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It’s like the good old cycling days, when every draper’s assistant went bank-holidaying….
Từ trong câu: cycling, like, good, old, cycle, day, every, assistant
Sinclair Lewis, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
This opinion, delivered in an unmistakable New York voice and accent, made Janet laugh.
Từ trong câu: accent, unmistakable, opinion, deliver, new, voice, make, laugh
Felix Grendon, The Love Chase - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
His easy life and lucrative business had enabled him to cultivate certain expensive reticences.
Từ trong câu: lucrative, easy, life, business, enable, cultivate, certain, expensive
Felix Grendon, The Love Chase - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
A chicken of microscopic proportions had been the main dish every night for months.
Từ trong câu: microscopic, chicken, proportion, main, dish, every, night, month
Edgar Wallace, Bosambo of the River - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Our stay, of course, will depend on circumstances, which no mortal man can foresee.
Từ trong câu: foresee, stay, course, depend, circumstance, mortal, man
Charles Dixon, Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
"Pity that poor boy is a cripple," said Glynn, speaking out of his thoughts.
Từ trong câu: cripple, pity, poor, boy, speak, out, think
Mrs. Alexander, At Bay - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
All about them the boys could not help noticing the ravages of the earthquake.
Từ trong câu: ravage, boy, help, notice, earthquake
John Henry Goldfrap, The Boy Aviators in Nicaragua; or, In League with the Insurgents - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
"I subsequently had a very narrow escape on the occasion of the "Saluda" disaster.
Từ trong câu: subsequently, narrow, escape, occasion, disaster
George C., 1848- [Compiler] Lambert, Gems of Reminiscence Seventeenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Many other duties, clerical, police, and provost, are given corporals, according to their ability.
Từ trong câu: clerical, many, duty, police, give, accord, ability
Various, Harper's Round Table, December 10, 1895 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
It is the best speech I have read for years, and will become historic.”
Từ trong câu: historic, best, speech, read, year, become
Charles Sumner, Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20) - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
The first boat to arrive that year, was the Otter, commanded by Captain Harris.
Từ trong câu: otter, first, boat, arrive, year, command, captain
C. C. Andrews, Minnesota and Dacotah - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
For old rose add to dilute red a tinge of blue or preferably purple.
Từ trong câu: preferably, old, rise, add, dilute, red, blue, purple
Walter Davis Baker, Batik and other pattern dyeing - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
One such honorable, uncompromising man, he said, was worth a score of practised diplomatists.
Từ trong câu: honorable, man, worth, score, practice
Nathaniel Parker Willis, Famous Persons and Places - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
A large yacht lay just offshore, her white sides glistening in the morning sun.
Từ trong câu: offshore, large, yacht, lay, white, side, morning, sun
Hollis Godfrey, The Man Who Ended War - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh, PD-US
If conquest could have been obtained by personal bravery, Wyat would have been triumphant.
Từ trong câu: bravery, conquest, obtain, personal
William Harrison Ainsworth, The Tower of London: A Historical Romance, Illustrated - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
They should be produced in a studio where the light is thoroughly under control.
Từ trong câu: studio, produce, light, thoroughly, control
Julius Schnauss, Collotype and Photo-lithography - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
Training was confined to the vicinity of billets, or more often to the cellars.
Từ trong câu: vicinity, train, confine, often, cellar
C. E. Wurtzburg, The History of the 2/6th (Rifle) Battalion, "the King's" (Liverpool Regiment) 1914-1919 - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
The whole picture is instinct with Venetian feeling of the period; scenic, not sacred.
Từ trong câu: scenic, whole, picture, instinct, feel, period, sacred
Grant Allen, Paris Grant Allen's Historical Guides - Tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
No fine lady of the courts could have done it with more disdainful ease.
Từ trong câu: disdainful, fine, lady, court, ease
William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
"Why, it’s empty!" she cried in amazement, and the guests craned forward to look.
Từ trong câu: crane, empty, cry, amazement, guest, forward, look
H. C. McNeile, Bull-dog Drummond: The Adventures of a Demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-GB, PD-US
It seemed to Matt as though he was entitled to a little more courtesy.
Từ trong câu: entitle, seem, though, little, courtesy
Stanley R. Matthews, Motor Matt's Defiance; or, Around the Horn - Nguyên văn tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
She will be here to‐morrow, or, at the latest, in a few days.
Từ trong câu: latest, late, day
Various, The Catholic World, Vol. 16, October 1872-March 1873 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It bears about the same relation to truth that hyperbole bears to historical statement.
Từ trong câu: hyperbole, bear, relation, truth, historical, statement
Various, The Catholic World, Vol. 16, October 1872-March 1873 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
“I have done nothing to justify him in setting me down for a partisan.
Từ trong câu: partisan, nothing, justify, set, down
Various, The Catholic World, Vol. 16, October 1872-March 1873 - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
Take it from the water, trim off the root and pare away the skin.
Từ trong câu: trim, take, water, off, root, away, skin
Marion Harland, The Dinner Year-Book - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
Add a little lemon-juice and tomato catsup, and send up in a boat.
Từ trong câu: tomato, lemon, juice, add, little, send, up, boat
Marion Harland, The Dinner Year-Book - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
When smooth and almost cold, whip in the yolks, the flavoring, lastly, the whites.
Từ trong câu: lastly, smooth, almost, cold, whip, flavor, white
Marion Harland, The Dinner Year-Book - Tiếng Anh, PD-US
He told me that The O’Donovan treated him with great urbanity, hospitality and kindness.
Từ trong câu: hospitality, tell, treat, great, kindness
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898 Childhood, boyhood, manhood; customs, habits and manners of the Irish people; Erinach and Sassenach; Catholic and protestant; Englishman and Irishman; English religion; Irish plunder; social life and prison life; the Fenian movement; Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
It took everybody in the village to pull the whale out onto the ice.
Từ trong câu: whale, take, everybody, village, pull, out, ice
Benjamin Brewster, The First Book of Eskimos - Tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US
He grasped the hatchet quickly to peel off the bark and shape the wood.
Từ trong câu: shape, peel, bark, quickly, grasp, off, wood
Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio - Bản dịch tiếng Anh - en-US, PD-US