Translation examples
In the evening twilight, and later whenever the night was not dark, Silas looked out on that narrow prospect round the Stone-pits, listening and gazing, not with hope, but with mere yearning and unrest.
En el crepúsculo de la tarde, y aun después, cuando la noche no era obscura, Silas miraba la breve perspectiva que rodeaba las canteras. Velaba y escuchaba atentamente, no con esperanza, pero sí con un deseo inquieto e irresistible.
I had none of Charlie’s unresting desire to ‘slip it’ to anybody.
No tenía yo el incansable deseo de Charlie, sus ganas de “colársela” a quien fuera.
He could go to sleep, confident that they were watching over him with unresting vigilance.
Podía dormir tranquilo, confiado en la protección de aquella vigilancia incansable.
the whining wheel behind them, the climbing deck before, and without, the unresting, clamorous sea.
con el puente delante de ellos, la rueda del timón gimiendo detrás, y afuera, el clamoroso mar incansable.
And then the Headmaster, who kept his ears open, seized upon the slavesong of the fags and preached one of his Sunday-night sermons about the Grail, as a vision, an unresting aspiration, and with his usual fine disregard of probability urged the boys to read Malory at once, and to make the Grail quest a part of their own lives.
Y, entonces, el director, siempre atento a todo, oyó la canción de esclavos de los siervos y dedicó uno de sus sermones dominicales al Grial como visión, como aspiración incansable y, con su habitual desprecio de las probabilidades de éxito, instó a los muchachos a leer a Malory inmediatamente y a integrar en su vida la búsqueda del mítico cáliz.
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