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Danh sách câu dẫn chứng (16.315 câu)
At that time the spirit of resistance to the authority of the National Government was being exhibited to such an extent in Utah as to call for measures of repression.
Từ trong câu: repression, time, spirit, resistance, authority, national, government, exhibit
Various, Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
With her fair complexion and her shy manner, it seemed only natural to speak of her as “a girl,” although she was now really advancing towards thirty years of age.
Từ trong câu: fair, thirty, although, shy, complexion, manner, seem, natural
Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Man was seeking to grasp the universe under a single form which was at first simply a material element, the most equable and colourless and universal which could be found.
Từ trong câu: equable, man, seek, grasp, universe, single, form, first
428? BCE-348? BCE Plato, Sophist - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
He had forgiven his old enemies and forgotten his old grievances, and seemed every way reconciled to a world in which he was going to count as an active force.
Từ trong câu: active, old, enemy, forget, seem, every, way, world
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Roderick, as he had said, was meditating, and if a masterpiece was to come of his meditations, Rowland was perfectly willing to bear him company and coax along the process.
Từ trong câu: process, coax, masterpiece, come, perfectly, will, bear, company
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Yet Newman was not irritated; he did not feel that he was being patronized; he was conscious of no especial impulse to introduce a discord into so noble a harmony.
Từ trong câu: irritated, irritate, feel, conscious, impulse, introduce, noble, harmony
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She had felt as if something strange and sad were going to happen; she had tried to reason away the fancy, and the effort had only given her a headache.
Từ trong câu: effort, headache, feel, something, strange, sad, go, happen
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Hendon followed, saying to himself, “An’ I were not travelling to death and judgment, and so must needs economise in sin, I would throttle this knave for his mock courtesy.”
Từ trong câu: courtesy, sin, travel, economise, mock, economize, follow, say
Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A man might run around, like a kitten after its tail, all his life, if he were going around explaining all his expressions and all the things he had written.
Từ trong câu: kitten, man, run, around, like, tail, life, go
Asa Don, 1876-1960 [Editor] Dickinson, Stories of Achievement, Volume III, Orators and Reformers - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
He showed her two little dials, like clock faces, and told her how one showed how much steam was going, and the other showed if the brake was working properly.
Từ trong câu: working, brake, dial, show, little, like, clock, face
E. Nesbit, The Railway Children - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A Colonel of a French regiment on our flank was sitting in a pub. in the village when the Germans came around that flank and started firing their Maxim gun.
Từ trong câu: pub, sit, village, come, around, start, fire, gun
Various, The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But winter was fast approaching, provisions were falling short, and unless he could force his way to Pampeluna, he saw that he must retreat to Saint Jean Pié-de-Port.
Từ trong câu: pi, winter, fast, approach, provision, fall, short, unless
Edward Farr, The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From the Accession of George III. to the Twenty-Third Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were sweeping onwards in the track of the retreating enemy, with the glow of victory to strengthen their hearts and the blessings of a delivered people in their ears.
Từ trong câu: onwards, sweep, track, retreat, enemy, glow, victory, strengthen
John W., 1848-1921 [Editor] Arthur, The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It is true that aerial activity was disquieting at times, but several successful attacks on the "Vultures of the Kaiser" made these items of interest, rather than causes of alarm.
Từ trong câu: disquieting, true, activity, time, several, successful, attack, make
John W., 1848-1921 [Editor] Arthur, The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Her father, scarce knowing what he did, was plunging in after her, but was held back by some behind him, who saw that more efficient aid had followed his child.
Từ trong câu: aid, efficient, father, know, hold, back, behind, saw
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
For the child, though nursed so tenderly, and though life was unfolding before her with every brightness that love and wealth could give, had no regret for herself in dying.
Từ trong câu: wealth, tenderly, regret, child, though, nurse, life, every
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Legree had been drinking to that degree that he was inclining to be very gracious; and it was about this time that the enclosures of the plantation rose to view.
Từ trong câu: degree, drink, incline, time, plantation, rise, view
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They were owing money; and there was some way, I can’t tell how, that a man had a hold on them, and they were obliged to give him his will.
Từ trong câu: owing, owe, money, way, tell, man, hold, oblige
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The old woman was pacing up and down with a scared look and restless picking fingers, but the sight of Miss Morstan appeared to have a soothing effect upon her.
Từ trong câu: scare, finger, scared, old, woman, pace, up, down
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Four times he had covered the distance between Salt Water and Dawson, and the knowledge that, jaded and tired, he was facing the same trail once more, made him bitter.
Từ trong câu: bitter, salt, knowledge, four, time, cover, distance, water
Jack London, The call of the wild - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
His great chest was low to the ground, his head forward and down, while his feet were flying like mad, the claws scarring the hard-packed snow in parallel grooves.
Từ trong câu: parallel, great, chest, low, ground, head, forward, down
Jack London, The call of the wild - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
At such moments, panting with red lolling tongue and with eyes fixed upon the big bull, it appeared to Buck that a change was coming over the face of things.
Từ trong câu: fixed, moment, pant, red, tongue, eye, fix, big
Jack London, The call of the wild - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Anyway, it could not be found there and as it was not likely to be sent from Europe, it did not appear clear to me what he was waiting for.
Từ trong câu: anyway, likely, find, send, appear, clear, wait
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They approached again, just as the manager was saying, ‘No one, as far as I know, unless a species of wandering trader—a pestilential fellow, snapping ivory from the natives.’
Từ trong câu: species, approach, again, manager, say, far, know, unless
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The pilgrims were dining in the mess-room, and I took my place opposite the manager, who lifted his eyes to give me a questioning glance, which I successfully ignored.
Từ trong câu: opposite, successfully, dine, ignore, mess, room, take, place
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The ship was coming round slowly: I held my breath in the renewed stillness of expectation; one wouldn’t have thought that there was a single living soul on her decks.
Từ trong câu: renew, single, expectation, living, ship, come, round, slowly
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was going to say that that was very much the sort of thing at the back of the north wind; but he checked himself and only added, “All right.
Từ trong câu: check, go, much, sort, thing, back, north, wind
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But the wonder was that there was no one at the whistle end blowing, and yet the sails were turning round and round--now faster, now slower, now faster again.
Từ trong câu: whistle, wonder, end, blow, sail, turn, round, now
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When we got about half way to St. Michael’s, while the constables having us in charge were looking ahead, Henry inquired of me what he should do with his pass.
Từ trong câu: ahead, charge, get, half, way, look, inquire, pass
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But just as he was leaning over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by his collar, and brought him by a sudden snatch to the ground.
Từ trong câu: lean, sudden, collar, get, stick, hand, bring, ground
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US