Translation for "hardfacing" to spanish
Hardfacing
Translation examples
Charl Gedwyn had taken to wearing his hair caught at the nape of his neck in a silver clip set with a large red stone, but he was still a hardfaced man with a challenging look about him.
Charl Gedwyn había adoptado la costumbre de sujetarse el cabello en la nuca con un prendedor de plata, adornado con una gema roja, pero seguía siendo un hombre de rostro duro con un aire desafiante.
They were kind to her in the shops. The grocer, a hardfaced ex-soldier whose right hand lacked a thumb (Melanie wondered, had he lopped it off on the bacon-slicer? But she never dared ask him, for fear he would tell her)-the grocer treated her to infrequent smiles and would give occasional chocolates to Victoria, who would go back to the toyshop with a heavy brown moustache and sideburns.
En las tiendas eran amables con ella. En la de comestibles, un ex soldado de rostro duro a quien le faltaba el pulgar de la mano derecha (Melanie creía que se lo había rebanado con la máquina de cortar fiambres, pero nunca se atrevió a preguntárselo por temor a que él se lo contase) le concedía sus poco frecuentes sonrisas y de vez en cuando le daba chocolates a Victoria, que volvía a la juguetería con grandes bigotes y patillas marrones.
They waited for the ship to turn over altogether, and shake Page 27 them out into the sea; and upon the terrific noise of wind and sea not a murmur of remonstrance came out from those men, who each would have given ever so many years of life to seèthem damned sticks go overboard!' They all believed it their only chance, but a little hardfaced man shook his grey head and shouted `No!' without giving them as much as a glance. They were silent, and gasped.
Esperaban que el barco volcase por completo y los arrojase al mar y, entre el terrífico rumor de las olas y los vientos, ni un solo murmullo de reconvención se escapó de aquellos hombres que hubiesen dado muchos años de su vida por ver a «esos condenados palos saltar por encima de la borda». Todos sentían que su única probabilidad de salvación residía allí; pero un hombrecillo de rostro duro sacudía su cabeza gris y gritaba: «¡No!», sin lanzarles siquiera la limosna de una mirada.
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