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“Of course you knew HIM by name,” she was saying, “and he knew you by sight, and had talked of you; but MY poor inferior sex has to be introduced.
Từ trong câu: inferior, course, know, name, say, sight, talk, poor
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The old man and the old spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability.
Từ trong câu: probability, old, man, seat, themselves, back, think, account
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the latter’s clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured himself that his heart was still beating.
Từ trong câu: broadly, thus, bore, jeans, slip, hand, clothes, rent
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused him from his lethargy.
Từ trong câu: inhale, manipulate, lethargy, movement, man, night, air, freely
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the service, dared to attempt it.
Từ trong câu: coast, incur, risk, go, assistance, recently, service, dare
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
She was just fastening my veil (the plain square of blonde, after all) to my hair with a brooch; I hurried from under her hands as soon as I could.
Từ trong câu: blonde, fasten, plain, square, hair, hurry, hand, soon
Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 [Editor] Warner, Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: Volume 06 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Up to that date nobody was afraid of Prussia, though everybody was a little afraid of France; and we were keeping "buffer States" between ourselves and Russia in the east.
Từ trong câu: buffer, up, date, nobody, afraid, though, everybody, little
Various, New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Someone had brought the water from the brook, and Lord John was sprinkling my head with it, while Challenger and Summerlee were propping me up, with concern in their faces.
Từ trong câu: concern, someone, bring, water, head, up, face
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was a host of the stone age that we were accompanying to battle--we with the last word of the gunsmith's art from St. James' Street and the Strand.
Từ trong câu: strand, art, accompany, host, stone, age, battle, last
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
For my own part I performed my usual role of bringing things down to a strictly prosaic and practical level by the remark that one of the Indians was missing.
Từ trong câu: perform, role, strictly, practical, part, usual, bring, thing
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“This is a gay figure, Pip,” said she, making her crutch stick play round me, as if she, the fairy godmother who had changed me, were bestowing the finishing gift.
Từ trong câu: fairy, gay, figure, make, stick, play, round, change
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“Hark!” said I, when I had done my stirring, and was taking a final warm in the chimney corner before being sent up to bed; “was that great guns, Joe?”
Từ trong câu: final, chimney, stir, take, warm, corner, send, up
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Unfortunately the morning was drizzly, and an angel could not have concealed the fact that Barnard was shedding sooty tears outside the window, like some weak giant of a Sweep.
Từ trong câu: angel, unfortunately, giant, morning, fact, tear, outside, window
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And more needles were missing than it could be regarded as quite wholesome for a patient of such tender years either to apply externally or to take as a tonic.
Từ trong câu: missing, miss, regard, quite, patient, tender, year, either
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“Swine,” pursued Mr. Wopsle, in his deepest voice, and pointing his fork at my blushes, as if he were mentioning my Christian name,—“swine were the companions of the prodigal.
Từ trong câu: fork, pursue, mr, deep, voice, point, mention, christian
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The river, still dark and mysterious, was spanned by bridges that were turning coldly grey, with here and there at top a warm touch from the burning in the sky.
Từ trong câu: span, river, still, dark, mysterious, bridge, turn, gray
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They had pulled one sudden stroke ahead, had got their oars in, had run athwart us, and were holding on to our gunwale, before we knew what they were doing.
Từ trong câu: stroke, pull, sudden, ahead, get, run, hold, know
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When he and Crawford walked into the drawing-room, his mother and Fanny were sitting as intently and silently at work as if there were nothing else to care for.
Từ trong câu: intently, silently, walk, draw, room, mother, sit, work
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Mrs. Cuxsom, who had been standing there for an indefinite time with her pitcher, was describing the incidents of Mrs. Henchard’s death, as she had learnt them from the nurse.
Từ trong câu: indefinite, nurse, mrs, stand, time, describe, incident, death
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He had planted the stem of his crook in the gutter and was resting upon the bow, which was polished to silver brightness by the long friction of his hands.
Từ trong câu: stem, friction, polish, silver, plant, rest, bow, long
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Elizabeth was only indirectly conscious of this; she had rung the bell, and was bending over Lucetta, who remained convulsed on the carpet in the paroxysms of an epileptic seizure.
Từ trong câu: carpet, indirectly, conscious, ring, bell, bend, remain
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Her mother was in a back corner of the same room engaged in the same labour, and dropping the heavy wood needle she was filling she surveyed her daughter thoughtfully.
Từ trong câu: filling, labour, survey, needle, mother, back, corner, room
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was a place flanked by hay-barns, into which tons of fodder, all in trusses, were being packed from the waggons she had seen pass the inn that morning.
Từ trong câu: ton, place, hay, pack, see, pass, morning
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
At a little distance from Miss Allan, on a seat shaded and made semi-private by a thick clump of palm trees, Arthur and Susan were reading each other’s letters.
Từ trong câu: palm, little, distance, miss, seat, shade, make, semi
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
There’s something of a woman in him—” She paused as though she were thinking of very intimate things that Terence had told her, so at least Rachel interpreted her gaze.
Từ trong câu: interpret, something, woman, pause, though, think, intimate, thing
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The ship was making her way steadily through small waves which slapped her and then fizzled like effervescing water, leaving a little border of bubbles and foam on either side.
Từ trong câu: bubble, ship, make, way, steadily, small, wave, like
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was inclined to think him too easy and tolerant, just as he was inclined to think her perhaps a trifle hard—no, it was rather that she was uncompromising.
Từ trong câu: trifle, incline, think, easy, tolerant, perhaps, hard, rather
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It had no longer the old troubled expression, but was alight with peace and joy as if she were already looking with clear new eyes into the garden or Paradise.
Từ trong câu: garden, paradise, long, old, trouble, expression, peace, joy
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
His conscience smote him at the remembrance of how he had stood with his doubled fists behind the doctor, who was now giving up to him his whole good dinner.
Từ trong câu: remembrance, conscience, stand, double, behind, doctor, now, give
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
Here he was sitting, his pipe in his mouth and his hands on his knees, quietly looking out, when the children, the goats and Cousin Dete suddenly clambered into view.
Từ trong câu: mouth, pipe, sit, hand, knee, quietly, look, out
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US