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The house was silent when we got back, save for some poor creature who was screaming away in one of the distant wards, and a low, moaning sound from Renfield’s room.
Từ trong câu: ward, house, silent, get, back, save, poor, creature
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
We were coming home for dinner, and had come to the top of the steps up from the West Pier and stopped to look at the view, as we generally do.
Từ trong câu: west, come, home, dinner, top, step, up, stop
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was talking, apparently to some one, but I was afraid to go near enough to hear what he was saying, lest I might frighten him, and he should run off.
Từ trong câu: apparently, talk, afraid, go, near, enough, hear, say
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But I pointed out the distant pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain to her, and contrived to make her understand that we were seeking a refuge there from her Fear.
Từ trong câu: refuge, seek, point, out, distant, palace, green, make
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
There were few men in the battalion who did not catch the Field-Marshal's piercing eye as we went past, and each felt that his innermost thoughts were being ferreted out.
Từ trong câu: innermost, man, catch, field, eye, go, past, feel
Louis Eugène Du Moulin, Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And shining with the growing light of the east, three of the metallic giants stood about the pit, their cowls rotating as though they were surveying the desolation they had made.
Từ trong câu: survey, rotate, desolation, shine, grow, light, east, giant
H. G. Wells, The war of the worlds - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was driving from the direction of Westminster Bridge; and close behind him came a hay waggon with five or six respectable-looking people in it, and some boxes and bundles.
Từ trong câu: hay, drive, direction, bridge, close, behind, come, five
H. G. Wells, The war of the worlds - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And then, within thirty yards of the pit, advancing from the direction of Horsell, I noted a little black knot of men, the foremost of whom was waving a white flag.
Từ trong câu: knot, thirty, yard, pit, advance, direction, note, little
H. G. Wells, The war of the worlds - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then he brought his hand out with the letter, and said with a sort of fatigue: "Well, Jon, if you hadn't come to-day, I was going to send you this.
Từ trong câu: fatigue, bring, hand, out, letter, sort, well, come
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He has kissed her in the porch because he should not be doing so on the platform, though she was going to the station with him, to drive the car back.
Từ trong câu: platform, porch, kiss, because, do, though, go, station
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
There were men on the conning-tower, busy with paint-pots, and there was a tangle of ropes and pots on the upper decks where the guns were biding their time.
Từ trong câu: con, man, tower, busy, paint, pot, tangle, rope
L. K. Yates, The Woman's Part: A Record of Munitions Work - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I felt almost guilty of having spied too curiously into that tender heart, and I was not going to speak of its secrets—hidden, Miss Matty believed, from all the world.
Từ trong câu: guilty, curiously, secret, hidden, tender, feel, almost, heart
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Cranford - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He did this as naturally as if he were thinking aloud, and their true and beautiful words were the best expression he could find for what he was thinking or feeling.
Từ trong câu: naturally, think, aloud, true, beautiful, word, best, expression
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Cranford - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The air was alive with them; they had put out the lamp, and when I relighted it, the place appeared blackened with the impish multitudes that were whirling round and round.
Từ trong câu: impish, air, alive, put, out, lamp, place, appear
Various, The Catholic World, Vol. 02, October, 1865 to March, 1866 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
To insure a climax of disgusts, my guide led me straight to a dog butcher's shop, where several of the nasty fat oily carcases of those animals were hanging for sale.
Từ trong câu: oily, insure, climax, disgust, guide, lead, straight, dog
Various, The Catholic World, Vol. 02, October, 1865 to March, 1866 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As Victorine was pouring the ice-water, Mr. Bessemer himself came in, and addressed himself at once to his meal, without so much as a thought of waiting for the others.
Từ trong câu: pour, meal, ice, water, mr, himself, come, address
Frank Norris, Blix - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The torches were just entering the church as we drove up; and for some minutes the doors were inexorably shut, and we feared we had lost all chance of an entrance.
Từ trong câu: inexorably, torch, enter, church, drive, up, minute, door
Various, The Catholic World, Vol. 03, April to September, 1866 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The Emperor, who was now suffering great bodily pain, scarcely able to sit upon his horse, and falling at times into a sort of lethargy, was much moved by this spectacle.
Từ trong câu: lethargy, emperor, now, suffer, great, bodily, pain, scarcely
Montgomery B. Gibbs, Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
For a long time he did not open his lips, if I may so express it, for he was eating the grilled mutton his orderly had given us with evident appetite.
Từ trong câu: grilled, long, time, open, lip, express, eat, grill
Anonymous, Ten Months in the Field with the Boers - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was taking care of the little ones before the door, during her mother's confinement, and one of the boys struck her on the top of the head with a saucepan.
Từ trong câu: saucepan, take, care, little, one, door, confinement, boy
Various, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.: April, 1851: Vol. II. - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A small ring of wonderstruck children and nursemaids would gather to watch him and linger even when he and uncle Charles had sat down again and were talking athletics and politics.
Từ trong câu: athletics, athletic, linger, small, ring, child, gather, watch
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then, just as he was wishing that some unforeseen cause might prevent the director from coming, he had heard the handle of the door turning and the swish of a soutane.
Từ trong câu: unforeseen, prevent, wish, cause, director, come, hear, handle
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A voice asked who was there and I answered I was over at the match in Buttevant and was walking back and that I’d be thankful for a glass of water.
Từ trong câu: thankful, voice, ask, answer, match, walk, back, glass
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Sir Philip's mother was still living, and with her a sister of his, and old maid, who was a little too much of the puritanical school to suit her brother's taste.
Từ trong câu: puritanical, sir, mother, still, live, sister, old, little
Various, The Catholic World, Vol. 04, October, 1866 to March, 1867 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
To think that the church can ignore it, and go on as if nothing were shaking the body politic, and disturbing the souls of the people, would be to stultify ourselves.
Từ trong câu: stultify, think, church, ignore, go, nothing, shake, body
Various, The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She did not go home, but wandered off into the sand dunes, where the prickly pear was in blossom and the green lizards were racing each other in the glittering light.
Từ trong câu: pear, go, home, wander, off, sand, blossom, green
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They were crossing a plateau where great red sandstone boulders lay about, most of them much wider at the top than at the base, so that they looked like great toadstools.
Từ trong câu: crossing, sandstone, cross, great, red, lay, much, wide
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He ran out to meet Mrs. Kronborg, clutched at her feverishly, and began telling her at once how lonely he was and what bad luck he was having with his poultry.
Từ trong câu: feverishly, run, out, meet, mrs, begin, tell, once
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
There was no one in the parlor but the medical student, who was playing one of Sousa’s marches so vigorously that the china ornaments on the top of the piano rattled.
Từ trong câu: vigorously, medical, student, play, march, top, piano
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She was singing very little now, but a song would go through her head all morning, as a spring keeps welling up, and it was like a pleasant sensation indefinitely prolonged.
Từ trong câu: indefinitely, sing, little, now, song, go, head, morning
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US