Translation examples
How hard I found to fit the name "robin" to the suburban impostor, the gross fowl, with its untidy dull-red livery and the revolting gusto it showed when consuming long, sad, passive worms! Incidentally, it is curious to note that a crested bird called in Zemblan sampel ("silktail"); closely resembling a waxwing in shape and shade, is the model of one of the three heraldic creatures (the other two being respectively a reindeer proper and a merman azure, crined or) in the armorial bearings of the Zemblan King, Charles the Beloved (born 1915), whose glorious misfortunes I discussed so often with my friend.
¡Qué difícil me resultaba aplicar el nombre de «petirrojo' al impostor suburbano, el ave grosera, con su librea descuidada de un rojo opaco y esa fruición repugnante con que consumía largos, tristes, pasivos gusanos! Dicho sea de paso, es curioso observar que un pájaro con cresta, llamado en zemblano sampel («cola de seda»), muy parecido al picotero por su forma y su color, es el modelo de una de las tres criaturas heráldicas (las otras dos son un reno natural y un tritón azur con crin de oro) del escudo de armas del rey zemblano Charles el Bienamado (nacido en 1915), cuyos gloriosos infortunios comenté tantas veces con mi amigo.
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