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What about little Y., who suddenly got a commission when he was doing a fortnight's C.B. for coming on parade with a dirty neck?
Từ trong câu: parade, little, you, suddenly, get, commission, do, come
C. E. Montague, Disenchantment - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He tells how he was taken to see his grandmother, who was living in Aberdeen, the second wife and widow of David Gregory of Kinairdy.
Từ trong câu: grandmother, tell, take, see, live, second, wife, widow
Alexander Campbell Fraser, Thomas Reid - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And for his descendents, who were keeping a watchful eye on his modest savings, it was as a devastating bombshell topping a most disturbing surprise.
Từ trong câu: descendent, keep, eye, modest, save, devastate, top, disturb
John T. Bristow, Memory's Storehouse Unlocked, True Stories Pioneer Days In Wetmore and Northeast Kansas - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Her pulse leaped with hope, for she saw that the pointer already stood on the empty mark, and was giving only an occasional convulsive jerk.
Từ trong câu: pulse, leap, hope, saw, already, stand, empty, mark
Mildred A. Wirt, The Girl Scouts at Singing Sands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Most of them he had turned toward the planet's oversize satellite and a raw, angry-looking sea that was breaking a few ship's-lengths away.
Từ trong câu: oversize, turn, toward, satellite, raw, angry, look, sea
Max Williams, The Seeder - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
When he spoke, the storm of the world's evil was breaking upon him more cruelly and remorselessly than it ever has on any tempted soul.
Từ trong câu: remorselessly, speak, storm, evil, break, cruelly, ever, tempt
Edward Payson Roe, A Day of Fate - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
By and by she stirred restlessly,--the spell of her slumber was breaking; he moved away gently and left her the rock for a pillow.
Từ trong câu: pillow, stir, spell, break, move, away, gently, leave
Rossiter, 1840-1931 [Editor] Johnson, Stories of Intellect - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I stammered out apologies, went down on my litanies, figuratively speaking, and was all the same confident that my excuses were making bad infernally worse.
Từ trong câu: infernally, stammer, out, apology, go, down, figuratively, speak
Gilbert Parker, Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 1. - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It appeared that her man was a hard drinker, though he was trying with all his poor enfeebled will to free himself from the slavery.
Từ trong câu: slavery, appear, man, hard, though, try, poor, free
Herbert W. Collingwood, Adventures in Silence - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Apparently they were coming from the opposite side of the partition against which I leaned and presently I made out the tones of Dejah Thoris.
Từ trong câu: tone, out, apparently, against, partition, side, lean, opposite
Edgar Rice Burroughs, A princess of Mars - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I had come a long journey across country with Glenn, the squatter, and now we were entering the homestead paddock of his sheep-station, Winnanbar.
Từ trong câu: homestead, come, long, journey, across, country, now, enter
Gilbert Parker, Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk: Complete - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A Government officer went languidly by in full uniform--even the Governor wore uniform at all times to encourage respect--and the cafes were filling.
Từ trong câu: cafe, government, officer, go, full, uniform, even, governor
Gilbert Parker, Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk: Complete - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A minute later Arnold was stretched, face downward, on the seat of the launch and Toby was using all the knowledge he possessed of resuscitation.
Từ trong câu: resuscitation, minute, late, stretch, face, downward, seat, launch
Ralph Henry Barbour, Keeping His Course - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
From where we stood the ground sloped down so that we were looking out over the top of a wide spread of lush, tangled forest.
Từ trong câu: lush, stand, ground, down, look, out, top, wide
Ray Cummings, The Flame Breathers - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But while educationalists were discussing matters in the abstract, the necessities of the case were compelling the existing schools to build their own top story.
Từ trong câu: abstract, discuss, matter, necessity, case, exist, school, build
Alice Zimmern, The Renaissance of Girls' Education in England: A Record of Fifty Years' Progress - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Meanwhile all the closed carriages the livery-stables of Grand Prairie could muster were rolling along Sangamon Avenue, stretching frostily white under a November moon.
Từ trong câu: frostily, meanwhile, close, carriage, stable, grand, roll, avenue
Brand Whitlock, The 13th District: A Story of a Candidate - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
‘He’s shooting o’ tha,’ is merely certain information given, making known to some other person that he was being called for without regard to others.
Từ trong câu: shooting, shoot, merely, certain, information, give, make, know
Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire With a Glossary of over 4,000 Words and Idioms Now in Use - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The power taken from his hands, the interrupted life, the dark future, the beginning again, if ever his sight came back: it was sickening, heartbreaking.
Từ trong câu: heartbreaking, power, take, hand, interrupt, life, dark, future
Gilbert Parker, The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The only sign of his presence was the spilled ice water on the floor, and that chair overturned," pointing to the one Douglas was occupying.
Từ trong câu: spill, overturn, sign, presence, ice, water, floor, chair
Natalie Sumner Lincoln, The Man Inside - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
What a price Japan was paying for her modernism, with the fair, sweet souls of girlhood tattered and wasted as a part of the sacrifice.
Từ trong câu: modernism, price, pay, fair, sweet, soul, waste, part
Henry W. Kinney, Broken Butterflies - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Two anxious-faced boys were going about among experienced oilmen begging them for oil leases, preferably oil leases on which there was a proved well.
Từ trong câu: preferably, anxious, face, boy, go, among, experience, beg
Ida M. Tarbell, All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As he was entering the Forum for the first time with the fasces, an eagle which was flying that way; alighted upon his right shoulder.
Từ trong câu: forum, enter, first, time, eagle, fly, way, right
69?-122? Suetonius, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 05: Claudius - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Heinie sat with a faraway look in his eye that was now glistening and now lackluster, fondling the gun in a way that suggested something.
Từ trong câu: lackluster, sit, faraway, look, eye, now, gun, way
William Oberfield, Poison Planet - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Then he saw that she was peering with awful intensity at the line of the scarp that formed this wall of the Belly of Stones.
Từ trong câu: intensity, belly, saw, peer, awful, line, form, wall
Leigh Brackett, Queen of the Martian Catacombs - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A hundred years was a long time to be someone else, and now Danton was wondering if he dared trust himself anymore as a soldier.
Từ trong câu: anymore, hundred, year, long, time, someone, else, now
Bryce Walton, Martian Nightmare - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Almost at the moment when Mr. Gatsby identified himself a butler hurried toward him with the information that Chicago was calling him on the wire.
Từ trong câu: identify, information, almost, moment, mr, himself, hurry, toward
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The sharp jut of a wall accounted for the detachment of the wheel, which was now getting considerable attention from half a dozen curious chauffeurs.
Từ trong câu: detachment, attention, account, considerable, sharp, wall, wheel, now
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
Từ trong câu: wildly, shadow, look, around, past, house, out, reach
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
In one of the windows over the garage the curtains had been moved aside a little, and Myrtle Wilson was peering down at the car.
Từ trong câu: aside, peer, curtain, window, garage, move, little, down
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
I couldn’t sleep all night; a foghorn was groaning incessantly on the Sound, and I tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams.
Từ trong câu: reality, frightening, sleep, night, sound, half, sick, frighten
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US