Translation for "broad-sword" to spanish
Broad-sword
noun
Translation examples
noun
Frozen into this block of ice were broad, sword-shaped leaves, thin straws, seeds and detritus from the woods, a brown, straddling ant – all mingled with bubbles that had formed and which appeared clearly as beads when the sun’s rays reached them.
En ese enorme bloque había incrustadas hojas anchas, con forma de sable, hierbajos estrechos, semillas procedentes del bosque y motas de polvo, una hormiga marrón con las patas abiertas, todo ello mezclado con las perlas que se habían formado en el hielo y que se hacían visibles cuando las alcanzaban los rayos del sol.
The trenches!’ Hugo Dyson chortled at him, and Kavanagh shrank back, later revenging himself by a rather cruel cameo of Dyson in his autobiography. What Kavanagh failed to appreciate was that though Dyson used his wit like a broad-sword, roaring his jokes across the room in sheer exuberance, that wit was itself rapier-keen.
¡De las trincheras!», le dijo Dyson riéndose de él. Kavanagh se achicó, pero luego se vengó describiéndole en una cruel escena de su autobiografía. Kavanagh no supo apreciar que, aunque Dyson atizaba su ingenio como un sable y bromeaba en la clase con cierta sorna, su ingenio no pasaba de ser un simple estoque.
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