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All seemed so grim, so inextricable, and vast, out there in the grey heat and hurry, as though some monstrous devil were sporting with a monstrous ant-heap.
Từ trong câu: sport, vast, heat, devil, seem, grim, out, gray
John Galsworthy, Fraternity - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A girl in grey was standing there--thin, delicate, rather plain, with a nose ever so little to one side, lips faintly smiling, and large, shining, greenish eyes.
Từ trong câu: plain, girl, gray, stand, thin, delicate, rather, nose
John Galsworthy, Fraternity - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And the perception that she was not really going to faint, that it was a little desperate wile of this child Delilah, made him wrench away his hands.
Từ trong câu: perception, wrench, really, go, faint, little, desperate, child
John Galsworthy, Fraternity - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But alongside her dread there was guttering within her the undying resolution not to 'let him go from her, if it were ever so, to that young girl.'
Từ trong câu: resolution, alongside, dread, let, go, ever, young, girl
John Galsworthy, Fraternity - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Literally thousands of army trucks and official cars were passing through this station in a constant stream, either to be quickly repaired or thrown into the junk heap.
Từ trong câu: junk, literally, army, truck, official, car, pass, station
William Benjamin West, The Fight for the Argonne: Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She was smiling back at him now, relaxing the tension of her attitude, and admitting him, by imperceptible gradations of glance and manner, a step farther toward intimacy.
Từ trong câu: relax, imperceptible, relaxing, tension, smile, back, now, attitude
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Trenor, a little heated by his unusual flow of words, and perhaps by prolonged propinquity with the decanters, was bending over the latter to decipher their silver labels.
Từ trong câu: heat, silver, label, little, unusual, flow, word, perhaps
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
How much of it was owing to the spell of the perfect afternoon, the scent of the fading woods, the thought of the dulness she had fled from?
Từ trong câu: owing, much, owe, spell, perfect, afternoon, scent, fade
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He has been very attentive to us, and hardly a day has passed that he has not called at the Hall to see how we were getting on.
Từ trong câu: attentive, hardly, day, pass, call, hall, see, get
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“I thought as much—and knowing your admirable tenacity I was convinced that you were sitting in ambush, a weapon within reach, waiting for the tenant to return.
Từ trong câu: tenant, admirable, convinced, convince, weapon, tenacity, think, much
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Mrs. Orr seemed to be taking a very pessimistic view of our present sphere of action, which Mr. Browning, with poetic coloring, was trying to paint more hopeful.
Từ trong câu: pessimistic, mr, seem, take, view, present, sphere, action
Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 [Editor] Stanton, History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
How could she expect anything from John when he was being carefully trained in the very principles which everywhere made the Americans so irritating to the Mexican government.
Từ trong câu: irritating, principle, train, expect, anything, carefully, everywhere, make
Amelia E. Barr, Remember the Alamo - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She was urging and kissing the trembling woman, and dressing her in despite of her faint effort to delay--to call Rachela--to bring Luis to her room.
Từ trong câu: despite, urge, kiss, woman, dress, faint, effort, delay
Amelia E. Barr, Remember the Alamo - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
There was panic in the parlours and howling in the halls, There was crying in the cow-sheds and shrieking in the stalls, When the Toad—came—home!
Từ trong câu: panic, hall, cry, cow, come, home
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were investigating one of the hummocky bits the Rat had spoken of, when suddenly the Mole tripped up and fell forward on his face with a squeal.
Từ trong câu: investigate, bit, rat, speak, suddenly, mole, trip, up
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
On this side of the hills was now the real blank, on the other lay the crowded and coloured panorama that his inner eye was seeing so clearly.
Từ trong câu: blank, panorama, hill, inner, side, now, real, lay
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They further claimed that twenty-two French aviators had been shot down by aerial attacks and antiaircraft fire and that eleven aeroplanes were lying behind the German lines.
Từ trong câu: antiaircraft, further, claim, twenty, shot, down, attack, fire
Francis J., 1867-1937 [Editor] Reynolds, The Story of the Great War, Volume 6 History of the European War from Official Sources - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
This injection of peace considerations into the war situation, before the United States had really entered the lists with troops and guns, was taking time by the forelock.
Từ trong câu: injection, peace, consideration, war, situation, unite, state, really
Francis J., 1867-1937 [Editor] Reynolds, The Story of the Great War, Volume 6 History of the European War from Official Sources - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The burn ran dark and brown and cool in deep shade, but the sea beyond was glowing in light, and the laburnum-blossoms hung like cocoons of sunbeams.
Từ trong câu: cocoon, burn, run, dark, brown, cool, deep, shade
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, August 1877 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They must have developed for themselves what might be called a sixth sense--a power of feeling in the air what the men about were thinking of them.
Từ trong câu: developed, develop, themselves, call, sense, power, feel, air
Harold Frederic, The Market-Place - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
A fitful, gusty wind was blowing from the east, and ever and again it gathered dust in eddying swoops from the roadway, and flung it in his face.
Từ trong câu: dust, east, wind, blow, ever, again, gather, face
Harold Frederic, The Market-Place - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
I knew a young fellow once, who was studying to play the bagpipes, and you would be surprised at the amount of opposition he had to contend with.
Từ trong câu: opposition, amount, know, young, fellow, once, study, play
Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
From this they immediately jumped to the conclusion that it was I, their beloved companion, who was making an exhibition of himself, and their delight knew no bounds.
Từ trong câu: conclusion, beloved, delight, exhibition, bound, immediately, jump, companion
Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Out in the centre of the slough there was a slight current, and in our excitement we failed to notice that it was drifting us into the river.
Từ trong câu: center, fail, centre, slight, excitement, out, current, notice
Jack London, Before Adam - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
We were standing on a narrow, irregular, all too slanting little ledge, and should doubtless have ignominiously slipped off and broken our rash necks but for the vine.
Từ trong câu: rash, ignominiously, neck, irregular, slip, stand, narrow, little
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As soon as it was known you were coming, sir, I got the appointment; and I’ve been up and down since then like a Jack-in-the-box.
Từ trong câu: appointment, soon, know, come, sir, get, up, down
Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The night was falling; through an embrasure and across the gardened valley I saw the lamplighters hasting along Princes Street with ladder and lamp, and looked on moodily.
Từ trong câu: ladder, valley, night, fall, across, garden, saw, street
Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
By the next day they had left the tall poplars and white roads behind them, and were crossing the land of low shiny black helmets and brass spikes.
Từ trong câu: road, shiny, crossing, tall, helmet, land, brass, next
Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was about three miles, and the ocean was rather rough, and when they slowed up he asked them if it was raining in London when they left.
Từ trong câu: rough, rain, mile, ocean, rather, slow, up, ask
Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Inside of the open windows that led out on to the balcony her sisters were taking off their ornaments, and discussing the incidents of the night just over.
Từ trong câu: discuss, inside, open, window, lead, out, balcony, sister
Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US