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Dorothy fell asleep only once, and then she dreamed she was in Kansas, where Aunt Em was telling her how glad she was to have her little girl at home again.
Từ trong câu: dream, fall, asleep, once, aunt, they, tell, glad
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
There were also pretty little barns, with china fences around them; and many cows and sheep and horses and pigs and chickens, all made of china, were standing about in groups.
Từ trong câu: chicken, sheep, group, pig, pretty, little, fence, around
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But we’ll talk on it again; for sometimes things come into my head when I’m leeching or poulticing, or such, as I could never think on when I was sitting still.”
Từ trong câu: sometimes, talk, again, thing, come, head, never, think
George Eliot, Silas Marner - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She, at least, ought to have known that he was wearing a mask, and having found that out, she should have torn it from his face, whenever they were alone together.
Từ trong câu: whenever, least, ought, know, wear, mask, find, out
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Mr. Harry Waite’s friends had at last succeeded in taking him out of the room, for his temper was growing more and more violent under the Vicomte’s obvious admiration for Sally.
Từ trong câu: growing, violent, obvious, admiration, mr, friend, last, succeed
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night.
Từ trong câu: dissolve, stand, behind, saw, shock, look, eye, doctor
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The bright sun was high--the sky serene--the merry birds were carolling in the brake--the forest basked in noon-day, while the party wound along the shady path beneath.
Từ trong câu: serene, brake, bright, sun, high, sky, merry, bird
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They were over what seemed a natural cave in the rock, to which apparently the river had access, for, at a great distance below, a faint light was gleaming upon water.
Từ trong câu: access, apparently, cave, natural, seem, rock, river, great
George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He soon discovered the way out of the garden, with which he had some acquaintance already, and in a few minutes was climbing the mountain with a solemn and cheerful heart.
Từ trong câu: acquaintance, discover, garden, climb, cheerful, climbing, soon, way
George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Its eyes were flaming with anger, but it seemed to be at the housekeeper, for it came cowering and creeping up and laid its head on the ground at Curdie's feet.
Từ trong câu: housekeeper, anger, eye, seem, come, up, lay, head
George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In the darkness he saw visions of a thousand-tongued fear that would babble at his back and cause him to flee, while others were going coolly about their country’s business.
Từ trong câu: babble, darkness, saw, vision, thousand, tongue, fear, back
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
They were gulping at their canteens, fierce to wring every mite of water from them, and they polished at their swollen and watery features with coat sleeves and bunches of grass.
Từ trong câu: polish, swollen, fierce, every, water, swell, feature, coat
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
With this terrible grin of resolution he hugged his precious flag to him and was stumbling and staggering in his design to go the way that led to safety for it.
Từ trong câu: resolution, design, precious, terrible, grin, flag, staggering, go
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Directly they were in a mass of dust-covered troops, and were trudging along in a way parallel to the enemy’s lines as these had been defined by the previous turmoil.
Từ trong câu: turmoil, define, parallel, directly, mass, dust, cover, troop
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
On one occasion, indeed, he even went so far as to knock them both down a flight of stairs; but this was carrying out his virtuous precepts to an unusual extent.
Từ trong câu: extent, occasion, indeed, even, go, far, knock, down
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When he awoke, the table was covered with tea-things, and Sikes was thrusting various articles into the pockets of his great-coat, which hung over the back of a chair.
Từ trong câu: various, table, cover, tea, thing, article, pocket, great
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The old gentleman who was reading the newspaper raised his head for a moment, and pulled the other old gentleman by the sleeve; whereupon, the last-mentioned old gentleman woke up.
Từ trong câu: sleeve, old, gentleman, read, newspaper, raise, head, moment
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“She was hanging about me all day, and night too, when I was stretched on my back; and you, like a blackhearted wolf as you are, kept yourself aloof,” said Sikes.
Từ trong câu: wolf, hang, day, night, stretch, back, like, keep
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He did not take his eyes from her face, and when she looked back at him as the carriage drove away, she felt again as if something were passing between them.
Từ trong câu: carriage, take, eye, face, look, back, drive, away
John Galsworthy, Jocelyn - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It fell, a rippling, wondrous cascade, veiling both her and O'Keefe to their girdles--and now the shining coils of moon fire had crept to their knees--was circling higher--higher.
Từ trong câu: cascade, fall, wondrous, now, shine, moon, fire, knee
Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
After a time the eastern sky began to lighten, and we knew that the moon was rising; grew lighter still, and the orb peeped over the sea; swam into full sight.
Từ trong câu: eastern, lighter, lighten, time, sky, begin, know, moon
Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Minnie laughed, and stroked her banded hair upon her temples, as her father put one of his fat fingers into the hand of the child she was dancing on the counter.
Từ trong câu: band, counter, laugh, stroke, hair, father, put, fat
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I was going to obey, but he suddenly arrested me, and added in the strangest tone—“Be so good as to turn your lock, and draw your bolt—don’t omit it!”
Từ trong câu: omit, bolt, go, obey, suddenly, arrest, add, strange
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Isabella—I believe she is eleven, a year younger than Cathy—lay screaming at the farther end of the room, shrieking as if witches were running red-hot needles into her.
Từ trong câu: eleven, farther, believe, year, young, lay, scream, far
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Nor would it have been singular had they ceased to remember that the House of the Seven Gables was resting its heavy framework on a foundation that was rightfully their own.
Từ trong câu: framework, foundation, singular, remember, house, seven, rest, heavy
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
To Tarzan’s surprise the young man was heading further into the jungle in the general direction of Mbonga’s village, and the shrewd young ape-man was convinced that he was lost.
Từ trong câu: general, surprise, young, man, head, further, jungle, direction
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Here I paused, I knew not why; but I remained some minutes with my eyes fixed on a coach that was coming towards me from the other end of the street.
Từ trong câu: coach, pause, know, remain, minute, eye, fix, come
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Except for the ship's own lantern, and for some lights in Shoreby town, that were already fading to leeward, the whole world of air was as black as in a pit.
Từ trong câu: fade, except, light, town, already, whole, world, air
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Even authorship was taking a start; Sir Dinadan the Humorist was first in the field, with a volume of gray-headed jokes which I had been familiar with during thirteen centuries.
Từ trong câu: familiar, volume, even, take, start, sir, first, field
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
This hush continued while I was being chained to the stake; it still continued while the fagots were carefully and tediously piled about my ankles, my knees, my thighs, my body.
Từ trong câu: tediously, carefully, hush, continue, chain, stake, still, pile
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US