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Well, as I was saying, we were chatting away quite friendly and he asked me did our friend here wear glasses still, and then he told me the whole story.
Từ trong câu: chat, well, say, away, quite, friendly, ask, friend
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They hurried into the house and made a dash for the parlor and the hard-coal burner, behind which Gunner was sitting on a stool, reading his Jules Verne book.
Từ trong câu: dash, hurry, house, make, hard, coal, behind, sit
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Fred was talking with the desperation of a man who has put himself in the wrong and who yet feels that there was an idea of truth in his conduct.
Từ trong câu: desperation, talk, man, put, himself, wrong, feel, idea
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was lounging back in his chair, and his face was pale and drawn hard by that mood of intense concentration which lurks under the sunny shallows of the vineyard.
Từ trong câu: concentration, lounge, back, chair, face, pale, draw, hard
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The farther I went the madder I got, but I was trying to look unconscious, when the end-gate came loose and one of the melons fell out and squashed.
Từ trong câu: mad, far, go, get, try, look, unconscious, end
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I'll tell you--this young fellow that was sitting there with me--standing there with me at the present time, he says, "Lay down, Mister, somebody is shooting the President."
Từ trong câu: mister, tell, young, fellow, sit, stand, present, time
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (07 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Now, I am not sure if we knew that he was working already or if we thought he was still unemployed, not unemployed but already employed but not working yet.
Từ trong câu: unemployed, now, sure, know, work, already, think, still
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The first time I saw Ruby he was lunging, and almost instantaneously the shot was fired, and I couldn't--I couldn't say that I saw him come from the crowd.
Từ trong câu: instantaneously, first, time, saw, almost, shot, fire, come
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I’ve always heard that Prince Edward Island was the prettiest place in the world, and I used to imagine I was living here, but I never really expected I would.
Từ trong câu: prince, always, hear, island, pretty, place, world, use
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“November is usually such a disagreeable month . . . as if the year had suddenly found out that she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it.
Từ trong câu: weep, usually, november, month, year, suddenly, find, out
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At the foot of the hill a boy was sitting on the fence in the shadow of the spruces . . . a boy with big, dreamy eyes and a beautiful, sensitive face.
Từ trong câu: dreamy, foot, hill, boy, sit, fence, shadow, big
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Emily was worrying me so much about clean collars and grammar that it wasn’t any wonder . . . and I never thought of that poor parrot till we sat down to tea.
Từ trong câu: worrying, worry, much, clean, grammar, wonder, never, think
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I was dusting it just as careful, Miss Shirley, ma’am, and it slipped out, so fashion, afore I could grab holt of it, and bruk into about forty millyun pieces.
Từ trong câu: grab, dust, careful, miss, ma'am, slip, out, fashion
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She was sitting at a table covered with text books and exercises, but the closely written sheets of paper before her had no apparent connection with studies or school work.
Từ trong câu: closely, sheet, sit, table, cover, text, book, exercise
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“You see,” he was saying, evidently with the intention of making defeat easy for his unsuccessful rival, “I guess I won because my legs are a little longer than yours.
Từ trong câu: rival, guess, unsuccessful, defeat, yours, see, say, evidently
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It would make you mad, you know, if you were blacking boots as hard as you could, and being square all the time, and your partner wasn't square at all.
Từ trong câu: boot, partner, make, mad, know, black, hard, square
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
His mamma had been shut up in her room for some time; when she came down the stairs, her eyes looked large and wet, and her sweet mouth was trembling.
Từ trong câu: stair, wet, shut, mamma, up, room, time, come
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
To his great surprise, he found himself in a huge net, amid a crowd of fish of all kinds and sizes, who were fighting and struggling desperately to free themselves.
Từ trong câu: amid, fighting, desperately, struggle, crowd, great, surprise, find
Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Poor Pinocchio ran to the fireplace where the pot was boiling and stretched out his hand to take the cover off, but to his amazement the pot was only painted!
Từ trong câu: pot, amazement, boiling, fireplace, poor, run, stretch, out
Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She found a letter awaiting her there, and when Gilbert Blythe overtook her on the bridge over the Lake of Shining Waters she was sparkling with the excitement of it.
Từ trong câu: lake, sparkling, await, find, letter, bridge, shine, water
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“We must get rid of him,” agreed Anne, looking darkly at the subject of their discussion, who was purring on the hearth rug with an air of lamb-like meekness.
Từ trong câu: discussion, get, rid, agree, look, subject, rug, air
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The car was full of people, who were going home from the opera, and they all stared at me, but I was past caring for a little thing like that.
Từ trong câu: opera, car, full, people, go, home, stare, past
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Jo skipped up, and sitting on the top step, affected to be searching for her book, but was really wondering how best to introduce the dangerous object of her visit.
Từ trong câu: top, search, dangerous, skip, up, sit, step, affect
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
So was Flo, and we kept bouncing from one side to the other, trying to see everything while we were whisking along at the rate of sixty miles an hour.
Từ trong câu: sixty, keep, side, try, see, everything, rate, mile
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
Từ trong câu: series, comic, quick, temper, sharp, tongue, spirit, always
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She was sitting just inside the conservatory, waiting for her partner to bring her an ice, when she heard a voice ask on the other side of the flowery wall...
Từ trong câu: conservatory, sit, inside, wait, partner, bring, ice, hear
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to speak to him in that way once again.
Từ trong câu: day, early, morning, heavy, rain, strike, perhaps, indicate
Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
The Invisible Man’s wrist was growing painful; he was feverish, exhausted, and his mind came round to brood upon his chase down the hill and the struggle about the inn.
Từ trong câu: brood, invisible, wrist, grow, painful, exhaust, mind, come
H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When dawn came to mingle its pallor with the lamp-light and cigar smoke of the dining-room, Kemp was still pacing up and down, trying to grasp the incredible.
Từ trong câu: mingle, dawn, come, lamp, light, smoke, dine, room
H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He longed to ask Madame Olenska if she did not have the same feeling: the feeling that they were starting on some long voyage from which they might never return.
Từ trong câu: voyage, long, ask, madame, feel, start, never, return
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US