Translation for "quailing" to spanish
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The correct response to this voice was to quail before it.
La reacción correcta a aquella voz era acobardarse.
But something for the first time made her begin to quail.
Por primera vez, sin embargo, empezaba a acobardarse.
Cicero appeared to quail before it, shrinking back on the Rostra.
Cicerón pareció acobardarse y retrocedió en la Columna Rostral.
He had the satisfaction of watching Diego quail, a satisfaction marred when his servant yawned in the midst of cringing.
Tenía la satisfacción de ver a Diego acobardarse, una satisfacción que se vio mermada cuando su sirviente bostezó en plena actitud servil—.
But there was no one he could think of who, if he told them what he’d done, would not quail in self-righteous horror and probably call the police. Morons.
Pero no se le ocurrió nadie que, al contarle lo que había hecho, no fuera a acobardarse con terror mojigato y probablemente a llamar a la policía.
Quailing—as young Jimmy Kapoor was to discover centuries later—was not only de rigueur, it was also, in most cases, the instinctive reaction to the sight of Zumurrud in his dark glory.
Acobardarse —tal como descubriría siglos más tarde el joven Jimmy Kapoor— no solamente era de rigor, sino también, en muchos casos, la reacción instintiva al hecho de ver a Zumurrud en toda su gloria oscura.
He cursed himself for his gullibility and wished in panic for something like a mask or a pair of dark glasses and a false mustache to disguise him, or for a forceful, deep voice like Colonel Cathcart’s and broad, muscular shoulders and biceps to enable him to step outside fearlessly and vanquish his malevolent persecutors with an overbearing authority and self-confidence that would make them all quail and slink away cravenly in repentance.
Se maldijo por su estupidez y deseó tener una máscara o unas gafas oscuras y un bigote postizo para disfrazarse, o una voz contundente y profunda como la del coronel Cathcart y unos hombros anchos y bíceps musculosos que le permitieran salir sin temor a nada y amedrentar a sus malvados verdugos con una confianza en sí mismo y una autoridad arrolladoras que los obligara a escabullirse arrepentidos y asustados.
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