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He had thrown away the hand-made cigarette, finding that it had not enough saltpetre to make it draw, and was smoking one more suited to the action of his lungs.
Từ trong câu: smoking, suit, lung, throw, away, hand, make, cigarette
John Galsworthy, Fraternity - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was bringing the compression back to Hilary's lips, the flush to his ears and cheeks, as a draught of wind will blow to redness a fire that has been choked.
Từ trong câu: compression, bring, back, lip, ear, cheek, draft, wind
John Galsworthy, Fraternity - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The other guests were dispersing to take up the same existence in a different setting: some at Newport, some at Bar Harbour, some in the elaborate rusticity of an Adirondack camp.
Từ trong câu: camp, bar, elaborate, harbour, harbor, guest, take, up
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Lily had taken up her work early in January: it was now two months later, and she was still being rebuked for her inability to sew spangles on a hat-frame.
Từ trong câu: january, lily, take, up, work, early, now, month
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A maid showed me in without ceremony, and as I entered the sitting-room a lady, who was sitting before a Remington typewriter, sprang up with a pleasant smile of welcome.
Từ trong câu: ceremony, welcome, show, enter, sit, room, lady, spring
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He stood with his legs a little separated, his arms folded, his head bowed, as if he were brooding over that enormous wilderness of peat and granite which lay before him.
Từ trong câu: leg, separate, wilderness, enormous, stand, little, arm, fold
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He rose and bowed to the ladies, and, as the Senora was making some polite answer, the door of the room opened quickly, and a man entered and advanced towards her.
Từ trong câu: polite, rise, lady, make, answer, door, room, open
Amelia E. Barr, Remember the Alamo - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She felt that she was doing herself justice; that she was charming; and, consequently, she also was charmed with the guest and the occasion which had been so favorable to her.
Từ trong câu: guest, occasion, consequently, feel, do, herself, justice, charm
Amelia E. Barr, Remember the Alamo - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
And then Isabel made Luis a cup, and cut his tamales, and waited upon him with such pretty service, that the happy lover thought he was eating a meal in Paradise.
Từ trong câu: paradise, make, cup, cut, wait, pretty, service, happy
Amelia E. Barr, Remember the Alamo - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Rachela knew the Senora was thinking of this circumstance; the thought was in her voice, and it cowed and snubbed the woman, her nature being essentially as low as her birth.
Từ trong câu: cow, essentially, know, think, circumstance, voice, woman, nature
Amelia E. Barr, Remember the Alamo - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
Từ trong câu: below, divine, spring, move, air, above, earth, around
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Once he looked back, and saw that the barge had run aground on the other side of the canal, and the barge-woman was gesticulating wildly and shouting, “Stop, stop, stop!”
Từ trong câu: wildly, once, look, back, saw, run, side, canal
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A fire of sticks was burning near by, and over the fire hung an iron pot, and out of that pot came forth bubblings and gurglings, and a vague suggestive steaminess.
Từ trong câu: burning, burn, vague, fire, stick, near, hang, iron
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
His shoes were covered with mud, and he was looking very rough and touzled; but then he had never been a very smart man, the Badger, at the best of times.
Từ trong câu: rough, smart, shoe, cover, mud, look, never, man
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“I was just going to send a boat down the river for you, Ratty, with strict orders that you were to be fetched up here at once, whatever you were doing.
Từ trong câu: strict, go, send, boat, down, river, order, up
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And while you were taking the female prisoner did the male prisoner interpose, and endeavour to hinder you in the execution of your duty, and did he strike you a blow?
Từ trong câu: endeavour, strike, hinder, female, execution, while, take, prisoner
John Galsworthy, The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I am going to show you, in fact, that he did this in a moment of aberration, amounting to temporary insanity, caused by the violent distress under which he was labouring.
Từ trong câu: violent, labor, aberration, cause, temporary, go, show, fact
John Galsworthy, Justice - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
While we were munching away at our dry food, now and then varying the fare by a pull at a snowball, the driver gave a shout and the car suddenly stopped.
Từ trong câu: snowball, munch, away, dry, food, now, vary, fare
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Then intuitively they glanced toward their uncle--and perceived that he had his hat pulled over his eyes, and was staring with a kind of moody scowl at the lake opposite.
Từ trong câu: intuitively, glance, toward, uncle, perceive, hat, pull, eye
Harold Frederic, The Market-Place - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was raining a little--it had been raining on and off all day--a miserable, rotten sort of a day, with greasy mud everywhere, and everybody poking umbrellas into you.
Từ trong câu: mud, miserable, everywhere, rain, little, off, day, rotten
Harold Frederic, The Market-Place - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
George had towed us up to Staines, and we had taken the boat from there, and it seemed that we were dragging fifty tons after us, and were walking forty miles.
Từ trong câu: ton, tow, up, take, boat, seem, drag, fifty
Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
We examined Harris as to what he had done with it; but he did not seem to know what we meant by “whisky,” or what we were talking about at all.
Từ trong câu: examine, seem, know, mean, whisky, talk
Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were expanding, and in the course of their expanding they drove the Folk before them, and settled down themselves in the caves and occupied the territory that we had occupied.
Từ trong câu: expand, course, drive, folk, settle, down, themselves, occupy
Jack London, Before Adam - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Like all the men of our horde, when they were angry or were trying to make themselves angry, he stopped now and again to hammer on his chest with his fist.
Từ trong câu: hammer, like, man, angry, try, make, themselves, stop
Jack London, Before Adam - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
A man was conversing with him; he had white stockings and a moleskin waistcoat, and was as ill-looking a rogue as you would want to see in a day’s journey.
Từ trong câu: waistcoat, man, white, ill, look, want, see, journey
Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
‘If I had thought I was injuring my emperor,’ said I, ‘I would have let M. de Mauseant burn in hell ere I had helped him, and be sure of that!
Từ trong câu: injure, think, emperor, let, be, burn, hell, help
Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And the whole forces of my mind were so consumed with losing hold and getting it again, that I could scarce have told whether I was going up or coming down.
Từ trong câu: consume, whole, force, mind, lose, hold, get, again
Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He felt that he was keeping it in trust, as it were; that it had been changed at birth, and that the proper guardian would eventually relieve him of his treasure.
Từ trong câu: proper, birth, treasure, relieve, eventually, feel, keep, trust
Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The King's palace and gardens stretch along one end of the public park, and are but just across the street from the hotel where the Hohenwalds and the Americans were staying.
Từ trong câu: stretch, park, garden, palace, end, public, across, street
Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
And at the same time "Snowball" heard in the same way that the officer of the guard was going to make a search of his possessions for this precious "fire-water."
Từ trong câu: snowball, time, hear, way, officer, guard, go, make
Various, History of Ambulance Company Number 139 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US