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adjective
In the yard of Winter's Realm was a gig and two high-spirited horses.
En el patio de Morada del Invierno había un cabriolé y dos fogosos caballos.
“My granddaughter is high-spirited,” said the old woman, settling back in her chair.
—Mi nieta es muy fogosa —dijo la anciana, recostándose en la silla—.
He remained as high-spirited as before but was more disciplined and purposeful, and more self-assured and arrogant than ever.
Seguía tan fogoso como siempre, pero era más disciplinado y resuelto, y más seguro de sí mismo y arrogante que nunca.
Ah, what spirit, mettlesome steeds, mettlesome men, horse and man, high-spirited, fiery, sexually vigorous, stomping, pawing, rearing, a sword on the hip, love sonnets on the lips!
¡Ah, qué espíritu, briosos caballos, hombres fogosos, caballos y hombres vivaces, vehementes, sexualmente vigorosos, que bailoteaban, se encabritaban, piafaban, una espada en la cadera y sonetos de amor en los labios!
An ardent outdoorsman, he often went on long trips into the wilderness with attractive, high-spirited young women – his wife’s two young cousins, friends of the family, casual acquaintances – and slept with them all.
Le encantaba estar en la naturaleza, y con frecuencia hacía escapadas largas al bosque con jóvenes atractivas y fogosas —las dos jóvenes primas de su esposa, amigas de la familia, conocidas…— y se acostaba con todas ellas.
Evie gave birth later that year to a high-spirited girl with flame-colored curls, leading St. Vincent to the conclusion that it was his destiny to be loved by many red-haired women. He was very pleased.
Evie dio a luz a una preciosa niña con fogosos rizos rojos, por lo que St. Vincent llegó a la conclusión de que su destino era ser amado por muchas mujeres pelirrojas, lo que por otra parte parecía hacerle inmensamente feliz.
adjective
They were always in high spirits. They laughed at everything.
Siempre estaban alegres y se reían por todo.
She was warm, high-spirited, and beautiful in all ways.
Una muchacha cálida, alegre y hermosa en todos los sentidos.
Nevertheless Maigret arrived at his office in high spirits.
Sin embargo, Maigret llegó a su despacho muy alegre.
His friends laughed and joked with one another, in high spirits.
Sus amigos reían y bromeaban entre ellos, alegres.
She had vitality, high spirits and a beautiful speaking voice.
Era enérgica, alegre y tenía una bella voz.
adjective
Their heads were creased with perpetual harlequin smiles that lent sincerity to their high-spirited performances.
Sus morros se arrugaban en unas perpetuas sonrisas de arlequín que conferían credibilidad a su briosa actuación.
The beast was high-spirited and nervous, and when one of the boys tried to mount him, he reared and threw him to the grass.
El noble bruto era un animal brioso y algo nervioso, y cuando uno de los muchachos intentó montarlo se encabritó arrojándolo a la hierba.
Six piglets had been slaughtered, and were already turning on spits over fires tended by a gaggle of high-spirited youths.
Habían sacrificado a seis cochinillos que ya estaban girando en unos espetones sobre unas hogueras que vigilaban una pandilla de jóvenes briosos.
They were officers of cavalry, and their connection with the high-spirited but fanciful animal which carries men into battle seems particularly appropriate.
Eran oficiales de caballería, y su contacto con el brioso y altivo animal que conduce a los hombres a la batalla parece particularmente apropiado al caso.
Lope had to rein in to keep his horse, a high-spirited mare, from leaving Diego's donkey behind. "Ferdinand!" Lope said.
Lope tuvo que frenar a su caballo, una yegua briosa, para evitar dejar atrás al asno de Diego. —¡Fernando! —exclamó Lope—.
The roar of the motor and the insane vision of the car going up the steep stairs with the young, high-spirited lawyer using all the horsepower at his disposal to do it.
el rugir del motor y la demencia misma del coche subiendo la escalinata empinada con el joven y brioso abogado liberando todo el h.p.
I said, “I’d like to rent a high-spirited palomino stallion with a hand-tooled Spanish leather saddle and silver-studded bridle, please,”
—Quiero alquilar un semental palomino brioso, con una silla española artesanal de cuero y una brida adornada con tachones plateados. Por favor —dije.
Rumour had been rife among the high-spirited legionaries that the main settlement would also be abandoned, but the approach of a solitary messenger an hour since had changed everything.
Entre los legionarios briosos circulaba el rumor de que el poblado principal también estaba abandonado, pero la llegada de un mensajero solitario hacía una hora lo había cambiado todo.
In response to a high-spirited scrawl from Fanny, I sent her all that was left of my savings to purchase ‘those horrible little etceteras that just feather down the scales, Midgetina.
En respuesta a unos briosos garabatos de Fanny le envié todo lo que quedaba de mis ahorros para que se comprase «esos horribles pequeños etcéteras que son los que inclinan la balanza, Menudencia.
adjective
“Ah! but you’re so high spirited and independent,”
-Pero usted es una muchacha animosa e independiente -dijo Griselda.
The sky was filled with high-spirited troopers shouting back and forth.
El cielo estaba lleno de paracaidistas animosos que gritaban de un lado a otro».
And Flush was not an ordinary dog. He was high-spirited, yet reflective;
Pero Flush no era un perro cualquiera: animoso y, al mismo tiempo, reflexivo;
None of the high-spirited group around him knew that he had already made a decision.
Ninguno de los animosos jóvenes que estaban con él sabían que había tomado una decisión.
And for his part, Marcus had seemed to enjoy her irreverence and high-spirited nature.
Y por su parte, Marcus había estado encantado con la personalidad animosa e irreverente de su esposa.
“I’m a high-spirited, red-blooded, normal American boy,” Thomas said.
—Soy un chico americano normal, animoso y de sangre ardiente —dijo Thomas.
He sprang up, a smallish man, high-spirited and ebullient. “Nneoma! Is this you?
Hombre más bien bajo, animoso, exultante, se levantó de un salto. —¡Nneoma! ¿Eres tú?
adjective
Who can say what is normal for a high-spirited boy?
—¿Quién está en disposición de decir lo que es normal para un chico travieso?
His high spirits, his pleasure in things for their own sake, were stronger then than his ambition.
Entonces su alegría y su espíritu travieso eran más fuertes que su ambición.
‘More, or perhaps more serious or more often, than the usual, for high-spirited boys of that age.’
Más lesiones, o quizá mayores y más frecuentes, de las que normalmente tienen los niños traviesos.
His smile was mischievous, like that of a high-spirited boy who has managed to provoke the grownups.
Tenía una sonrisa picara, como la de un niño travieso que ha conseguido provocar a los adultos.
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