Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -The Moment Of Victory doc

... SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Moment Of Victory Ben Granger is a war veteran aged twenty-nine which should enable you to guess the war. He is also principal merchant and postmaster of Cadiz, ... one of his refined smiles and turning away. "'Come back here!' says I, catching him by the tail of his khaki coat. 'You've made me kind of mad,...

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... be got over?’ ’Not a bit of it,’ replied Sikes. ’Not by flash Toby Crackit?’ said the Jew incredulously. ‘Think what women are, Bill,’ ’No; not even by flash Toby Crackit,’ replied Sikes. ... afraid of our getting the better of you, are you?’ inquired Sikes, fixing his eyes on the Jew. ‘Ugh!’ With a hoarse grunt of contempt, Mr. Sikes seized the glass, and threw the remaind...

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... articles into the pockets of his great-coat, which hung over He could think of no bad object to be attained by sending him to Sikes, which would not be equally well answered by his remaining with ... volume. It was a history of the lives and trials of great criminals; and the pages were soiled and thumbed with use. Here, he read of dreadful crimes that made the blood run co...

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... paces in advance of them. ’It’s all up, Bill!’ cried Toby; ‘drop the kid, and show ‘em your heels.’ With this parting advice, Mr. Crackit, preferring the chance of being shot by his friend, ... to the certainty of being taken by his enemies, fairly turned tail, and darted off at full speed. Sikes clenched his teeth; took one look around; threw over the prostrate form of Oliv...

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... 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 custom of gentlemen ... And seeing, by the bye, that Brittles had been a slow boy for upwards of thirty years, there appeared no great probability of his ever being a fast one. ’He gets worse inst...

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... punishable by imprisonment, and is, in the merciful eye of the English law, and its comprehensive love of all the King’s subjects, held to be no satisfactory proof, in the absence of all other ... the villain!’ ‘Come!’ said Spyers, offering him a pinch of snuff, ‘none of that gammon! You did it yourself.’ So he had; and a good bit of money he had made by it, too; and nobo...

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... boundaries of their daily walks; even they, with the hand of death upon them, have been known to yearn at last for one short glimpse of Nature’s face; and, carried far from the scenes of their ... and esteem of all who knew him. If the truth must be told, he was a little out of temper, for a minute or two, at being disappointed in procuring corroborative evidence of Oliver’s...

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... passion of his supplication for the life and health of the gentle creature, who was tottering on the deep grave’s verge! Oh! the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while ... sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces; what tortures can equal these; what reflections or endeavours can, in the full tide and fever o...

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... alike of the name of man and of the woman you describe, who acted thus.’ By and by, ’ replied the lady; ‘when I leave Rose.’ ’You will tell her I am here?’ said Harry. Of course,’ replied ... Mother, think better of this, and of me, and do not disregard the happiness of which you seem to think so little.’ ’Harry,’ said Mrs. Maylie, ‘it is because I think so much of w...

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... daydreams, how I would remind you, in that happy moment, of the many silent tokens I had given of a boy’s attachment, and claim your hand, as in redemption of some old mute contract that had been sealed ... reason in its course. You recovered. Day by day, and almost hour by hour, some drop of health came back, and mingling with the spent and feeble stream of life which ci...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15