Translation examples
Each statue's face had been effaced, as if a mason had chiseled each countenance away after the stat-ues were brought down.
Die Gesichter der Statuen waren ausgemerzt, als hätte ein Steinmetz sie zerstört, nachdem die Statuen niedergerissen waren.
He’d read somewhere that the makers of Chartres Cathedral, the masons and the carvers of the great façade, had not chiseled their names onto the finished work as an act of humility for the Creator in Whose name the cathedral had been raised.
Er hatte irgendwo gelesen, dass die Baumeister und Steinmetze der Kathedrale von Chartres und ihrer großartigen Fassade unterlassen hatten, ihre Namen in den Stein zu hauen, als Akt der Demut dem Schöpfer gegenüber, in dessen Namen die Kathedrale errichtet worden war.
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