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Here he was compelled to violate his instinct of self-preservation, and violate it he did, for he was becoming tame and qualifying himself for civilisation.
Từ trong câu: civilization, tame, civilisation, qualify, violate, instinct, self, preservation
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The King was lying there in bed; our doctor from Tarlenheim was in attendance on him, and whispered to me that my visit must be brief.
Từ trong câu: brief, attendance, king, lie, bed, doctor, whisper, visit
Anthony Hope, The prisoner of Zenda - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In the middle of the salon, on a handsome oval table, which had for legs six gilded statuettes of great beauty, a wax candle was burning.
Từ trong câu: salon, middle, handsome, oval, table, leg, six, great
Mary Frances Sandars, Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Mrs Verloc’s doubts as to the end of the bargain no longer existed; her wits, no longer disconnected, were working under the control of her will.
Từ trong câu: bargain, disconnect, control, mrs, doubt, end, long, exist
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was leaning back in her seat, her fine eyes under their long lashes gazing on me in contemplation, and she smiled in a kind of rapture.
Từ trong câu: rapture, seat, lean, back, fine, eye, long, gaze
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I find that the Count Angelo Capello is opposed to our creed--is a teetotaler, in fact, and was not intending to apply for membership with us.
Từ trong câu: membership, oppose, apply, intend, find, count, fact
Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Anne longed for the power of representing to them all what they were about, and of pointing out some of the evils they were exposing themselves to.
Từ trong câu: expose, represent, long, power, point, out, evil, themselves
Jane Austen, Persuasion - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A sudden recollection seemed to occur, and to give him some taste of that emotion which was reddening Anne’s cheeks and fixing her eyes on the ground.
Từ trong câu: ground, sudden, recollection, seem, occur, give, taste, emotion
Jane Austen, Persuasion - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A column of thick, acrid smoke—the kind always made by black powder—was arising through the open companion-way, and down through it leaped Wolf Larsen.
Từ trong câu: column, thick, smoke, kind, always, make, black, powder
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Maud was waiting patiently for me, and I took notice, with a thrill of joy, of the queenly poise of her head and her glorious, calm eyes.
Từ trong câu: patiently, glorious, wait, take, notice, thrill, joy, poise
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
“You know I was travelling to Japan for my health,” she said, as we lingered at the fire after dinner and delighted in the movelessness of loafing.
Từ trong câu: delighted, know, travel, health, fire, dinner, delight
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
I had looked for almost any sort of explosion on the Cockney’s part, but to my surprise he did not appear aware of what I was doing.
Từ trong câu: explosion, look, almost, sort, part, surprise, appear, aware
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!”
Từ trong câu: player, time, play, queen, never, leave, off, shout
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.
Từ trong câu: spell, know, wait, like, outside, light, long, power
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Upheld by the momentum of the time, Tess knew nothing of this, did not see anything, did not know the road they were taking to the church.
Từ trong câu: momentum, time, know, nothing, see, anything, road, take
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
All the servantry of the dairy were standing in the red-brick entry to see them go out, the dairyman and his wife following to the door.
Từ trong câu: entry, stand, red, brick, see, go, out, wife
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
“I couldn’ make nobody hear at all by knocking,” apologized Jonathan Kail, for it was he at last; “and as’t was raining out I opened the door.
Từ trong câu: apologize, could, make, nobody, hear, knock, last, rain
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
His thought had been unsuspended; he was becoming ill with thinking; eaten out with thinking, withered by thinking; scourged out of all his former pulsating, flexuous domesticity.
Từ trong câu: domesticity, think, become, ill, eat, out, former
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
His mood transmuted itself into a dogged indifference till at length he fancied he was looking on his own existence with the passive interest of an outsider.
Từ trong câu: outsider, passive, mood, itself, dog, indifference, till, length
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
She gave him brief particulars; and responding to further inquiries told him that she was intending to go back by the same carrier who had brought her.
Từ trong câu: carrier, respond, give, brief, particular, further, inquiry, tell
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
With a shrug of astonishment, the cook led the way to a rough board table where a broad, square-shouldered man was bending over some account-books.
Từ trong câu: broad, shrug, astonishment, cook, lead, way, rough, board
Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Presently, before he saw she was there, she was coming down the aisle toward him, playing compellingly, and rifts of light were touching her with golden glory.
Từ trong câu: golden, compellingly, saw, come, down, aisle, toward, play
Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
His heart tugged in his breast as he mentally measured the print, but he did not linger, for now the feeling arose that he was being watched.
Từ trong câu: linger, heart, breast, mentally, measure, print, now, feel
Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The teamsters were unloading, the horses were cropping leaves from the bushes, while each man was doing his part toward the construction of the new Limberlost quarters.
Từ trong câu: quarter, unload, crop, horse, leaf, man, do, part
Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was foggy and very dark, and involved as I was in the mazes of the forest, I did not know in what direction I was going.
Từ trong câu: foggy, dark, involve, forest, know, direction, go
American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle, if he had been aware of it.
Từ trong câu: battle, make, himself, believe, go, get, well, really
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was Thanksgiving-Day, too, and they had almost all of them "lotted" upon a New-England Thanksgiving-dinner with old friends, brothers, fathers, mothers, and grandparents.
Từ trong câu: grandparent, day, almost, new, dinner, old, friend, brother
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Phraates had been treacherously murdered by his children, and Orodes having taken the kingdom in turn had expelled Mithridates his brother from Media, which he was governing.
Từ trong câu: treacherously, murder, child, take, kingdom, turn, brother, media
165?-235? Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As soon as she had recovered her breath a little, she called out to the White King, who was sitting sulkily among the ashes, “Mind the volcano!”
Từ trong câu: volcano, recover, soon, breath, little, call, out, white
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
However, though she could see nothing but the soles of his feet, she was much relieved to hear that he was talking on in his usual tone.
Từ trong câu: relieve, relieved, however, though, see, nothing, foot, much
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US