Translation for "jack-knifes" to spanish
Translation examples
Cut out the woman in you with a jack-knife.
Extirpa la mujer que llevas dentro con un cuchillo.
Jud began to curse and groped for his jack knife.
Jud comenzó a maldecir y echó mano de su cuchillo.
My rifle always hangs loaded on the wall, and I never set foot outside the house without my sharp jack-knife.
La escopeta cuelga de la pared siempre cargada y no doy un paso fuera de casa sin mi afilado cuchillo.
waited for the one opportunity when at the supreme moment he could single out a hierophant, and with his jack-knife in that creature's back, demand to be taken to the centre.
esperar la oportunidad de poder atrapar a un hierofante y, amenazándolo con el cuchillo, exigir que lo llevara al «centro».
He was not to be deterred from this practice even by Terry’s threats to cut off his treasured queue with a jack-knife, did he not shorten his orisons.
No pudimos impedir que hiciera esto siquiera con la amenaza de Terry de cortarle su preciosa coleta con un cuchillo si no acortaba sus oraciones.
Or an open parasol torn to shreds sticking out of a lumberjack's boot, and beside the boot a tattered copy of The Golden Ass pierced with a rusty jack-knife.
O una sombrilla abierta, hecha trizas y asomando de una caja de leñador y, junto a ésta, un ejemplar muy viejo de El asno de oro atravesado por un cuchillo oxidado.
Dense clouds now hung before his blood-shot eyes, but he could just distinguish Ramzin, with an ordinary peasant’s jack-knife in his upraised hand.'
Sus ojos inyectados de sangre, cubiertos por un velo, pudieron aún percibir a Ramsin, que blandía un cuchillo común de campesino en su mano alzada.
One leaned on the pig’s rump in case she jack-knifed, another pulled back her head by those lolling ears. The third man split the skin of her throat with his knife.
Uno se inclinó sobre las ancas del cerdo en caso de que se revolviera, otro le tiró de las orejas para alzar la cabeza y el tercero le abrió la garganta con el cuchillo.
But, a moment after, noting that the person did not move or reply, she cast a shrewd glance into his face and discovered his pumpkin head—elaborately carved by Tip’s jack-knife.
Pero un instante después, al advertir que la persona no se movía ni respondía, echó una mirada perspicaz a aquella cara y descubrió la cabeza de calabaza, minuciosamente tallada por el cuchillo de Tip.
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