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The fire-ship disintegrated in one last final flash and the two towers were completely enveloped in flames.
El brulote quedó hecho pedazos con una última y espantosa deflagración y las dos torres quedaron completamente envueltas por el fuego.
it must do no more than send fire-ships into the harbour in order to destroy the shipping; and after that an attempt might be made to intercept the West Indian treasure fleet.
Habría que limitarse a enviar al puerto algunos brulotes que destruyesen los astilleros, y, hecho eso, podía intentarse interceptar la flota que transportaba el tesoro de las Indias Occidentales.
He was not alone. There had been three other bodies with him, all slaughtered in a similar fashion, all set alight and burning like fire ships as they drifted down the tunnel on a river of excrement.
No estaba solo. Lo acompañaban otros tres cadáveres, todos ellos masacrados de un modo similar, todos ellos en llamas, ardiendo como brulotes a la deriva por el túnel en un río de excrementos.
The fire ship, which was mounted by a handful of men chosen from among the most valiant, he opened the march with all the sails loose, to better disguise the puppets of the blanket.
La nave brulote, tripulada por un puñado de hombres elegidos entre los más valientes, abría la marcha con todas las velas sueltas, para mejor disimular los fantoches de cubierta.
When they were close to the causeway, the triremes increased the rhythm of the rowing to the maximum possible before releasing the fire-ship after having set it and the forward beams alight.
Cuando estuvieron a escasa distancia del muelle, los trirremes aumentaron al máximo el ritmo de la boga, luego desengancharon el brulote tras haberle prendido fuego y haber incendiado asimismo los maderos.
One moonless evening, after a day of incessant battering, two triremes came out of the port towing a fire-ship – an enormous vessel, completely hollow and filled with incendiary material.
En una noche sin luna, tras una jornada de incesantes ataques, dos trirremes salieron del puerto tirando a remolque un brulote: un casco enorme y completamente hueco lleno de material inflamable.
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