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On the morrow between nine and half-past they were journeying back to Christminster, the only two occupants of a compartment in a third-class railway-carriage.
Từ trong câu: occupant, nine, half, past, journey, back, compartment, third
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
They passed on into an aisle, at which time the door again opened, and another figure entered—a small one, that of little Time, who was crying.
Từ trong câu: aisle, pass, time, door, again, open, another, figure
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Mrs. Lapham had not known how soon she ought to go, and had no idea that in her quality of chief guest she was keeping the others.
Từ trong câu: chief, mrs, know, soon, ought, go, idea, quality
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When Corey and the book-keeper re-entered the office, Miss Dewey had finished her lunch, and was putting a sheet of paper into her type-writer.
Từ trong câu: sheet, book, keeper, be, enter, office, miss, finish
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They might even feel when their saints' days came around quite correctly the next year that some spurious adventurer--Angel of Darkness--was being foisted upon them.
Từ trong câu: spurious, even, feel, day, come, around, quite, correctly
Various, New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When the gloves were bought, and they had quitted the shop again, “Did you ever hear the young lady we were speaking of, play?” said Frank Churchill.
Từ trong câu: buy, glove, quit, shop, again, ever, hear, young
Jane Austen, Emma - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“I was only going to observe, that though such unfortunate circumstances do sometimes occur both to men and women, I cannot imagine them to be very frequent.
Từ trong câu: frequent, go, observe, though, unfortunate, circumstance, sometimes, occur
Jane Austen, Emma - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
None too soon, Peter, every inch of him on tiptoe, vanished into the cabin; for more than one pirate was screwing up his courage to look round.
Từ trong câu: tiptoe, none, soon, every, inch, cabin, pirate, up
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When Wendy returned diffidently she found Peter sitting on the bed-post crowing gloriously, while Jane in her nighty was flying round the room in solemn ecstasy.
Từ trong câu: ecstasy, return, find, sit, bed, post, fly, round
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A gentleman carrying a gun, with two pointers playing round him, was passing up the hill and within a few yards of Marianne, when her accident happened.
Từ trong câu: yard, accident, gun, gentleman, carry, play, round, pass
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“But, Socrates, as I was telling you, Cratylus mystifies me; I should like to ask him, in your presence, what he means by the fitness of names?”
Từ trong câu: mystify, tell, like, ask, presence, mean, fitness, name
428? BCE-348? BCE Plato, Cratylus - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
And then, while these were clearing themselves away, the double banksia roses came out, and the big summer roses suddenly flaunted gorgeously on the walls and trellises.
Từ trong câu: double, clear, themselves, away, rose, come, out, big
Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Tears of weariness and weakness were dimming her eyes and beginning to run over, but she dared not wipe them away lest he should observe the gesture.
Từ trong câu: observe, tear, weakness, eye, begin, run, dare, wipe
Edith Wharton, Summer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
She was so busy trying to understand the gestures that the clergyman was signalling to her to make that she no longer heard what was being said.
Từ trong câu: signal, busy, try, understand, gesture, make, long, hear
Edith Wharton, Summer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
She ate her supper with a studied show of indifference, but she knew that Mr. Royall was watching her and that her agitation did not escape him.
Từ trong câu: study, indifference, eat, supper, show, know, mr, watch
Edith Wharton, Summer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Dawn was breaking over everything in colours at once clear and timid; as if Nature made a first attempt at yellow and a first attempt at rose.
Từ trong câu: timid, dawn, break, everything, color, once, clear, nature
G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
As his strong common sense arrived at this facetious conclusion, he became aware of a lady, dressed entirely in black, who was observing him with marked attention.
Từ trong câu: marked, dressed, strong, common, sense, arrive, conclusion, become
Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Roderick took no offense, and three minutes afterwards was talking volubly of some humbler theme, but half heeded by his companion, who had returned to his cogitations.
Từ trong câu: theme, take, offense, minute, afterward, talk, half, companion
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The churches were deliciously cool, but the gray streets were stifling, and the great, dove-tailed polygons of pavement as hot to the tread as molten lava.
Từ trong câu: lava, church, cool, gray, street, great, dove, tail
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The great Northampton elms interarched far above in the darkness, but the moon had risen and through scattered apertures was hanging the dusky vault with silver lamps.
Từ trong câu: silver, great, far, above, darkness, moon, rise, scatter
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It seemed to him that he was turning his back on a chance of happiness--happiness of a sort of which the slenderest germ should be cultivated.
Từ trong câu: germ, seem, turn, back, chance, happiness, sort
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He had taken her up in his arms and was singing an infantine rhyme to her, and she was staring at him with big, soft Roman eyes.
Từ trong câu: singing, rhyme, take, up, arm, sing, stare, big
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The little marquise was sweeping the house very busily with a glass, and Newman, supposing that she saw him, determined to go and bid her good evening.
Từ trong câu: sweep, little, house, glass, suppose, saw, determine, go
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Newman renewed acquaintance with him, and learned that Valentin was still sleeping; the surgeon, who had had a fairly tranquil night, was at present sitting with him.
Từ trong câu: fairly, renew, surgeon, acquaintance, learn, still, sleep, tranquil
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Archdale saw that the muzzle was pointed directly at him and that the hand which held it in apparent carelessness was working almost imperceptibly towards the trigger.
Từ trong câu: imperceptibly, saw, point, directly, hand, hold, apparent, carelessness
Various, The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Things began to look ugly. Poor Miles was going to explain, but the officer roughly silenced him, and ordered his men to disarm him and search him.
Từ trong câu: ugly, search, silence, roughly, thing, begin, look, poor
Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“How are you going to be Red Cross Nurses, like you were talking of coming home, if you can't even stand hearing me say about bones crunching?
Từ trong câu: hearing, bone, go, red, cross, nurse, like, talk
E. Nesbit, The Railway Children - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The children, watching his face and Mother's, knew that he was telling her things that made her angry and pitying, and sorry and indignant all at once.
Từ trong câu: indignant, child, watch, face, know, tell, thing, make
E. Nesbit, The Railway Children - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
No one was fussing, but all were working at full pitch; and very few of the men were groaning, but nearly all were gruesomely covered with blood.
Từ trong câu: gruesomely, work, full, pitch, man, nearly, cover, blood
Anonymous, Diary of a nursing sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Twenty-seven men--minor cases--bolted from the church yesterday evening on to the train when the shells were dropping, and were ignominiously sent back this morning.
Từ trong câu: ignominiously, twenty, seven, man, minor, case, bolt, church
Anonymous, Diary of a nursing sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US