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Its evil eyes were wriggling on their stalks, its mouth was all alive with appetite, and its vast ungainly claws, smeared with an algal slime, were descending upon me.
Từ trong câu: evil, alive, eye, mouth, appetite, vast
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then I slept, and when I woke again it was full day, and a couple of sparrows were hopping round me on the turf within reach of my arm.
Từ trong câu: couple, wake, sleep, again, full, day, round, reach
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I remember creeping noiselessly into the great hall where the little people were sleeping in the moonlight—that night Weena was among them—and feeling reassured by their presence.
Từ trong câu: moonlight, remember, great, hall, little, people, sleep, night
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The soldier had left him, and he was still standing by his box, with the pots of orchids on the lid of it, and staring vaguely over the trees.
Từ trong câu: pot, lid, soldier, leave, still, stand, box, stare
H. G. Wells, The war of the worlds - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A little farther on the dry reeds up the bank were smoking and glowing, and a line of fire inland was marching steadily across a late field of hay.
Từ trong câu: steadily, march, hay, little, far, dry, up, bank
H. G. Wells, The war of the worlds - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The man was writhing in the dust among his scattered money, unable to rise, for the wheel had broken his back, and his lower limbs lay limp and dead.
Từ trong câu: limb, limp, man, dust, among, scatter, money, unable
H. G. Wells, The war of the worlds - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
"We resolved to have our holiday outing as well as the others, and after dinner were bowling out on the road to Montecito, the favorite suburb of Santa Barbara.
Từ trong câu: outing, resolve, holiday, out, well, other, dinner, bowl
Mary A., 1840?- Roe, E. P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The colt was then untied from the post to which he had been made fast, and up got the rider, who was going to give him his first gallop.
Từ trong câu: untie, post, make, fast, up, get, rider, go
William C. Tetley, Blanco y Colorado: Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were always laughing and looking at our mode of life with the interest of a big dog; they were ludicrously stupid, but they were never sulky or impudent.
Từ trong câu: ludicrously, always, laugh, look, mode, life, interest, big
Louise Vescelius Sheldon, Yankee Girls in Zulu Land - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Before the eyes of her spirit an interminable procession of her own "Lord's" frocks was passing, paid for with the money of her father, to save a recurrent crisis.
Từ trong câu: crisis, eye, spirit, pass, paid, money, father, save
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
His lips and ears were twitching, his eyes, shifting from his feet to the hand within his arm, stared suddenly before them as if to face a firing party.
Từ trong câu: party, lip, ear, eye, shift, foot, hand, arm
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
This is my first, and I feel as if it were going to be my last, which is absurd, of course, by all the laws of Nature and morality.
Từ trong câu: absurd, morality, law, first, feel, go, last, course
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Last night, when I was wandering about, a girl spoke to me; and I tried to get back into the old way with her; but it was no use.
Từ trong câu: wander, last, night, girl, speak, try, get, back
Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
And the trot pleasing him equally well, the pace gradually quickened, till the animals were going along at a rate which shook and jolted the basket about most fearfully.
Từ trong câu: please, equally, well, pace, gradually, till, animal, go
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
Presently we emerged from the thicket through which we were passing, and saw before us a hut of sheltering boughs, at the entrance of which burned a cheerful fire.
Từ trong câu: emerge, thicket, pass, saw, hut, entrance, burn, cheerful
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
It seemed exactly as though the graceful vessel had awakened from sleep, and was longing to spring into the free blue sea, and spread her wings to the breeze.
Từ trong câu: seem, exactly, though, graceful, vessel, sleep, long, spring
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
By this time, as it was getting late, we returned to our dwelling, my wife having preceded us in order to make arrangements for the ceremony of prize-giving.
Từ trong câu: time, get, late, return, wife, precede, order, make
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
And there was a rustling of the undergrowth a few yards away, as if something big was pushing its way through--and there was the soft pad of feet.
Từ trong câu: pad, yard, away, something, big, push, way, soft
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He had thought that The Rat could not stand up, but it seemed that he could, in a fashion of his own, and he was going to do it.
Từ trong câu: fashion, think, rat, stand, up, seem, go
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
We were riding into a French town, it was the evening of a fête, and the whole population seemed to be capering about with the most preposterous antics.
Từ trong câu: antics, ride, town, evening, whole, population, seem
Hallam Tennyson, Baron, 1852-1928 [Editor] Tennyson, Tennyson and his friends - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Little Flora Gordon was staying with the Misses Jenkyns, and when I came in she was reading aloud to Miss Jenkyns, who lay feeble and changed on the sofa.
Từ trong câu: aloud, sofa, little, stay, miss, come, read, lay
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Cranford - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then they all lined up in front of the verandah where the governor was sitting, and demanded that five notorious prisoners should be released from the prison close by.
Từ trong câu: verandah, line, up, front, governor, sit, demand, five
M. E. Hume-Griffith, Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I was trembling through weakness, and the well-belaboured mules went at a very fast walk up the steep gradient, so that I had to hustle to keep up.
Từ trong câu: gradient, tremble, weakness, well, mule, go, fast, walk
Edward O. Mousley, The Secrets of a Kuttite An Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
We were warned in the afternoon that our artillery was going to bombard the Boer lines, and from various points of vantage numerous spectators strolled out to look on.
Từ trong câu: bombard, warn, afternoon, go, line, various, point, numerous
Frederick David Baillie, Mafeking - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A lamp with a reflector hung on the japanned wall of the fireplace and by its light his aunt was reading the evening paper that lay on her knees.
Từ trong câu: aunt, fireplace, lamp, hang, wall, light, read, evening
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
His unrest issued from him like a wave of sound: and on the tide of flowing music the ark was journeying, trailing her cables of lanterns in her wake.
Từ trong câu: journey, issue, cable, unrest, like, wave, sound, tide
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were flying high and low but ever round and round in straight and curving lines and ever flying from left to right, circling about a temple of air.
Từ trong câu: curve, straight, circle, fly, high, low, ever, round
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The man lived a lonely life, as became a sort of conceptual alchemist, sustained by a belief that he was turning men's leaden thoughts into his own pure gold.
Từ trong câu: conceptual, man, live, lonely, life, become, sort, sustain
C. J., 1819-1905 [Contributor] Ellicott, Modern Skepticism A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Request of the Christian Evidence Society - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Pul, who was called by Berosus, the great Babylon historian, "king of the Chaldeans," was probably a monarch who reigned at Babylon, while Asshur-lush was reigning at Nineveh.
Từ trong câu: lush, call, great, historian, king, probably
C. J., 1819-1905 [Contributor] Ellicott, Modern Skepticism A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Request of the Christian Evidence Society - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Egypt had been restored to the Porte by the Treaty, but instead of evacuating that country, the First Consul was utilising his position there to equip a fresh army.
Từ trong câu: utilise, restore, treaty, instead, evacuate, country, first, position
Thomas Walker, The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, Huntingdonshire. 1796 to 1816 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US