Translation for "evil-handed" to spanish
Translation examples
Whereas Siegfried from the start was in the evil hands of a wicked dwarf greedy for dragon's gold and drooling to liquidate him as soon as he had collared it.
   Mientras que Sigfrido, desde un buen principio, estuvo en manos del malvado enano, ansioso por hacerse con el oro del dragón y que babeaba por liquidarlo en cuanto lograra acorralarlo.
I beg you to remember your sister, your mother, and spare me…. If you do not—if you lay an evil hand on me—I will find means sooner or later—to kill you myself!
Te ruego que pienses en tu hermana, en tu madre, y que me respetes… Si no lo haces…, si pones una mano sobre mí con malvada intención…, yo encontraré la forma, más tarde o más temprano…, de matarte.
As he had felt last night or the previous, he couldn’t remember which, when he had seen Anna and her young, imaginary lover in his mind and the jealousy had turned on the switches with an evil hand and he had wanted to shoot.
Como lo había sentido la última noche o la anterior, no podía recordar cuál, cuando había visto a Anna y a su joven amante imaginario en su mente y los celos habían apretado las teclas con una mano malvada y había querido disparar.
The roots and flowers the old man initially used are not mentioned specifically, but we can imagine that they must have included wild species of such families as nightshade, or the Solanum genus—which, in uneducated or evil hands, had long been sought as the poison “deadly” nightshade, or belladonna, but which were also used (more carefully) as hypnotic anesthetics.
No se nos dice de manera específica qué raíces y flores usaba el hombre al principio, pero podemos imaginar que incluían especies silvestres de familias como la belladona, o el género Solanum, que en manos de gente malvada o bien informada se convertía en la venenosa y «mortal» sombra de la noche, mientras que, usada con más cautela, producía una anestesia hipnótica.
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