Translation examples
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Dirà che hai insidiato la verginità di sua nipote con una metafora.... incisiva come un canino.... ...lacerante come un imene.
She'll say you threatened the virginity of her damsel: with a metaphor hissing like a dagger... as sharp as a canine, as lacerating as a hymen.
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Alla fine di questa frase sussultai e tacqui un momento, poiche' mi parve che da una parte remota del maniero m'arrivasse alle orecchie cio' che poteva essere l'eco del rumore lacerante che Sir Launcelot aveva cosi' minuziosamente descritto.
At the termination of this sentence I started and for a moment paused because it appeared to me that from some remote portion of the mansión there came indistinctly to my ears what might have been the echo of the very cracking and ripping sound Sir Launcelot had so particularly described.
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