Translation for "steilwand" to english
Steilwand
noun
Translation examples
Dort quirlte Svantevits Zorn, kochte Strömung und Schlamm, fuhr über Lehmkleister, das glattgespülte, kitthelle Zahnfleisch des Strands, drehte Dünungs-Töpferscheiben, knarrte auf Wasserorgeln, zurrte Wellen-Frisbees, die jeden Schwimmer mitrissen, spitzte die Brandung zu Messern, die tief in den Inselrumpf stachen, krallte sich Kies und Ton, schälte, unermüdlich in immer neu aufgeschaukelter Rage, Hohlkehlen, Stollen, Höhlen in die Steilwände, von denen es bröselte, bröckelte, sackte;
There the god Svantevit vented his swirling fury, boiling current and mud, flowing over sticky loam, the smooth-washed, putty-white flesh of the beach, turning potters’ wheels in the swell, grating on water-organs, binding fast wave-frisbees that swept every swimmer along, sharpening the breakers into knives that cut deep into the island’s body, clawing up shingle and clay, tirelessly paring away, in ever-new upswings of rage, grooves, tunnels and caves in the steep faces that were sagging, eroding, crumbling;
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