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They placed themselves close to where Hatta, the other messenger, was standing watching the fight, with a cup of tea in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other.
Từ trong câu: cup, themselves, place, close, messenger, stand, watch, fight
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I was a fool, if you like, and certainly I was going to do a foolish, over-bold act; but I was determined to do it with all the precautions in my power.
Từ trong câu: determine, determined, foolish, fool, like, certainly, go, bold
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He and I were the only occupants of the parlour: Diana was practising her music in the drawing-room, Mary was gardening—it was a very fine May day, clear, sunny, and breezy.
Từ trong câu: sunny, gardening, breezy, occupant, practice, music, draw, room
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
This was not alone the obscurity of night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole sky.
Từ trong câu: filling, alone, night, cause, low, hang, cloud, seem
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Bản dịch tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was really shock, rather than any injury, which had prostrated me, and in half-an-hour, in spite of aching head and stiff neck, I was sitting up and ready for anything.
Từ trong câu: injury, really, shock, rather, half, hour, spite, head
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
But the attention of the group was diverted to Mrs. Elliot, who was passing them with her eager but uncertain movement, carrying in her hands a plate and an empty hot-water bottle.
Từ trong câu: uncertain, attention, group, mrs, pass, eager, movement, carry
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Sue, who was regarding the distance, had acquired a guilty look; and she suddenly replied in a tragic voice: “I don’t think I like you to-day so well as I did, Jude!”
Từ trong câu: guilty, sue, regard, distance, acquire, look, suddenly, reply
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
“Oh, thank you, sir!” said Jude gratefully, but in gasps, for the amazing speed of the physician’s walk kept him in a dog-trot which was giving him a stitch in the side.
Từ trong câu: stitch, speed, amazing, thank, sir, amaze, walk, keep
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The worn-out past was sunk in the freshness of what was coming; and in the rapidity of half a moment’s thought, she hoped Mr. Elton would now be talked of no more.
Từ trong câu: worn-out, wear, out, past, sink, come, half, think
Jane Austen, Emma - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Just as the boat was passing Goat Island, the harness-maker proposed that the men of the party should go down to the bar on the lower deck and shake for the drinks.
Từ trong câu: goat, deck, island, boat, pass, harness, maker, propose
Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
I was not even able to stand up—I sank back in my chair; I stared horror-struck at the calm blue eyes that were only looking at me with a gentle surprise.
Từ trong câu: calm, blue, even, able, stand, up, sink, back
Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Out in the garden—her own garden—the pear-trees were thickening, but not in blossom yet; a few daffodils were in bloom along the walls, and a magnolia had one bud opened.
Từ trong câu: bud, out, garden, pear, tree, blossom, bloom, wall
John Galsworthy, Beyond - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was the middle-watch: a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the scuttle-butt near the taffrail.
Từ trong câu: cordon, middle, watch, fair, moonlight, stand, extend, fresh
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
The archway between the drawers of his writing-table held a mat for his bulldog, a prize animal, wont to lie there and guard his master's legs when he was writing his sermons.
Từ trong câu: prize, guard, drawer, write, table, hold, animal, lie
John Galsworthy, The Country House - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
For a minute or two, there in his sister's book-shop, it had seemed as if he were falling through the air--as if the substantial earth had crumbled away from under him.
Từ trong câu: substantial, minute, book, shop, seem, fall, air, earth
Harold Frederic, The Market-Place - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was doubly important to keep a close look-out for Lord Plowden, since he did not know the name of the station they were to book for, and time was getting short.
Từ trong câu: doubly, important, keep, close, look, out, since, know
Harold Frederic, The Market-Place - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
It was while they were climbing up with their grass and wood, that Red-Eye, followed by his wife, with the baby holding to her tightly, made a successful flight up the cliff.
Từ trong câu: successful, climb, up, grass, wood, red, eye, follow
Jack London, Before Adam - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
In the cream-panelled drawing-room she was sitting with her elbows on her knees, and her chin on her clasped hands, in front of a white camellia plant which filled the fireplace.
Từ trong câu: fireplace, cream, panel, draw, room, sit, knee, chin
John Galsworthy, To Let - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The undertaker, who had just put up the shutters of his shop, was making some entries in his day-book by the light of a most appropriate dismal candle, when Mr. Bumble entered.
Từ trong câu: entry, put, up, shop, make, day, book, light
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Yet, late as it now was, there still arose a pleasant hum out of one or two of the squash-blossoms, in the depths of which these bees were plying their golden labor.
Từ trong câu: arise, late, now, still, pleasant, out, squash, depth
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
I dropped in there while Marco, the son of Marco, was haggling with a shopkeeper over a quarter of a pound of salt, and asked for change for a twenty-dollar gold piece.
Từ trong câu: pound, shopkeeper, drop, son, quarter, salt, ask, change
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Sir Launcelot was a bear, and he had put up a corner in one of the new lines, and was just getting ready to squeeze the shorts to-day; but what of that?
Từ trong câu: squeeze, shorts, sir, bear, put, up, corner, new
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The whitewashed room was pure white as of old, the methodical book-keeping was in peaceful progress as of old, and some distant howler was banging against a cell door as of old.
Từ trong câu: bang, methodical, peaceful, room, pure, white, old, book
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But I had not much time to give him, because I was helping the engine-driver to take to pieces the leaky cylinders, to straighten a bent connecting-rod, and in other such matters.
Từ trong câu: straighten, cylinder, much, time, give, because, help, engine
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I jumped up, took my muff and umbrella, and hastened into the inn-passage: a man was standing by the open door, and in the lamp-lit street I dimly saw a one-horse conveyance.
Từ trong câu: umbrella, jump, up, take, passage, man, stand, open
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US