Translation examples
Mutta sitten sanoin, 'Sinä näytit pieneltä, vanhalta mieheltä', ja hän sekosi.
But then I said, 'You looked like a little fat old man'. ... he went mad.
Saturnus kuvataan usein vanhaksi mieheksi, jolla on puujalka ja kädessään viikate.
Tekle Haymanot is frequently represented as an old man with wings on his back and only one leg visible.
Vanhaksi mieheksi naamioitunut Jafar vapauttaa Aladdinin ja Abun vankilasta ja johdattaa heidät Ihmeiden onkalolle.
Disguised as an old man, Jafar frees Aladdin and Abu and brings them to the cave, ordering them to retrieve the lamp.
Nimellä Rynyshsa (Рынышса) hän on kylpyihin yhdistetty veden henki, joka esiintyy pienenä, kyyryselkäisenä, valkopartaisena, vanhana miehenä.
Under the name Rynyshsa (Рынышса) he is a water spirit associated with baths, appearing as a little hunchbacked old man with a white beard.
Flavius Philostratus kuvaa, kuinka Marcus sai vielä vanhana miehenä, hallituskautensa lopulla, opetusta Roomassa toimineelta Sekstokselta.
Philostratus describes how even when Marcus was an old man, in the latter part of his reign, he received instruction from Sextus, who was teaching in Rome: The Emperor Marcus was an eager disciple of Sextus the Boeotian philosopher, being often in his company and frequenting his house.
Varhaisilla levytyksilläänkin hän kuulosti vanhalta mieheltä, jonka vuoksi bluesbuumin aikaan luultiin hänen kuolleen - varsinkin kun Big Bill Broonzy oli näin kirjoittanut.
Estes sounded so much like an old man, even on his early records, that blues revivalists reportedly delayed looking for him because they assumed he would have to be long dead (and because the musician Big Bill Broonzy had written that he was dead).
Philostratus kertoo Luciuksen, Herodes Atticuksen ystävän, kysyneen kerran Marcukselta mihin tämä on menossa, ja Marcuksen vastanneen: "on hyvä jopa vanhalle miehelle oppia; olen matkalla filosofi Sekstoksen luo oppimaan mitä en vielä tiedä".
Lucius, who had just come to Rome, asked the Emperor, whom he met on his way, where he was going to and on what errand, and Marcus answered, "it is good even for an old man to learn; I am now on my way to Sextus the philosopher to learn what I do not yet know."
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