Translation for "зернышко перца" to english
Зернышко перца
noun
Translation examples
Но ноги отказались мне повиноваться, и я стоял перед бегущим слоном, глупо шаря по карманам в поисках зарядов, бесполезных против этой горы плоти, как зернышки перца.
But I found my legs would not function, and I stood in the path of the charge, groping stupidly for cartridges which were useless as thrown peppercorns against this grey mountain of flesh.
Возраст старого вояки было невозможно определить: ему могло быть и сорок лет, и восемьдесят. Выдубленная, как пергамент, кожа, изборожденная пылью и ветром, — и черные, не тронутые сединой волосы, покрывающие голову мелкими, туго скрученными пучками, похожими на зернышки перца.
This was a man with an ageless face, it might have been forty years or -eighty, for the skin was the colour and texture of a papyrus parchment, each wrinkle seemed to have been eroded into it by wind and driven dust, but the little peppercorns of hair that covered his skull were untinged with silver.
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