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I wakened when it was bright moonlight two nights ago and felt as if the Magic was filling the room and making everything so splendid that I couldn’t lie still.
Từ trong câu: filling, moonlight, bright, night, ago, feel, magic, fill
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
So he stopped and stood still, looking about him, and almost the moment after he had paused he started and listened—asking himself if he were walking in a dream.
Từ trong câu: pause, stop, stand, still, look, almost, moment, start
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She was just thinking this when she saw that, at the end of the path she was following, there seemed to be a long wall, with ivy growing over it.
Từ trong câu: following, think, saw, end, path, follow, seem, long
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He looked her all over as if it might have been something she kept in her mouth or her glove or under her jacket—something she was even sitting upon.
Từ trong câu: mouth, jacket, look, something, keep, glove, even, sit
Henry James, In the Cage - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Pompey, being informed of this beforehand, kept the youth under surveillance without bonds and sent to those who were guarding the money, bidding them give it all to his father.
Từ trong câu: surveillance, inform, beforehand, keep, youth, bond, send, guard
165?-235? Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“Selfish things!” thought Alice, and she was just going to say “Good-night” and leave them, when Tweedledum sprang out from under the umbrella and seized her by the wrist.
Từ trong câu: spring, wrist, selfish, thing, think, go, good, night
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr. Livesey were talking together on the quarter-deck, and anxious as I was to tell them my story, I durst not interrupt them openly.
Từ trong câu: openly, captain, dr, talk, together, quarter, deck, anxious
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The pitch was bubbling in the seams; the nasty stench of the place turned me sick; if ever a man smelt fever and dysentery, it was in that abominable anchorage.
Từ trong câu: bubble, nasty, pitch, place, turn, sick, ever, man
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The doctor looked it all over, as if his fingers were itching to open it; but instead of doing that, he put it quietly in the pocket of his coat.
Từ trong câu: instead, doctor, look, finger, open, do, put, quietly
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were viewing the country with the eyes of persons accustomed to drawing, and decided on its capability of being formed into pictures, with all the eagerness of real taste.
Từ trong câu: accustom, capability, decide, drawing, accustomed, view, country, eye
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Aye, I remember, so it was; I was thinking of that other stupid book, written by that woman they make such a fuss about, she who married the French emigrant.”
Từ trong câu: married, fuss, remember, think, stupid, book, write, woman
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Yeobright was unwilling to disturb this idea, though his scheme was far enough removed from one wherein the education of youth should be made a mere channel of social ascent.
Từ trong câu: unwilling, channel, disturb, idea, though, scheme, far, enough
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A domestic drama, for which the preparations were now being made a mile or two off, was but little less vividly present to her eyes than if enacted before her.
Từ trong câu: domestic, vividly, drama, preparation, now, make, mile, off
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The hissing noise which had first attracted my attention was issuing from its throat, and seemed to be directed at something beyond and below me which I could not see.
Từ trong câu: issue, noise, first, attract, attention, throat, seem, direct
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
In a moment I was knee-deep in rotting vegetation, and the awful thing behind me was gaining rapidly as I floundered and fell in my efforts to extricate myself.
Từ trong câu: vegetation, moment, knee, deep, awful, thing, behind, gain
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Halts were now more frequent, but I did not wish to speak to Dian until I could see from the expression of her face how she was receiving my apologies.
Từ trong câu: apology, frequent, now, wish, speak, until, see, expression
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“You don’t know what you are talking about, my boy,” and then he showed me a map of Pellucidar which he had recently discovered among the manuscript he was arranging.
Từ trong câu: recently, manuscript, map, arrange, know, talk, boy, show
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Blood from the wounded reptile was now crimsoning the waters about us and soon from the weakening struggles it became evident that I had inflicted a death wound upon it.
Từ trong câu: blood, wound, now, water, soon, struggle, become, evident
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
In the Rue de Seine he met Planchet, who had stopped before the house of a pastry cook, and was contemplating with ecstasy a cake of the most appetizing appearance.
Từ trong câu: cake, pastry, ecstasy, meet, stop, house, cook, appearance
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Porthos looked at the bottle, which was near him, and hoped that with wine, bread, and cheese, he might make a dinner; but wine was wanting, the bottle was empty.
Từ trong câu: cheese, bread, look, bottle, near, hope, wine, make
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I had regained the gallery, and was just shutting the back-door behind me, when an accelerated hum warned me that the ladies were about to issue from their chambers.
Từ trong câu: accelerate, gallery, back, door, behind, warn, lady, issue
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When I told her that I was writing HISTORY she pouted prettily and remarked: 'I never think of history without wondering WHO subsidized the writer of the misleading fairy tale.'
Từ trong câu: subsidize, tell, write, history, remark, never, think, wonder
James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar: Two authentic diaries arranged and translated - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She was eating some of those champagne-colored rose leaves that are crystallized by the firm of Demitrof at Moscow and sold as confections to the ladies of the Court!...
Từ trong câu: confection, eat, champagne, color, rise, leave, crystallize, firm
James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar: Two authentic diaries arranged and translated - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At this moment, for example, they were driving away from Stornoway along the side of the great bay that stretches northward until it finds its furthest promontory in Tiumpan Head.
Từ trong câu: furthest, moment, example, drive, away, side, great, bay
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The cause is that he was sweeping away sundry huge spiders' webs from the roof of the verandah (the work of a single night) when I heard him coughing frightfully.
Từ trong câu: verandah, cause, sweep, away, huge, spider, web, roof
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
“I get them every once in a while--as if some vicious planet or other was crossing in front of my good star--and then I'm a caution to snakes.
Từ trong câu: crossing, planet, get, every, once, vicious, cross, front
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
We take these tunes, written by a devil-may-care Pole who was living with George Sand openly at the time, and pass 'em off on the brethren for hymns.
Từ trong câu: pole, take, tune, write, devil, care, live, sand
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Wives, with their limited grasp of the realities of life, were always expecting their husbands to do things which it turned out not to be feasible for them to do.
Từ trong câu: limited, wife, limit, grasp, reality, life, always, expect
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A sweet smell of ripening nuts was thick upon the air, and busy rustlings and chirpings through the stillness told how the chipmunks and squirrels were attending to their harvest.
Từ trong câu: harvest, sweet, smell, thick, air, busy, tell, attend
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He ordered an ample breakfast, and came out while it was being served to wash and have his boots blacked, and he gave the man a quarter of a dollar.
Từ trong câu: ample, wash, order, breakfast, come, out, serve, boot
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US