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If a ship’s cook that was turning settler, Mas’r Davy, didn’t make offers fur to marry Missis Gummidge, I’m Gormed--and I can’t say no fairer than that!’
Từ trong câu: settler, cook, turn, make, offer, fur, marry, fair
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“No, I’m not hungry,” he answered, averting his head, and speaking rather contemptuously, as if he guessed I was trying to divine the occasion of his good humour.
Từ trong câu: divine, contemptuously, hungry, answer, head, speak, rather, guess
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Again, when the lawyers were making inquiry for the missing document, it was a by-word that it would never be found, unless in the wizard’s skeleton hand.
Từ trong câu: skeleton, lawyer, missing, again, make, inquiry, miss, document
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She knocked again, and a third time; and, listening intently, fancied that the floor creaked, as if Hepzibah were coming, with her ordinary tiptoe movement, to admit her.
Từ trong câu: intently, knock, again, third, time, listen, fancy, floor
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Ere he had scarce finished his little speech he had turned and was limping off toward the forecastle with the very apparent intention of forestalling any further conversation.
Từ trong câu: speech, apparent, finish, little, turn, off, toward, intention
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was moving carelessly along a winding jungle trail, instead of making his progress through the trees, when suddenly he came face to face with a black warrior.
Từ trong câu: carelessly, winding, move, wind, jungle, trail, instead, make
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
So low she was crouching now that she seemed flattened to the earth except for the upward bend of the glossy back as it gathered for the spring.
Từ trong câu: upward, low, now, seem, earth, except, bend, back
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Only last night at dear Lady Jansen’s every one was saying how extraordinary it was that, of all men in London, Windermere should behave in such a way.
Từ trong câu: extraordinary, last, night, dear, lady, every, say, man
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The eye, dazzled as if it was leaning over a bath of molten silver, turned from it involuntarily; but the oblong form of the orb was quite clear.
Từ trong câu: bath, involuntarily, eye, lean, silver, turn, form, quite
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die.
Từ trong câu: whether, well, think, high, time, mr, make, up
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
All about the Moat House feet were running, doors were opening and slamming, and still the voice of Sir Daniel towered above all this bustle, shouting for "Joanna."
Từ trong câu: bustle, house, foot, run, door, open, still, voice
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Meanwhile, young Shelton was going on heartily enough with his breakfast, when he felt a touch upon his arm, and a very soft voice whispering in his ear.
Từ trong câu: breakfast, meanwhile, young, go, enough, feel, touch, arm
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
By this time the tucket was sounding cheerily in the morning, and from all sides Sir Daniel's men poured into the main street and formed before the inn.
Từ trong câu: main, time, sound, morning, side, sir, man, pour
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Presently, sure enough, and while his captors were still discussing what to do with him, he took heart of grace, and, with a pretty steady voice, addressed them.
Từ trong câu: discuss, sure, enough, still, take, heart, grace, pretty
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The confused mass of sound which they rolled up as high as to the moon was partly comical and partly terrifying to the fugitive whom they were hunting.
Từ trong câu: terrifying, hunting, confuse, mass, sound, roll, up, high
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The king winced under this accidental home-shot, but kept still; he was learning his part; and he was playing it well, too, for a pretty dull beginner.
Từ trong câu: accidental, beginner, learning, king, home, shot, keep, still
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I woke Clarence and told him the great ditch was filling up with men, and that I believed all the knights were coming for us in a body.
Từ trong câu: filling, wake, tell, great, fill, up, man, believe
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
‘You don’t mean to tell a honest man—’ he was recommencing with his empty glass in his hand, when his eye became fascinated by the stranger’s outer coat.
Từ trong câu: fascinated, mean, tell, honest, man, empty, glass, hand
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
At that particular moment, being newly come to the threshold to take a look out of doors, she was winding herself up with both hands after this fashion.
Từ trong câu: threshold, winding, particular, moment, newly, come, take, look
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
So, they got back to the village as Lizzie Hexam was coming from the paper-mill, and Bella detached herself to speak with her in her own home.
Từ trong câu: detach, get, back, village, come, paper, mill, herself
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They hurled stones, wielded sticks and clubs and whips, administered slaps and clouts, and, when they touched him, were cunning to hurt with pinch and twist and wrench.
Từ trong câu: wrench, stone, stick, club, administer, touch, hurt, twist
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Withdrawn from the immediate scramble of the other dogs—in fact out of sight behind a thicket—he was devouring his prize, when Baseek rushed in upon him.
Từ trong câu: prize, withdrawn, withdraw, scramble, immediate, dog, fact, out
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The dog was thoroughly alive to its danger, but it was running on the outer circle while the wolf-pack was running on the inner and shorter circle.
Từ trong câu: inner, outer, dog, thoroughly, alive, danger, run, circle
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Taking the sled as the centre of the circle that One Ear was making, Bill planned to tap that circle at a point in advance of the pursuit.
Từ trong câu: tap, plan, take, center, circle, ear, make, bill
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
So there was no damming up the tide of life that was rising within him—rising with every mouthful of meat he swallowed, with every breath he drew.
Từ trong câu: tide, up, life, rise, every, meat, breath, draw
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It kind of froze everybody’s blood to hear it, and the house was ’most as still whilst he was telling it as if there warn’t nobody in it.
Từ trong câu: blood, whilst, freeze, kind, hear, house, still, tell
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At this Mr Vladimir, smiling faintly at the documents he was still scanning one after another, murmured “As long as it is not written in Latin, I suppose.”
Từ trong câu: written, scan, document, mr, smile, still, another, long
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
On the other hand, he admitted to himself that it was difficult to preserve one’s reputation if rank outsiders were going to take a hand in the business.
Từ trong câu: rank, hand, admit, himself, difficult, preserve, reputation, go
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“I concealed myself in the dark dressing room, that opened upon the poor patient’s room, in which a candle was burning, and watched there till she was fast asleep.
Từ trong câu: burn, candle, fast, burning, myself, dark, dress, room
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes.
Từ trong câu: pace, rapidly, grow, fast, room, dark, length, long
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US