Translation examples
It moved in aimless wisps across the lawns and hung like tatters of chiffon among the leather leaves of the fig tree.
Er trieb in ziellosen Schwaden über die Rasenflächen und hing wie Chiffonfetzen zwischen den Lederblättern des Feigenbaums.
it had become, in places, jumbled up. According to tradition, when Muhammad came down from the mountain he began to recite—he himself was perhaps illiterate—and whichever of his close companions was nearest would write down what he said on whatever came to hand (parchment, stone, leather, leaves, and sometimes, it’s said, even bones).
Laut Überlieferung begann Mohammed, kaum vom Berg herabgestiegen, das Offenbarte zu rezitieren und – er selbst war vermutlich Analphabet – wer immer von seinen Vertrauten gerade in der Nähe war, schrieb seine Worte auf dem Material nieder, das er gerade zur Hand hatte (Pergament, Stein, Leder, Blätter und manchmal, heißt es, sogar auf Knochen).
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