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Meanwhile Dete had arrived and was waiting in the hall, wondering what extraordinary event had come to pass for her to be sent for at such an unusual hour.
Từ trong câu: extraordinary, meanwhile, arrive, wait, hall, wonder, event, come
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
Sebastian and Tinette must have possessed this faculty in a high degree, for even as the doctor was going downstairs, Tinette, who had been rung for, entered Clara's room.
Từ trong câu: faculty, possessed, possess, high, degree, even, doctor, go
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
Now Dete was not quite easy in her own conscience about what she was doing, and consequently was feeling hot and irritable, and said more than she had intended.
Từ trong câu: consequently, intend, now, quite, easy, conscience, do, feel
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
Brigitta was just hanging out Peter's second shirt in the sun, so that he might have it ready to put on when he had worn the other long enough.
Từ trong câu: hanging, worn, shirt, hang, out, second, sun, ready
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
With trembling fingers she was draping about her aunt's shoulders the fleecy folds of a beautiful lace shawl, yellowed from long years of packing away, and fragrant with lavender.
Từ trong câu: packing, yellow, pack, finger, shoulder, fold, beautiful, long
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She was always being glad about something; and then, one day, she told us why, and about the game, you know; and tried to coax us to play it.
Từ trong câu: coax, always, glad, something, day, tell, game, know
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When she looked up from her page she saw that Becky had heard the sound also, as she had turned her head to look and was listening rather nervously.
Từ trong câu: nervously, look, up, page, saw, hear, sound, turn
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Sara looked out of the window into the dingy square, where the sparrows were hopping and twittering on the wet, iron railings and the sooty branches of the trees.
Từ trong câu: tree, branch, look, out, window, square, wet, iron
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
This was the result of a charitable recollection of having heard Miss Amelia say that Lavinia was growing so fast that she believed it affected her health and temper.
Từ trong câu: charitable, affect, result, recollection, hear, miss, grow, fast
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
On hearing this our author slipped back to the garden, where he hid himself to listen to Remenyi, who, to his great disgust, was playing a concerto of Bach's.
Từ trong câu: concerto, hear, author, slip, back, garden, hide, himself
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A white cat was staring at some gold-fish, she sat very, very still, but now and then the tip of her tail twitched as if it were alive.
Từ trong câu: tip, stare, now, tail, alive, cat, were, if
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The world could no longer regard justice as a cube, and was learning to see, though imperfectly, that the abstractions of sense were distinct from the abstractions of mind.
Từ trong câu: cube, world, long, regard, justice, learn, see, though
428? BCE-348? BCE Plato, The Republic - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The latter was holding the umbrella over her head, and they had evidently been paying a visit to the vicar—probably on some business connected with the school work.
Từ trong câu: connect, latter, hold, umbrella, head, evidently, pay, visit
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
A band was playing, and the crowd walked about and jostled each other, and every now and then a man got upon a platform and sang a comic song.
Từ trong câu: song, comic, band, play, crowd, walk, every, now
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He took it as a good omen that numerous blocks of stone were lying about, which signified that the cathedral was undergoing restoration or repair to a considerable extent.
Từ trong câu: numerous, extent, restoration, undergo, block, considerable, take, good
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
I only heard of it as a certainty just before I left; though I had thought things were drifting that way from their manner when I called on them.”
Từ trong câu: certainty, hear, leave, though, think, thing, drift, way
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Some of the drivers were already speeding their horses, and these shot to and fro on inner lines, between the slowly moving vehicles on either side of the road.
Từ trong câu: vehicle, driver, already, speed, horse, shot, inner, line
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When I found what they were doing there, and that it was an earnest Christian school, my whole soul was uplifted, and I determined to seek for better things.
Từ trong câu: uplifted, find, do, earnest, christian, school, whole, soul
Various, The American Missionary: Volume 44, No. 04, April, 1890 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The dream by itself would have been a trifle, but while she was dreaming the window of the nursery blew open, and a boy did drop on the floor.
Từ trong câu: trifle, dream, itself, window, nursery, blow, open, boy
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The very feel of her hand, even through its glove, was reassuring; it was the sort of hand, he thought, that children would like to hold in the dark.
Từ trong câu: glove, reassure, feel, hand, even, sort, think, child
Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They said nothing aloud, because nothing would have been heard above the whip-cracking and the wheel-clattering and the boisterous inciting noises Beppo was making at his horse.
Từ trong câu: noise, nothing, aloud, because, hear, above, whip, crack
Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Enchanted April - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Trina and the dentist, who had gone to bed, were partially dressed, and Trina's enormous mane of black hair was hanging in two thick braids far down her back.
Từ trong câu: partially, dentist, go, bed, dress, enormous, black, hair
Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
One of the men, a big mulatto, almost hidden under the mass of glistening rosewood, was guiding its course, while the other two heaved and tugged in the rear.
Từ trong câu: guide, hidden, man, big, almost, mass, course, rear
Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The waiter from the cheap restaurant, hired as Maria's assistant, rose from a bending posture, a champagne bottle frothing in his hand; he was grinning from ear to ear.
Từ trong câu: posture, waiter, cheap, restaurant, hire, assistant, rise, bend
Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
But she had no idea where she had last put the book, and something told her that it was going to play her its usual trick and remain invisible.
Từ trong câu: invisible, play, trick, idea, last, put, book, something
Edith Wharton, Summer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The moon was setting beyond the opposite roofs, and in the darkness outlined against the grey square of the window, she saw a figure seated in the rocking-chair.
Từ trong câu: outline, setting, moon, set, beyond, opposite, roof, darkness
Edith Wharton, Summer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
She did not know why he was going; but since he was going she felt she must do nothing to deface the image of her that he carried away.
Từ trong câu: image, know, go, since, feel, nothing, carry, away
Edith Wharton, Summer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Through street after street and square after square went whirling this preposterous vehicle, in which the fare was urging the horse and the driver trying desperately to stop it.
Từ trong câu: vehicle, driver, urge, fare, street, square, go, horse
G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Sometimes he saw for an instant that these notions were subjective, that he was only looking at ordinary men, one of whom was old, another nervous, another short-sighted.
Từ trong câu: nervous, subjective, sometimes, saw, instant, notion, look, ordinary
G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Place both your hands on the temples of the figures; pull as if you were pulling it towards you—and the hearthstone will revolve into its proper position again.
Từ trong câu: proper, pull, revolve, place, hand, figure, toward, position
Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US