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The crew recognized the type, and the impression gained ground among them that he had “done for” a livery-stable keeper at Truckee and was trying to get down into Arizona.
Từ trong câu: crew, keeper, impression, recognize, type, gain, ground, among
Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
She was conscious that he was looking at her intently, as if there was something strange in her appearance, and she threw back her head with a desperate effort at ease.
Từ trong câu: desperate, appearance, intently, ease, conscious, look, something, strange
Edith Wharton, Summer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He was still looking at this dwindling figure, which stood as a mere grey blot touched with a white flame against the great green wall of the steep down behind him.
Từ trong câu: steep, still, look, figure, stand, mere, gray, touch
G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
His words he seemed to be dragging out like words in an anthem; but Syme, who was watching, saw his long fingers rattle quickly on the edge of the crazy table.
Từ trong câu: drag, rattle, word, seem, out, like, watch, saw
G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Only the day before I left, I heard the Baron say (through the open door of his room while I was passing along the corridor), ‘Ferrari, I want a thousand pounds.
Từ trong câu: along, day, leave, hear, open, door, room, pass
Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I was sitting on a bench in the park, smoking grass, when some foreign tourists came and sat down, and started talking about me in German like I was a bum.
Từ trong câu: sit, bench, park, smoke, grass, foreign, tourist, come
Max Millard, 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s - Tiếng Anh, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
She was now proposing to make a visit to that exhilarating city, and she desired to turn an honest penny by sub-letting for a few weeks her historic Italian chambers.
Từ trong câu: chamber, historic, exhilarating, now, propose, make, visit, city
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I had not a suspicion that all the while he was coming so regularly to make himself agreeable on my veranda, he was quietly preferring his cousin to any one else.
Từ trong câu: regularly, suspicion, come, make, himself, agreeable, quietly, prefer
Henry James, Roderick Hudson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Between him and Newman, his whole manner seemed to declare there could be no interchange of opinion; he was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.
Từ trong câu: inhale, democracy, whole, manner, seem, declare, opinion, hold
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I am sorry to say, to the discredit of Newman’s gallantry, that this lady’s invitation was not then and there bestowed; he was giving all his attention to the old marquise.
Từ trong câu: discredit, sorry, invitation, give, attention, old
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Newman looked at it for a moment, blankly; then he became conscious, through the dusky mist that swam before his eyes, that a lady seated in it was bowing to him.
Từ trong câu: swim, mist, look, moment, become, conscious, eye, lady
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Only if we were seen—considering what has passed, and everyone knows you have been turned away—it might be thought I was going a little too far, even for me.
Từ trong câu: considering, see, consider, pass, everyone, know, turn, away
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He saw, however, equally, that she was resisting her agitation with all the rigor of her inflexible will, and there was nothing like either fear or submission in her stony stare.
Từ trong câu: submission, saw, however, equally, resist, nothing, like, either
Henry James, The American - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He said their overseer couldn't talk plain, and would call them long before crack of dawn, and it sounded like he was saying, 'Ike and a bike, Ike and a bike.'
Từ trong câu: bike, overseer, talk, plain, call, long, crack, dawn
United States. Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 4 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P——, in Kentucky.
Từ trong câu: february, chilly, late, afternoon, day, gentleman, sit, alone
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Mary took the kettle to the well, and soon reappearing, placed it over the stove, where it was soon purring and steaming, a sort of censer of hospitality and good cheer.
Từ trong câu: cheer, stove, kettle, hospitality, take, well, soon, place
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“I was telling Mr. Winterbourne,” the young girl went on; and to the young man’s ear her tone might have indicated that she had been uttering his name all her life.
Từ trong câu: indicate, tell, mr, young, girl, go, ear, tone
Henry James, Daisy Miller: A Study - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The little boy had now converted his alpenstock into a vaulting pole, by the aid of which he was springing about in the gravel and kicking it up not a little.
Từ trong câu: aid, pole, convert, kick, little, boy, now, spring
Henry James, Daisy Miller: A Study - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Daisy sat at a distance from the piano, and though she had publicly, as it were, professed a high admiration for his singing, talked, not inaudibly, while it was going on.
Từ trong câu: publicly, singing, admiration, sing, high, daisy, sit, distance
Henry James, Daisy Miller: A Study - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She went in, and she found Bessie still writing her letter; that is, Mrs. Westgate perceived she was sitting at the table with the pen in her hand and not writing.
Từ trong câu: perceive, pen, go, find, still, write, letter, mrs
Henry James, An International Episode - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She had forgotten what an attractive thing the world is, and it was coming over her that somehow she had for the best years of her life been cheated of it.
Từ trong câu: attractive, cheat, forget, thing, world, come, somehow, best
Henry James, The Aspern Papers - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I had taken up my binoculars while we talked, and was looking at the shore, sweeping the limit of the forest at each side and at the back of the house.
Từ trong câu: limit, take, up, talk, look, shore, sweep, forest
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Meantime the chief mate, with an almost visible effect of collaboration on the part of his round eyes and frightful whiskers, was trying to evolve a theory of the anchored ship.
Từ trong câu: visible, collaboration, evolve, theory, meantime, effect, chief, mate
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Our infantry were coming back in larger numbers now, and I thought glumly of what the brigade-major had said the previous evening, "We are going to fight for this line."
Từ trong câu: glumly, come, back, large, number, now, think, major
George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, Pushed and the Return Push - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Later there was grim proof that the lull merely meant that the Hun was bringing up his guns and putting in fresh divisions to buffet and press our tired worn men.
Từ trong câu: buffet, late, grim, proof, merely, mean, bring, up
George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, Pushed and the Return Push - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He had lain down again, and a sleepy snort, very like a snore, revealed that, if he was not already asleep, he was past understanding a word that Ruby was saying.
Từ trong câu: reveal, understanding, snore, lie, down, again, sleepy, like
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Joseph was sitting at his breakfast--a little weak tea, dry bread, and very dubious butter--which Nanny had set for him, and which he was enjoying because he was hungry.
Từ trong câu: weak, sit, breakfast, little, tea, dry, bread, butter
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Diamond turned his head as quietly as if he were only obeying his mother's voice, and the calmness of his face rebuked my unkind desire and made me ashamed of it.
Từ trong câu: calmness, unkind, diamond, turn, head, quietly, voice, face
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She made no answer, but rose with him in her arms and sailed away over the tree-tops till they came to a meadow, where a flock of sheep was feeding.
Từ trong câu: flock, make, answer, rise, arm, sail, away, tree
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was examining the bark of a tree, which had nothing the matter with it, so far as Felix could see; while his dog, who had followed them, carefully examined Tod.
B1Quá khứ hoàn thànhQuá khứ tiếp diễnViệc xen vào việc đang diễn racan và couldMệnh đề quan hệ với which, whoseCâu phủ địnhTừ trong câu: bark, examine, tree, nothing, matter, far, see, dog
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US