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There were creatures whose names I didn’t know: coney, ossifrage, ospray, kite, cormorant, gier eagle, and lapwing.
Había criaturas cuyos nombres no conocía: quebrantahuesos, milano, ibis, cormorán, águila de mar, cuervo de mar, gavilán.
Calcareous lias, slate, and trap are still to be found there, rising from layers of conglomerate, like teeth from a gum; but the pickaxe has broken up and levelled those bristling, rugged peaks which were once the fearful perches of the ossifrage.
Todavía hay allí lías calcáreo, esquisto y la peña que sale de los bancos de conglomerado como el diente de la encía, pero la piqueta ha trucado y nivelado todos esos picachos erizados y escabrosos en los que iban a posarse horriblemente los quebrantahuesos.
Yama had been trying to persuade one of the machines which illuminated the room to fly down and settle above his head, but despite his sense of expansion, as if his thoughts had become larger than his skull, he might as well have tried to order an ossifrage to quit its icy perch in the high foothills of the Rim Mountains.
Yama había probado a persuadir a una de las máquinas que iluminaba la estancia para que descendiera y se quedara encima de su cabeza pero, pese a la sensación de expansión, como si sus pensamientos se hubieran vuelto más grandes que su cabeza, lo mismo podría haber intentado ordenar a un quebrantahuesos que bajara de su nido helado en las altas estribaciones de las Montañas del Borde.
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