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House, pacientemente, permanecía atento a cada vaivén, como un hombre decidido a embridar a un caballo asustadizo.
House followed each jerk patiently, like a man who means to bridle a skittish horse.
Ni tampoco parecía haber una vanidad escondida que en un tiempo futuro la empujase a embridar la autoridad de Arthur.
Nor did there seem any lurking vanity which might at some future time make the girl bridle at Arthur's authority.
Tilly tuvo que embridar la lengua al darse cuenta de que reventaba de ganas de decir que, según la etiqueta de la gente que compraba mantequilla, eso de llamar a una puerta y pedir una libra de mantequilla como último recurso, cuando a los demás se les ha terminado, no eran maneras.
Tilly bridled her head, bursting to say that, according to the etiquette of people who bought butter, it was no sort of manners whatever coming to a place cool as you like and knocking at the front door asking for a pound as a stop-gap while your other people were short.
El instinto de libertad que la sociedad clasista sofoca mediante esas máquinas trituradoras que son la familia, la escuela, la religión y el Estado, guía los pasos de estos hombres que, en efecto, parecen haberse rebelado, entre otras cosas, contra la institución que pretende embridar los sentimientos y los deseos.
The instinct for freedom, which a class society stifles by way of those machines to crush what is inborn—families, schools, religion, and the state—guides the footsteps of these men who give every appearance of having rebelled, among other things, against that institution whose aim is to bridle feelings and desires.
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