Translation examples
Vernoux remained on his feet, his features drawn as if he were suffering a violent headache. ‘Have you got a few minutes?’
Vernoux blieb stehen; seine Züge waren verfallen, als werde er von heftigen Kopfschmerzen gepeinigt. »Können Sie mir noch einen Augenblick zuhören?«
He had dismissed his men and his servants. A violent headache crashed from one side of his skull to the other. The sheer iron control that had carried him through the rest of the day after John's taunting news was now a constriction upon him. He had retreated, rammed down the portcullis, yanked up the drawbridge, and locked himself up so tightly he felt as if he was being crushed.
Er hatte seine Männer und Diener entlassen, und nun bohrte sich ein heftiger Kopfschmerz quer durch seinen Schädel, der Tribut für die eiserne Beherrschung, die er den ganzen Tag geübt hatte. Er hatte sich zurückgezogen, seine Fallgitter herabgelassen, die Zugbrücke hochgezogen und sich so gründlich eingeriegelt, dass er kaum noch Luft bekam.
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