Translation examples
noun
He used a single brush and a single drop of ink in a soap-stone dish.
No utilizaba más que un pincel y una gota de tinta en un recipiente de esteatita.
His profile looked like something hacked out of a coarse kind of rock (soap-stone?) but his expression was intended to be upbeat, optimistic.
Su perfil parecía tallado en un tipo de piedra muy ordinaria (¿esteatita?), pero su expresión quería ser exultante, optimista.
They passed their eighteenth night in an auto-repair shop that contained, miraculously, a potbellied woodstove of cast iron with a soap-stone top. Now, what to burn?
Pasaron su decimoctava noche en un taller de reparaciones que albergaba, por algún milagro, una estufa ventruda de hierro forjado con tapa de esteatita. Ahora, ¿qué podían quemar?
Madeline's smile faded, and she tried to remember what her nanny had done whenever she and her sisters had been sick… kept them warm, applied mustard plasters to their chests and heated soap-stone to their feet, and fed them beef tea and milk toast.
La sonrisa de Madeline se esfumó e intentó recordar qué hacía su niñera siempre que ella y sus hermanas estaban enfermas… Las mantenía abrigadas, les aplicaba cataplasmas de mostaza en el pecho y les colocaba una esteatita caliente en los pies.
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