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The Duchess was spending the night at Cimiez with the Crown Princess; Bertha got bored with the show, and went off early, promising to meet us at the station.
Từ trong câu: crown, spend, night, princess, get, bore, show, go
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was roused from her musings by the approach of her cousin Jack Stepney who, at Gwen Van Osburgh’s side, was returning across the garden from the tennis court.
Từ trong câu: court, tennis, approach, cousin, van, side, return, across
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The peculiar charm of her feeling for Selden was that she understood it; she could put her finger on every link of the chain that was drawing them together.
Từ trong câu: chain, peculiar, charm, feel, understand, put, finger, every
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
At the moment I was simply conscious that I was in the presence of a very handsome woman, and that she was asking me the reasons for my visit.
Từ trong câu: simply, moment, conscious, presence, handsome, woman, ask, reason
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Clyde, who was helping to draw water from the eighty-foot well without a pulley, thought I was bereft as I ran from the camp toward the advancing rider.
Từ trong câu: bereft, help, draw, water, eighty, foot, well, think
Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Letters on an Elk Hunt - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
He was begging, “for the sake of the Holy Virgin,” alms to say masses for the soul of an unfortunate, who had not left a peso for his burial.
Từ trong câu: burial, unfortunate, sake, holy, mass, soul, leave
Amelia E. Barr, Remember the Alamo - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Worth, because he was treading on unknown ground; Houston, because he did not wish to force, even by a question, a resolution which he felt sure would come voluntarily.
Từ trong câu: unknown, resolution, voluntarily, worth, because, ground, wish, force
Amelia E. Barr, Remember the Alamo - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The afternoon sun was getting low as the Rat sculled gently homewards in a dreamy mood, murmuring poetry-things over to himself, and not paying much attention to Mole.
Từ trong câu: mood, dreamy, afternoon, gently, sun, get, low, rat
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Near him stood a dingy gipsy caravan, and beside it a man was sitting on a bucket turned upside down, very busy smoking and staring into the wide world.
Từ trong câu: smoking, bucket, near, stand, caravan, beside, man, sit
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was looking very hard at Toad as he said this, and could not help thinking he perceived something vaguely resembling a twinkle in that animal’s still sorrowful eye.
Từ trong câu: resemble, look, hard, help, think, perceive, something, twinkle
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
MORE faces round at the volley of jeering that follows; the chorus of booing swells, then gradually dies, as if they realized that they were spoiling their own sport.
Từ trong câu: sport, swell, realize, gradually, face, round, follow, die
John Galsworthy, The Mob: A Play in Four Acts - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The uncle had moments of profound skepticism about this--moments when he uneasily wondered whether it was not going to be his duty to speak to the young man.
Từ trong câu: profound, duty, uncle, moment, uneasily, wonder, whether, go
Harold Frederic, The Market-Place - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was nothing but the fumigation of a house; the burning spirits in the lamp underneath the brazier were filling the structure with vapours fatal to all insect life.
Từ trong câu: structure, insect, fatal, underneath, lamp, burning, nothing, house
Harold Frederic, The Market-Place - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The story is told of a young man who at his wedding feast was sitting so glum and silent that his young friends teased him by saying, "Brother! brother!
Từ trong câu: glum, story, tell, young, man, wed, feast, sit
Annie [Editor] Van Sommer, Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
You see, it was in this way: we were sitting in a meadow, about ten yards from the water’s edge, and we had just settled down comfortably to feed.
Từ trong câu: comfortably, feed, see, way, sit, ten, yard, edge
Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It seemed to me that I was doing more than my fair share of the work on this trip, and I was beginning to feel strongly on the subject.
Từ trong câu: share, strongly, seem, do, fair, work, trip, begin
Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The impression on the mind of the sail seemed to be that we were playing at funerals, and that I was the corpse and itself was the winding-sheet.
Từ trong câu: corpse, impression, mind, sail, seem, play, itself, wind
Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
By twelve o’clock, with the sun pouring into the room, the heat became quite oppressive, and we wondered when those heavy showers and occasional thunderstorms were going to begin.
Từ trong câu: twelve, shower, heat, occasional, thunderstorm, o'clock, sun, pour
Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
We were resigned to our fate, and we remained resigned until we aroused to the fact that we were drifting along the north shore not a hundred feet away.
Từ trong câu: fate, resign, remain, until, fact, drift, north, shore
Jack London, Before Adam - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Already the Major was paying his shot to the very indifferent landlord, and I could see the white face of King at the back-door, making signals of haste.
Từ trong câu: shot, indifferent, already, major, pay, landlord, see, white
Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The Millionaire, returning on tip-toe from the loft over the garage, had sought asylum in the library, where he was smoking a cigar and reading the evening paper.
Từ trong câu: garage, millionaire, return, tip, toe, seek, library, smoke
Militia of Mercy. Gift Book Committee, Defenders of Democracy Contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He broke into the little dining-room at Cox's in so excited a state that two dignified old gentlemen who were eating there sat open-mouthed in astonished disapproval.
Từ trong câu: eat, excite, excited, break, astonished, disapproval, little, dine
Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Day by day, nevertheless, their sour and rigid wrinkles were relaxing into something which, in the due course of years, might grow to be an expression of almost benevolence.
Từ trong câu: benevolence, relax, sour, relaxing, wrinkle, day, nevertheless, something
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Some declared, that if Mr. Dimmesdale were really going to die, it was cause enough that the world was not worthy to be any longer trodden by his feet.
Từ trong câu: declare, mr, really, go, die, cause, enough, world
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Two men were attempting to fill a Pierce-Arrow truck with gasoline, by the aid of a candle, when there was an explosion and the entire truck caught fire.
Từ trong câu: gasoline, man, attempt, fill, arrow, truck, aid, candle
Various, History of Ambulance Company Number 139 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When I entered his room he was sitting on a stool in the centre, with his elbows on his knees, and his face was the picture of sullen discontent.
Từ trong câu: stool, picture, enter, room, sit, center, knee, face
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was twelve o’clock before I got any satisfactory hint of such a building, and this I got at a coffee-shop, where some workmen were having their dinner.
Từ trong câu: building, satisfactory, twelve, o'clock, get, hint, build, coffee
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Besides, it was all so confused; it seemed only a moment from his coming into the room till both his arms were round me, and he was kissing me.
Từ trong câu: confused, besides, confuse, seem, moment, come, room, till
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But don’t ye dooal an’ greet, my deary!”--for he saw that I was crying--“if he should come this very night I’d not refuse to answer his call.
Từ trong câu: greet, you, saw, cry, come, night, refuse, answer
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was catching flies and eating them, and was keeping note of his capture by making nail-marks on the edge of the door between the ridges of padding.
Từ trong câu: capture, catch, fly, eat, keep, note, make, nail
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US