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Dark stories were told of the part Napoleon played in the Crimean War, when Turkey demanded help against Russia, which was crippling her army and her fleet.
Từ trong câu: crippling, dark, story, tell, part, play, war, turkey
Alice Birkhead, Heroes of Modern Europe - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Daisy, his wife, was ironing on the back porch and when she learned the object of the proposed interview, she readily agreed to induce Tom to talk.
Từ trong câu: ironing, daisy, wife, iron, back, porch, learn, object
United States. Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 2 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While Ivar was hurrying across the fields, the first long rays of the sun were reaching down between the orchard boughs to those two dew-drenched figures.
Từ trong câu: ray, hurry, across, field, first, long, sun, reach
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“When I was in Hastings to attend the convention,” he was saying, “I saw the superintendent of the asylum, and I was telling him about Ivar’s symptoms.
Từ trong câu: symptom, superintendent, convention, attend, say, saw, tell
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
One day, while our cab and many others were waiting outside one of the parks where music was playing, a shabby old cab drove up beside ours.
Từ trong câu: music, beside, shabby, day, cab, many, other, wait
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While the latter, then, was doing this, Shelton enjoyed the luxuries of self-denial, hunting up things he did not want, and laying them in two portmanteaus.
Từ trong câu: hunt, hunting, latter, do, enjoy, luxury, self, up
John Galsworthy, The Island Pharisees - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was snowing to purpose, the country all white, and ourselves walking snowdrifts, when the first glimmer of the morning showed us an inn upon the highwayside.
Từ trong câu: snow, purpose, country, white, ourselves, walk, first, morning
Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The day was drawing to an end when Mr. Rowley and I bowled into Edinburgh to the stirring sound of the guard’s bugle and the clattering team.
Từ trong câu: bowl, team, stir, day, draw, end, mr, sound
Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When he did look up he saw a tableau that made his heart, which was beating quickly from the exertion of the descent, stand still with consternation.
Từ trong câu: beat, consternation, descent, heart, look, up, saw, make
Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
He was bending over, with an anxious expression of countenance, and focussing his camera on the back of the Princess Aline, when Carlton approached from the rear.
Từ trong câu: expression, rear, focus, bend, anxious, camera, back, princess
Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
When, however, her husband mentioned casually that she was sleeping so soundly that he could not wake her, we went to her room to see for ourselves.
Từ trong câu: casually, however, husband, mention, sleep, wake, go, room
Bram Stoker, Dracula - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
She took a likeness one evening of one of her beauties, Miss Bagot, and when she was showing her portfolio everyone exclaimed it was so very like.
Từ trong câu: portfolio, take, likeness, evening, beauty, miss, show, everyone
Mary Clitherow, Glimpses of King William IV. and Queen Adelaide In Letters of the Late Miss Clitherow, of Boston House, Middlesex. With a Brief Account of Boston House and the Clitherow Family - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The heavy firing that had broken out while we were driving down Maybury Hill ceased as abruptly as it began, leaving the evening very peaceful and still.
Từ trong câu: peaceful, heavy, fire, break, out, drive, down, hill
H. G. Wells, The war of the worlds - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Many a time, while I was unpacking, did she come backwards and forwards to stir the fire which burned all the worse for being so frequently poked.
Từ trong câu: worse, backward, frequently, stir, backwards, forward, many, time
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Cranford - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
While they were settling disputes and unpacking we strolled off into the garden to dip our faces into the cool water that was flowing through the grounds.
Từ trong câu: unpack, settle, dispute, off, garden, dip, face, cool
M. E. Hume-Griffith, Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He sent me to Messina, and while the priest and the Prince Kalonay were working in the south, I sold them to the government at the capital.
Từ trong câu: working, government, south, work, send, priest, prince, sell
Richard Harding Davis, The King's Jackal - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It came to the hands of Charles Lamb when his sister was undergoing one of her temporary but most sad confinements, in the asylum she periodically visited.
Từ trong câu: periodically, come, hand, lamb, sister, undergo, temporary, sad
Edmund Lee, Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's Love - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He was a fellow out of the third of grammar and, while Stephen was undressing, he asked Brother Michael to bring him a round of buttered toast.
Từ trong câu: toast, butter, fellow, out, third, grammar, ask, brother
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
But he did neither: and, when he was sitting alone in the deserted tram, he tore his ticket into shreds and stared gloomily at the corrugated footboard.
Từ trong câu: ticket, neither, sit, alone, desert, tram, tear, stare
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
When she opened her eyes again, he was kneeling before the stove, spreading something dark and sticky on a white cloth, with a big spoon; batter, perhaps.
Từ trong câu: batter, sticky, open, eye, again, stove, spread, something
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When Mrs. Kohler rescued him, he was sleeping in a dirty, unfurnished room over one of the saloons, and he had only two shirts in the world.
Từ trong câu: rescue, mrs, sleep, dirty, room, shirt, world
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When we were describing Arabia, we included in the description the gulfs which compress and make it a peninsula, namely the Gulfs of Arabia and of Persis.
Từ trong câu: compress, describe, include, description, make, peninsula, namely
Strabo, The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Hence, while Marilla and Mrs. Rachel were enjoying themselves hugely at the mass meeting, Anne and Matthew had the cheerful kitchen at Green Gables all to themselves.
Từ trong câu: hugely, hence, mrs, enjoy, themselves, mass, meet, cheerful
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
At first he could not understand where that wind was coming from, but after a while he understood that it came from the lungs of the monster.
Từ trong câu: lung, first, understand, wind, come, monster
Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Anne, of course, was to be bridesmaid, as had been arranged when they were twelve years old, and Gilbert was coming from Kingsport to be best man.
Từ trong câu: twelve, arrange, course, year, old, come, best, man
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
When last seen, she was sitting at the gate, watching the butcher’s cart, and it is feared that some villain, tempted by her charms, basely stole her.
Từ trong câu: steal, cart, last, see, sit, gate, watch, fear
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Meg, Beth, and Amy were sitting together, late in the afternoon, when Jo burst into the room, looking excited and demanding breathlessly, “Has anyone taken my book?”
Từ trong câu: demanding, sit, together, late, afternoon, burst, room, look
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Luckily, when the farmer made my head, one of the first things he did was to paint my ears, so that I heard what was going on.
Từ trong câu: luckily, farmer, make, head, first, thing, paint, ear
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
While he was talking, one of the men-at-arms of the noble entered, and notified to Frion that his lord desired an instant interview with him.
Từ trong câu: notify, talk, man, arm, noble, enter, desire, instant
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
From the hand of the queen of the feast he was receiving his reward, when Surrey, who had led him to her throne, was suddenly called away.
Từ trong câu: feast, hand, queen, receive, reward, lead, suddenly, call
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US