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Las grietas a su alrededor eran anchas y llenas de una mezcla oscura embreada.
The cracks around it were wide and filled with a dark, tarry mixture.
—exclamó un marido embreado—. Así no vais a recomendar el matrimonio a un soltero gallardo como yo.
cried a tarry sailor. “You do nothing to recommend marriage to a lively bachelor such as I am.
En las sombras de encima de su cabeza brilló un cuchillo, cortando los gruesos y embreados ramales de la soga.
In the shadows above his head a knife shone, sawing through the thick, tarry strands of the rope.
pero ninguna expresión pasaba jamás por aquella cara roja de salitre, surcada de arrugas embreadas.
but there was never a trace of any expression on that face of his, eaten by brine, marked with tarry wrinkles.
Más a mano, las antorchas embreadas sujetas a los soportes del muelle proporcionaban trémulos círculos de luz espaciados entre sí.
Closer to hand, the tarry torches bracketed to the dock supports provided widely-spaced circles of fitful light.
No era fácil creer que el fuego se hubiera mantenido a pesar de tanta agua; no obstante, uno de ellos llevaba una antorcha embreada y chisporroteante.
It was not easy to believe that fire had been preserved through that tremendous wetting, but one of the swordsmen nevertheless carried a sputtering tarry torch.
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