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The underground atmosphere was oppressing him and getting on his nerves, and he seemed really to be afraid that the river would run away if he wasn’t there to look after it.
Từ trong câu: nerves, nerve, afraid, atmosphere, underground, get, seem, really
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The Rat was by this time very far ahead, too far to hear clearly what the Mole was calling, too far to catch the sharp note of painful appeal in his voice.
Từ trong câu: note, rat, time, far, ahead, hear, clearly, mole
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
For a man does not breathe till he has entirely emerged, and puppies are just as blind till they have opened their eyes, as if they were never going to open them.
Từ trong câu: puppy, man, breathe, till, entirely, emerge, blind, open
Marcus Tullius, 107 BCE-44 BCE Cicero, The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“I got myself away from that crowd somehow--I think I was afraid if I stayed I'd strangle the one who was shouting on the steps--and I went toward my office.
Từ trong câu: strangle, get, myself, away, crowd, somehow, think, afraid
Harold Frederic, The Market-Place - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He stared after her, mutely bewildered at the effect she produced upon him--until he saw that a groom had run from the stable-yard, and was helping the divinity to dismount.
Từ trong câu: groom, stare, effect, produce, until, saw, run, stable
Harold Frederic, The Market-Place - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
Anyone who knows canine nature need hardly, be told that, by this time, all the other dogs in the place were fighting as if their hearths and homes depended on the fray.
Từ trong câu: anyone, depend, know, nature, need, hardly, tell, time
Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And we chuckled to think how wet they were going to get, and came back and stirred the fire, and got our books, and arranged our specimens of seaweed and cockle shells.
Từ trong câu: specimen, shell, seaweed, think, wet, go, get, come
Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I saw him looking pleased at first, as if he thought he was making a strong impression; but, finally, casting a look at Jeff, or me, he seemed less pleased--and less.
Từ trong câu: cast, saw, look, please, first, think, make, strong
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A few weeks ago Caesar was flying for his life before Pompey: a few months hence he may be flying for his life before Cato and Juba of Numidia, the African King.
Từ trong câu: hence, few, week, fly, ago, life, month, king
Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At first he was silent in his fighting; but as we began to master him, and the attendants were putting a strait-waistcoat on him, he began to shout: ‘I’ll frustrate them!
Từ trong câu: frustrate, first, silent, fight, begin, master, attendant, put
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was laughing with his red mouth; the sharp white teeth glinted in the moonlight when he turned to look back over the belt of trees, to where the dogs were barking.
Từ trong câu: belt, laugh, red, mouth, sharp, white, tooth, moonlight
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I saw her asleep, and went out for a little stroll myself; I walked along the cliffs to the westward, and was full of sweet sadness, for I was thinking of Jonathan.
Từ trong câu: westward, saw, asleep, go, out, little, myself, walk
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
At last I tore my eyes from it for a moment, and saw that the hail curtain had worn threadbare, and that the sky was lightening with the promise of the sun.
Từ trong câu: worn, last, tear, eye, moment, saw, hail, curtain
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
At that time firing was going on across the common, and it was said the first party of Martians were crawling slowly towards their second cylinder under cover of a metal shield.
Từ trong câu: shield, time, fire, go, across, common, first, party
H. G. Wells, The war of the worlds - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Already men, weeping with joy, as I have heard, shouting and staying their work to shake hands and shout, were making up trains, even as near as Crewe, to descend upon London.
Từ trong câu: descend, joy, shake, already, man, hear, shout, stay
H. G. Wells, The war of the worlds - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I looked him over as he was being tied up, and came to the conclusion he was probably a bit of a tartar, although, as is well-known, appearances are often deceptive.
Từ trong câu: deceptive, look, tie, up, come, conclusion, probably, bit
William C. Tetley, Blanco y Colorado: Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
As I was returning from the fire, I met the engines, followed by a hilarious crowd, crying out, at the top of their voices, as if they were celebrating a political victory.
Từ trong câu: hilarious, return, fire, meet, engine, follow, crowd, cry
J. Lewis, 1824-1896 [Compiler] Peyton, Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
And this was the first time--the very first--since he married her five and thirty years ago, that he was speaking to her without the legal right to call her his.
Từ trong câu: legal, first, time, since, married, five, thirty, year
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
At worst they called her The Pusher; but to them no more than to herself had it ever occurred that she was pushing the air, and pushing it in a wrong direction.
Từ trong câu: occur, push, worst, bad, call, herself, ever, air
Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
All came crowding round Jack and his prize, wondering at its unusual size, and Ernest wanted his mother to make lobster soup directly, by adding it to what she was now boiling.
Từ trong câu: come, crowd, round, prize, wonder, unusual, size, want
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
They look something like radishes, although the plant itself was almost a bush; but I have not ventured to taste them, although our old sow was devouring them at a great rate.'
Từ trong câu: look, something, like, although, plant, itself, almost, bush
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
Then securing it with chains, that the recoil might do no damage, I told the boys I was going ashore earlier than usual, and calmly desired them to get into the boat.
Từ trong câu: secure, chain, damage, tell, boy, go, early, usual
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, Ghi công tác giả & ấn bản gốc
His idol had said that he was "one of them" and he was watching and putting him to tests so that he might find out how much he was one of them.
Từ trong câu: test, idol, watch, put, find, out, much
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Sabine says that it was Doctor Oliver who refused to lend his copy or at least to permit a transcript of such parts of it as were missing in the American manuscript.
Từ trong câu: transcript, doctor, refuse, lend, copy, least, permit, part
James Henry Stark, The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
She owned that, ever since she had been a girl, she had dreaded being caught by her last leg, just as she was getting into bed, by some one concealed under it.
Từ trong câu: leg, own, ever, since, girl, catch, last, get
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Cranford - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The sudden death of his father for which event Sargeant was still mourning, had left him in such position that his monthly income was about five times as large as Condy's salary.
Từ trong câu: position, event, monthly, income, salary, sudden, death, father
Frank Norris, Blix - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
At the hotel he had found that the situation was becoming too complicated, and that it was impossible to feel sure of the truth of anything, or of the sincerity of anyone.
Từ trong câu: complicate, impossible, complicated, sincerity, sure, hotel, find, situation
Richard Harding Davis, The King's Jackal - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Only at times, in the pauses of his desire, when the luxury that was wasting him gave room to a softer languor, the image of Mercedes traversed the background of his memory.
Từ trong câu: luxury, waste, background, time, pause, desire, give, room
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The clouds were drifting above him silently and silently the seatangle was drifting below him and the grey warm air was still and a new wild life was singing in his veins.
Từ trong câu: below, vein, cloud, drift, above, silently, gray, warm
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
After he had soaked his parched skin and moistened his lips and throat, he crawled out and went to his burro, which was browsing upon the green herbs growing about the place.
Từ trong câu: browse, soak, skin, lip, throat, crawl, out, go
Arthur J. Burdick, The Mystic Mid-Region: The Deserts of the Southwest - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US