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Oh! he was heavy, heavy; heavier than any man on earth, I should imagine.
Từ trong câu: imagine, heavy, man, earth
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Upon this they forgot Kurtz, and began to howl at me with indignant protests.
Từ trong câu: protest, indignant, forget, begin
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The smiles vanished, and he shook his head as if sorry for my disappointment.
Từ trong câu: sorry, disappointment, smile, shake, head
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
His face was like the autumn sky, overcast one moment and bright the next.
Từ trong câu: bright, autumn, sky, next, face, like, moment
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The prehistoric man was cursing us, praying to us, welcoming us—who could tell?
Từ trong câu: pray, prehistoric, welcome, man, tell
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags—rags that would fly off at the first good shake.
Từ trong câu: pretty, clothes, acquisition, fly, off, first, good, shake
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.
Từ trong câu: always, course, fool, fine, fright, safe, sheer
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
There was a signature, but it was illegible—not Kurtz—a much longer word.
Từ trong câu: signature, much, long, word
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
‘Ivory,’ jerked the nephew; ‘lots of it—prime sort—lots—most annoying, from him.’
Từ trong câu: annoying, nephew, prime, annoy, sort, ivory, lot
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The bush around said nothing, and would not let us look very far, either.
Từ trong câu: around, bush, nothing, let, look, far, either
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The current ran smooth and swift, but a dumb immobility sat on the banks.
Từ trong câu: current, smooth, swift, dumb, run, sit, bank
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Several exchanged short, grunting phrases, which seemed to settle the matter to their satisfaction.
Từ trong câu: exchange, settle, satisfaction, short, several, phrase, seem, matter
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
‘I authorize you to take all the risks,’ he said, after a short silence.
Từ trong câu: risk, authorize, take, short, silence
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The ‘scoundrel’ had reported that the ‘man’ had been very ill—had recovered imperfectly....
Từ trong câu: recover, ill, report, man
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
All this time the river, the shore, the woods, were very quiet—perfectly quiet.
Từ trong câu: quiet, time, river, shore, wood, perfectly
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Not of course that I did not connect him with some sort of action.
Từ trong câu: connect, action, course, sort
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“However, as you see, I did not go to join Kurtz there and then.
Từ trong câu: join, however, see, go
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose.
Từ trong câu: logic, mysterious, arrangement, thing, life, purpose
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
My dear aunt’s endeavours to ‘nurse up my strength’ seemed altogether beside the mark.
Từ trong câu: mark, beside, nurse, dear, up, strength, seem, altogether
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
His mother had died lately, watched over, as I was told, by his Intended.
Từ trong câu: lately, mother, intend, die, watch, tell
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Incidentally he gave me to understand that Kurtz had been essentially a great musician.
Từ trong câu: great, essentially, musician, give, understand
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The tone of these words was so extraordinary that I looked at him searchingly.
Từ trong câu: extraordinary, tone, word, look
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It was curious to see his mingled eagerness and reluctance to speak of Kurtz.
Từ trong câu: eagerness, curious, see, speak
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
I had heard that her engagement with Kurtz had been disapproved by her people.
Từ trong câu: engagement, hear, people
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
The start back I had given was really nothing but a movement of surprise.
Từ trong câu: start, movement, back, give, really, nothing, surprise
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
In fact, the manager said afterwards that Mr. Kurtz’s methods had ruined the district.
Từ trong câu: method, district, fact, manager, afterward, mr, ruin
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Well, the name was as true as everything else in his life—and death.
Từ trong câu: death, well, name, true, everything, else, life
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It came to him, and he accepted it with a sort of eager fatalism.
Từ trong câu: eager, accept, come, sort
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
He helped himself, with a wink at me, to a handful of my tobacco.
Từ trong câu: tobacco, wink, help, himself
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
“I think I would have raised an outcry if I had believed my eyes.
Từ trong câu: raise, think, believe, eye
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US