Translation for "calling distance" to german
Calling distance
noun
Translation examples
noun
How slow must we go, to make sure we come within calling distance of Freya before our engine bums out?
Unter welchen Voraussetzungen können wir in Rufweite von Freya kommen, bevor unsere Triebwerke ausbrennen?
Aidan knew the raven was within calling distance if he chose to summon him, but obviously he was intended to go on without benefit of company. Not even that of a . lir
Aidan wußte, daß der Rabe in Rufweite war, wenn er ihn herbeibeordern wollte, aber offensichtlich sollte er ohne tröstliche Begleitung weitergehen.
It startled me, that cry, and it held me for a moment, as it faded – but it was only a moment and, as soon as that moment passed, I was running blindly towards it, running out through the gate and along the path towards the scene of whatever crime had been committed within calling distance of the house where Mother was, no doubt, standing in front of a canvas, putting the finishing touches to a picture she should never have begun, and, absurd as it sounds now, I had a vision of her in what Maia had called her lovely studio, smiling at the finished portrait, happy to have captured whatever it was she had set out to capture, in features that were both girlish and inhuman.
Er ließ mich zusammenfahren, dieser Schrei, und in jenen Momenten, in dem er verging, hielt er mich noch immer gefangen, doch nur diesen Moment lang, kaum aber war der vorbei, rannte ich blindlings darauf zu, rannte durch das Gartentor und über den Weg zum Tatort, an dem wer weiß welches Verbrechen begangen worden war, in Rufweite des Hauses, in dem Mutter fraglos vor einer Leinwand stand und letzte Pinselstriche an einem Bild anbrachte, das sie niemals hätte beginnen sollen, und so absurd es heute auch klingt, sah ich sie wie in einer Vision vor mir in dem, was Maia ihr nettes Atelier genannt hatte, sah sie das fertige Porträt anlächeln, froh, eingefangen zu haben, was sie einfangen wollte, in einem ebenso mädchenhaften wie unmenschlichen Antlitz.
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