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‘I assure you,’ replies Brewer, looking about for anybody else to address his answer to, and giving the preference to Lightwood; ‘I assure you, the things were going for a song.
Từ trong câu: preference, assure, reply, look, anybody, else, address, answer
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Some sheep were grazing on the grass by the river-side, and it seemed to him that he had never before heard the crisp tearing sound with which they cropped it.
Từ trong câu: crisp, sheep, grass, river, side, seem, never, hear
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In five minutes the boat was level full, and we was setting on the lockers buried up to the chin in sand, and only our heads out and could hardly breathe.
Từ trong câu: full, setting, chin, breathe, level, hardly, five, minute
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The balloon come back all right, and brung the pipe; but Aunt Polly had catched Jim when he was getting it, and anybody can guess what happened: she sent for Tom.
Từ trong câu: aunt, send, balloon, come, back, right, pipe, get
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Bill had finished his pipe and was helping his companion to spread the bed of fur and blanket upon the spruce boughs which he had laid over the snow before supper.
Từ trong câu: pipe, bill, finish, help, companion, spread, bed, fur
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was voicing an utter woe, his cry bursting upward in great heart-breaking rushes, dying down into quavering misery, and bursting upward again with a rush upon rush of grief.
Từ trong câu: quaver, voice, utter, cry, burst, upward, great, heart
Jack London, White Fang - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I think my heart was never more sharply wrung than once at Prome, in the porch of a grim old temple of Guadma;--a kitten was playing with a feather there.
Từ trong câu: kitten, think, heart, never, sharply, once, porch, grim
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
We were leaving my quarter and entering Duke Michael’s, and this action of the Marshal’s showed me more clearly than words what the state of feeling in the town must be.
Từ trong câu: clearly, state, action, leave, quarter, enter, show, word
Anthony Hope, The prisoner of Zenda - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The person who had entered was holding a batch of papers before his eyes and walked up to the table with a rather mincing step, turning the papers over the while.
Từ trong câu: batch, person, enter, hold, paper, eye, walk, up
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She and I were looking out of one of the long drawing room windows, when there entered the courtyard, over the drawbridge, a figure of a wanderer whom I knew very well.
Từ trong câu: drawing, look, out, long, draw, room, window, enter
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He had a suit of girl's clothes with him in a bundle as a disguise for his raid, and was wearing a suit of his mother's clothing, with black gloves and veil.
Từ trong câu: bundle, glove, clothing, suit, clothes, disguise, wear, black
Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
His face was anxious, as was the face of my companion, who had stumped over to the rail and was gazing with a like intentness in the direction of the invisible danger.
Từ trong câu: invisible, face, anxious, companion, rail, gaze, like, direction
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
I could imagine he was speaking the thoughts of his own mind as he read to me, and his voice, reverberating deeply and mournfully in the confined cabin, charmed and held me.
Từ trong câu: confine, charm, deeply, imagine, speak, think, mind, read
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit’s little white kid gloves while she was talking.
Từ trong câu: kid, look, down, hand, surprise, see, put, little
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
So easefully had she delivered her whole being up to him that it pleased her to think he was regarding her as his absolute possession, to dispose of as he should choose.
Từ trong câu: dispose, deliver, whole, up, please, think, regard, absolute
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Thereupon she began to plod back along the road by which she had come not altogether full of hope, but full of a conviction that a crisis in her life was approaching.
Từ trong câu: altogether, begin, back, road, come, full, hope, conviction
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
When he had filled his order and returned home, he was amazed to learn that in the swamps and forests he had lost his heart and it was calling--forever calling him.
Từ trong câu: forever, amaze, amazed, forest, fill, order, return, home
Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While the accused was making her defence, which she did in a modest way, her mistress was highly enraged, and interrupted her several times, by calling her a liar and a jade.
Từ trong câu: jade, accuse, make, defence, modest, way, highly, interrupt
American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The sun was pouring in slanting rays through the blinds and there was something so joyous in the sight of it that she jumped out of bed and ran to the window.
Từ trong câu: blind, sun, pour, ray, something, sight, jump, out
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He unfastened it as he spoke, and was just going to throw it into the bushes, when a sudden thought seemed to strike him, and he hung it carefully on a tree.
Từ trong câu: throw, strike, speak, go, sudden, think, seem, hang
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The cheer followed--that was a matter of course; but it rang out so full and hearty that I confess I could hardly believe these same men were plotting for our blood.
Từ trong câu: cheer, plot, confess, follow, matter, course, ring, out
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
At length I was clear of my dangerous neighbour, and just as I gave the last impulsion, my hands came across a light cord that was trailing overboard across the stern bulwarks.
Từ trong câu: cord, neighbour, trail, length, clear, dangerous, neighbor, give
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I could see by the working of his face that he was trying to think, and the process was so slow and laborious that, in my new-found security, I laughed aloud.
Từ trong câu: process, working, slow, see, work, face, try, think
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
We had thus proceeded for about half a mile and were approaching the brow of the plateau when the man upon the farthest left began to cry aloud, as if in terror.
Từ trong câu: farthest, thus, proceed, half, mile, approach, man, far
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And all this by such a man as General Tilney, so polite, so well bred, and heretofore so particularly fond of her! it was as incomprehensible as it was mortifying and grievous.
Từ trong câu: breed, man, general, polite, well, particularly, fond
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He saw before him in one of the valleys the gleaming of whetted iron, and advancing, dimly perceived that the shine came from the tool of a man who was cutting furze.
Từ trong câu: tool, saw, valley, iron, advance, perceive, shine, come
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I, who was going to teach people the higher secrets of happiness, did not know how to keep out of that gross misery which the most untaught are wise enough to avoid.”
Từ trong câu: gross, go, teach, people, high, secret, happiness, know
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The lad was in good spirits that day, for the Fifth of November had again come round, and he was planning yet another scheme to divert her from her too absorbing thoughts.
Từ trong câu: planning, absorb, divert, good, spirit, day, fifth, november
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was wont to say that the only redeeming feature of our captivity was the ample time it gave him for the improvisation of prayers—it was becoming an obsession with him.
Từ trong câu: ample, obsession, feature, time, give, become
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I was dreaming of the excitement and adventure which lay before us could Perry and I but escape the Mahars, when something, a slight noise I imagine, drew my attention behind me.
Từ trong câu: adventure, dream, excitement, lay, escape, something, slight, noise
Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US