Translation examples
It was his memory of something that had fled as surely as his boyhood had fled; something that was as swift and slight and tameless as he knew this craft would be.
Era el recuerdo de algo que había volado con la misma seguridad que había volado su infancia, algo tan liviano, rápido e indomable como sin duda lo sería aquella embarcación.
The pale creature was useful to him and that was all, and were he to have known how much had been divulged of Gormenghast's inner secrets through the seemingly casual exchanges and periodical researches in the library, he would have done all in his power to eliminate from the castle's life this upstart, this dangerous, unprecedented upstart, whose pursuit of the doctrines was propelled by a greed for personal power as cold as it was tameless.
La pálida criatura le era útil y ahí terminaba la cosa y, de haber sabido cuántos de los íntimos secretos de Gormenghast habían sido ya divulgados en los intercambios aparentemente casuales y las periódicas investigaciones en la biblioteca, hubiera hecho lo posible para eliminar de la vida del castillo a aquel advenedizo, aquel advenedizo peligroso y sin precedentes cuya dedicación a las doctrinas era impulsada por una ambición de poder personal tan fría como indomable.
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