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I’d love you just as much if you were not turning into one of the loveliest women I’ve ever seen; but you are, and that’s a fact to be reckoned with.”
Từ trong câu: reckon, love, much, turn, lovely, woman, ever, see
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Dr. Archie saw his guest to the motor which was waiting below, and then went back to his library, where he replenished the fire and sat down for a long smoke.
Từ trong câu: motor, dr, saw, guest, wait, below, go, back
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While I was eating my lunch, the waitress came up and told me she had just heard a radio report that the President and the Vice President had both been shot.
Từ trong câu: waitress, eat, lunch, come, up, tell, hear, radio
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
We were listening to a transistor radio there in the store, just listening to a regular radio program, and they broke in with the bulletin that the President had been shot.
Từ trong câu: transistor, listen, radio, store, regular, program, break, bulletin
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (07 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
I was cashing my paycheck and Bringuier told me a few days before he had run into this fellow in his store, this Casa Roca--this young man had approached him.
Từ trong câu: paycheck, cash, tell, day, run, fellow, store, young
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He claimed that they were acting illegally, and I am not at all sure that he didn't also indicate that he had a right, that he knew he had a right.
Từ trong câu: illegally, claim, act, sure, indicate, right, know
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But we went to the extreme back of the store and, as well as I remember, I had a used reddish maple bookcase headboard bed, you know, I was showing you.
Từ trong câu: bookcase, go, extreme, back, store, well, remember, use
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He was taking pictures at the time of the assassination, and he believed that he had the building in the background, because it's in direct trajectory of the line of fire.
Từ trong câu: trajectory, take, picture, time, believe, build, background, because
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He had a big box full of very interesting things and he told me he was working hard to make enough money to bring his wife and children out from Germany.
Từ trong câu: box, big, full, interest, thing, tell, work, hard
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It made me feel glad that I could plant it by his grave--as if I were doing something that must please him in taking it there to be near him.
Từ trong câu: plant, make, feel, glad, grave, do, something, please
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.
Từ trong câu: letter, cell, copy, door, count, house, open, keep
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were looking at the table (which was spread out in great array); for these young housekeepers are always nervous on such points, and like to see that everything is right.
Từ trong câu: housekeeper, array, spread, look, table, out, great, young
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The grass had recently been cut and in a pile which lay on the edge of the street, half a dozen little chaps were turning somersaults and revelling in the coolness.
Từ trong câu: somersault, grass, recently, cut, pile, lay, edge, street
Various, Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part I. The People - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
His vessel being thus allowed to swing round, she became unmanageable, and as it was blowing a gale of wind at the time, the unfortunate Mary was driven upon the rocks.
Từ trong câu: unmanageable, vessel, thus, allow, swing, round, become, blow
John Patterson, The Adventures of Captain John Patterson With Notices of the Officers, &c. of the 50th, or Queen's Own Regiment from 1807 to 1821 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
These were jogging to and fro and dashing against one another like the ripened fruits of trees, and seemed to be filled with flavoured liquor for the giddiness of their observers.
Từ trong câu: jogging, jog, dash, another, like, fruit, tree, seem
Valmiki, The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 3 (of 4), Part 2 (of 2) - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He just called there one evening on business with Mr. Harmon Andrews and Mrs. Lynde saw him and said she knew he was courting because he had a white collar on.
Từ trong câu: collar, call, evening, business, mr, mrs, saw, know
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“I thought I was rubbing my freckle lotion on it, but I must have used that red dye Marilla has for marking the pattern on her rugs,” was the despairing response.
Từ trong câu: response, rug, think, rub, use, red, dye, mark
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The wind had risen and was sighing and wailing around the eaves and the snow was thudding softly against the windows, as if a hundred storm sprites were tapping for entrance.
Từ trong câu: tap, wind, rise, sigh, around, snow, softly, window
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Mary led them upstairs to a bright chintz-hung bedroom where a fire was burning, and a large snow-white Persian cat was sleeping luxuriously on the white fur hearth-rug.
Từ trong câu: burn, burning, lead, upstairs, bright, hang, bedroom, fire
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The Fairy showed no pity toward him, as she was trying to teach him a good lesson, so that he would stop telling lies, the worst habit any boy may acquire.
Từ trong câu: habit, acquire, fairy, show, pity, toward, try, teach
Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
All the time I’m with her I feel as if I were watching her struggle with an invisible foe—trying to push it back with such feeble resistance as she has.
Từ trong câu: invisible, push, resistance, struggle, time, feel, watch, try
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Then he avoided the tender subject altogether, wrote philosophical notes to Jo, turned studious, and gave out that he was going to ‘dig’, intending to graduate in a blaze of glory.
Từ trong câu: philosophical, graduate, avoid, glory, tender, subject, altogether, write
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
If she had known what birthday gift was coming every minute nearer and nearer, she would not have said to herself, “I’ll weep a little weep when I go to bed.
Từ trong câu: birthday, weep, know, gift, come, every, minute, near
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“I wish I was going to have a fine time and wear all these nice things,” said Amy with her mouth full of pins, as she artistically replenished her sister’s cushion.
Từ trong câu: artistically, wish, go, fine, time, wear, nice, thing
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no attention to the pain he was causing himself.
Từ trong câu: idea, excitedly, follow, effort, bit, key, strength, pay
Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
My next care was what to load it with, and how to preserve what I laid upon it from the surf of the sea; but I was not long considering this.
Từ trong câu: considering, surf, next, care, load, preserve, lay, sea
Daniel, 1661?-1731 Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
No doubt she simply echoed what was said for her; but she was nearing her twenty-second birthday, and he wondered at what age "nice" women began to speak for themselves.
Từ trong câu: birthday, doubt, simply, near, twenty, second, wonder, age
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He had really no idea what he was saying: he felt as if he were shouting at her across endless distances, and she might vanish again before he could overtake her.
Từ trong câu: vanish, overtake, shout, really, idea, say, feel, across
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
"Madame Olenska is a great favourite with the gentlemen," said Miss Sophy, with her air of wishing to put forth something conciliatory when she knew that she was planting a dart.
Từ trong câu: conciliatory, favourite, favorite, madame, great, gentleman, miss, air
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Seeing that he had chosen history she fetched her workbasket, drew up an arm-chair to the green-shaded student lamp, and uncovered a cushion she was embroidering for his sofa.
Từ trong câu: cushion, student, see, choose, history, draw, up, arm
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US