Translation for "churchwardens" to spanish
Churchwardens
noun
Translation examples
For instance, there was Major Hargreaves, a churchwarden and a man highly respected in every way.
Por ejemplo, el caso del mayor Hargraves, capillero y persona muy respetada.
He had lived a sheltered life, and had so far encountered no real horrors in his brief ministry, only the present fact of death, and the destructive bad temper of competitive churchwardens and hassock-embroidering ladies.
Había vivido siempre entre algodones y no se había topado con ningún horror verdadero en su breve ministerio, aparte del hecho presente de la muerte, y del destructivo malhumor de los capilleros competitivos y las damas bordadoras de cojines.
To a harassed churchwarden, stuck with finding a wet-nurse and paying for the child’s upkeep at sixpence a week from scarce parish funds, that too was iniquitous, but Gideon could see this waif was barely able to keep herself alive.
Para el abrumado capillero, quien se veía obligado a buscar una nodriza y pagar por el mantenimiento de la criatura a seis peniques por semana de los escasos fondos parroquiales, también era injusto, pero Gideon se dio cuenta de que aquella desamparada a duras penas podía sobrevivir ella sola.
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