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And more petrifying news coverage than you can shake a fear stick at.
Y noticias petrificantes a mansalva.
Warriors from across the Greek world travel to her remote island seeking to steal it and use its petrifying power as a weapon against their enemies.
Guerreros de todo el mundo griego viajan a su remota isla intentando robar su cabeza y usar su poder petrificante como arma contra de sus enemigos.
there had been no time. The Messerschmitt flight from Geneva had been cramped, petrifying;
no hubo tiempo. El vuelo en el Messerschmitt, desde Ginebra, había sido incómodo, petrificante;
The changing of boys’ voices12 cannot surpass it in its intensity and petrifying violence.
El cambio de voz de los jóvenes no puede superar su profundidad ni su violencia petrificante.
– is it, can it be possible, that so unmoved, that with such petrifying indifference, you can tear from me even the remotest hope!
¿Puede ser que con esa petrificante indiferencia…, impertérrita, aleje de mí la esperanza más remota?
Formerly, philologists claimed that bell2 could be derived from bellum—that the resounding and petrifying bell derived from war.
Antaño los filólogos afirmaban que bell deliraba de bellum: que la campana sonora y petrificante derivaba de guerra.
The bag signifies the way we have to create a sort of Stygian space in our consciousness so that, when unconscious contents surge up—they may be petrifying—we are able to contain them and not be overwhelmed.
La bolsa significa esa especie de lugar estigio que hemos de crear en nuestra conciencia para que, cuando afloren los contenidos del inconsciente —que pueden ser petrificantes—, podamos contenerlos sin que nos sobrepasen.
Jones is of opinion that it is a true shell which, having been conveyed here by the Flood in the days of the Patriarch Noah, was filled by the petrifying juices of the Earth and became in tract of time a stone.
Mr. Jones opina que es una concha verdadera la cual, habiendo sido traída aquí por el Diluvio en los días del patriarca Noé, se llenó de los jugos petrificantes de la tierra y, con el paso del tiempo, se convirtió en piedra.
However, in the very excess of his embitteration lies your opportunity: for by long brooding upon the matter he has convinced himself that you resemble the Gorgon Medusa, with snakes for hair, and vulpine features, and a cold petrifying eye;
Sin embargo, en el propio exceso de su amargura estriba vuestra oportunidad: pues con tanto meditar melancólicamente sobre el asunto se ha convencido de que os asemejáis a la gorgona Medusa, con culebras por cabellos, rasgos vulpinos, y una mirada fría y petrificante;
At the bottom of this inscription, nailed flat against the wall, was a stone ladder, which had been originally of wood, but which had been changed into stone by being buried in earth of petrifying quality at a place called Apsley Gowis, near Woburn Abbey.
Sobre esta inscripción estaba clavada a la pared, en señal de alta justicia, una escala de piedra, la que antaño era de madera, pero la había convertido en piedra la ocultación en la tierra petrificante del lugar llamado Aspley Gowis, cerca de la abadía de Woburn.
Insofar as prerequisites were established for stories for this collection, it satisfies estimably: the authors were asked to present “dangerous” visions, and I submit there are few more petrifying concepts than the one Fritz Leiber here proffers in finally naming the name of the Prince of Darkness. GONNA ROLL THE BONES
En cuanto a los prerrequisitos establecidos para las historias de esta recopilación, los satisface con creces: a los autores se les pedía que presentaran visiones «peligrosas», y afirmo que existen pocos conceptos más petrificantes que el desarrollado aquí por Fritz Leiber, pronunciando finalmente el nombre del Príncipe de las Tinieblas.
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