Translation for "drum-beating" to spanish
Translation examples
‘I did not know,’ said, ‘that life could go at a run, with drums beating.
—No sabía —dije— que la vida pudiese marchar a la carrera, a golpe de tambor.
The drum beats had grown faster, more urgent, the screens passed heedless over the scattered bodies.
Los golpes de tambor se habían vuelto más rápidos, más apremiantes, y las pantallas seguían avanzando con paso inexorable por el terreno sembrado de cadáveres.
Returning to his labor at the oar he pulled away with his companion, a sturdy Andradean lad, and heard the drum beat the stroke and saw the lantern hung on the stern bob and flicker as the wind plucked it about, a tormented fleck of light in the rain-lashed dusk.
Volvió al banco y remó junto con su compañero, un robusto mozalbete andradiano, mientras escuchaba los golpes del tambor y veía la linterna de popa que parpadeaba y se sacudía con el viento, un atormentado punto de luz en el anochecer lacerado por la lluvia.
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