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I had been away on a distant plantation, and was riding slowly home in the evening, when my eye fell upon something all huddled together at the bottom of a steep nullah.
Từ trong câu: distant, steep, plantation, ride, away, slowly, home, evening
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Oh, gracious--oh, deary me!” groaned Miss Tita, who appeared to feel that the situation was passing out of her control and that the elements of her fate were thickening around her.
Từ trong câu: around, miss, appear, feel, situation, pass, out, control
Henry James, The Aspern Papers - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He could also join in the chants of the monks without rising, if he were suffering from gout, for a window opened directly from his room into the chapel of the monastery.
Từ trong câu: gout, join, monk, rise, suffer, window, open, directly
Alice Birkhead, Heroes of Modern Europe - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Perrault was carrying despatches if anything more urgent than those he had brought in; also, the travel pride had gripped him, and he purposed to make the record trip of the year.
Từ trong câu: urgent, purpose, carry, anything, bring, travel, pride, make
Jack London, The call of the wild - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The Russian was explaining to me that it was only lately that Mr. Kurtz had come down to the river, bringing along with him all the fighting men of that lake tribe.
Từ trong câu: lately, fighting, explain, mr, come, down, river, bring
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Her dark eyes looked a little angry, for they had just begun to flash; but a quivering in her sweet upper lip made her look as if she were going to cry.
Từ trong câu: upper, dark, eye, look, little, angry, begin, flash
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The night was warm, and in the lady's arms he did not feel the wind which down below was making waves in the ripe corn, and ripples on the rivers and lakes.
Từ trong câu: lake, corn, ripe, night, warm, arm, feel, wind
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
For a few moments, Diamond seemed to be borne up through the depths of an ocean of dazzling flame; the next, the winds were writhing around him like a storm of serpents.
Từ trong câu: ocean, depth, moment, diamond, seem, up, flame, next
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A part of Malloring undoubtedly responded to that curt saying, a part of him as strongly rebelled against it; and which impulse he was going to follow was not at first patent.
Từ trong câu: impulse, patent, respond, part, undoubtedly, say, strongly, go
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was being driven out of the country by leaps and bounds—though, to be sure, it still perversely persisted in yielding every year a larger revenue by way of income tax.
Từ trong câu: revenue, yielding, tax, yield, drive, out, country, leap
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Talking of the sky and other matters, thinking how pretty she was looking, he waited for the new, inevitable proof that youth was first, and a mere father only second fiddle now.
Từ trong câu: inevitable, fiddle, proof, talk, sky, matter, think, pretty
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
She felt him sway, reel, and clutch her as if he were going to fall, and all other feeling vanished in the instinct of the nurse she had already been to him.
Từ trong câu: clutch, feel, go, fall, instinct, nurse, already
John Galsworthy, The Freelands - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
But while I was looking wistfully down to see if I could not discern the walking figure, which was now under the windows, a sudden glare from the spot dazzled my sight.
C1Quá khứ tiếp diễnViệc xen vào việc đang diễn racan và couldMệnh đề quan hệ với which, whoseCâu phủ địnhTừ trong câu: wistfully, look, down, see, walk, figure, now, window
Various, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And while Gyp was taking off her coat, he fixed on her his prominent brown eyes that rolled easily in their slightly blood-shot whites, under squared eyelids and cliffs of brow.
Từ trong câu: prominent, take, off, coat, fix, brown, eye, roll
John Galsworthy, Beyond - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Now, from the South and West the Pequod was drawing nigh to Formosa and the Bashee Isles, between which lies one of the tropical outlets from the China waters into the Pacific.
Từ trong câu: tropical, outlet, now, south, west, draw, nigh, lie
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
A faint red mounted to the parson's cheeks; its appearance there was startling, and Crocker chuckled, as a sleepy man will chuckle who feels bound to show that he is not asleep.
Từ trong câu: startling, chuckle, faint, red, mount, cheek, appearance, sleepy
John Galsworthy, The Island Pharisees - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A desire to get close to her, half fear, half ache, a sense of futility and bafflement, an inner burning, made him feel as though a flame were licking at his heart.
Từ trong câu: burn, flame, burning, desire, get, close, half, fear
John Galsworthy, The Island Pharisees - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He took with him that equation with X, and sought the society of two gentlemen quietly dressed, one of whom was making a note in a little book with a gold pencil.
Từ trong câu: equation, pencil, take, seek, society, gentleman, quietly, dress
John Galsworthy, The Country House - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
While she was standing there a woman begged of her, looking very tired and hot, with a baby in her arms so shrivelled and so small that it could hardly be seen.
Từ trong câu: baby, stand, woman, look, tire, hot, arm, small
John Galsworthy, The Country House - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She was sitting perfectly still with her hands in her lap, and his man's hatred of anything conspicuous happening to a woman, to his own mother of all people, took fiercer fire.
Từ trong câu: hatred, sit, perfectly, still, hand, lap, anything, happen
John Galsworthy, The Country House - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
At the organ Mrs. Barter was drawing out stops in readiness to play her husband into church, and her eyes, half-shining and half-anxious, were fixed intently on the vestry door.
Từ trong câu: intently, drawing, organ, mrs, draw, out, stop, play
John Galsworthy, The Country House - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He waited close beside a man with a pink face, a moustache, and an almost perfect figure, who was standing very still, dressed from head to foot in blue-and-white stripes.
Từ trong câu: stripe, wait, close, beside, man, pink, face, moustache
John Galsworthy, Fraternity - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In Mr. Stone's room the green lamp burned dimly, and he who worked by it was sitting on the edge of his campbed, attired in his old brown woollen gown and slippers.
Từ trong câu: attire, mr, room, green, lamp, burn, work, sit
John Galsworthy, Fraternity - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The girl in grey was watching Thyme half timidly, as if she could not tell what to make of this young creature who looked so charming, and kept shooting such distrustful glances.
Từ trong câu: shoot, shooting, girl, gray, watch, half, tell, make
John Galsworthy, Fraternity - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season?
Từ trong câu: dip, monday, early, september, return, work, hurry, country
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Few women took the trouble to make themselves agreeable to Dorset, and Lily had been kind to him at Bellomont, and was now smiling on him with a divine renewal of kindness.
Từ trong câu: divine, woman, take, trouble, make, themselves, agreeable, lily
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She liked to leave her room early, and to return to it as late as possible; and she was walking slowly now in order to postpone the detested approach to her doorstep.
Từ trong câu: postpone, like, leave, room, early, return, late, possible
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“I was only saying,” Lily began, “that I hate to see faded flowers at luncheon; and mother says a bunch of lilies-of-the-valley would not cost more than twelve dollars.
Từ trong câu: bunch, say, lily, begin, hate, see, fade, flower
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
That seemed to make the matter no better, so then I lost my temper too, and I answered him rather more hotly than I should perhaps, considering that she was standing by.
Từ trong câu: considering, temper, seem, make, matter, better, lose, answer
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She perceived that the crisis had come, and she was doing as good women in extremity do--trying to find in the darkness the hand always stretched out to guide and strengthen.
Từ trong câu: trying, perceive, crisis, come, do, good, woman, try
Amelia E. Barr, Remember the Alamo - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US