Translation for "köpfend" to english
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Das ist das Kopfende, und das ist das Schwanzende.
This is the head-end, and that's the tail-end.
Das Kopfende des Betts war hochgestellt.
The head of the bed was elevated.
Nur am Kopfende der Tafel war es still.
Only the head table was quiet.
Er stand am Kopfende des Grabs.
He stood at the head of the grave.
Bill nahm das Kopfende.
Bill took the end with the head.
Matlock wählte das Kopfende.
Matlock assumed the head of the table.
Am Kopfende saß Eibenschütz.
Eibenschütz sat at the head of the bed.
Das komplizierteste Manöver war das am Kopfende.
The most complicated manoeuvre was at the head itself.
Sie lag zusammengekrümmt am Kopfende.
She lay in a curl against the bed head.
»Eine Kerze ans Kopfende«, befahl er.
“A single candle at the head,”
Zweimal hatten sie mich fortgeschickt, zweimal war ich wiedergekommen, doch nach der dritten Verwarnung, die mein Vater bedächtig, in unheilvoller Ruhe aussprach, wußte ich, was ich nach einer abermaligen Rückkehr zu erwarten hatte, deshalb verzog ich mich, Butterblumen köpfend, in Richtung Deich, schlug einen Haken, schlich unbemerkt von unserem Volkssturm wieder zur Mühle zurück und turnte gleich, die Leiter einziehend, so daß niemand mir folgen konnte, zum Kuppelraum in mein Versteck.
Twice they had sent me away and twice I had come back again, but after the third warning my father gave me, speaking with a calm deliberation that struck me as pretty ominous, I knew what I had to expect if I returned again, and so I took myself off, decapitating buttercups on my way, made a detour and, unseen by our Volkssturm, tiptoed back to the mill and climbed up into my hiding-place under the dome, pulling up the ladder so that nobody could follow me.
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