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Then he gave up and rode beside her, for she was sending the bay at as sharp a pace as the other horses could keep and hold out.
Từ trong câu: pace, give, up, ride, beside, send, bay, sharp
Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
With her sharp eyes she was watching every detail of construction; but when it came to the stretching of the dining-hall canvas she proceeded to take command.
Từ trong câu: proceed, construction, sharp, eye, watch, every, detail, come
Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When he came back, he said: “I made a big mistake not to be bringing the egg out with the baby, but I was fearing to touch it.
Từ trong câu: mistake, come, back, make, big, bring, egg, out
Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Freckles was trimming his corners as closely as he dared, but if the Angel did not really intend to hit, she was taking risks in a scandalous manner.
Từ trong câu: hit, corner, closely, dare, angel, really, intend, take
Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The head boiler was performing the work of 'striking off;' i.e. of removing the liquor, after it had been sufficiently boiled, from the copper to the coolers.
Từ trong câu: cooler, head, perform, work, strike, off, remove, sufficiently
American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He looked like a boy who had been ill, but he was crying more as if he were tired and cross than as if he were in pain.
Từ trong câu: pain, look, like, boy, ill, cry, tire, cross
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Colin kept lifting his thin chest to draw it in, and his big eyes looked as if it were they which were listening—listening, instead of his ears.
Từ trong câu: chest, keep, lift, thin, draw, big, eye, look
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Mary was sitting on her stool nearby and she suddenly made a very queer sound which she tried so violently to repress that she ended by almost choking.
Từ trong câu: repress, violently, sit, stool, nearby, suddenly, make, queer
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They went through these movements at intervals every day and the robin was never able to explain to his mate what they were doing or tying to do.
Từ trong câu: tie, interval, go, movement, every, day, robin, never
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Because the railway train in which you were coming to a certain place was stopped by a snowstorm, the whole character of your life may have been changed.
Từ trong câu: snowstorm, because, railway, train, come, certain, place, stop
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Little by little, to her own stupefaction, she caught that he was trying to take it as she meant it and that he was neither astonished nor angry.
Từ trong câu: trying, little, catch, try, take, mean, neither, astonished
Henry James, In the Cage - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The two colors flared before my eyes as we shuffled along and crushed the crisp, dead leaves that were tossing in the autumn wind all over Andover Hill.
Từ trong câu: crisp, color, eye, dead, leave, toss, autumn, wind
Ida M., 1857-1944 [Editor] Tarbell, McClure's Magazine December, 1895 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Just about the same time, the sun had gone down behind the Spy-glass, and as the fog was collecting rapidly, it began to grow dark in earnest.
Từ trong câu: collect, time, sun, go, down, behind, spy, glass
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In one, sailors were singing at their work, in another there were men aloft, high over my head, hanging to threads that seemed no thicker than a spider’s.
Từ trong câu: hanging, thread, singing, sing, work, another, man, high
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But in the courage of companionship we mounted the black, narrow-treaded wooden stairs to a box-littered room where white-aproned girls were nailing candy containers together.
Từ trong câu: container, courage, mount, black, narrow, tread, wooden, stair
Ruth Russell, What's the Matter with Ireland? - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
John Thorpe was soon with them, and his voice was with them yet sooner, for on the stairs he was calling out to Miss Morland to be quick.
Từ trong câu: stair, soon, voice, call, out, miss, quick
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Her husband was really deserving of her; independent of his peerage, his wealth, and his attachment, being to a precision the most charming young man in the world.
Từ trong câu: wealth, independent, precision, deserve, husband, really, attachment, charm
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Half a dozen able-bodied men were standing in a line from the well-mouth, holding a rope which passed over the well-roller into the depths below.
Từ trong câu: depth, dozen, half, able, body, man, stand, line
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She appeared to be utterly indifferent to the circumstance that her bonnet, hair, and garments were becoming wet and disarranged by the moisture of her cold, harsh pillow.
Từ trong câu: garment, moisture, pillow, indifferent, appear, utterly, circumstance, hair
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was looking at the pot-flowers on the sill; they had been revived and restored by Thomasin to the state in which his mother had left them.
Từ trong câu: restore, look, pot, flower, state, mother, leave
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And to think that where there was no such thing as time I might easily imagine that my suffering was enduring for months before death finally released me!
Từ trong câu: release, suffering, enduring, think, thing, time, easily, imagine
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At length he spied a dangling creeper about the bigness of one’s wrist, and when I reached the trees he was racing madly up it, hand over hand.
Từ trong câu: wrist, length, reach, tree, race, up, hand
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
During our conversation Ja had taken the paddle and was propelling the skiff with vigorous strokes toward a large island that lay some half-mile from the mainland.
Từ trong câu: vigorous, stroke, conversation, take, paddle, toward, large, island
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She had already donned the gown of silvery silk and blonde, and was winding round her head the long web of lace loosened from my mother's broidery-frame.
Từ trong câu: blonde, already, gown, silk, wind, round, head, long
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Porthos fancied they were mystifying him, and began to curl his mustache and knit his eyebrows; but the knee of Mme. Coquenard gently advised him to be patient.
Từ trong câu: patient, knit, gently, curl, fancy, begin, mustache, knee
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At that moment Buckingham was throwing upon a couch a rich toilet robe, worked with gold, in order to put on a blue velvet doublet embroidered with pearls.
Từ trong câu: couch, moment, throw, rich, toilet, work, gold, order
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Cooler and fresher at the moment the gale seemed to visit my brow: I could have deemed that in some wild, lone scene, I and Jane were meeting.
Từ trong câu: meeting, cooler, fresh, moment, gale, seem, visit, wild
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I was wrong to lose my temper just now, I don’t know what I was thinking of, I went a great deal too far, I said extravagant things.
Từ trong câu: temper, wrong, lose, now, know, think, go, great
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
His youth, which was packing up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire.
Từ trong câu: packing, youth, pack, up, departure, long, time, beat
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and talking politics.
Từ trong câu: customer, female, attend, supper, front, clear, fire, husband
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US