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Puffing away in a hot panic of tap dancing and optimism.
Resoplando en un ardoroso ataque de claqué y optimismo.
It was like the same game every time, and she wasn’t supposed to suspect what was going on, and when he had the thing out looking in her eye he wanted her to keep her panties on, him the dirty old cuss puffing away getting his fingers slicked in and puffing away.
Siempre era el mismo juego, se suponía que ella no debía sospechar lo que estaba ocurriendo, y mientras observaba su ojo con la cosa, quería que ella tuviese puestas las bragas, el viejo pervertido que resoplaba, y sus dedos que se iban lubricando, y él seguía resoplando.
He took his fingers out of the dead man’s mouth — the lower lip made a kind of plopping sound as it went back against the gum, but the jaw stayed down pretty much where it was — and then he sat back, puffing away six licks to the dozen.”
Retiró los dedos de la boca del muerto (el labio inferior emitió una especie de chasquido al chocar de nuevo contra la encía, pero la boca se quedó más o menos donde estaba), y se sentó en la arena, resoplando como un camión viejo.
Tony could just see whiteknight West, dutifully huffing and puffing away, giving it his best shot, trying to save Zenia from the evil spell cast by the wicked, non-existent Greek Orthodox priest, with Zenia having the time of her life.
Tony se imaginaba al caballeroso West jadeando y resoplando concienzudamente, haciendo todo lo que estaba en su mano, intentando salvar a Zenia del hechizo maligno lanzado por el perverso e inexistente sacerdote griego ortodoxo, mientras Zenia se lo pasaba en grande.
He wandered back toward his study, puffing away and feeling pleasantly lightheaded.
Regresó hacia el estudio, fumando y sintiéndose agradablemente mareado.
Two of them relaxed in voluminous green velvet armchairs, puffing away on fat cigars;
Dos de ellos apoltronados en un sillón de terciopelo verde, fumando puros;
They all nodded sadly as they puffed away, and Burhoum the gravedigger smiled at Shafi’i.
Asintieron con la cabeza apesadumbrados y siguieron fumando. Barhum, el sepulturero, preguntó a Safií con una sonrisa:
Puffing away, he pulled a heel of bread and hunk of sausage out of his haversack. He said the sausage came from Eichsfeld, which, everybody knew, made the best in the country.
Mientras seguía fumando, sacó del zurrón del pan una corteza y un trozo de salchichón, del que dijo que venía de Eichsfeld, en donde, como era sabido, había los mejores salchichones.
He was naked to the waist, puffing away at his pipe, contentment apparent in his squinting eyes, but he was not in the least triumphant, for this was all perfectly routine as far as he was concerned.
Iba con el torso desnudo, fumando a grandes bocanadas su pipa. Su satisfacción era perceptible en sus ojos entornados, pero no tenía la menor actitud triunfante, ya que este tipo de cosas eran para él pura rutina.
Smokers. On any normal night, one would find a knot of guests and staffers puffing away in front of the hotel, near the entrance to the alley where he’d spotted Rodriguez earlier in the day.
En una noche normal, habría un grupo de huéspedes y empleados del hotel fumando junto a la entrada del callejón donde había visto a Rodríguez aquel mismo día, horas antes.
When he arrived in London, he had grown used to the sight of women puffing away in public, and the first time Roxana shared a cigarette with him he had been elated by the intimacy of the moment.
Al llegar a Londres, se acostumbró a ver mujeres fumando en público, y la primera vez que Roxana compartió un cigarrillo con él lo vivió como un momento de placentera intimidad.
there had been times when just seeing someone puffing away behind the wheel of a car next to his at a stoplight could set off a raging momentary lust for tobacco. But the key word there, of course, was 'momentary.' Those feelings passed in a hurry, like fierce rainsqualls - five minutes after a blinding silver curtain of rain has dropped out of the sky, the sun is shining again.
había habido momentos en que solo ver a alguien fumando tras el volante de un coche contiguo al suyo, detenido en un semáforo, podía desatar un ansia furiosa y momentánea de tabaco. Pero, naturalmente, en ese caso la palabra clave era «momentánea». Aquellos sentimientos pasaban pronto, como furiosos chaparrones. Cinco minutos después de caer una espesa cortina de agua, vuelve a brillar el sol.
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