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Danh sách câu dẫn chứng (16.315 câu)
While I was attending to those in front, and on either side, the one behind ran up with the handspike, and struck me a heavy blow upon the head.
Từ trong câu: front, attend, either, side, behind, run, up, strike
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The two vehicles were drawn up opposite the gate leading to Marrow Farm, and the agent was detaching the four men destined to that locality, with their camping-gear.
Từ trong câu: vehicle, leading, detach, draw, up, opposite, gate, lead
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The animal was wet, and lightly moved his white-tipped tail; while his dark-yellow eyes inquired of Felix what he was going to give a dog to eat.
Từ trong câu: inquire, animal, wet, lightly, move, white, tip, tail
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
It had grown dark now, save for the half-moon; the last chafer was booming by, and a bat flitting, a little, blind, eager bat, through the quiet trees.
Từ trong câu: eager, boom, bat, grow, dark, now, save, half
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
She must have heard of the business the day before, since all Croydon was ringing with it, and she alone could have understood for whom the packet was meant.
Từ trong câu: understand, ring, hear, business, day, since, alone, packet
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
On the third day the order was given for the sambuks to keep near together because the pilot of the first one was sailing less skillfully than the other.
Từ trong câu: skillfully, third, day, order, give, keep, near, together
Francis J., 1867-1937 [Editor] Reynolds, The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The board sidewalks were gray with trampled snow, but at two o’clock in the afternoon the shopkeepers, having come back from dinner, were keeping well behind their frosty windows.
Từ trong câu: board, sidewalk, gray, snow, o'clock, afternoon, come, back
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
All the French boys stood round, cheering and humping themselves up when Emil or Amédée went over the wire, as if they were helping in the lift.
Từ trong câu: cheer, boy, stand, round, themselves, up, have, go
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She had said she was not dining at home; so Winton had gone to his club, and she was obliged to partake of a little trumped-up lonely meal.
Từ trong câu: oblige, dine, home, go, club, little, up, lonely
John Galsworthy, Beyond - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The turkeys, trailing delicately their long-toed feet and uttering soft, liquid interrogations, moved after her in hopes of what she was not holding in her little brown hands.
Từ trong câu: delicately, liquid, trail, long, foot, soft, move, hope
John Galsworthy, Beyond - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Old Pettance was sitting on a corn-bin, examining an aged Ruff’s Guide, which contained records of his long-past glory, scored under by a pencil: “June Stakes: Agility.
Từ trong câu: aged, pencil, stake, agility, guide, record, glory, score
John Galsworthy, Beyond - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
This had been ringing in my ears all the way, and to be compelled to proceed through the long street of the village in a closed jinrikisha was tantalizing.
Từ trong câu: tantalize, ring, ear, way, proceed, long, street, village
Ellen Mary Hayes Peck, Travels in the Far East - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
One day, I was walking along when I saw a mule big as an elephant with ears at least three feet long and eyes as big as auto lamps.
Từ trong câu: auto, day, walk, saw, mule, big, elephant, ear
United States. Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The telltale flash meant that the Huns were getting a dose of severe medicine, though we could at that moment only guess at the destruction that was being wrought.
Từ trong câu: telltale, flash, mean, get, dose, severe, medicine, though
Edward Alva Trueblood, In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The dancing white water made by the chase was now becoming more and more visible, owing to the increasing darkness of the dun cloud-shadows flung upon the sea.
Từ trong câu: owe, dance, increase, dancing, owing, white, water, make
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Nothing was said for some moments, while a succession of riotous waves rolled by, which by one of those occasional caprices of the seas were tumbling, not heaving it.
Từ trong câu: succession, nothing, moment, wave, roll, occasional, sea
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Aware of their danger, they were going all abreast with great speed straight before the wind, rubbing their flanks as closely as so many spans of horses in harness.
Từ trong câu: rub, danger, harness, aware, go, great, speed, straight
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
I was led into a comfortable, clean-smelling stall, with plenty of dry straw, and after a capital supper I lay down, thinking I was going to be happy.
Từ trong câu: dry, capital, supper, lead, comfortable, clean, smell, stall
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
We were glad to leave the cold, foggy and disagreeable climate of San Francisco, and delighted that we were going to Manila, which was then the central battle field.
Từ trong câu: foggy, glad, leave, cold, climate, delight, go, central
Needom N. Freeman, A Soldier in the Philippines - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
His host, a grey, clean-shaven city man, with a long upper lip, was trying to understand a lady the audacity of whose speech came ringing down the table.
Từ trong câu: speech, ring, host, gray, clean, city, man, long
John Galsworthy, The Island Pharisees - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was passed on to another lady who was already talking to two gentlemen, and, their volubility being greater than his own, he fell into the position of observer.
Từ trong câu: observer, pass, another, lady, already, talk, gentleman, great
John Galsworthy, The Island Pharisees - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
His eyes rested on Shelton, fanatical and dreary; his monotonous voice was suffering and nasal; he was continually sucking in his lips, as though determined to subdue 'the flesh.
Từ trong câu: continually, flesh, monotonous, suffering, eye, rest, voice, suffer
John Galsworthy, The Island Pharisees - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then, at an invitation from Bernard Dennant, he played cricket for the Manor of Holm Oaks against a neighbouring house; in the evening there was dancing oh the lawn.
Từ trong câu: cricket, invitation, dance, dancing, neighbouring, play, neighbor, house
John Galsworthy, The Island Pharisees - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Shelton tried to speak, but something kept him silent--submission to what was coming, like the mute submission of the fields and birds to the menace of the storm.
Từ trong câu: menace, submission, try, speak, something, keep, silent, come
John Galsworthy, The Island Pharisees - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Shelton came back and carefully reread the clause, to put the thing on a purely business basis, and disguise the real significance of what was passing in his mind.
Từ trong câu: significance, basis, purely, clause, disguise, come, back, carefully
John Galsworthy, The Island Pharisees - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
George Pendyce gazed before him at this vision over the grey mare's back, and she who sat beside him muffled in her fur was touching his arm with hers.
Từ trong câu: fur, gaze, vision, gray, back, sit, beside, touch
John Galsworthy, The Country House - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Hilary stayed in the club till half-past nine; then, avoiding a discussion which was just setting in, he took his own umbrella, and bent his steps towards home.
Từ trong câu: umbrella, setting, discussion, stay, club, till, half, past
John Galsworthy, Fraternity - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But the girl who came so moodily to bring him refreshment, and went so moodily away, never in these days caught a glimpse of that which she was seeking.
Từ trong câu: glimpse, refreshment, girl, come, bring, go, away, never
John Galsworthy, Fraternity - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
So I stopped the car, got out my stereo, stood up in the car, leaned on the windshield, and shot before they woke up to what I was doing.
Từ trong câu: windshield, stereo, stop, car, get, out, stand, up
Pictorial Photographers of America, Pictorial Photography in America 1921 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But his box contained only a line of rapturous assent from Gerty, and he was turning away disappointed when he was hailed by a voice from the smoking room.
Từ trong câu: disappoint, smoking, disappointed, contain, rapturous, box, line, turn
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US