few moments, and he saw she was trying to steady herself.
Từ trong câu: steady, trying, go, window, stand, face, turn, away
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As his carriage stopped before the door of Mrs. Errol's house, the victor and the vanquished were coming toward it, attended by the clamoring crew.
Từ trong câu: crew, carriage, stop, door, mrs, house, come, toward
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I was standing in the door of the car at the time and heard the boom of cannon, but paid no particular attention to it.
Từ trong câu: boom, stand, door, car, time, hear, paid, particular
John Reed, Insurgent Mexico - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Such marks have a somewhat sinister appearance, as they undoubtedly by their number and character were attempting to simulate the hall marks on silver plate.
Từ trong câu: simulate, mark, somewhat, appearance, undoubtedly, number, character, attempt
Arthur Hayden, Chats on Old Sheffield Plate - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The strongest were sent forward with instructions to pass the word back that the water was getting shallow, and they were told to cry “Land!
Từ trong câu: shallow, strong, send, forward, instruction, pass, word, back
Charles H. L. Johnston, Famous Frontiersmen and Heroes of the Border Their Adventurous Lives and Stirring Experiences in Pioneer Days - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
“The wind, fortunately for the hunters, was blowing from the yard to the camp, so that it was not necessary to take a roundabout course.
Từ trong câu: roundabout, wind, fortunately, hunter, blow, yard, camp, necessary
Charles G. D., Sir Roberts, Around the Camp-fire - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US