What Alice, waiting for a reply, was faced with was a sudden howl. It was a resounding noise, sharp as to burst her ear drums, loud as to reach unto the heavens.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

The moment she made her appearance, my room was transformed from its usual bleakness into a cheerful place, as if a ray of sunshine had suddenly shone into it.

The story depicting her sad but heroic life touched my heart with warm [deep] sympathy for her.

we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide

When he whispered something into her ear, she moved just as he said, as if she had been hypnotized.

his other arm lay across his chest, unnaturally, as if placed there deliberately, for a purpose

The person who descended from the coach was a woman of about 22 or 23 with, if I had to say, a plain appearance. At a glance, I knew that she was a guest coming from Paris. She was alone.

He didn't intend to let her drive but she pestered him so much that he finally gave in.

I turned around and there, a few hundred feet away, was our government minder, Li Wong Su, huffing and puffing toward us

A normal person might spend a lifetime at it and still not succeed but faced with a determined Ren it was not greatly different from a normal cylinder lock.

She therefore came up on this side, opened her own window and tapped her horn lightly to draw attention to the fact that she was there.

After reading her letter, doubt(s) rose in my mind as to whether she still loved him [a doubt as to whether she really loved him began to raise its head].

At any rate, Ozawa hurriedly took off his raincoat and quickly put it on the naked girl's shoulders.

I was told she's over the hill. On the contrary I thought her singing (was) better than ever.

Everytime her husband looked at me, he almost asked me: "For what purpose have you come here?"

The victim of blackmail has been paying hush money for years, but now he realizes it is foolish, and he has decided not to pay a red cent more.

would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave- W.B.Yeats

Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.

her voice was swift, yet ever the last words fell lingeringly-Rossetti

it was a mere glance, but the eye contact was enough to tell her that he was desperate to leave

My daughter, who was pretending to be a princess, wore my skirt as a dress, dragging it on the ground as she walked towards me.

Suddenly I felt an irresistible impulse to kill [murder] her on the spot.

years ago in her white-painted infancy it must have hung presentably on the deck of some luxury liner

The angry wife was on the warpath; she hit her husband with a broom for coming home late and drunk.

The girl snapped up the package and pointed to a little old man standing beside her.

The dean sighed and said: "I think that this woman is perhaps... my own cousin".

The landlord told me a cock and bull story about why we didn't have heat for three days.

round and round, while meditatively, as a cow chewing the cud, he let his eyes rest on the flat water ahead of him

lonely creeks are opal in the dawn, sword-blue in the sun, greyly silver under misty moons

according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily

The sudden sound of brakes squealing will tighten anyone's stomach.