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We were staying the night at a wayside hostel, called the "Red Bull," situated at the point where a cross-road cut the main road.
Từ trong câu: wayside, hostel, stay, night, call, red, bull, situate
George W. Gough, The Yeoman Adventurer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Now—he was going to open it, and the hand that had so carefully guarded its contents was lying cold and lifeless on the bed.
Từ trong câu: lifeless, carefully, now, go, open, hand, guard, content
O. F., Mrs. Walton, The lost clue - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was affecting to see how these poor creatures raised both hands high in the air, and let them slowly fall, by way of greeting.
Từ trong câu: greeting, greet, affect, see, poor, creature, raise, hand
Ferdinand Werne, Expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile, in the years 1840, 1841, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was a boat or raft of ambak just pushed into the water and on it some men, whilst others were advancing from the copsewood.
Từ trong câu: whilst, boat, push, water, man, other, advance
Ferdinand Werne, Expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile, in the years 1840, 1841, Vol. 2 (of 2) - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Davidina, it appeared, heard it also: not, I think, by a wilful listening at keyholes, but with a general awareness that rehearsals were taking place.
Từ trong câu: awareness, appear, hear, think, listen, general, rehearsal, take
Laurence Housman, Trimblerigg - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
When he came down-stairs his host was waiting, a distinguished figure in his dinner clothes, and they set out blithely through the gathering dusk.
Từ trong câu: blithely, come, down, stair, host, wait, distinguish, figure
Earl Derr Biggers, The house without a key - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She saw from her bedroom window that the night was breaking, the rakish cocoanut palms and the hau tree were wrapped in a gray mist.
Từ trong câu: mist, bedroom, wrap, palm, saw, window, night, break
Earl Derr Biggers, The house without a key - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Or was it words which his mother and father often spoke to him, and which, by the Holy Spirit's power, were coming back to him?
Từ trong câu: word, holy, mother, father, often, speak, power, come
Catharine Shaw, The gabled farm - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The most thorough inquiries failed to reveal any additional evidence indicating this woman’s connection with enemy activities, or solve the dual character she was impersonating.
Từ trong câu: impersonate, thorough, inquiry, fail, reveal, additional, evidence, indicate
Emerson Hough, The Web - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
In the meantime its rival power in the East, the Byzantine empire, was sinking even lower in the scale of moral, political, and intellectual degradation.
Từ trong câu: empire, meantime, rival, moral, power, east, sink, even
Elias Lyman Magoon, Westward empire - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
These letters sought advice in adjusting difficulties that were creating great discord in the church, which had already separated from the original church of Enfield.
Từ trong câu: adjust, letter, seek, advice, difficulty, create, great, church
M. Louise Greene, The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
"He'd seen what was coming to the firm before the ship was lost, and worked day and night to waste the blow," said Mr. Stroude.
Từ trong câu: firm, see, come, ship, lose, work, day, night
John T. McIntyre, Blowing weather - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As we were eating, I saw a mink dodging along the shore, humping his back in true weasel fashion, as if in a great hurry.
Từ trong câu: shore, eat, saw, back, true, fashion, great, hurry
William J. Long, Wood-folk comedies - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At last I was going to hear another opinion about whether Muriel meant in the long run to say "Yes" or "No" to Captain Holiday.
Từ trong câu: holiday, whether, opinion, last, go, hear, another, mean
Berta Ruck, A land-girl's love story - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He was lying in state in a grass-built hovel, and raised up from the mud floor on two packing-cases of suspiciously British origin.
Từ trong câu: suspiciously, lie, state, grass, build, raise, up, mud
George Whitfield Ray, Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Paving-stones were quickly torn up, and before the police arrived windows and doors were smashed, and about a thousand voices were crying for blood.
Từ trong câu: smash, pave, stone, quickly, up, police, arrive, window
George Whitfield Ray, Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
When a five-months' drought was parching everything, I have heard him reverently pray that God would spare him wheat sufficient to feed his family.
Từ trong câu: drought, five, month, everything, hear, pray, god, spare
George Whitfield Ray, Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Just the same he was thinking that, unlike himself and his parents, the Cranstons were really more daring if not socially more avid of life.
Từ trong câu: avid, think, unlike, himself, parent, really, dare, socially
Theodore Dreiser, An American tragedy, v. 1 - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
About ten-fifty on Wednesday evening a ’phone message came through booking a room for a Miss Daphne Carruthers who was arriving the next day.
Từ trong câu: booking, ten, fifty, wednesday, evening, phone, message, come
Brian Flynn, The mystery of the Peacock's Eye - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He looked very pleased and half amused as it was going on; but perhaps he may have been reading some interesting anecdote in his guidebook.
Từ trong câu: amuse, guidebook, pleased, amused, look, please, half, go
O. F., Mrs. Walton, Was I right? - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
For some occult reason she was approaching her task with real distaste, and a distaste at that quite out of comparison with the task’s significance.
Từ trong câu: significance, comparison, reason, approach, task, real, quite, out
Anthony Berkeley, The poisoned chocolates case - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And there the bearded driver was sitting with all the aplomb of one who was nearing the end of a virtuous and well-rewarded day.
Từ trong câu: bearded, driver, sit, near, end, well, reward, day
Edgar Wallace, The melody of death - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
At this time the gardens must have been considerably remodelled, as the taste for the formal was waning, and the “natural” school taking its place.
Từ trong câu: remodel, time, garden, considerably, taste, formal, wane, natural
Evelyn, Mrs. Cecil, London parks and gardens - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I met several barges laden with them near Marietta; they were going up the river with a staff, and making about twenty miles a day.
Từ trong câu: staff, meet, several, near, go, up, river, make
André Michaux, André Michaux's Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96; François André Michaux's Travels West of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddeus Mason Harris's Journal of a Tour Northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803. - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
I was only just getting a blacking brush to clean Helen Mary's shoes, and it was only a tiny little soft kick on her dress!
Từ trong câu: brush, tiny, shoe, kick, get, black, clean, little
Amy Le Feuvre, Legend-led - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The kings of Sweden and Denmark, always uncertain, had practically withdrawn from the Alliance, and were now threatening hostilities, more particularly against Hanover and Celle.
Từ trong câu: alliance, practically, threatening, uncertain, withdrawn, hostility, threaten, king
W. H. Wilkins, The love of an uncrowned queen - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Back through the slitted opening the radiance was streaming; withdrawing from sea and island; marching back over the bridge with that same ordered, intelligent motion.
Từ trong câu: march, withdraw, island, intelligent, back, open, stream, sea
Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
I found a thicket and slept; slept it must have been for many hours, for when I again awakened the dawn was rosing the east.
Từ trong câu: east, thicket, find, sleep, many, hour, again, dawn
Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
I didn’t even know I was waiting—I didn’t know I lived in fog and mist and darkness until this great golden light burst in.
Từ trong câu: golden, mist, burst, fog, darkness, even, know, wait
Mary Aldis, Plays for small stages - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
On whose judgement,’ said my aunt, with emphasis, as an admonition to Mr. Dick, who was biting his forefinger and looking rather foolish, ‘I rely.’
Từ trong câu: bite, emphasis, judgement, aunt, mr, look, rather, foolish
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US