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A little urchin was trying to "walk the tightrope," as he called it, as Frank came up, shaping a willow stick with his pocket knife.
Từ trong câu: tightrope, little, try, walk, call, frank, come, up
Frank V. Webster, The Boys of Bellwood School; Or, Frank Jordan's Triumph - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was still speaking, when the animals in question came leaping on the track of the deer, striving with noble ardour to outdo each other.
Từ trong câu: outdo, still, speak, animal, question, come, leap, track
James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When he was casting the characters for the piece, he had counted on the original Caleb Decie—Thorne—who held the traditions of the play.
Từ trong câu: tradition, cast, character, piece, count, original, hold, play
Percy Fitzgerald, Sir Henry Irving: A Record of Over Twenty Years at the Lyceum - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Near the place that ought to have been occupied by the next statue, there were lying fragments of an unusually narrow, square pedestal or pillar.
Từ trong câu: fragment, statue, unusually, pedestal, near, place, ought, occupy
Carl Bovallius, Nicaraguan Antiquities - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
"Now what's the matter?" demanded Lonny irritably, pausing to see that she was stopped, and was clutching desperately at her throat, pulling at her collar.
Từ trong câu: desperately, clutch, collar, now, matter, demand, pause, see
J. Harvey Haggard, Derelicts of Uranus - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Not until we were leaving the table would I realize that my napkin lay neatly folded and squared in the midst of casually rumpled heaps.
Từ trong câu: casually, until, leave, table, realize, napkin, lay, fold
Marie Mattingly, 1883-1943 [Author of introduction, etc.] Meloney, The Log-Cabin Lady: An Anonymous Autobiography - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Manon was sitting at the table with a sheet of red linen that was to be the cover of a duvet hanging over her knees.
Từ trong câu: duvet, sit, table, sheet, red, linen, cover, hang
Warwick Deeping, The House of Adventure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“Chieh Chung sat under a pine tree on the mountain, grief-stricken, heartbroken, gazing upon what had been a city, and now was sparkling sea.
Từ trong câu: stricken, sparkling, sit, pine, tree, mountain, grief, gaze
Arthur Bowie Chrisman, Shen of the Sea: A Book for Children - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As the convicts and other prisoners were being marshalled out of chapel, Giles blundered against the door, apparently by accident, so that it almost shut.
Từ trong câu: prisoner, convict, out, door, apparently, accident, almost, shut
Anonymous, Charles Peace, or The Adventures of a Notorious Burglar - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It reminded me that, in my preoccupation at keeping Doris in sight after I found she was leaving the city, I hadn’t ’phoned my office.
Từ trong câu: preoccupation, remind, keep, sight, find, leave, city, phone
Edwin Balmer, Keeban - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Fayette was standing at the hatch of the little ship, slickly dressed in shiny boots, smart beige jodphurs, and a blouse open at the throat.
Từ trong câu: shiny, stand, hatch, little, ship, dress, boot, smart
Ross Rocklynne, X Marks the Asteroid - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
This Broad Street pavement was lying square with more modern walls surrounding it, and it may not be doubted that buildings continuously occupied the site.
Từ trong câu: pavement, continuously, surrounding, broad, street, lie, square, modern
W. R. Lethaby, Londinium, Architecture and the Crafts - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The arcana of the Tudor party were, to a great degree, revealed to York; and it was easy to mark the ascendancy it was gaining.
Từ trong câu: degree, party, great, reveal, easy, mark, gain
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Fortune seemed to favour him: Mr Inkpen, very much at ease in snowy Sabbath shirt sleeves, was leaning across his gate, smoking a ruminative pipe.
Từ trong câu: ruminative, fortune, seem, favor, mr, much, ease, snowy
M. E. Francis, Stepping Westward - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I remember one kind-hearted lady wishing that the blacksmith's baby, who was dying of consumption, should be as well and strong as its father.
Từ trong câu: hearted, consumption, remember, kind, heart, lady, wish, baby
Victor Bridges, The Cruise of the "Scandal", and other stories - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Between Cara and Ruth, Nicky was being led along, splotches of ugly red staining a bandage that had been wound around the little fellow’s wrist.
Từ trong câu: ugly, wrist, stain, bandage, lead, red, wind, around
Lilian Garis, Barbara Hale: A Doctor's Daughter - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She told the girl all this in a hesitant, wistful voice, much as if she were relating something that was not entirely to her liking.
Từ trong câu: hesitant, tell, girl, wistful, voice, much, relate, something
James Fellom, The rider of the Mohave - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
People were hurrying in a jostling, confused mass up the aisles toward the exits, while others bellowed to them to sit still or move faster.
Từ trong câu: bellow, confused, aisle, exit, people, hurry, confuse, mass
Albert Payson Terhune, Caleb Conover, Railroader - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
These passages gave great encouragement to Brutus and Cassius, who, in making choice of trusty friends for such an enterprise, were thinking to engage Antony.
Từ trong câu: trusty, passage, give, great, encouragement, make, choice, friend
46-120? Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The next moment she was sobbing hysterically, and for the next half hour Imelda had her hands full in trying to restore quiet and peace.
Từ trong câu: hysterically, next, moment, sob, half, hour, hand, full
Rosa Graul, Hilda's Home: A Story of Woman's Emancipation - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was wasting his life, his time, and his money; and already the endless chase of the rainbow’s end began to seem no longer desirable.
Từ trong câu: desirable, chase, endless, waste, life, time, money, already
Frank Lillie Pollock, The Treasure Trail - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The sole German on the scene, a fat sentry, was sitting on a bench in the shade of a tree, sipping a glass of beer!
Từ trong câu: beer, bench, scene, fat, sit, shade, tree, glass
Benjamin Muse, The Memoirs of a Swine in the Land of Kultur; or, How it Felt to be a Prisoner of War - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I had been walking half an hour when a man came up to me; he was wearing uniform without epaulettes and a blue medal-ribbon.
Từ trong câu: ribbon, medal, walk, half, hour, man, come, up
Aleksandr Herzen, The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Parts I and II - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were using their lips and tongues in a violent manner, accompanying commonplace remarks with the most exaggerated varieties of facial expressions I ever saw.
Từ trong câu: facial, use, lip, tongue, violent, manner, accompany, remark
Vera, The Doctor's Daughter - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The Fourth Assistant Secretary of State, who was doing the honors of the American government, heard without emotion of the slight changes in the programme.
Từ trong câu: assistant, secretary, state, do, honor, government, hear, emotion
Meredith Nicholson, Best laid schemes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Wilwiloway, at his great leader’s command, was giving up the hope of his life, and was giving it up silently and stolidly, with Indian stoicism.
Từ trong câu: stoicism, great, command, give, up, hope, life, silently
Crittenden Marriott, The ward of Tecumseh - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Murtha was there, Murtha and Winslow, too, and the captain was looking over past third base and juggling a pebble in his dirt-grimed hands.
Từ trong câu: pebble, dirt, captain, look, past, third, base, hand
Ralph Henry Barbour, Winning his game - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was daring and risky enough to be going to the clinic to pretend she was a receptionist from Kelsey's office, there to be beautified.
Từ trong câu: receptionist, dare, risky, enough, go, clinic, pretend, office
Bryce Walton, Awakening - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Two or three were assembled around a fire, the rest were gambling; those by the fire were engaged in cooking rats in an expeditious manner.
Từ trong câu: assemble, cooking, gambling, rat, around, fire, rest, engage
Hinton Rowan Helper, The land of gold; reality versus fiction - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
All seemed quiet there: the night was darker, the stars brighter, and the harbour lights twinkled more, but the sea-breeze was not setting in.
Từ trong câu: bright, harbour, breeze, harbor, seem, quiet, night, dark
John Masefield, Sard Harker: A novel - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US