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Once when I sat waiting to see Norris, while he was napping, she sang “The Old, Old Story” in a low voice as she rocked.
Từ trong câu: nap, once, sit, wait, see, sing, old, story
Irving Bacheller, The Marryers: A History Gathered from a Brief of the Honorable Socrates Potter · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
He was reading the play very earnestly when she called, though it rather bored him and he thought its plot elementary compared with his own.
Từ trong câu: elementary, read, play, call, though, rather, bore, think
Harold Brighouse, The Marbeck Inn: A Novel · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · PD-US
Therefore she was delighted when Janet told her, as they were going to prayer-meeting the next night, that she meant to show some “sperrit.”
Từ trong câu: night, delight, delighted, next, show, therefore, tell, go
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
One afternoon, when Anne’s sojourn in Valley Road was drawing to a close, Alec Ward came driving down to “Wayside” in hot haste for Janet.
Từ trong câu: wayside, ward, haste, drawing, afternoon, valley, road, draw
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
And no one seemed to have the slightest suspicion that Professor Bhaer, while talking philosophy with the father, was giving the daughter lessons in love.
Từ trong câu: suspicion, philosophy, slight, seem, professor, talk, father, give
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
When Sigurd heard all this, and how Regin was plotting to betray him, he cut off Regin’s head with one blow of the sword Gram.
Từ trong câu: gram, hear, plot, betray, cut, off, head, blow
Andrew, 1844-1912 [Editor] Lang, The Red Fairy Book · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
The great spider was lying asleep when the Lion found him, and it looked so ugly that its foe turned up his nose in disgust.
Từ trong câu: ugly, disgust, spider, great, lie, asleep, lion, find
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
They captured him in the house of a fugitive monk in the evening, when he was having supper, sitting in the dark with seven companions.
Từ trong câu: monk, capture, house, evening, supper, sit, dark, seven
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin · Bản dịch tiếng Anh · PD-US
While all these official matters were going on, Wilfred Thompson was busy with his invoices and accounts, and J. with his stores in the hold.
Từ trong câu: invoice, official, matter, go, busy, account, store, hold
Maud Howe Elliott, Sicily in Shadow and in Sun: The Earthquake and the American Relief Work · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
At the breakfast hour, when Morley locked up the yard and went home, I was waiting near the spot with two assistants skilled in searching.
Từ trong câu: assistant, skilled, breakfast, hour, lock, up, yard, go
James M'Govan, Traced and Tracked; Or, Memoirs of a City Detective · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
While the new Cathedral at Westminster was being built, I went in several times to see it, and once I tested its acoustics very unexpectedly.
Từ trong câu: acoustics, new, cathedral, build, go, several, time, see
Cecil Torr, Small Talk at Wreyland. Second Series · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
While he had been idling thoughtlessly along in this relative but still gilded luxury, Eugenia Monsalvat was falling lower and lower in the social scale!
Từ trong câu: luxury, idle, relative, still, fall, low, social, scale
Manuel Gálvez, Nacha Regules · Bản dịch tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
While they were detaching hats and sticks in the hall, they could hear some one being told that Lady Lunt was not leaving her room.
Từ trong câu: detach, hat, stick, hall, hear, tell, lady, leave
H. C. Bailey, Call Mr. Fortune · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
My friend!—I have not yet had time to ask you what you were doing in France, when I ordered you to remain in London?
Từ trong câu: doing, friend, time, ask, do, order, remain
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
When Johannizza heard that the Franks were coming, he did not dare to abide, but burned his engines of war, and broke up his camp.
Từ trong câu: abide, hear, come, dare, burn, engine, war, break
Geoffroi de, 1150-1213? Villehardouin, Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
What about little Y., who suddenly got a commission when he was doing a fortnight's C.B. for coming on parade with a dirty neck?
Từ trong câu: parade, little, you, suddenly, get, commission, do, come
C. E. Montague, Disenchantment · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
When he spoke, the storm of the world's evil was breaking upon him more cruelly and remorselessly than it ever has on any tempted soul.
Từ trong câu: remorselessly, speak, storm, evil, break, cruelly, ever, tempt
Edward Payson Roe, A Day of Fate · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
But while educationalists were discussing matters in the abstract, the necessities of the case were compelling the existing schools to build their own top story.
Từ trong câu: abstract, discuss, matter, necessity, case, exist, school, build
Alice Zimmern, The Renaissance of Girls' Education in England: A Record of Fifty Years' Progress · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
Almost at the moment when Mr. Gatsby identified himself a butler hurried toward him with the information that Chicago was calling him on the wire.
Từ trong câu: identify, information, almost, moment, mr, himself, hurry, toward
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · PD-US
He was still speaking, when the animals in question came leaping on the track of the deer, striving with noble ardour to outdo each other.
Từ trong câu: outdo, still, speak, animal, question, come, leap, track
James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
When he was casting the characters for the piece, he had counted on the original Caleb Decie—Thorne—who held the traditions of the play.
Từ trong câu: tradition, cast, character, piece, count, original, hold, play
Percy Fitzgerald, Sir Henry Irving: A Record of Over Twenty Years at the Lyceum · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
People were hurrying in a jostling, confused mass up the aisles toward the exits, while others bellowed to them to sit still or move faster.
Từ trong câu: bellow, confused, aisle, exit, people, hurry, confuse, mass
Albert Payson Terhune, Caleb Conover, Railroader · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · PD-US
I had been walking half an hour when a man came up to me; he was wearing uniform without epaulettes and a blue medal-ribbon.
Từ trong câu: ribbon, medal, walk, half, hour, man, come, up
Aleksandr Herzen, The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Parts I and II · Bản dịch tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US
For a while Roy hesitated to tell his father of the payroll robbery and Teddy knew he was holding off purposely, so he said nothing.
Từ trong câu: payroll, hesitate, tell, father, robbery, know, hold, off
James Cody Ferris, The X Bar X boys on Whirlpool River · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
And away flew the owl bird on his big wings, while Racky, glad to know he was not being chased by a policeman, traveled on.
Từ trong câu: chase, owl, policeman, away, fly, bird, big, wing
Howard Roger Garis, Adventures of the runaway rocking chair · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
Once, when the sloop was gliding under Indian Head, Jack looked up at its well-remembered outline, and his fancy drifted back to other days.
Từ trong câu: drift, outline, once, head, look, up, well, remember
Ralph Henry Barbour, The mystery of the Sea-Lark · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
When he came down-stairs his host was waiting, a distinguished figure in his dinner clothes, and they set out blithely through the gathering dusk.
Từ trong câu: blithely, come, down, stair, host, wait, distinguish, figure
Earl Derr Biggers, The house without a key · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US
When a five-months' drought was parching everything, I have heard him reverently pray that God would spare him wheat sufficient to feed his family.
Từ trong câu: drought, five, month, everything, hear, pray, god, spare
George Whitfield Ray, Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America · Tiếng Anh · PD-US
I found a thicket and slept; slept it must have been for many hours, for when I again awakened the dawn was rosing the east.
Từ trong câu: east, thicket, find, sleep, many, hour, again, dawn
Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · PD-US
Several times when I glanced at him, I observed that appearance with a sort of awe, and wondered what he was thinking about so closely.
Từ trong câu: closely, several, time, glance, observe, appearance, sort, awe
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US