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While the little drummer was drinking to recover his nerve, Alexandra hurried to the drug store as the most likely place to find Carl Linstrum.
Từ trong câu: place, find, drink, likely, hurry, nerve, store, drug
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
While Emil and Carl were amusing themselves at the fair, Alexandra was at home, busy with her account-books, which had been neglected of late.
Từ trong câu: fair, amuse, amusing, themselves, home, busy, account, book
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
No good, she reasoned, ever came from talking about such things, and while Marie was thinking aloud, Alexandra had been steadily searching the hat-boxes.
Từ trong câu: aloud, steadily, search, reason, good, ever, come, talk
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
When they came to the corner where the pastures joined, Alexandra’s twelve young colts were galloping in a drove over the brow of the hill.
Từ trong câu: twelve, hill, join, corner, drive, come, young
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
Harpour is quite unchanged, and if he was doing mischief when we knew him two years ago, he is doing twice as much mischief now.
Từ trong câu: unchanged, quite, do, mischief, know, year, ago, twice
F. W. Farrar, St. Winifred's; or, The World of School · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
But even now, when the sun was setting, no cool wind blew in from the sea across the promenade thronged with people in thin dresses.
Từ trong câu: promenade, even, now, sun, set, cool, wind, blow
J. E. Buckrose, The Privet Hedge · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · PD-US
The entire church mortgage debt was cancelled during Dr. Garner's incumbency, when all the churches were making strenuous and successful efforts to the same end.
Từ trong câu: cancel, entire, church, mortgage, debt, dr, make, successful
Various, The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
During our first ten miles' ride I was racking my brain for something to say when I should jump up to make my first sale.
Từ trong câu: rack, first, ten, mile, ride, brain, something, jump
J. P. Johnston, Twenty Years of Hus'ling · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
The people brought her immediately to me; and while I was applying blisters and other means for extracting the poison, she died under my hands.
Từ trong câu: blister, people, bring, immediately, apply, mean, extract, poison
Johann Gottfried Haensel, Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives with an account of an attempt made by the Church of the United Brethren, to convert them to Christianity · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
He was taking a nap in Mr. Greenwell's arm-chair when the young man came in, but woke up clear and alert in a moment.
Từ trong câu: alert, nap, take, mr, arm, chair, young, man
Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, December 1878 · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
The wedding guests had departed and General Houston and his bride were sitting alone by the fire, when he suddenly discovered that she was weeping.
Từ trong câu: discover, bride, suddenly, wed, depart, wedding, alone, sit
Marian Gouverneur, As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
“No—I heard her tell Bertha Dorset that she had six months to put in while her husband was taking the cure in the Engadine.
Từ trong câu: husband, six, cure, hear, tell, month, put, take
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
Miss Bart was turning to carry the letters upstairs when she heard the opening of the outer door, and her aunt entered the drawing-room.
Từ trong câu: outer, miss, turn, carry, letter, upstairs, hear, open
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
While Allerton was making these preparations Judson Flack, in pajamas and slippers, was standing in his toy kitchen, looking helplessly at a small gas stove.
Từ trong câu: pajamas, make, preparation, stand, toy, kitchen, look, small
Basil King, The Dust Flower · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
The major, while he was getting the instrument for me, casually remarked: “There’s yesterday’s ‘Times’ on the bench if you care to look at it.”
Từ trong câu: casually, major, get, instrument, remark, time, bench, care
Louis Keene, "Crumps", The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
But of course when I was shaking out my husband's coat the cigarette-box fell out and all the cigarettes were scattered on the bed.
Từ trong câu: bed, fall, shake, coat, cigarette, scatter, course, out
John Galsworthy, The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
He was outwardly unconcerned, but inwardly he was cursing the luck that he had been wearing mitts upon his hands when he entered the bluff.
Từ trong câu: unconcerned, outwardly, luck, wear, hand, enter
Ridgwell Cullum, The Night Riders: A Romance of Early Montana · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
When feedback was solicited by the Board as this rule was being drafted, several respondents made comments regarding the rules which pertain to designated representatives.
Từ trong câu: respondent, feedback, solicit, board, rule, draft, several, make
«Canadian Refugee Procedure/RPD Rule 20 - Designated Representatives», English Wikibooks, các tác giả Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://en.wikibooks.org/?curid=412641 (bản sửa đổi 4622267) · English Wikibooks · CC BY-SA 4.0
We strolled towards Walham Greene; and she was seeking for shepherd's purses and shepherd's needles, when she came running back to me, looking rather pale.
Từ trong câu: needle, purse, toward, seek, come, run, back, look
Various, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
And he didn't talk in figures either, but straight to the point, and when he was arguing his voice used to swell like a trumpet.
Từ trong câu: trumpet, talk, figure, either, straight, point, argue, voice
Various, The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
We were just walking away arm in arm, when I spied my friend the Major approaching, stiff as a ramrod and, as usual, obtrusively clean.
Từ trong câu: stiff, clean, walk, away, arm, friend, major, approach
Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
It was a radiant summer afternoon, and taxis stood idle in long ranks, when they were not drawing in to the curb with winning gestures.
Từ trong câu: taxi, summer, afternoon, stand, idle, long, rank, draw
Militia of Mercy. Gift Book Committee, Defenders of Democracy Contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
When the villagers were going through their ceremonies to drive away pestilential influences, he put on his court robes and stood on the eastern steps.
Từ trong câu: villager, go, ceremony, drive, away, influence, put, court
552 BCE-480 BCE Confucius, The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) · Bản dịch tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
While this bloody struggle was going on in and around the wood Fontaine village, which the Germans held strongly, was the scene of fierce fighting.
Từ trong câu: bloody, struggle, go, around, wood, village, hold, strongly
Francis J., 1867-1937 [Editor] Reynolds, The Story of the Great War, Volume 7 American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
The troops, who were enduring every discomfort in their snow-bound trenches, longed eagerly for clearing weather, when they might find release from deadly inaction.
Từ trong câu: discomfort, troop, endure, every, snow, bound, long, eagerly
Francis J., 1867-1937 [Editor] Reynolds, The Story of the Great War, Volume 7 American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
I was handing him the half-sovereign, when something came bobbing up against the window, and Mr. Bilder’s face doubled its natural length with surprise.
Từ trong câu: double, length, mr, natural, surprise, hand, half, something
Bram Stoker, Dracula · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
So ran Betty's thoughts, for Betty was learning to be an observing little person, though ashamed of herself when her observations were the least unfriendly.
Từ trong câu: unfriendly, run, think, learn, observe, little, person, though
Harriet Pyne Grove, Betty Lee, Sophomore · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
"I saw them rowing up the creek when I was riding up to the hill pasture; but I haven't seen them since," replied the overseer.
Từ trong câu: overseer, saw, row, up, creek, ride, hill, see
Oliver Optic, Brother Against Brother; Or, The War on the Border · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · PD-US
Thirty years ago, Davy and Arago observed that iron-filings became magnetic when lying near a wire that was carrying a current of galvanic electricity.
Từ trong câu: file, magnetic, electricity, thirty, year, ago, observe, iron
Various Harper, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 3, no. 18, November, 1851 · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
For four days I had not closed my eyes, and I was just falling asleep, when about three o'clock the Emperor asked me for punch.
Từ trong câu: punch, four, day, close, eye, fall, asleep, o'clock
Various, Complete Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon · Tiếng Anh · PD-US