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But just as she was thinking, 'I have the very thing for the dear child's sunburn,' Nedda said: “Granny, dear, I've been meaning to tell you—Derek and I are engaged.”
Từ trong câu: engaged, think, thing, dear, granny, mean, tell, engage
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
She caught her train—glowing outwardly from the speed of her ride, and inwardly from the heat of adventure and the thought that at last she was being of some use.
Từ trong câu: outwardly, adventure, ride, catch, train, speed, heat, think
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Her aunt was standing in the porch, looking straight before her; a trail of clematis had drooped over her fine black hair down on to the blue of her linen dress.
Từ trong câu: porch, trail, aunt, stand, look, straight, fine, black
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
They were going down-hill now, along the blank wall of a factory; there was the river in front, with the moonlight on it and boats drawn up along the bank.
Từ trong câu: blank, river, boat, go, down, hill, now, wall
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
A signal party, stationed a little above the upper landing and halfway up the bluff, was communicating in the mystic language of the code with another upon our side the river.
Từ trong câu: halfway, signal, party, station, little, above, upper, land
Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It passed in a moment, and he was saying, 'And I am free now--honorably free--and have come where my heart has been, ever since that month on the seaside.
Từ trong câu: seaside, pass, moment, say, free, now, come, heart
Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
On Wednesday morning Carl got up before it was light, and stole downstairs and out of the kitchen door just as old Ivar was making his morning ablutions at the pump.
Từ trong câu: pump, wednesday, steal, downstairs, morning, get, up, light
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Marie was lying on her side under the white mulberry tree, her face half hidden in the grass, her eyes closed, her hands lying limply where they had happened to fall.
Từ trong câu: hidden, lie, side, white, tree, face, half, grass
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While he was thinking dully of this in some less sensitized part of his brain, his acuter faculties were going over and over the cries he had heard in the orchard.
Từ trong câu: brain, faculty, think, less, part, go, cry, hear
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun.
Từ trong câu: quail, feel, heart, hide, down, somewhere, little, wild
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The short cut led across two fields, a narrow strip of village common, where linen was drying on gorse bushes coming into bloom, and one field beyond; she met no one.
Từ trong câu: strip, bloom, village, short, cut, lead, across, field
John Galsworthy, Beyond - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then came another creak, as if he were raising himself by support of the banisters, and then—or was it fancy?—she could hear him creeping and breathing behind the door.
Từ trong câu: support, come, another, raise, himself, fancy, hear, breathe
John Galsworthy, Beyond - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was always breaking into laughter, having that precious feeling of twisting the world round her thumb, which does not come too often in the life of one who is sensitive.
Từ trong câu: thumb, always, break, laughter, precious, feel, twist, world
John Galsworthy, Beyond - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
To go up to London, too, every day was tiring, and she persuaded him to take a set of residential chambers in the Temple, and sleep there three nights a week.
Từ trong câu: tiring, residential, persuade, go, up, every, day, tire
John Galsworthy, Beyond - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In less than one week I was dreaming every night of ivory balls of all sizes and colors, of billiard cues of all weights and shapes, and tables of all styles.
Từ trong câu: cue, less, week, dream, every, night, ivory, ball
J. P. Johnston, Twenty Years of Hus'ling - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Beyond Avoca we rested for the night at Fever Creek, and were alarmed by the approach of a heavy thunderstorm just as we were commencing our dinner in the dense darkness.
Từ trong câu: thunderstorm, beyond, rest, night, fever, creek, alarm, approach
Edward P. Lowry, With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were gossiping over the dancers at the ball of the night before when one of them proclaimed her fancy for the agility and grace of the king above all others.
Từ trong câu: agility, gossip, dancer, ball, night, proclaim, fancy, grace
M. F. Mansfield, Royal Palaces and Parks of France - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Trumpet to mouth, the old man was standing in his hoisted quarter-boat, his ivory leg plainly revealed to the stranger captain, who was carelessly reclining in his own boat’s bow.
Từ trong câu: carelessly, trumpet, mouth, old, man, stand, quarter, boat
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
They went towards the extreme stern, on the ship’s lee side, where the deck, with the oblique energy of the wind, was now almost dipping into the creamy, sidelong-rushing sea.
Từ trong câu: creamy, oblique, energy, extreme, go, toward, stern, side
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
But, as yet, Stubb heeded not the mumblings of the banquet that was going on so nigh him, no more than the sharks heeded the smacking of his own epicurean lips.
Từ trong câu: banquet, go, nigh, lip
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The whale was now going head out, and sending his spout before him in a continual tormented jet; while his one poor fin beat his side in an agony of fright.
Từ trong câu: continual, agony, whale, now, go, head, out, send
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
“You have often driven that pony up to my place,” said master; “it only shows the creature's memory and intelligence; how did he know that you were not going there again?
Từ trong câu: memory, intelligence, often, drive, up, place, master, show
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was doing his best to pull a heavy cart, while a strong rough boy was cutting him under the belly with his whip and chucking cruelly at his little mouth.
Từ trong câu: cruelly, belly, do, best, pull, heavy, cart, strong
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They were shooting rabbits near the Highwood, and a gun went off close by; he pulled up a little and looked, but did not stir a step to right or left.
Từ trong câu: shoot, shooting, gun, near, go, off, close, pull
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
And then he heard again the sound of breathing, quick and scared, like the fluttering of a bird; in a moment he was staring in the dark at an empty hammock.
Từ trong câu: scare, scared, hear, again, sound, breathe, quick, like
John Galsworthy, The Island Pharisees - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A contemptuous tolerance for people who were not getting on was spreading beneath its surface; it left each time a deeper feeling that its owner could never be in the wrong.
Từ trong câu: tolerance, owner, contemptuous, people, get, spread, beneath, surface
John Galsworthy, The Island Pharisees - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
At the Hall the long French windows of the dining-room were open; the Squire was sitting there alone, brooding sadly above the remnants of the fruit he had been eating.
Từ trong câu: sadly, hall, long, window, dine, room, open, sit
John Galsworthy, The Country House - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were standing together looking at a tree and--symbol of a subservient under-world--the spaniel John was seated on his tail, and he, too, was looking at the tree.
Từ trong câu: symbol, stand, together, look, tree, world, seat, tail
John Galsworthy, The Country House - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
On the central velvet seat of the boot and shoe department, a lady, with an egret in her hat, was stretching out a slim silk-stockinged foot, waiting for a boot.
Từ trong câu: central, shoe, seat, boot, department, lady, hat, stretch
John Galsworthy, Fraternity - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“The old chap knew where he lived right enough; but dash me if I believe he noticed that I was taking him there in my car--I had the A.i.
Từ trong câu: dash, old, know, live, right, enough, believe, notice
John Galsworthy, Fraternity - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US