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El suelo estaba tan blando que a pesar de que ella había procurado caminar únicamente sobre los lugares pedregosos aquí y allá había marcas de sus pies.
The ground had been so soft that even though she kept to the stony places there were marks here and there of her feet.
Es un instinto muy primitivo coger una piedra de un lugar pedregoso, para contemplarla, y dotarla de una forma y una vida que conecten al ser humano con la inhumana masa de piedras.
It is an ancient instinct to take a stone from a stony place, to look at it, to give it a form and a life that connect the human being to the mass of inhuman stones.
PRISCO: El anciano persa era evidentemente un espía que nos condujo directamente hasta una emboscada en Maranga, que no era un «rico valle» sino un lugar pedregoso donde estábamos expuestos por todos lados al ejército persa.
Priscus: The old Persian was of course a spy who led us straight into an ambush at Maranga, which was not a "rich valley" but a stony place where we were exposed on all sides to the Persian army.
Silbó para que volviera el mustang, se izó de nuevo sobre la silla (era como si él hubiera encogido un poco, como escalar una montaña, y tuvo la impresión de que el caballo lo ayudaba en cierto modo) y, abarcando con los brazos el amplio cuello, se alejó, la cabeza gacha, de aquel lugar pedregoso y desolado.
He whistled his mustang back and heaved himself up into the saddle (it was as though he had shrunk some, it was like climbing a mountain, and he had the impression that the horse helped him somehow) and, arms wrapped round its thick neck, he made his way away, head down, from that wild stony place.
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