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He struggled violently, but whoever had got hold of him seemed to be a perfect Hercules in strength, and all his efforts to escape were unavailing.
Từ trong câu: whoever, struggle, strength, violently, get, hold, seem, perfect
Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The latter sank his teeth into Red-Eye’s arm; but the next moment, with a broken neck, Crooked-Leg was floundering and squirming on the ground.
Từ trong câu: latter, broken, sink, tooth, red, arm, next, moment
Jack London, Before Adam - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Here, in the strip of forest, we might have built tree-shelters and settled down; but the Fire People were performing their work of extermination thoroughly.
Từ trong câu: strip, thoroughly, forest, build, tree, shelter, settle, down
Jack London, Before Adam - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He was looking back at us, his writhing lips lifted clear of the very roots of his huge fangs, his hair bristling and his tail lashing.
Từ trong câu: lift, look, back, lip, clear, root, huge, hair
Jack London, Before Adam - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Her look was clear and truthful and she did not advance this astonishing statement as if it was astonishing, but quite as a matter of fact.
Từ trong câu: truthful, astonishing, look, clear, advance, statement, quite, matter
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Every girl I talked to, at any age above babyhood, had her cheerful determination as to what she was going to be when she grew up.
Từ trong câu: determination, cheerful, every, girl, talk, age, above, go
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was his last word, as I was leaving, to ask to be remembered kindly, and to trust you would pass over so informal an introduction.’
Từ trong câu: informal, last, word, leave, ask, remember, kindly, trust
Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In the meantime Lookout was romping down the stretch, five lengths ahead of Plutus, Boundless and Buck McCann, who were having a desperate fight of it.
Từ trong câu: romp, meantime, down, stretch, five, length, ahead, desperate
John Lawrence O'Connor, History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Carlton was looking out at the night, but he could follow what was going forward, as it was reflected in the glass of the car window.
Từ trong câu: reflect, glass, look, out, night, follow, go, forward
Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
They thought I was drowning, and slowed up to lower a boat, and when they found out I was just swimming around they were naturally angry.
Từ trong câu: swim, lower, slow, angry, boat, naturally, swimming, think
Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
It seemed to her but a minute that she stood there, but the dawn was breaking when there was a sudden confusion in the opposite room.
Từ trong câu: confusion, seem, minute, stand, dawn, break, sudden, opposite
Rebecca Harding Davis, Frances Waldeaux: A Novel - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
"I found I was making too fast running in there," said the prince uneasily; "I'll waken up and find that girl married to me some day."
Từ trong câu: running, fast, find, make, run, prince, uneasily, up
Rebecca Harding Davis, Frances Waldeaux: A Novel - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
They were waiting their chance, some swimming in the Marne, others catching baseball, when the call came, and the response was five times the number needed.
Từ trong câu: baseball, wait, chance, swim, other, catch, call, come
Francis J., 1867-1937 [Editor] Reynolds, The Story of the Great War, Volume 7 American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Somewhere near, a passing bell was tolling; the dogs all round the neighbourhood were howling; and in our shrubbery, seemingly just outside, a nightingale was singing.
Từ trong câu: neighbourhood, toll, singing, neighborhood, somewhere, near, pass, bell
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The poor fellow was quite broken down; now and again he gave a low groan which he could not suppress--he was thinking of his wife.
Từ trong câu: suppress, poor, fellow, quite, break, down, now, again
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
As she spoke I could see her husband’s face darken and draw together, as though the passion in him were shrivelling his being to its core.
Từ trong câu: core, speak, see, face, draw, together, though, passion
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But all the time that so great child-brain of his was growing, and he began to consider whether he might not himself move the box.
Từ trong câu: growing, whether, time, great, child, brain, grow, begin
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Something in the wistful glances of the little street urchins stirred him strangely as he was passing by, a little girl on either side of him.
Từ trong câu: wistful, something, glance, little, street, stir, strangely, pass
Belle Moses, Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home: The Story of His Life - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was full of speculation that night about the condition of Mars, and scoffed at the vulgar idea of its having inhabitants who were signalling us.
Từ trong câu: speculation, full, night, condition, idea, signal
H. G. Wells, The war of the worlds - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.
Từ trong câu: profit, sell, man, run, away, rest, paper, panic
H. G. Wells, The war of the worlds - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Thus sunken, and seen in remote perspective, they appeared far less formidable than the huge iron bulk in whose wake the steamer was pitching so helplessly.
Từ trong câu: thus, formidable, perspective, see, remote, appear, far, less
H. G. Wells, The war of the worlds - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The Emperor was never so amiable nor so communicative, and one felt that he was endeavoring to prepare his most devoted friends for some overwhelming news.
Từ trong câu: communicative, emperor, never, feel, prepare, devote, friend, overwhelm
Various, Complete Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Jon had an unreal feeling as if he were passing through the scene in a book where the lover has to choose between love and duty.
Từ trong câu: unreal, feel, pass, scene, book, lover, choose, love
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Soames had gone to look at a patch of ground on which the Local Authorities were proposing to erect a Sanatorium for people with weak lungs.
Từ trong câu: patch, authority, erect, lung, go, look, ground, local
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Presently, seeing that she had finished reading and was standing quite still with the sheets of the letter against her skirt, he came back to her.
Từ trong câu: skirt, see, finish, read, stand, quite, still, sheet
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
As modern life became faster, looser, younger, Soames was becoming older, slower, tighter, more and more in thought and language like his father James before him.
Từ trong câu: language, modern, life, become, fast, loose, young, old
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He had come back from the window, and was standing close to her, who, in the curve of her grand piano, was, as it were, embayed.
Từ trong câu: piano, come, back, window, stand, close, curve, grand
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When each party had related the day's adventures, and while my wife was cooking the crawfish, we went to bring our store of planks to land.
Từ trong câu: party, relate, adventure, wife, cook, go, bring, store
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
There to our joy we found that all the plants were flourishing, and crops of gourds and pumpkins, in all stages of ripeness, covered the ground.
Từ trong câu: joy, find, plant, crop, stage, cover, ground
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
He had walked in imagination through three of the cabinet rooms and was turning mentally into a fourth, when he found himself starting again quite violently.
Từ trong câu: cabinet, mentally, violently, walk, imagination, room, turn, find
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US