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Then, accustomed to passive obedience, he jumped down from the terrace, ran toward the lane, and at the end of twenty paces met D’Artagnan, who, having seen all, was coming to him.
Từ trong câu: passive, accustom, obedience, jump, down, terrace, run, toward
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“Well, then,” said Felton, “I will tell you what you were doing, or rather what you meant to do; you were going to complete the fatal project you cherish in your mind.
Từ trong câu: cherish, well, tell, do, rather, mean, go, complete
Alexandre Dumas, The three musketeers - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I wondered what they were going to do the first evening a change of entertainment was proposed: they spoke of “playing charades,” but in my ignorance I did not understand the term.
Từ trong câu: entertainment, wonder, go, first, evening, change, propose, speak
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Dorcas looked wistfully and wishingly at the oval pin; but with no more notion of what she was looking at than the child who gazes into the heavens on a winter night.
Từ trong câu: wistfully, look, oval, pin, notion, child, gaze, heaven
Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But what could poor Bluhm know of the delicate fancies about himself in her brain as he measured it, which his heavy paws, smelling of garlic and tobacco, were putting to flight?
Từ trong câu: garlic, poor, know, delicate, fancy, himself, brain, measure
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
“Well, what kind of a washerwoman does THIS one turn out to be?” he asked, after they were seated, and he had invoked a blessing and was cutting vigorously into the meat.
Từ trong câu: blessing, vigorously, meat, well, kind, turn, out, ask
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He glanced casually through these, one by one, as he took them down, and began to fear that they were not going to be of so much use as he had thought.
Từ trong câu: casually, glance, take, down, begin, fear, go, much
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As he went further from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble.
Từ trong câu: stumble, go, further, bench, young, girl, back, turn
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was bristling and quivering; it seemed to be a vehicle, but its load could not be distinctly made out.
Từ trong câu: orderly, grow, large, seem, move, manner, though, vehicle
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
The chief item not superficially apparent is that the diplomats knew all along that Germany wanted war and was doing all she could to obtain war on terms most favorable to herself.
Từ trong câu: superficially, chief, item, apparent, diplomat, know, want, war
Various, New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Once, through a break in the trees, we saw a clear shoulder of green hill some distance away, and across this a large dun-colored animal was traveling at a considerable pace.
Từ trong câu: pace, hill, once, break, tree, saw, clear, shoulder
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I was returning along the well-remembered route, and had reached a spot within a mile or so of the marsh of the pterodactyls, when I saw an extraordinary object approaching me.
Từ trong câu: route, return, well, remember, reach, spot, mile, saw
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
In our own case the excellent engines of the Esmeralda could disregard the sluggish flow of the stream, and we made as rapid progress as if we were navigating a stagnant lake.
Từ trong câu: rapid, disregard, flow, engine, case, excellent, stream, make
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Lord John had shot an ajouti--which is a small, pig-like animal--and, half of it having been given to the Indians, we were cooking the other half upon our fire.
Từ trong câu: cook, cooking, shot, small, pig, like, animal, half
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A frowzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this forlorn creation of Barnard, and it had strewn ashes on its head, and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole.
Từ trong câu: humiliation, forlorn, creation, smoke, attire, head, undergo, mere
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I never had one hour’s happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
Từ trong câu: happiness, never, society, mind, round, four, twenty, hour
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
There was an air of reservation in the answer which increased my perplexity, and the answer was, that her maid believed she was only coming back at all for a little while.
C1Quá khứ tiếp diễnViệc xen vào việc đang diễn raThere is và there areMệnh đề quan hệ với which, whoseTừ trong câu: reservation, air, answer, increase, believe, come, back, little
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
My sister with an exclamation of impatience was going to fly at me,—I had no shadow of defence, for Joe was busy in the forge,—when Mr. Pumblechook interposed with “No!
Từ trong câu: defense, defence, sister, go, fly, shadow, busy, mr
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The bench seemed to be touched by something, she looked round, and a face was bending over her, veiled, but still distinct, the face of the young woman she had seen yesterday.
Từ trong câu: yesterday, bench, seem, touch, something, look, round, face
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The first time that Henchard saw him he was sweeping grandly round, his head quivering and low down, his legs in the form of an X and his back towards the door.
Từ trong câu: sweep, first, time, saw, round, head, low, down
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The person was some labourer; his gait was shambling, his regard fixed in front of him as absolutely as if he wore blinkers; and in his hand he carried a few sticks.
Từ trong câu: labourer, person, regard, fix, front, absolutely, wear, hand
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Then they saw that Evelyn was off her ass, and that Mr. Perrott was standing in the attitude of a statesman in Parliament Square, stretching an arm of stone towards the view.
Từ trong câu: attitude, statesman, saw, off, mr, stand, parliament, square
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Outside, the mountains showed very pure and remote; the dew was sparkling on the grass, and the sky was flushed with blue, save for the pale yellows and pinks in the East.
Từ trong câu: sparkling, pink, pure, outside, mountain, show, remote, grass
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was talking nonsense, but not worse nonsense than people usually do talk at breakfast, the cerebral circulation, as he knew to his cost, being apt to give trouble at that hour.
Từ trong câu: cost, circulation, talk, nonsense, bad, people, usually, breakfast
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
His feelings about Terence and Rachel were so complicated that he had never yet been able to bring himself to say that he was glad that they were going to be married.
Từ trong câu: complicate, complicated, feel, never, able, bring, himself, glad
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Unable for a season, by one of the accidents of political life, to serve his country in Parliament, Mr. Dalloway was doing the best he could to serve it out of Parliament.
Từ trong câu: season, political, unable, accident, life, serve, country, parliament
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Moreover the grandmother was a keen old lady, and had all her five wits about her, and she knew what was going on in the house as soon as she entered it.
Từ trong câu: keen, moreover, grandmother, old, lady, five, know, go
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
He did not say good-bye to him till they were standing outside, so that all the people standing about saw him shake hands as if parting reluctantly from his best friend.
Từ trong câu: reluctantly, good, bye, till, stand, outside, people, saw
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
He had by this time put the table and extra chairs in front of the seat, so that they might all sit out here and eat the dinner that was preparing inside.
Từ trong câu: extra, time, put, table, chair, front, seat, sit
Johanna Spyri, Heidi - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
Your aunt is very kind, of course, but my appetite isn't very good this morning, and I was wanting lamb--” She stopped suddenly, then went on with an abrupt change of subject.
Từ trong câu: appetite, subject, aunt, kind, course, good, morning, want
Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US