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Then I was lying half asleep in the cold lower level of the Pennsylvania Station, staring at the morning Tribune, and waiting for the four o’clock train.
Từ trong câu: level, station, lie, half, asleep, cold, low, stare
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Evidently he lived in this vicinity, for he told me that he had just bought a hydroplane, and was going to try it out in the morning.
Từ trong câu: vicinity, evidently, live, tell, buy, go, try, out
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
One of the girls in yellow was playing the piano, and beside her stood a tall, red-haired young lady from a famous chorus, engaged in song.
Từ trong câu: piano, tall, girl, yellow, play, beside, stand, red
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea.
Từ trong câu: cloud, golden, above, rain, still, fall, darkness, part
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Crossing his lawn, I saw that his front door was still open and he was leaning against a table in the hall, heavy with dejection or sleep.
Từ trong câu: heavy, crossing, cross, lawn, saw, front, door, still
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
While he was talking, one of the men-at-arms of the noble entered, and notified to Frion that his lord desired an instant interview with him.
Từ trong câu: notify, talk, man, arm, noble, enter, desire, instant
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
From the hand of the queen of the feast he was receiving his reward, when Surrey, who had led him to her throne, was suddenly called away.
Từ trong câu: feast, hand, queen, receive, reward, lead, suddenly, call
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He had wasted much time here; and now the Cornish insurgents being quelled, the earl of Surrey was marching northwards, at the head of forty thousand men.
Từ trong câu: quell, waste, much, time, now, march, head, forty
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Already the cottagers were enjoying its fragrance, and Edmund, as he alighted, beheld the object of his journey--the fair-haired stripling prince and his protectress Madeline.
Từ trong câu: fragrance, already, enjoy, object, journey, fair, hair, prince
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
To completely verify my suspicions that I was being shadowed, I went the next day into the "F and F," a well-known caterer on Prince's Street.
Từ trong câu: caterer, completely, verify, suspicion, go, next, day, well
Armgaard Karl Graves, The Secrets of the German War Office - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Before the gray mists had been totally obliterated by the sun rays, the regiment was marching in a spread column that was retiring carefully through the woods.
Từ trong câu: totally, gray, sun, ray, march, spread, column, retire
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The general, whom the boys knew as the commander of their division, looked at the other officer and spoke coolly, as if he were criticising his clothes.
Từ trong câu: criticize, general, boy, know, commander, division, look, officer
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The soldiers who had heart to go slowly were continually shaken in their resolves by a knowledge that comrades were slipping with speed back to the lines.
Từ trong câu: slip, soldier, heart, go, slowly, continually, shake, resolve
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The youth noted with vague surprise that the lieutenant was standing mutely with his legs far apart and his sword held in the manner of a cane.
Từ trong câu: cane, youth, note, vague, surprise, stand, leg, far
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“This,” said the man: “I saw three boys: two others and the prisoner here: loitering on the opposite side of the way, when this gentleman was reading.
Từ trong câu: prisoner, man, saw, boy, other, opposite, side, way
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The family had left that part a week before; they had called in such trifling debts as were outstanding, discharged them, and left the place by night.
Từ trong câu: debt, outstanding, discharge, family, leave, part, week, call
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was leaning back again on her cushions, twisting her fingers in her lap in the way peculiar to her when she was troubled or thinking deeply.
Từ trong câu: deeply, lean, back, again, cushion, twist, finger, lap
John Galsworthy, Jocelyn - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The fire was blazing outside, as they had lots of kerosene, and with all the forms, chairs, texts, clothes and books the street was a veritable bonfire.
Từ trong câu: kerosene, fire, blaze, outside, lot, form, chair, text
George Whitfield Ray, Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
An' Cairill wronged Keevan of Emhain Abhlach, of the blood of Angus of the great people when he was sleeping in the likeness of a pale reed.
Từ trong câu: reed, likeness, wrong, blood, great, people, sleep, pale
Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The whole building looked to me as if it were learning to swim; it conducted itself in such an unaccountable manner, when I tried to steady it.
Từ trong câu: swim, whole, build, look, learn, conduct, itself, manner
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I happened to turn my eyes towards this place, as I was thinking of many things; and I saw a figure beyond, dressed in a plain cloak.
Từ trong câu: cloak, happen, turn, eye, toward, place, think, many
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
As we struggled on, nearer and nearer to the sea, from which this mighty wind was blowing dead on shore, its force became more and more terrific.
Từ trong câu: terrific, struggle, near, sea, mighty, wind, blow, dead
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Joseph was bending over the fire, peering into a large pan that swung above it; and a wooden bowl of oatmeal stood on the settle close by.
Từ trong câu: pan, bowl, wooden, bend, fire, peer, large, swing
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She soon heard me: she was milking the cows in a shed behind the barn, and hurrying from her work, she inquired what there was to do?
Từ trong câu: shed, soon, hear, milk, cow, behind, barn, hurry
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And so he struggled to encompass a similar hold with the left hand, and in a few moments Terkoz’s bull neck was creaking beneath a full-Nelson.
Từ trong câu: encompass, struggle, similar, hold, leave, hand, moment, bull
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When the burner was lit, Ardan leaned over the bodies of his companions: they were lying one on the other, an inert mass, Nicholl above, Barbicane underneath.
Từ trong câu: inert, underneath, light, lean, body, lie, mass, above
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Air, that medium of sound, was wanting to transmit the groanings of that moon which the Arabic legends call “a man already half granite, and still breathing.”
Từ trong câu: legend, transmit, air, medium, sound, want, moon, call
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I was unwilling to quit the sight of those that remained to me, and above all, I desired to see my sweet Elizabeth in some degree consoled.
Từ trong câu: unwilling, quit, sight, remain, above, desire, see, sweet
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Midway over, Hugh Ferryman was swimming with his upturned boat, while John-a-Fenne, furious at the ill-fortune of his shot, bawled to him to hurry.
Từ trong câu: swimming, swim, boat, furious, ill, fortune, shot, hurry
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When I came to again, I was sitting under an oak tree, on the grass, with a whole beautiful and broad country landscape all to myself--nearly.
Từ trong câu: grass, oak, landscape, come, again, sit, tree, whole
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US