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She flushed and tried to stammer out her thanks, but he had pushed back his chair and was leading the way out of the dining-room.
Từ trong câu: thanks, stammer, try, out, thank, push, back, chair
Edith Wharton, Summer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He was there, a few feet away; and while her soul was tossing on seas of woe he had been quietly sitting at his drawing-board.
Từ trong câu: sea, soul, quietly, foot, away, sit, draw, board
Edith Wharton, Summer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
As he was turning to leave her, there rose above the hum of voices in the drawing-room the sharp, grotesque note of a barking dog.
Từ trong câu: rise, above, dog, sharp, rose, turn, leave, voice
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The innkeeper and his servants had crowded to the doorway, and were looking at the scene with faces which seemed a proof that it was unprecedented.
Từ trong câu: crowded, servant, crowd, doorway, look, scene, face, seem
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
One warm, still day, late in the Roman autumn, our two young men were sitting beneath one of the high-stemmed pines of the Villa Ludovisi.
Từ trong câu: autumn, warm, still, day, late, young, man, sit
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The party took its course back to the carriage, which was waiting in the grounds of the villa, and Rowland and Roderick bade their friends farewell.
Từ trong câu: grounds, party, take, course, back, carriage, wait, ground
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“I never yet happened to learn what men were doing when they supposed women were not watching them but it was something vastly below their reputation.”
Từ trong câu: reputation, never, happen, learn, man, do, suppose, woman
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He wondered what the deuce she, too, was driving at, with her hope that he would not be afraid of her and her protestations of equality.
Từ trong câu: equality, wonder, drive, hope, afraid
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Presently he went downstairs to the little stone-paved dining-room, where the maid-servant, who had taken off her night-cap, was serving the repast.
Từ trong câu: downstairs, go, little, stone, dine, room, servant, take
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The gentleman was smoking a cigarette; there was no light in the room save that of a couple of candles and the glow from the hearth.
Từ trong câu: smoking, cigarette, gentleman, smoke, light, room, save, couple
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Then she slowly rose to her feet, and a pair of exceptionally keen eyes would have perceived that she was trembling a little in the movement.
Từ trong câu: keen, pair, exceptionally, slowly, rise, foot, eye, perceive
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When we heard that the Yankees were coming, old mister refugeed to Dooly County--where he bought a new farm, and took his Negroes with him.
Từ trong câu: mister, hear, come, old, county, buy, new, farm
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 3 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was going to London, and he thought he had to change at our station, and then he found he'd lost his ticket and his purse.”
Từ trong câu: change, purse, go, think, station, find, lose, ticket
E. Nesbit, The Railway Children - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I knew that you were behaving respectably, and could deny what I alleged; whereas in some other cases we might have got shipwrecked upon grim facts."
Từ trong câu: respectably, know, behave, deny, allege, whereas, case, get
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Meanwhile the besieged were suffering all the extremities of famine; the most disgusting garbage was used for food, and caused a pestilence which carried off thousands.
Từ trong câu: garbage, meanwhile, besiege, suffer, disgust, use, food, cause
Charles F., 1870-1942 [Editor] Horne, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Here a group of engineers and E.L.C. were working in a casual, aimless sort of way, apparently building a bridge for the branch line.
Từ trong câu: aimless, group, engineer, work, casual, sort, way, apparently
Antony Bluett, With our army in Palestine - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
No-one was in the building (which was undergoing refurbishment) at the time of the blaze; the only casualties being three firefighters treated for smoke inhalation.
Từ trong câu: refurbishment, build, undergo, time, blaze, firefighter, treat, smoke
«Madrid skyscraper devastated by fire», English Wikinews, các tác giả Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5, https://en.wikinews.org/?curid=4529 (bản sửa đổi 4821455) - English Wikinews - CC BY 2.5
“I was looking for Harry, please, sir;” and the boy bounded toward her, showing his spoils, which he had gathered in the skirt of his robe.
Từ trong câu: skirt, look, please, sir, boy, bound, toward, show
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“I was telling her, last night, to put up her hair smooth and neat, and not havin’ it flying about in curls; looks more respectable so.”
Từ trong câu: smooth, tell, last, night, put, up, hair, neat
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Sambo, I see!” he said, speaking approvingly to a burly negro who was performing tricks of low buffoonery, which occasioned the shouts which Tom had heard.
Từ trong câu: perform, buffoonery, see, speak, trick, low, occasion, shout
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
All had faded from his sky,—moon and star; all had passed by him, as the trees and banks were now passing, to return no more.
Từ trong câu: moon, fade, sky, star, pass, tree, bank, now
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Mr. Shelby was standing before his dressing-glass, sharpening his razor; and just then the door opened, and a colored boy entered, with his shaving-water.
Từ trong câu: razor, open, stand, enter, before, just, standing, mr
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She paused again for an instant; she was looking at Winterbourne with all her prettiness in her lively eyes and in her light, slightly monotonous smile.
Từ trong câu: slightly, monotonous, lively, pause, again, instant, look, eye
Henry James, Daisy Miller: A Study - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“Well, I told her that there was no use in her getting dressed before dinner if she was going to wait three hours,” responded Daisy’s mamma.
Từ trong câu: respond, well, tell, use, get, dress, dinner, go
Henry James, Daisy Miller: A Study - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was soothing to catch even that passing glimpse of a tranquil English home in the midst of the wild, dark business which had absorbed us.
Từ trong câu: glimpse, tranquil, midst, catch, even, pass, home, wild
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I tried to read, but my thoughts would wander off to our strange quest and to the ill-assorted and villainous pair whom we were pursuing.
Từ trong câu: whom, quest, our, strange, would, wander, pair, read
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I remained a while longer, wandering about the bright desert (the sun was pouring in) of the old house, thinking the situation over on the spot.
Từ trong câu: bright, sun, desert, pour, remain, long, wander, old
Henry James, The Aspern Papers - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was a much more important fact, if one were looking at his genius critically, that he had lived in the days before the general transfusion.
Từ trong câu: critically, transfusion, much, important, fact, look, genius, live
Henry James, The Aspern Papers - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She looked at me as if I were talking some strange tongue, and her answer was so little of an answer that I was considerably irritated.
Từ trong câu: considerably, irritated, irritate, tongue, look, talk, strange, answer
Henry James, The Aspern Papers - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He discovered the mistake too late, when Thornton was abreast of him and a bare half-dozen strokes away while he was being carried helplessly past.
Từ trong câu: discover, carry, stroke, bare, mistake, past, late, half
Jack London, The call of the wild - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US