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Meanwhile he gave ten cents to another man in a silk-sleeved cardigan jacket, who had merely stood by and looked at him while his boots were being polished.
Từ trong câu: polish, boot, cardigan, jacket, meanwhile, give, ten, cent
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The trunks and hand-bags were ready in the hall, and Sister Soulsby was tying up a package of sandwiches for Alice to keep by her in the train.
Từ trong câu: sandwich, package, hand, bag, ready, hall, sister, tie
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
"I could," he said to the poor father, in whose aged eyes, turned to the earth, tears of shame were gushing, "I could have forgiven any thing but that.
Từ trong câu: gushing, poor, father, age, eye, turn, earth, tear
Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine: Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He turned round and found that Wenna's wistful face was looking up to him, with a look in it partly of friendly gladness and partly of anxiety and entreaty.
Từ trong câu: wistful, turn, round, find, face, look, up, partly
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Enjolras, who was still leaning on his elbows at his embrasure, made an affirmative sign with his head, but without taking his eyes from the end of the street.
Từ trong câu: affirmative, still, lean, make, sign, head, take, eye
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, like a busy man.
Từ trong câu: desk, be, turn, again, take, up, leaf, read
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
Both the guards who held Summerlee were down, and he was staggering about like a drunken man in his amazement, unable to realize that he was a free man.
Từ trong câu: staggering, guard, hold, down, like, man, amazement, unable
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Summerlee was weaponless, but I was emptying my magazine as quick as I could fire, and on the further flank we heard the continuous cracking of our companion's rifles.
Từ trong câu: magazine, continuous, empty, quick, fire, further, hear, crack
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He added privately that we were now approaching the door of the unknown country, and that the fewer whom we took into our confidence the better it would be.
Từ trong câu: privately, add, now, approach, door, unknown, country, few
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While he was putting up the other cast and coming down from the chair, the thought crossed my mind that all his personal jewelry was derived from like sources.
Từ trong câu: jewelry, source, put, up, cast, come, down, chair
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The sound was curiously flawed by the wind; and I was listening, and thinking how the wind assailed and tore it, when I heard a footstep on the stair.
Từ trong câu: curiously, flaw, sound, wind, listen, think, tear, hear
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Many a moral for the young,” returned Mr. Wopsle,—and I knew he was going to lug me in, before he said it; “might be deduced from that text.”
Từ trong câu: moral, text, many, young, return, mr, know, go
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Too indifferent at first, even to look round and ascertain who supported me, I was lying looking at the ladder, when there came between me and it a face.
Từ trong câu: support, ladder, indifferent, first, even, look, round, lie
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy labouring-boy.
Từ trong câu: stupid, clumsy, natural, know, lie, wait, wrong, labor
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The terror of his former occasional visits to that room seemed all renewed, and she felt as if he were going to examine her again in French and English.
Từ trong câu: occasional, renew, examine, terror, former, visit, room, seem
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Old Scholey ran in at breakfast-time, to say she had slipped her moorings and was coming out, I jumped up, and made but two steps to the platform.
Từ trong câu: platform, slip, old, run, breakfast, time, come, out
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
While considering her with these ideas, Betsey, at a small distance, was holding out something to catch her eyes, meaning to screen it at the same time from Susan’s.
Từ trong câu: screen, consider, idea, small, distance, hold, out, something
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The party of Pompeius and Crassus fearing this, laid an ambuscade for Domitius as he was going down to the Campus Martius early in the morning, by torch-light.
Từ trong câu: campus, party, fear, lay, go, down, early, morning
46-120? Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4) - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Elizabeth-Jane’s anxiety to know if Farfrae were going away from the town reached a pitch that disturbed her, for she could no longer conceal from herself the cause.
Từ trong câu: conceal, anxiety, know, go, away, town, reach, pitch
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A few score yards brought them to the spot where the town band was now shaking the window-panes with the strains of “The Roast Beef of Old England.”
Từ trong câu: roast, beef, score, yard, bring, spot, town, band
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When last she had seen him he was sitting in a corduroy jacket, fustian waistcoat and breeches, and tanned leather leggings, with a basin of hot furmity before him.
Từ trong câu: tanned, jacket, leather, last, see, sit, waistcoat, leg
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
One afternoon in the beginning of October when the traffic was becoming brisk a tall man strode along the edge of the pavement with a lady on his arm.
Từ trong câu: pavement, afternoon, begin, october, traffic, become, tall, man
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“There’s Hirst,” he concluded, coming to the figure of his friend; with his usual little frown of concentration upon his forehead he was peeling the skin off a banana.
Từ trong câu: banana, concentration, conclude, come, figure, friend, usual, little
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The donkeys were advancing, and it was advisable to begin the descent immediately, for the night fell so quickly that it would be dark before they were home again.
Từ trong câu: advisable, descent, advance, begin, immediately, night, fall, quickly
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They sat down and looked out over the bay; it was very still, the sea was rippling faintly, and lines of green and blue were beginning to stripe it.
Từ trong câu: stripe, bay, sit, down, look, out, still, sea
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She became silent, and sat with her chin on her hands, looking very intent, as if she were facing a real problem which had to be discussed between them.
Từ trong câu: intent, become, silent, sit, chin, hand, look, face
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then she rose, for Mrs. Flushing had seen Hewet too, and was demanding information about rivers and boats which showed that the whole conversation would now come over again.
Từ trong câu: demanding, information, rise, mrs, see, demand, river, boat
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
As usual she seemed to reserve something which she did not say, and Terence was conscious that they disagreed, and, without saying it aloud, were arguing against each other.
Từ trong câu: disagree, usual, seem, reserve, something, conscious, say, aloud
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Hewet picked up one sheet and read, “A lady was walking yesterday in the streets of Westminster when she perceived a cat in the window of a deserted house.
Từ trong câu: cat, desert, pick, up, sheet, read, lady, walk
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Half an hour later, having removed the traces of sleep, they met each other in the hall, and Mrs. Paley observed that she was going to have her tea.
Từ trong câu: removed, half, hour, late, remove, trace, sleep, meet
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US