Translation examples
The road led straight towards the lakes alongside dykes and ponds hidden by alder trees and filled with quacking mallards, garganeys, herons and grebes.
Die Landstraße führte geradewegs zu den Seen, entlang an Dämmen und in Erlenhainen verborgenen Teichen voller schnatternder Stockenten, Knäkenten, Reiher und Haubentaucher.
They rode along the right-hand bank, alongside the river, through shallow backwaters, through wetlands and old riverbeds, through swamps and marshes resounding with the croaking of frogs and the quacking of unseen mallards and garganeys.
Sie ritten am rechten Ufer entlang, durch flache Flussarme und Altwasser, durch Weidengestrüpp und Sumpfauen, die vom Quaken der Frösche, dem Schnattern unsichtbarer Enten und Knäkenten widerhallten.
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