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As he was speaking, he put the lamp on a bracket on the wall, and stepping out, took my luggage; he had carried it in before I could forestall him.
Từ trong câu: bracket, speak, put, lamp, wall, step, out, take
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It puzzled me to think why he was doing this; but at the instant I heard Harker’s quick exclamation as he woke to partial consciousness, and turned to the bed.
Từ trong câu: partial, puzzle, think, do, instant, hear, quick, wake
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I knew from the way Dr. Van Helsing was searching about that he was trying to seek some strategic point, where we would be less exposed in case of attack.
Từ trong câu: strategic, expose, know, way, dr, van, search, try
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But if you be not careful in this respect, then”--He finished his speech in a gruesome way, for he motioned with his hands as if he were washing them.
Từ trong câu: gruesome, careful, respect, finish, speech, way, motion, hand
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was spreading out his sugar, which he had saved, in the window, and was manifestly beginning his fly-catching again; and beginning it cheerfully and with a good grace.
Từ trong câu: grace, spread, out, sugar, save, window, begin, fly
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was clambering down the wall, and now I saw for the first time a number of metal foot and hand rests forming a kind of ladder down the shaft.
Từ trong câu: ladder, down, wall, now, saw, first, time, number
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Strange to say, the frightful report soon went abroad that the nuns were stealing children, and killing and boiling them down to make a healing ointment out of their remains.
Từ trong câu: ointment, strange, report, soon, go, abroad, steal, child
Ambrose Coleman, The Friars in the Philippines - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
He accompanied her and Mrs. Martin to the theatre; but when the cry of fire rang through the house, and the audience became uncontrollable, he was standing in the vestibule.
Từ trong câu: uncontrollable, accompany, mr, theater, cry, fire, ring, house
Anonymous, Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When the Count of Leghorn was coming to pay his first visit to Malmaison Bonaparte went into the drawing-room to see that everything was suitably prepared for his reception.
Từ trong câu: suitably, count, come, pay, first, visit, go, draw
Various, Complete Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Jon stood feeling exactly as he used to when he was a naughty little boy; sore because he was not loving, and because he was justified in his own eyes.
Từ trong câu: sore, justify, naughty, stand, feel, exactly, use, little
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The pigeons were just gathering to roost, and sunlight slanted on the dove-cot, on their snowy feathers, and beyond in a shower on the top boughs of the woods.
Từ trong câu: shower, snowy, gather, sunlight, dove, beyond, top, wood
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He felt like a child, trailing after those two, who were talking so easily about Spain and Wansdon, and the house up there beyond the trees and the grassy slope.
Từ trong câu: easily, feel, like, child, trail, talk, house, up
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The scholars thus caged fell under the stern eye of the Prefect, who came regularly, and even irregularly, to see whether we were talking instead of working at our tasks.
Từ trong câu: prefect, scholar, thus, cage, fall, stern, eye, come
Frederick Lawton, Balzac - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
At length Fritz, after harpooning a great sturgeon full eight feet long, could not get the beast ashore; we all went to his assistance, but our united efforts were unavailing.
Từ trong câu: length, great, full, eight, foot, long, get, beast
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
It was over by the time he was fully conscious, and at once he realized that the voice of his dream had been a real one, and was speaking still.
Từ trong câu: conscious, fully, time, once, realize, voice, dream, real
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When he awakened, it was daylight in the streets, and the milk-carts were beginning to jingle about, and the early postmen were knocking big double-knocks at front doors.
Từ trong câu: daylight, street, milk, cart, begin, early, knock, big
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
By the time they had sauntered toward the big evergreen, nobody was in the Fountain Garden, and the last loiterers were moving toward the arched stone entrance to the streets.
Từ trong câu: fountain, time, toward, big, nobody, garden, last, move
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
How could he have tried to quell the outbursts of their worship of Loristan--of the country he was saving for them--of the Sign which called them to freedom?
Từ trong câu: worship, saving, quell, try, country, save, sign, call
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
One great friend of the Tennysons' was Sir Richard Jebb--intensely shy and intensely refined--with whom, I may add, by the way, my first meeting at Haslemere was unpromising.
Từ trong câu: unpromising, great, friend, sir, shy, add, way, first
Hallam Tennyson, Baron, 1852-1928 [Editor] Tennyson, Tennyson and his friends - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In addition to this perpetual tornado of horror the pinch of famine was becoming sharper, and the question of relief seemed to be growing into one of "now or never."
Từ trong câu: tornado, addition, horror, become, sharp, question, relief, seem
Louis Creswicke, South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 4 (of 8) From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
There was no doubt but that a similar note was awaiting Miss Pole at home; so her call was a very fortunate affair, as it enabled us to consult together.
Từ trong câu: enable, similar, fortunate, consult, await, doubt, note, miss
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Cranford - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I suppose all these inquiries of mine, and the consequent curiosity excited in the minds of my friends, made us blind and deaf to what was going on around us.
Từ trong câu: blind, deaf, inquiry, curiosity, suppose, excite, mind, friend
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Cranford - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Torches were glittering through the streets, a vast pyre sent up its column of flame from the mighty altar of the sun, and the clanging of the cymbals was heard.
Từ trong câu: pyre, torch, street, vast, send, up, column, flame
Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 392, June, 1848 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
There was no rest in the Church or in the State, and the mind of France--which was the mind of Europe--was gravitating to a social and religious democracy.
Từ trong câu: gravitate, rest, church, state, mind, social, religious, democracy
Various, British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
We cruised about over three months, and had remarkable success, having harpooned and secured several large sperm whales, so we felt that we were going to have a good voyage.
Từ trong câu: sperm, cruise, month, remarkable, success, secure, several, large
Charles J. Gillis, Another Summer: The Yellowstone Park and Alaska - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Sleek unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens, from whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking pigs, as if to snuff the air.
Từ trong câu: repose, troop, pen, pig, abundance, forth, now, air
Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
On he came, unmindful of everything that was going on about him, as if his spirit were faraway, communing with that unseen Presence that was never absent from his mind.
Từ trong câu: faraway, come, everything, go, spirit, presence, never, absent
Various, The Catholic World, Vol. 03, April to September, 1866 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
There was a moment's pause, as though the men were waiting to learn if she had more to tell, and then the King threw back his head and laughed softly.
Từ trong câu: softly, pause, though, man, wait, learn, tell, king
Richard Harding Davis, The King's Jackal - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was his first Christmas dinner and he thought of his little brothers and sisters who were waiting in the nursery, as he had often waited, till the pudding came.
Từ trong câu: nursery, first, dinner, think, little, brother, sister, wait
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In a quiet bystreet a German band of five players in faded uniforms and with battered brass instruments was playing to an audience of street arabs and leisurely messenger boys.
Từ trong câu: battered, uniform, instrument, messenger, brass, leisurely, quiet, band
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US