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She was getting really attached to the quiet little uncomplaining woman, but longed sometimes to be able to cheer her by a more hopeful outlook.
Từ trong câu: attach, outlook, attached, cheer, sometimes, hopeful, quiet, get
Amy Le Feuvre, The discovery of Damaris - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The day seemed hardly now to have been serious: it was withdrawing, by arrangement with the city, which had so much to do at night.
Từ trong câu: arrangement, withdraw, hardly, serious, city, day, seem, now
Edmund Wilson, I thought of Daisy - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She was unwinding wool at the drawing-room bay-window, full in the spring sunshine, and an occasional whisk or tug told of considerable pettishness.
Từ trong câu: sunshine, occasional, wool, tug, bay, considerable, drawing, draw
Agnes Giberne, Number Three, Winifred Place - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“Oh, impossible!” she panted, in passionate excitement, and he could see how desperately she was fighting to get away without owning to the bitter truth.
Từ trong câu: fighting, pant, impossible, bitter, passionate, desperately, excitement, see
Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. Miller, Thorns of regret - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Was it because she was leaving Ruth, because her secret was being discussed in the study, or because she had no money and no home?
Từ trong câu: because, discuss, secret, leave, study, money, home
E. H. Young, Miss Mole - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
"Fear was in her face, but in her eyes were mingling a gleam of anger with the light of love, for she idolized her brother.
Từ trong câu: mingle, gleam, idolize, fear, face, eye, anger, light
James Grant, Lady Wedderburn's wish, Vol. 3 (of 3) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Before long Mickey was chattering to us about her unfaithfulness to Robert, and for a time she made love haphazardly with one man or another.
Từ trong câu: haphazardly, long, time, make, love, man, another
Tereska Torrès, Women's barracks - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“And yet you were battling with muscles that have time and time again been pitted, and always victoriously, against these terrors of the dark continent.
Từ trong câu: victoriously, battle, muscle, time, again, always, terror, dark
Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was attacking the credibility of a witness whom he had put on the stand, but who had been tampered with by the opposition lawyers.
Từ trong câu: credibility, attack, witness, put, stand, opposition, lawyer
Herbert Newton Casson, The History of the Telephone - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
For a time we helped Tom to gather his apples, but it was tiring work, so Ellen and I found a sheltered nook and rested.
Từ trong câu: tiring, time, help, gather, apple, tire, work, find
Katherine Mary Barrow, Three years in Tristan da Cunha - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Other men would have considered the question from a practical point of view; they would have asked themselves whither their projectile carriage was carrying them.
Từ trong câu: carriage, consider, man, question, practical, point, view, ask
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At the moment when this phenomenon took place so rapidly, the projectile was skirting the moon’s north pole at less than twenty-five miles distance.
Từ trong câu: skirt, moment, phenomenon, take, place, rapidly, north, pole
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical; science proves that it must be so.
Từ trong câu: describe, orbit, necessarily, admit, around, moon, science, prove
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As to the latter, they forgot themselves, and, glued to the windows of the scuttles, attentively watched the liquid mass through which they were passing.
Từ trong câu: attentively, latter, forget, themselves, window, watch, liquid, mass
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The prospect of marrying a Christian and remaining in a country where women were allowed to take a rank in society was enchanting to her.
Từ trong câu: rank, christian, remaining, prospect, marry, remain, country, woman
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I threw myself into the carriage that was to convey me away, hardly knowing whither I was going, and careless of what was passing around.
Từ trong câu: carriage, careless, throw, myself, convey, away, hardly, know
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The next moment they had disappeared within the house; and Dick, slipping through the crowd of loiterers in the shed, was already giving hot pursuit.
Từ trong câu: crowd, pursuit, next, moment, disappear, house, slip, shed
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was a pillared grove, as high as a cathedral, and except for the hollies among which the lads were struggling, open and smoothly swarded.
Từ trong câu: cathedral, except, struggle, smoothly, high, among, open
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In some respects the education that he was giving me, though of Spartan severity, was not ill calculated for the formation of a manly character.
Từ trong câu: spartan, respect, education, give, though, ill, calculate, formation
Eugénie, 1839?- Hamerton, Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As he started away he pointed and said yonder was one who was idle enough for my purpose, and was seeking me besides, no doubt.
Từ trong câu: seek, idle, doubt, yonder, purpose, point, besides, start
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I had had a choice band of them in private training for some time, and the date was now arriving for their first public effort.
Từ trong câu: choice, effort, date, private, band, train, time, now
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It augmented fast, it spread all along, and it unmistakably furnished me this fact: an armed host was taking up its quarters in the ditch.
Từ trong câu: armed, host, fact, fast, furnish, quarter, unmistakably, its
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The next second Clarence had slipped from some place of concealment and was pouring news into my ear, his eyes beaming with triumph and gladness.
Từ trong câu: beam, triumph, pour, next, ear, second, news, slip
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But when my second brother was going to be born by-and-by, “this,” says M. R. F., “is a little pillar of the church.”
Từ trong câu: second, brother, go, bear, be, little, church
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Fledgeby, watching him with a twitch in his mean face which did duty there for a smile, looked very like the tormentor who was pinching.
Từ trong câu: twitch, watch, mean, face, duty, smile, look, like
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Her pretty hair was hanging all about her, and she had tripped down softly, brush in hand, and barefoot, to say good-night to him.
Từ trong câu: hanging, brush, pretty, hair, hang, trip, down, softly
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
‘Why, yer mean Old Harmon’s, do yer?’ said the hoarse gentleman, who was driving his donkey in a truck, with a carrot for a whip.
Từ trong câu: donkey, truck, carrot, whip, mean, old, gentleman, drive
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But, he was sitting thoughtfully smiling at that broad brown hand of his, and either didn’t see it, or would take no notice of it.
Từ trong câu: broad, sit, smile, brown, hand, either, see, take
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Well, it was going to be work, you know, and pretty solid work, too; so Tom he divided it up according to fairness and strength.
Từ trong câu: divide, strength, divided, accord, solid, well, go, work
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When it come I see Jim on his knees, with his arms on the locker and his face buried in them, and he was crying.
Từ trong câu: bury, knee, cry, face, arm, locker, come, see
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US