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When Dr. Archie came in from the smoker, she was sitting still, looking intently out of the window and smiling, her lips a little parted, her hair in a blaze of sunshine.
Từ trong câu: blaze, smoker, dr, come, sit, still, look, intently
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While Johnny was gesticulating and telling everybody what to sing and how to sing it, Thea put out her foot and touched the corpse of Silvo with the toe of her slipper.
Từ trong câu: corpse, tell, everybody, sing, put, out, foot, touch
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When she took a note that was high for her, Miss Darcey always put her right hand out into the air, as if she were indicating height, or giving an exact measurement.
Từ trong câu: exact, measurement, take, note, high, miss, always, put
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While she was practicing I often used to leave my work and sit down in a rocker and give myself up to it, the same as if I’d been at an entertainment.
Từ trong câu: entertainment, practice, often, use, leave, work, sit, down
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While Landry and his guest were waiting for the tea to be brought, Ottenburg took up one of these fans from the low marble mantel-shelf and opened it in the firelight.
Từ trong câu: marble, guest, wait, tea, bring, take, up, fan
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When she was sweeping or ironing, or turning the ice-cream freezer at a furious rate, she often built up brilliant futures for Thea, adapting freely the latest novel she had read.
Từ trong câu: adapt, furious, ironing, freezer, sweep, iron, turn, ice
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Is the angle of declination that you--one sees there from in and out approximately the angle you think at which the bullet was traveling at the time of impact and exit?
Từ trong câu: declination, angle, see, out, approximately, think, bullet, travel
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
And, at the same moment, I was diving off of that firewall and to the right for bullet protection of this stone wall that is a little higher on the Houston side.
Từ trong câu: diving, firewall, moment, dive, off, right, bullet, protection
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (03 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As I was sitting here listening to your story, I could see where that story might have come from--you mentioned the "Fair Play for Cuba" leaflets that were in a barrel.
Từ trong câu: leaflet, sit, listen, story, see, come, mention, fair
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (07 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
I had the hi-fi, she liked classical music, and I was playing some of my records for her, and at no time during the day did we have any radio broadcasts.
Từ trong câu: hi, like, classical, music, play, record, time, day
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
So we were all involved in this moving business, and my sister Annie, who at the time was staying with some American friends, had come over that weekend to babysit for me.
Từ trong câu: babysit, involve, move, business, sister, time, stay, friend
United States. Warren Commission, Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“It was dreadful of me to forget,” said Anne apologetically, “but that was the afternoon I was trying to think of a name for Violet Vale and it crowded other things out.
Từ trong câu: crowded, dreadful, forget, afternoon, try, think, name, violet
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When he roused himself from his thoughtful quest, he fancied from the turn of the hand, and its situation in reference to himself, that the Unseen Eyes were looking at him keenly.
Từ trong câu: reference, fancy, quest, himself, thoughtful, turn, hand, situation
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He pricked his ears at the prayer, and though he tried to walk up the steps, and sniffed inquisitively at the censer, he did not even sneeze while lie was being sprinkled.
Từ trong câu: sneeze, sniff, ear, prayer, though, try, walk, up
Olave M. Potter, A Little Pilgrimage in Italy - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“You’ve been a good wife to me, Rachel,” he once said simply, when she was sitting by him in the dusk, holding his thin, blanched old hand in her work-hardened one.
Từ trong câu: thin, good, wife, once, simply, sit, hold, old
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She hung up her hat and faced her pupils, hoping that she did not look as frightened and foolish as she felt and that they would not perceive how she was trembling.
Từ trong câu: perceive, hang, up, hat, face, pupil, hope, look
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
And just as she was wondering how it might be brought about, to her utter astonishment, she received a letter from her brother inviting her to come with her husband to Dorincourt.
Từ trong câu: utter, astonishment, wonder, bring, receive, letter, brother, invite
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The pictures he spoke of were on the front page, and Dick was staring at one of them with his eyes and mouth open, and his sharp face almost pale with excitement.
Từ trong câu: page, front, picture, speak, stare, eye, mouth, open
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Two of them were about to run a race, and one of them was his young lordship, and he was shouting and making as much noise as the noisiest of his companions.
Từ trong câu: noise, race, noisy, run, young, shout, make, much
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was a very pleasant little time, for the Pye girls were gracious, and said and did nothing to mar the harmony of the occasion—which was not according to their wont.
Từ trong câu: harmony, pleasant, little, time, girl, nothing, occasion, accord
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Anne was sitting on the big gray boulder in the orchard looking at the poem of a bare, birchen bough hanging against the pale red sunset with the very perfection of grace.
Từ trong câu: hanging, poem, sit, big, gray, orchard, look, bare
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Jo lay long awake that night, and was just dropping off when the sound of a stifled sob made her fly to Beth’s bedside, with the anxious inquiry, “What is it, dear?”
Từ trong câu: awake, bedside, lay, long, night, drop, off, sound
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As I went upstairs after dinner, two of the young men were settling their hats before the hall mirror, and I heard one say low to the other, “Who’s the new party?”
Từ trong câu: mirror, go, upstairs, dinner, young, man, settle, hat
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When she returned he was still standing there, like a man of stone, his back hunched, his collar turned up, his dripping hat-brim turned down, hiding his face and ears completely.
Từ trong câu: completely, return, still, stand, like, man, stone, back
H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
That on which, when morning came, he finally decided was to pitch some clothes into a portmanteau and jump on board a boat that was leaving that very afternoon for St. Augustine.
Từ trong câu: board, morning, come, finally, decide, pitch, clothes, jump
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
And because my family was going to be your family--for May's sake and for yours--I did what you told me, what you proved to me that I ought to do.
Từ trong câu: prove, because, family, go, sake, tell, ought
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The day was fading into a soft sun-shot haze, pricked here and there by a yellow electric light, and passers were rare in the little square into which they had turned.
Từ trong câu: fade, day, soft, sun, shot, yellow, electric, light
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Heedless of any risks, she crept quite close up to where Chauvelin stood, surrounded by his little troop: he had descended from the cart, and was giving some orders to the men.
Từ trong câu: troop, risk, quite, close, up, stand, surround, little
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A cry of alarm and amazement broke from the assemblage, but no word of fear, and in a moment the soldiers and nobles of Zodanga were hurling themselves upon the advancing Tharks.
Từ trong câu: amazement, alarm, cry, break, word, fear, moment, soldier
Edgar Rice Burroughs, A princess of Mars - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The cudgel was swinging in the arc which ended upon my upturned face when a bolt of myriad-legged horror hurled itself through the doorway full upon the breast of my executioner.
Từ trong câu: arc, bolt, itself, swing, end, face, myriad, leg
Edgar Rice Burroughs, A princess of Mars - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US