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She had played her great scene, she had made her point, and now she had her eye at the hole in the curtain and she was watching the house!
Từ trong câu: hole, play, great, scene, make, point, now, eye
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Rowland’s lately-deepened sympathy and compassion for Christina was still throbbing in his mind, and he felt that, in loyalty to it, he must say a word for her.
Từ trong câu: loyalty, lately, sympathy, compassion, still, mind, feel, word
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The other day, when I was looking at Michael Angelo’s Moses, I was seized with a kind of defiance--a reaction against all this mere passive enjoyment of grandeur.
Từ trong câu: reaction, day, look, kind, mere, passive, enjoyment
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But the prince looked heavy-eyed toward Rowland and Roderick, to whom the young girl was turning, as if he had much rather his lot were cast with theirs.
Từ trong câu: theirs, prince, look, heavy, eye, toward, young, girl
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I hazard the supposition that she was saying to herself that to be able to drag such a train over a polished floor was a felicity worth any price.
Từ trong câu: hazard, drag, say, herself, able, train, polish, floor
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
M. de Bellegarde made him feel as if he were standing bare-footed on a marble floor; and yet, to gain his desire, Newman felt perfectly able to stand.
Từ trong câu: marble, be, make, feel, stand, bare, foot, floor
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was only twenty minutes before that he had bought the first picture of his life, and now he was already thinking of art-patronage as a fascinating pursuit.
Từ trong câu: fascinating, pursuit, twenty, minute, buy, first, picture, life
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Mrs. Bread had begun to move away from the spot where they were sitting, and he helped her through the aperture in the wall and along the homeward path.
Từ trong câu: homeward, mrs, bread, begin, move, away, spot, sit
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But the dullness of his days pleased him; his melancholy, which was settling into a secondary stage, like a healing wound, had in it a certain acrid, palatable sweetness.
Từ trong câu: secondary, palatable, healing, day, please, melancholy, settle, stage
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As he was only working in the office as a substitute, the return of the absentee deprived him of his place, and he was obliged to seek work elsewhere.
Từ trong câu: absentee, work, office, substitute, return, deprive, place, oblige
Asa Don, 1876-1960 [Editor] Dickinson, Stories of Achievement, Volume IV, Authors and Journalists - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
He was trembling, too; the children could see his big hairy hands shake from side to side, “with quite extra-sized trembles,” to use the subsequent words of Peter.
Từ trong câu: subsequent, hairy, child, see, big, hand, shake, side
E. Nesbit, The Railway Children - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
One day Peter was going down to the village to get buns to celebrate the sensibleness of the Editor of the Children's Globe, when he met the Station Master.
Từ trong câu: globe, editor, celebrate, day, go, down, village, get
E. Nesbit, The Railway Children - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was just stooping down to tie up her bootlace--and though the coal hardly hurt at all it made her not care very much about going on fishing.
Từ trong câu: fishing, down, tie, up, though, coal, hardly, hurt
E. Nesbit, The Railway Children - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I thought it was a good time to talk, so I told him that I really was not gaining here, and that I wished he would take me away.
Từ trong câu: gain, think, good, time, talk, tell, really, wish
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Sambo stood, with his heavy mouth wide open, and aghast with wonder; and Cassy, who was preparing to leave the apartment, stopped, and looked at him in perfect amazement.
Từ trong câu: aghast, amazement, stand, heavy, mouth, wide, open, wonder
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Who thought, as George walked calmly up and down the deck of the steamer, with his shy companion at his side, of all that was burning in his bosom?
Từ trong câu: shy, think, walk, calmly, up, down, deck, companion
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A night or two after this, Legree was sitting in the old sitting-room, by the side of a flickering wood fire, that threw uncertain glances round the room.
Từ trong câu: uncertain, night, sit, old, room, side, wood, fire
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“She did, hey?” said Mr. Shelby, returning to his paper, which he seemed for a few moments quite intent upon, not perceiving that he was holding it bottom upwards.
Từ trong câu: intent, perceive, bottom, hey, mr, return, paper, seem
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At the same moment Winterbourne perceived that his friend Mrs. Walker--the lady whose house he had lately left--was seated in the vehicle and was beckoning to him.
Từ trong câu: lately, whose, moment, perceive, friend, mrs, walker, lady
Henry James, Daisy Miller: A Study - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
If you can say definitely, for example, that some murder has been done by a man who was smoking an Indian lunkah, it obviously narrows your field of search.
Từ trong câu: definitely, obviously, example, murder, man, smoke, narrow, field
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The young girl had walked away, with Lord Lambeth by her side, to whom she was talking still; and Percy Beaumont watched them as they passed toward the house.
Từ trong câu: toward, pass, young, girl, walk, away, side, talk
Henry James, An International Episode - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The daylight meanwhile was beginning to discover to the Iroquois the theft that I was making of myself; I feared that they might surprise me in this innocent misdemeanor.
Từ trong câu: misdemeanor, daylight, meanwhile, begin, discover, theft, make, myself
J. Franklin, 1859-1937 [Editor] Jameson, Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
This story might have been accepted, had not the landlord discovered that his tenant was planning to leave surreptitiously and that some of the furniture had already been removed.
Từ trong câu: surreptitiously, story, accept, landlord, discover, tenant, plan, leave
Horace Wyndham, The Magnificent Montez: From Courtesan to Convert - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Here and there savage dogs rushed upon him, but he bristled his neck-hair and snarled (for he was learning fast), and they let him go his way unmolested.
Từ trong câu: learning, dog, rush, neck, hair, learn, fast, let
Jack London, The call of the wild - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
His first glance was for Buck, over whose limp and apparently lifeless body Nig was setting up a howl, while Skeet was licking the wet face and closed eyes.
Từ trong câu: setting, apparently, whose, lifeless, glance, set, wet, first
Jack London, The call of the wild - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
A neglected gap was all the gate it had, and the first glance at the place was enough to let you see the flabby devil was running that show.
Từ trong câu: gap, neglect, gate, devil, first, glance, place, enough
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard voices approaching—and there were the nephew and the uncle strolling along the bank.
Từ trong câu: uncle, evening, lie, flat, deck, hear, voice, approach
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
His whisper was getting fainter and fainter, and all the time he stared straight out through the porthole, in which there was not even a star to be seen.
Từ trong câu: straight, whisper, get, time, stare, out, even, star
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was still lingering in the pantry in the greatness of his zeal, giving a rub-up to a plated cruet stand the last thing before going to bed.
Từ trong câu: plate, zeal, greatness, still, give, rub, up, stand
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Diamond stared at her in terror, for he saw that her form and face were growing, not small, but transparent, like something dissolving, not in water, but in light.
Từ trong câu: transparent, dissolve, diamond, stare, terror, saw, form, face
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US