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Her glance left me and sought the lighted top of the steps, where “Three O’Clock in the Morning,” a neat, sad little waltz of that year, was drifting out the open door.
Từ trong câu: neat, seek, glance, leave, light, top, step, o'clock
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
I glanced at Daisy, who was staring terrified between Gatsby and her husband, and at Jordan, who had begun to balance an invisible but absorbing object on the tip of her chin.
Từ trong câu: invisible, terrified, balance, chin, glance, daisy, stare, husband
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
“Well, I was just making a jump to separate them when this Whiting gook says, ‘Betcha a dollar my kid wins!’ and before I knew what I was doing I’d taken him.
Từ trong câu: gook, well, make, jump, separate, dollar, kid, win
P. G. Wodehouse, The Coming of Bill - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
When they saw my wife they all scampered off as fast as they could run, and where the witch was sitting there was nothing to be seen but a withered bracken bush.
Quá khứ tiếp diễnViệc xen vào việc đang diễn raQuá khứ đơncan và couldThere is và there areCâu phủ địnhTừ trong câu: bush, saw, wife, off, fast, run, sit, nothing
George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
If he aimed at some changing form through the smoke, he pulled the trigger with a fierce grunt, as if he were dealing a blow of the fist with all his strength.
Từ trong câu: trigger, pull, aim, change, form, smoke, fierce, deal
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He, in his thoughts, was careering off in other places, even as the carpenter who as he works whistles and thinks of his friend or his enemy, his home or a saloon.
Từ trong câu: saloon, carpenter, career, think, off, place, even, work
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The word would not have been exchanged, but that the housebreaker was unable to open the door: on which he was expending fruitless oaths and violence, when the Jew came panting up.
Từ trong câu: violence, word, exchange, unable, open, door, come, pant
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The sole places that seemed to prosper amid the general blight of the place, were the public-houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wrangling with might and main.
Từ trong câu: blight, prosper, amid, place, seem, general, public, house
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Presently he went on, fixing his eyes on the driftweed, where the end of the cigarette was giving up the ghost of its tobacco, and speaking to himself rather than to her.
Từ trong câu: ghost, go, fix, eye, end, cigarette, give, up
John Galsworthy, Jocelyn - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I was going to kiss her, but she covered her cherry lips with her hands, and said she wasn’t a baby now, and ran away, laughing more than ever, into the house.
Từ trong câu: cherry, go, kiss, cover, lip, hand, baby, now
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
All this time I was working at Murdstone and Grinby’s in the same common way, and with the same common companions, and with the same sense of unmerited degradation as at first.
Từ trong câu: degradation, time, work, common, way, sense, first
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
‘I have been telling your daughter how well I have been disposing of my money for myself, because I couldn’t trust it to you, as you were growing rusty in business matters.
Từ trong câu: rusty, tell, daughter, well, dispose, money, myself, because
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I had engaged a bed at a decent alehouse close by, and was going out at the gate, when, happening to turn my head, I saw a light in the Doctor’s study.
Từ trong câu: decent, engage, bed, close, go, out, gate, happen
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I cannot say that I was yet quite happy, in the hope that I was gaining a victory over myself; even in the prospect of so soon looking on her face again.
Từ trong câu: victory, can, quite, happy, hope, gain, myself, even
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I let the poor things converse unmolested, till I supposed the songs were going to cease, and the singers to get some refreshment: then I clambered up the ladder to warn her.
Từ trong câu: refreshment, singer, converse, ladder, cease, let, poor, thing
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
At one moment, they were rattling through a solitude; the next, a village had grown up around them; a few breaths more, and it had vanished, as if swallowed by an earthquake.
Từ trong câu: earthquake, solitude, moment, next, village, grow, up, around
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
As Clayton stooped to reach for it he was amazed to see it move further into the room, and then he realized that it was being pushed inward by someone from without.
Từ trong câu: amaze, push, amazed, reach, see, move, further, room
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It was Kala, and as quickly as Tarzan saw that Tublat was gaining on her he dropped with the rapidity of a falling stone, from branch to branch, toward his foster mother.
Từ trong câu: foster, gain, quickly, saw, drop, fall, stone, branch
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Often, when wearied by a toilsome march, I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.
Từ trong câu: march, often, persuade, myself, dream, until, night, come
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But the work was already done; the last body was disarmed and stripped to the skin, and four fellows were already wading seaward to commit it to the mercies of the deep.
Từ trong câu: skin, strip, commit, work, already, last, body, four
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He had just seen the cruel consequences of his own behaviour; and the thought of the sum of misery that was now acting in the whole of Shoreby filled him with despair.
Từ trong câu: behavior, consequence, misery, behaviour, despair, sum, see, cruel
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The sky was all blue; the jolly wind blew loud and steady; the windmill-sails were spinning; and the willows over all the fen rippling and whitening like a field of corn.
Từ trong câu: spin, corn, sky, blue, wind, blow, loud, steady
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
There was a sudden rush and roar, and in a minute the mountain brook was raging through the big ditch and creating a river a hundred feet wide and twenty-five deep.
Từ trong câu: mountain, sudden, rush, roar, minute, big, create, river
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
There was a kind of film or flicker on her face, which at first he took to be the fitful firelight; but, on a second look, he saw that she was weeping.
Từ trong câu: film, flicker, kind, face, first, take, second, look
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When it came to Bella’s turn to sign her name, Mr Rokesmith, who was standing, as he had sat, with a hesitating hand upon the table, looked at her stealthily, but narrowly.
Từ trong câu: narrowly, come, turn, sign, name, mr, stand, sit
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
If she was to die first of us two she might then think all her life, poor thing, that I had got the rest of the fortune still, and was saving it.’
Từ trong câu: saving, die, first, think, life, poor, thing, get
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was turning away, but he whirled around when we said that, and give us a long look of his blackest kind—one of the maliciousest and suspiciousest looks I ever see.
Từ trong câu: turning, turn, away, around, give, long, look, black
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The streets were even quieter than when we had gone: everyone was sleeping off last night’s revelry, and we met hardly a soul till we reached the little gate of the Palace.
Từ trong câu: everyone, street, even, quiet, go, sleep, off, last
Anthony Hope, The prisoner of Zenda - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
A number of men, however, who were lounging about a companion-way between the galley and hatch, and who did not seem to be sailors, continued talking in low tones with one another.
Từ trong câu: lounge, number, man, however, companion, way, hatch, seem
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
And so you see, sir, as all this happened just when we was packing your few traps and your Mis’ess’s night-rail and dressing things into the cart, why, it belated me.”
Từ trong câu: packing, see, sir, happen, pack, trap, be, night
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US