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All was drawing alow and aloft; everyone was in the bravest spirits because we were now so near an end of the first part of our adventure.
Từ trong câu: because, everyone, draw, spirit, now, near, end, first
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
By this time the schooner and her little consort were gliding pretty swiftly through the water; indeed, we had already fetched up level with the camp-fire.
Từ trong câu: level, time, little, pretty, water, indeed, already, up
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
While the bubbles were yet sparkling on the brim, the doctor's four guests snatched their glasses from the table, and swallowed the contents at a single gulp.
Từ trong câu: gulp, bubble, sparkling, brim, four, guest, glass, table
Frederick William, 1874- [Editor] Roe, English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of the Art of Writing - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
The reddleman would now have been quite invisible, even by daylight; the turves, standing upon him with the heather upwards, looked precisely as if they were growing.
Từ trong câu: growing, now, quite, invisible, even, daylight, stand, upward
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment.
Từ trong câu: saturday, afternoon, november, approach, time, vast, tract, wild
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She remained sitting, though the fluctuation in her look might have told any man who knew her so well as Wildeve that she was thinking of him.
Từ trong câu: fluctuation, remain, sit, though, look, tell, man, know
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Eustacia was leaning against it on the outside, her face covered with her hands, and her head pressing the dewy heather which bearded the bank’s outer side.
Từ trong câu: bearded, lean, outside, face, cover, hand, head, press
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The ape-things were dancing up and down urging the brute on with savage cries, until at last, seeing that I did not throw, he charged us.
Từ trong câu: dancing, dance, ape, thing, up, down, urge, cry
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As I wound up for the delivery, I held my nerves and muscles under absolute command, though the grinning jaws were hurtling toward me at terrific speed.
Từ trong câu: delivery, command, absolute, wind, up, hold, nerve, muscle
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Upon gaining this advantage D’Artagnan was near uttering a cry of surprise; it was not Aramis who was conversing with the nocturnal visitor, it was a woman!
Từ trong câu: nocturnal, gain, advantage, near, cry, surprise, visitor, woman
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“There certainly is one,” said M. de Tréville, who had a tincture of literature, “and Monsieur de Benserade was quoting it to me the other day.
Từ trong câu: literature, certainly, be, quote, day
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He might perhaps have been bought for less; but while D’Artagnan was discussing the price with the dealer, Athos was counting out the money on the table.
Từ trong câu: discuss, dealer, perhaps, buy, less, price, count, out
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Half heaven was pure and stainless: the clouds, now trooping before the wind, which had shifted to the west, were filing off eastward in long, silvered columns.
Từ trong câu: file, eastward, shift, column, half, heaven, pure, cloud
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He bared his wrist, and offered it to me: the blood was forsaking his cheek and lips, they were growing livid; I was distressed on all hands.
Từ trong câu: wrist, offer, blood, cheek, lip, grow, hand
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Hannah entered with the intimation that “a poor lad was come, at that unlikely time, to fetch Mr. Rivers to see his mother, who was drawing away.”
Từ trong câu: unlikely, enter, poor, come, time, fetch, mr, river
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
His execution was conducted with infamous cruelty and brutality, and the life-blood was still gushing from his body when it was flung into "the Croppy's Hole."
Từ trong câu: gushing, execution, conduct, cruelty, life, blood, still, gush
T. D., 1827-1914 [Commentator] Sullivan, Speeches from the Dock; Or, Protests of Irish Patriotism. Part I Speeches delivered after conviction by Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Orr, the brothers Sheares, Robert Emmet, John Martin, William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, Terence Bellew McManus, John Mitchel, Thomas C. Luby, John O'Leary, Charles J. Kickham, Colonel Thomas F. Burke, and Captain Mackay - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He had halted, and was searching through the little vistas offered between the stout gray trunks of the beeches for some sign of a more sophisticated sort.
Từ trong câu: sophisticated, sophisticate, search, little, offer, gray, sign, sort
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“Why, you know we were talking only the other day of what a pity it was that none of our own people went out washing,” she said.
Từ trong câu: wash, know, talk, day, pity, none, people, go
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
One day, when the Emperor had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the anteroom, found himself present when His Majesty passed.
Từ trong câu: uncle, day, emperor, come, visit, worthy, wait, find
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
When he recovered himself, his first impulse was to follow the man; who knows whether he did not hold at last the clue which he was seeking?
Từ trong câu: clue, recover, himself, first, impulse, follow, man, know
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
Soon the neighborhood was echoing and reverberating as the call, "Tell Aunt Julia somebody wants to see her at her house," was repeated from cabin to cabin.
Từ trong câu: reverberate, soon, neighborhood, echo, call, tell, aunt, somebody
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
"It seems that they were just buying mileage from time to time and staying on the train to be able to get off where I got off.
Từ trong câu: mileage, seem, buy, time, stay, train, able, get
United States. Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Out of this self-conscious introspection, grew that sterility of soul and mind, that dwindling of capacity, and individuality, which Amiel felt was taking place within him.
Từ trong câu: sterility, out, self, conscious, grow, soul, mind, capacity
Arachne, Cobwebs of Thought - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I was always wandering, but never at rest, sometimes in prison, and sometimes miles away from human habitation, often remorseful, always wondering what the end would be.
Từ trong câu: remorseful, always, wander, never, rest, sometimes, prison, mile
Dave Ranney, Dave Ranney Or, Thirty Years on the Bowery; An Autobiography - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The interview lasted but a few minutes, and she gave me a guinea when I was going, and told me to come again on my next birthday.
Từ trong câu: interview, last, minute, give, go, tell, come, again
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
We had got to the top of Holborn Hill before I knew that it was merely a mechanical appearance, and that he was not smiling at all.
Từ trong câu: mechanical, hill, get, top, know, merely, appearance, smile
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The only independent one among them, he warned her that she was doing too much for this man, and was placing herself too unreservedly in his power.
Từ trong câu: independent, among, warn, do, much, man, place, herself
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was arranging his fruit in plates while we talked, which divided his attention, and was the cause of his having made this lapse of a word.
Từ trong câu: lapse, divide, arrange, divided, fruit, plate, talk, attention
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In the act of dipping forward as if I were going to bathe among the horses, I woke in a fright and took the question up again.
Từ trong câu: bathe, fright, act, forward, go, among, horse, wake
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
On the present festive occasion he emerged from his room, when the blithe bells were going, the picture of misery, in a full suit of Sunday penitentials.
Từ trong câu: picture, emerge, festive, present, occasion, room, bell, go
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US