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Presently there came a sudden, uneasy creak from the chair where Mrs. Travis was sitting--one would not have ventured to predict its meaning--and she began to speak.
Từ trong câu: venture, predict, come, sudden, uneasy, chair, mrs, sit
John Galsworthy, Jocelyn - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Speculation as to the marked differences in pigmentation and appearance of niece and uncle was dissipated by my consciousness that we were now moving in a dim half-light.
Từ trong câu: difference, niece, speculation, mark, appearance, uncle, consciousness, now
Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
I addressed myself to a man behind the counter, who was weighing some rice for a young woman; but the latter, taking the inquiry to herself, turned round quickly.
Từ trong câu: rice, address, myself, man, behind, counter, weigh, young
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The Doctor, with a complacent smile, was reading aloud some manuscript explanation or statement of a theory out of that interminable Dictionary, and she was looking up at him.
Từ trong câu: theory, doctor, smile, read, aloud, manuscript, explanation, statement
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He knew as well as I did that it was just as likely, at that time of year, I was going down there whaling; but I felt complimented, too.
Từ trong câu: whale, know, well, likely, time, year, go, down
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
If I hesitated, she was taken with that wonderful disorder which was always lying in ambush in her system, ready, at the shortest notice, to prey upon her vitals.
Từ trong câu: vital, hesitate, take, wonderful, disorder, always, lie, system
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The conservatory doors were standing open, and Rosa Dartle was walking, bareheaded, with a quick, impetuous step, up and down a gravel walk on one side of the lawn.
Từ trong câu: lawn, conservatory, door, stand, open, walk, quick, step
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She gave me the idea of some fierce thing, that was dragging the length of its chain to and fro upon a beaten track, and wearing its heart out.
Từ trong câu: chain, give, idea, fierce, thing, drag, length, beat
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Even in our professional correspondence,’ said Mr. Micawber, glancing at some letters he was writing, ‘the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression.
Từ trong câu: correspondence, exalted, soar, even, professional, mr, glance, letter
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Dora had helped him up on the sofa; where he really was defying my aunt to such a furious extent, that he couldn’t keep straight, but barked himself sideways.
Từ trong câu: furious, help, up, sofa, really, aunt, extent, keep
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
While I was copying the plain inscription for him at his request, I saw him stoop, and gather a tuft of grass from the grave and a little earth.
Từ trong câu: inscription, copy, plain, request, saw, gather, grass, grave
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I put the orange in his hand, and bade him tell his father that a woman called Nelly Dean was waiting to speak with him, by the garden gate.
Từ trong câu: orange, put, hand, bid, tell, father, woman, call
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Miss Cathy had been sick, and that made her still; she leant against her father’s knee, and Heathcliff was lying on the floor with his head in her lap.
Từ trong câu: lap, miss, sick, make, still, lean, knee, lie
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
We made frightful noises to terrify them still more, and then we dropped off the ledge, because somebody was drawing the bars, and we felt we had better flee.
Từ trong câu: terrify, flee, make, noise, still, drop, off, because
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He caught the color of what was passing about him, and threw it back more vividly than he received it, but mixed, nevertheless, with a lurid and portentous hue.
Từ trong câu: lurid, vividly, catch, color, pass, throw, back, receive
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They were wandering all abroad, on precisely such a pilgrimage as a child often meditates, to the world’s end, with perhaps a sixpence and a biscuit in his pocket.
Từ trong câu: pocket, wander, biscuit, abroad, precisely, child, often, end
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A milkman was distributing the contents of his cans from door to door; and the harsh peal of a fisherman’s conch shell was heard far off, around the corner.
Từ trong câu: distribute, content, shell, can, door, hear, far, off
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
These they were filling with water and placing over a number of fires near the stake where the dying victim now hung, an inert and bloody mass of suffering.
Từ trong câu: filling, inert, bloody, fill, water, place, number, fire
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
In another instant she was back at the lattice, and with renewed fury was clawing at the aperture, but with lessened effect, since the wounded member was almost useless.
Từ trong câu: effect, another, instant, back, renew, since, wound, member
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They reached the site of the skirmish of the previous expedition shortly after noon, for they were now traveling a known trail and no time was lost in exploring.
Từ trong câu: previous, site, explore, reach, expedition, shortly, noon, now
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was now swimming parallel to the bank and there he saw the cruel beast that would have seized him crouching upon the still form of his little playmate.
Từ trong câu: swim, swimming, playmate, now, parallel, bank, saw, cruel
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He had been among the first at the feast, but had retreated with a goodly share to eat in quiet, and was now forcing his way back for more.
Từ trong câu: share, among, first, feast, retreat, eat, quiet, now
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was a reddish incandescence which increased by degrees, a decided proof that the projectile was shifting toward it and not falling normally on the surface of the moon.
Từ trong câu: normally, shift, increase, degree, decide, proof, toward, fall
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was describing a very long ellipse, which would most likely extend to the point of equal attraction, where the influences of the earth and its satellite are neutralized.
Từ trong câu: likely, describe, long, extend, point, equal, attraction, influence
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The rockets had primarily been placed to check the fall of the projectile upon the moon, and now they were going to employ them for a directly contrary purpose.
Từ trong câu: primarily, place, check, fall, moon, now, go, employ
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I knew that I was preparing for myself a deadly torture, but I was the slave, not the master, of an impulse which I detested yet could not disobey.
Từ trong câu: slave, know, prepare, myself, deadly, torture, master, impulse
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The storm was over; the great clouds had disburdened their snow and fled farther on, and the new day was breaking on a merry winter landscape sheathed in white.
Từ trong câu: cloud, storm, landscape, great, snow, far, new, day
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
All about it, in the open glade, camp-fires were burning, and the ground was thick with huts; and across the midst of the picture the frozen river curved.
Từ trong câu: curve, frozen, picture, open, camp, fire, burn, ground
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
One is quite justified in inferring that whatever one of these laws or customs was lacking in that remote time, its place was competently filled by a worse one.
Từ trong câu: justify, customs, infer, quite, whatever, law, custom, lack
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
We fell together, as modest people will, in the tail of the herd that was being shown through, and he at once began to say things which interested me.
Từ trong câu: tail, herd, fall, together, modest, people, show, once
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US