LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-JULES VERNE- THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND- CHAPTER 12 ppt

... that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they ... brooding for me in the hour and situation. It was three o'clock; the church bell tolled as I passed under the belfry: the charm of the hour lay in its approaching dimness, in the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 20:20

... hastily to the picture over Oliver’s head, and then to the boy’s face. There was its living copy. The eyes, the head, the mouth; every feature was the same. The expression was, for the instant, ... which the reflection of the rushlight-shade threw upon the ceiling; or tracing with his languid eyes the intricate pattern of the paper on the wall. The darkness an...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 14:15

... pursuers. There was little to be made out, in the mist and darkness; but the loud shouting of men vibrated through the air, and the barking of the neighbouring dogs, roused by the sound of the alarm ... over the prostrate form of Oliver, the cape in which he had been hurriedly muffled; ran along the front of the hedge, as if to distract the attention of those behi...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... unexpected! In the silence of the night, too!’ The doctor seemed expecially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established ... alive. The doctor was absent, much longer than either he or the ladies had anticipated. A large flat box was fetched out of the gig; and a bedroom bell ’Humph!’ rejoine...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... too; like all the other days in that most happy time! There was the little church, in the morning, with the green leaves fluttering at the windows: the birds singing without: and the sweet-smelling ... cried the doctor. ‘What of the house, my man; eh?’ The thieves the house they took me to!’ whispered Oliver. The devil it is!’ cried the doctor. ‘Hallo, there! le...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... balance! Oh! the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the DESPERATE ... young. They stood uncovered by a grave; and there was a mother—a mother once— among the weeping train. But the sun shone brightly, and the birds sang on. Oliver turned homeward,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... their opportunity to do the like. The woman is mad!’ said the people, turning to look after her as she rushed away. When she reached the more wealthy quarter of the town, the streets were comparatively ... Dickens CHAPTER XXXIX INTRODUCES SOME RESPECTABLE CHARACTERS WITH WHOM THE READER IS ALREADY ACQUAINTED, AND SHOWS HOW MONKS AND THE JEW LAID THEIR WORTHY HEAD...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... mothers, with sixpences and shillings; and the lay is just to take their money away—they’ve always got it ready in their hands,—then knock ‘em into the kennel, and walk off very slow, as if there ... with the perspiration streaming from her face. ’Much farther! Yer as good as there,’ said the long-legged tramper, pointing out before him. ‘Look there! Those are the lights of Lond...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 11:16

... observer—when the heavy bell of St. Paul’s tolled for the death of another day. Midnight had come upon the crowded city. The palace, the night-cellar, the jail, the madhouse: the chambers of ... moment’s survey of the place, he began to descend. These stairs are a part of the bridge; they consist of three flights. Just below the end of the second, going down, the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 11:16

... handkerchief—Rose Maylie’s own—and The day was breaking, and there was light enough for the men to see each other’s faces. They exchanged one brief glance; there was a fire in the eyes of both, which ... ’Get up!’ said the man. ’It is you, Bill!’ said the girl, with an expression of pleasure at his return. ’It is,’ was the reply. ‘Get up.’ ’There!’ he said, laying the bund...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 11:16