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unlike Yugoslavian buses, it gleamed with enamel in which, when it stopped, the lanceolate leaves of the oleanders were reflected;
a diferencia de los yugoslavos, relucía; cuando se detuvo, en su pintura de esmalte se reflejaron las hojas lanceoladas de las adelfas;
It was a magnificent giant with long lanceolate leaves and huge swollen flowers shaped like ears of corn, which seemed like fruit.
Era un gigante majestuoso con largas hojas lanceoladas y unas enormes flores túrgidas en forma de panocha que parecían frutos.
Instead of thinking “lawn”, to think of that stalk with two clover leaves, that lanceolate, slightly humped leaf, that delicate corymb . . .
En vez de pensar «césped», pensar aquel pecíolo con dos hojas de trébol, aquella hoja lanceolada un poco corva, aquel corimbo tenue…
A large stone dart point of a workmanship Three Toes would have envied. The point was long and lanceolate, fluted at the base—a monster-hunter's point.
Una punta de flecha de una maestría que habría envidiado Tres Dedos, larga y lanceolada, estriada en la base. Era la punta de flecha de un cazador de monstruos.
The illumination from the night-light, a little mushroom-shaped lamp with lanceolate drawings, caressed her neck, shoulders, breasts, belly, buttocks, thighs, knees, feet.
El resplandor de la veladora, una lamparilla en forma de champiñón con dibujos lanceolados, acarició su cuello, hombros, pechos, vientre, nalgas, muslos, rodillas, pies.
Spiral staircases climbed vertiginously to the heavens, joining tenuous, translucent footbridges, which brought together irregular, lanceolate buildings of blinding white, whose forms reminded you of certain cirrus clouds.
Escaleras en espiral ascendían vertiginosamente hasta los cielos y se juntaban con pasarelas tenues, translúcidas, que unían construcciones irregulares, lanceoladas, de una blancura deslumbrante, cuyas formas se asemejaban a las de algunos cirros.
Her short hair was becoming, with a curved wing on each cheek, but it was the color of aluminum, not honey, and behind her grandmother’s spectacles her beautiful lanceolate eyes had lost half a lifetime of light.
El cabello corto le sentaba bien, con una curva de ala en las mejillas, pero ya no era de color de miel sino de aluminio, y los hermosos ojos lanceolados habían perdido media vida de luz detrás de las antiparras de abuela.
Her uncovered face shone like alabaster, her lanceolate eyes had a life of their own under the enormous chandeliers of the central nave, and as she walked she was so erect, so haughty, so self-possessed, that she seemed no older than her son.
El rostro descubierto tenía un resplandor de alabastro, los ojos lanceolados vivían con vida propia bajo las enormes arañas de la nave central, y caminaba tan derecha, tan altiva, tan dueña de sí, que no parecía mayor que el hijo.
These algae, which had so frightened the crews of the Spanish caravels citing Columbus was sailing towards the discovery of America, are prominent grassy tangles, having a length that Page 156 ranges from thirty to eighty centimeters, composed of an amalgam with lanceolate leaves and supported by bladders.
Estas algas, que tanto habían espantado a las tripulaciones de las carabelas españolas citando Colón navegaba hacia el descubrimiento de América, son marañas herbosas destacadas, que tienen una longitud que varia de los treinta a los ochenta centímetros, compuestas de una amalgama de hojas lanceoladas y sostenida por vejiguillas.
On the last of her comic dashes, Elizabeth slipped on one of the olives and, unable to regain her balance in the spiked heels, fell backward against the nearest of the planters. One of the lanceolate tips of the ornamental iron work around the border of the planter found its way to the base of her occipital bone, penetrating into the rachis bulb. Instant death.
En uno de estos brincos, con los tacones, Elizabeth resbala sobre una aceituna y se va hacia atr ás. Al caer de espaldas sobre un rincón de la sala, se incrusta en la nuca una de las puntas lanceoladas de hierro, que forman el cerco de un cantero sembrado de malangas. La punta le penetra hasta el bulbo raquídeo. Muerte instantánea. Elizabeth queda tendida boca arriba.
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