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The ground was soft with moss and the powdered remains of last year's foliage; the leaves above him were showing the first yellow stains of autumn.
Từ trong câu: moss, powder, ground, soft, remain, last, leaf, above
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The four or five hundred people who were in constant residence were eating their dinners in the big boarding-house, or the cottages or the tents.
Từ trong câu: tent, residence, eat, four, five, hundred, people, constant
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Just as he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of Jean Valjean, attracted his attention at the bottom of a page.
Từ trong câu: interested, finish, article, interest, name, jeans, attract, attention
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking saying.
Từ trong câu: abandon, charity, abandoned, little, child, bring, up, out
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
And in these two places, so similar yet so unlike, these two species of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, expiation.
Từ trong câu: unlike, place, similar, species, be, undergo, work
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
An old fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining to him what sort of an adversary he had to deal with.
Từ trong câu: adversary, old, fellow, thirty, counsel, young, eighteen, explain
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
It has caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you.
Từ trong câu: distraction, catch, matter, portion, think, loose, attack
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal situation in society and an unassailable status, M. Gillenormand was superintending the basket of wedding gifts.
Từ trong câu: normal, status, jeans, build, up, situation, society, be
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was with this full power, and the conviction that she was doing right, that the superintendent had instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine.
Từ trong câu: superintendent, full, power, conviction, do, right, institute, suit
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
An angular, red-skinned old Negro women was treading heavily down the dusty sidewalk, leaning on a gnarled stick and talking to a little black girl.
Từ trong câu: angular, red, skin, old, woman, tread, heavily, down
United States. Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The enemy--perhaps obsessed by the thought that he had filled us with terror--may have assumed that the place was being used as a refuge.
Từ trong câu: obsess, enemy, perhaps, think, fill, terror, assume, place
T. Phelan, The Siege of Kimberley Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902); Eighteen Weeks in Eighteen Chapters - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When the ladies were going into the drawing-room, Mrs. Lorraine put her hand within Sheila's arm and led her to the entrance to the conservatory.
Từ trong câu: conservatory, lady, go, draw, room, mr, put, hand
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Forming a row, the tired wanderers were soon sleeping the sleep of five just persons, the sound of several neighboring waterfalls soothing rather than disturbing slumber.
Từ trong câu: waterfall, form, row, tire, soon, sleep, five, person
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The air above it was shimmering with heat, and the ground round was so hot that I could hardly bear to lay my hand on it.
Từ trong câu: heat, hot, air, above, ground, round, hardly, bear
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“I have an impending engagement,” said I, glancing at Wemmick, who was putting fish into the post-office, “that renders me rather uncertain of my time.
Từ trong câu: render, uncertain, engagement, fish, glance, put, post, office
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In a little while we had shut the door of the dark and empty sluice-house, and were passing through the quarry on our way back.
Từ trong câu: quarry, little, shut, door, dark, empty, house, pass
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The dismal wind was muttering round the house, the tide was flapping at the shore, and I had a feeling that we were caged and threatened.
Từ trong câu: threaten, cage, dismal, wind, round, house, tide, shore
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
As they were coming on at full speed, we got the two bags ready, and took that opportunity of saying good-bye to Herbert and Startop.
Từ trong câu: full, opportunity, speed, ready, get, come, they, take
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I had not, Miss Crawford, been an inattentive observer of what was passing between him and some part of this family in the summer and autumn.
Từ trong câu: observer, autumn, miss, pass, part, family, summer
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Norfolk was what he had mostly to talk of: there he had been some time, and everything there was rising in importance from his present schemes.
Từ trong câu: mostly, talk, time, everything, rise, importance, present, scheme
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The cousin who was travelling towards them could hardly have less than visited their agitated spirits—one all happiness, the other all varying and indescribable perturbation.
Từ trong câu: travel, indescribable, cousin, toward, hardly, less, visit, spirit
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“I wouldn’t think so hard about it,” said Elizabeth, marking the intensity with which Lucetta was alternating the question whether this or that would suit best.
Từ trong câu: alternate, think, hard, mark, intensity, question, whether, suit
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Lucifer was fading into day across Durnover Moor, the sparrows were just alighting into the street, and the hens had begun to cackle from the outhouses.
Từ trong câu: fade, day, across, moor, street, begin
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
While she was doing this the wood partition in the centre of the house thrilled to its centre with the tugging of a bell-pull upstairs.
Từ trong câu: thrill, centre, thrilled, wood, partition, do, center, house
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A bright crimson scarf fluttered from the top of the wall, which Mr. Perrott and Evelyn were tying to a stone as the others came up.
Từ trong câu: scarf, bright, top, wall, mr, tie, stone, other
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was thinking of this very question, revolving the figures, as she sat in her wheeled chair with a table spread with cards by her side.
Từ trong câu: wheel, think, question, figure, sit, chair, table, spread
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Evelyn was tormented by the little spark of life in her which was always trying to work through to other people, and was always being rebuffed.
Từ trong câu: spark, little, life, always, try, work, people
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Two large women in cotton dresses were sitting on a bench with blood-smeared tin trays in front of them and yellow bodies across their knees.
Từ trong câu: tray, bench, front, tin, cotton, large, woman, dress
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But St. John thought that they were saying things which they did not want him to hear, and was led to think of his own isolation.
Từ trong câu: isolation, think, say, thing, want, hear, lead
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Housemaids were passing briskly from room to room, but Mrs. Thornbury avoided them; she hardly saw them; they seemed to her to be in another world.
Từ trong câu: avoid, pass, room, mrs, hardly, saw, seem, another
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US