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The two dogs approached one another snarling, and before Giles could rise to prevent them, had each other by the throat, and were rolling over and over on the ground.
Từ trong câu: approach, prevent, dog, another, rise, throat, roll, ground
John Galsworthy, Jocelyn - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A horny arm lifted me; two enormous, oddly gentle saucer eyes were staring into mine; my head rolled; I caught a glimpse of the Golden Girl kneeling beside the O'Keefe.
Từ trong câu: saucer, arm, lift, enormous, gentle, eye, stare, head
Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Pursuing my search to Sydney I was doubly fortunate in finding a firm who were expecting these very articles in a consignment due them from the States within a fortnight.
Từ trong câu: article, consignment, due, doubly, fortnight, state, pursue, search
Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
At length the reply from Mr. Murdstone came, and my aunt informed me, to my infinite terror, that he was coming to speak to her herself on the next day.
Từ trong câu: terror, infinite, length, reply, mr, come, aunt, inform
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
So much compunction for having ever wronged him, even by a shapeless thought, did I feel within me, that the confession of having done so was rising to my lips.
Từ trong câu: confession, much, ever, wrong, even, think, feel, rise
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
If Peggotty were looking for a hole, all of a sudden, in the heel of that stocking, it must have been a very little one indeed, and not worth darning.
Từ trong câu: heel, look, hole, sudden, stock, little, indeed, worth
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then he was gone; and the door was locked outside; and I was lying, fevered and hot, and torn, and sore, and raging in my puny way, upon the floor.
Từ trong câu: fever, go, door, lock, outside, lie, hot, sore
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I had found a packet of letters awaiting me but a few minutes before, and had strolled out of the village to read them while my supper was making ready.
Từ trong câu: village, packet, await, find, letter, minute, out, read
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
What was filling him with dread we had no means of discerning; but there he was, powerless under its gripe, and any addition seemed capable of shocking him into idiocy.
Từ trong câu: filling, shocking, addition, fill, dread, mean, seem, capable
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Once or twice they seemed to linger; these strangers, or neighbors, as the case might be, were looking at the display of toys and petty commodities in Hepzibah’s shop-window.
Từ trong câu: toy, commodity, display, once, twice, seem, linger, stranger
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He spoke a few words to the assembled warriors, and in an instant the men were flying through the little village searching minutely every hut and corner within the palisades.
Từ trong câu: assemble, speak, word, instant, man, fly, little, village
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“What I particularly like in your definition of the hyperbola (I was going to say hyperblague) is that it is still more obscure than the word you pretend to define.”
Từ trong câu: definition, define, obscure, particularly, like, go, still, word
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Lawless was still fixed at the rudder; and by this time nearly all the men had crawled on deck, and were now gazing, with blank faces, upon the inhospitable coast.
Từ trong câu: fix, coast, blank, nearly, fixed, still, time, man
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
"Here, then, to my secular interests," resumed Lord Foxham: "ye must be as good a friend to me dead, as I found you a gallant enemy when I was living.
Từ trong câu: secular, living, interest, resume, you, good, friend, dead
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And they kept it up while she was gaining her ambush and getting her glimpse over the declivity; and also while I was creeping to her side on my knees.
Từ trong câu: glimpse, keep, up, gain, get, side, knee
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
No doubt the dogs had found the place where we had entered the stream, and were now waltzing up and down the shores trying to pick up the trail again.
Từ trong câu: shore, trail, doubt, dog, find, place, enter, stream
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The stately woman would then, with a meritorious appearance of devoting herself to the general good, pursue her dinner as if she were feeding somebody else on high public grounds.
Từ trong câu: feed, stately, woman, appearance, devote, herself, general, good
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was a slow sailer on a wind of happiness, but he took a cross cut for the rendezvous, and pegged away as if he were scoring furiously at cribbage.
Từ trong câu: furiously, slow, wind, happiness, take, cross, cut, away
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was charming to see Bella contemplating this baby, and finding out her own dimples in that tiny reflection, as if she were looking in the glass without personal vanity.
Từ trong câu: tiny, charm, see, baby, find, out, reflection, look
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When the two were found, lying under the ooze and scum behind one of the rotting gates, Riderhood’s hold had relaxed, probably in falling, and his eyes were staring upward.
Từ trong câu: relax, relaxed, find, lie, behind, gate, hold, probably
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And he was still jogging along Fleet Street in this condition of mind, when he became aware that he was closely tracked and observed by a man of genteel appearance.
Từ trong câu: jogging, fleet, still, jog, street, condition, mind, become
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
Từ trong câu: summit, does, justify, equip, existence, life, great, achieve
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
That same Saturday—no, it was the night before—there was a steamboat laying at Flagler’s Landing, forty miles above here, and it was raining and storming like the nation.
Từ trong câu: landing, forty, above, saturday, night, lay, land, mile
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Tom said we better jump out and tag along after them, because they was going our way and it wouldn’t be comfortable to run across the ghost all by ourselves.
Từ trong câu: across, tag, ourselves, better, jump, out, because, go
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“Whatever pleases you I try to do,” I said; and, as I saw her smile and blush, I thought that I was playing the King’s hand very well for him.
Từ trong câu: whatever, please, try, saw, smile, blush, think, play
Anthony Hope, The prisoner of Zenda - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A youngish composer in pass of becoming famous was discoursing from a music stool to two thick men whose backs looked old, and three slender women whose backs looked young.
Từ trong câu: discourse, famous, stool, composer, music, pass, become, thick
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“Give it up—whatever it is,” he said in an admonishing tone, but not so kindly as if he were condescending to give good advice to a cracksman of repute.
Từ trong câu: repute, give, up, whatever, tone, kindly, good, advice
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
My father in the meantime had sent a servant on horseback for the physician, who lived about two leagues away; and a bedroom was being prepared for the young lady’s reception.
Từ trong câu: reception, prepared, prepare, bedroom, send, father, meantime, servant
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
To what a degree Germany was obsessed by the idea that Britain was trying to strangle her by an encircling policy, is apparent in a diplomatic document quoted by Professor Oncken.
Từ trong câu: obsess, degree, idea, try, strangle, policy, apparent, document
Thomas F. A. Smith, What Germany Thinks; Or, The War as Germans see it - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Pudd'nhead was still toiling in obscurity at the bottom of the ladder, under the blight of that unlucky remark which he had let fall twenty-three years before about the dog.
Từ trong câu: blight, unlucky, still, bottom, ladder, remark, let, fall
Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US