Translation for "writing-desk" to spanish
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He is muttering orders to the clerk, who runs behind him with a writing desk as he strides towards the stables.
Está musitando unas órdenes al sirviente que corre detrás de él con una escribanía en dirección a los establos.
One leaf he found beneath the writing-desk in a large bedchamber, in a lady’s hand, an excerpt of a cheerful and ordinary letter home, full of news of her small children and curious stories of the foreign city, broken off mid-page and never finished;
Debajo de la escribanía de un gran dormitorio, encontró un folio manuscrito con letra de mujer. Se trataba de la típica carta alegre escrita a casa, llena de noticias sobre los niños pequeños y curiosas historias acerca de la ciudad extranjera, que se interrumpía a media página y quedaba inconclusa.
And in fleeing, for which I was to blame, the little creature had taken with her the books, lectern, and writing desk, had stripped the erudite patriarch of his lofty crimson and his black cappa magna, leaving in his place in the charred canvas only a naked Judas, ignorant and unpardoned at the foot of the cross for which he is guilty.
Y, al huir por culpa mía, el animalito se había llevado consigo los libros, los atriles y la escribanía, había despojado de su púrpura altiva y de su muceta negra al patriarca erudito, dejando en su lugar en el cuadro calcinado sólo un Judas desnudo, ignaro e imperdonado al pie de la cruz de la que es culpable.
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