Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES -ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 11-1 docx

... of the grass, kings of the kine, lords of the lea, barons of beef and bone. They might have ridden in golden chariots had their tastes so inclined. The cattleman was caught in a stampede of ... reduction of surplus wealth were those lairds of the lariat who had womenfolk to their name. In the breast of the rib-sprung sex the genius of purse lightening may slumber throug...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... hate to be reminded of Pollock's Course of Time, and so do you; but every time I saw Jacks I would think of the poet's description of another poet by the name of G. G. Byron who "Drank ... Solid Man at the top of our voices. That evening four of the willow rocking-chairs were filled besides the lucky one that sustained the trim figure of Miss Hinkle. Three...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 18:15

... him. Only himself knew of the horrible tightening of the chest, the dry mouth, the weakening of the spine, the agony of the strung nerves the never- failing symptoms of his shameful malady. ... Terror of Thousands of Tongue-tied Tremblers!" One hundred in the shade kept the vicinity somewhat depeopled. This quarter of the town was a ragged edge; its denizens the bu...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 18:15

... laid the flower wreath on the block of stone at High Jack's feet. Rummy as I was, I thought it was kind of nice of her to think of offering flowers instead of household and kitchen provisions. ... bananas, and bottles of wine, and stacks of tortillas, and beautiful shawls worth one hundred dollars apiece that the Indian women weave of a kind of vegetable fibre like...

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 00:20

... the neighborhood of Whitechapel. The Jew stopped for an instant at the corner of the street; and, glancing suspiciously round, crossed the road, and struck off in the direction of the Spitalfields. ... same time, most unmusical snatches of song, mingled with wild execrations. At length, in a fit of professional enthusiasm, he insisted upon producing his box of housebreaking to...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 02:15

... 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 cold; of secret murders ... at the head of the stairs, with a candle. ‘Oh! That’s the time of day. Come on!’ This was a very strong expression of approbation, an uncommonly hearty welcome, from a person of M...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 02:15

... myself off to sleep, when I heerd the noise again, distinct.’ ’What sort of a noise?’ asked the cook. ’A kind of a busting noise,’ replied Mr. Giles, looking round him. ’More like the noise of ... expressive of the most unmitigated horror. ’I tossed off the clothes,’ said Giles, throwing away the table-cloth, and looking very hard at the cook and housemaid, ‘got softly out of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH OLIVER RESORTED In a handsome room: though its furniture had rather the air of old-fashioned comfort, than of modern elegance: ... never heard of such a thing!’ exclaimed the fat gentleman. ‘My dear Mrs. Maylie—bless my soul—in the silence of the night, too—I NEVER heard of such a thing!’ With these expressions...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... ‘em off’en. He warn’t one of the family, at that time; and one night he was robbed of three hundred and twenty-seven guineas in a canvas bag, that was stole out of his bedrrom in the dead of ... for there was traces of blood, all the way to some palings a good distance off; and there they lost ‘em. However, he had made off with the blunt; and, consequently, the name of Mr. Ch...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... gravestones, but full of humble mounds, covered with fresh turf and moss: beneath which, the old people of the village lay at rest. Oliver often wandered here; and, thinking of the wretched grave ... the parlour, without a word of parley. He looked anxiously round; not an article of furniture; not a vestige of anything, animate or inanimate; not even the position of the cu...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15