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Ella estaba seleccionando habas y guisantes de unos sacos, midiéndolos con un cazo.
She was scooping out beans and peas from sacks and measuring them into a soup kettle.
Midiéndolas unas tras otras en su longitud y en su anchura, encontraron las señales de los pies de cinco hombres.
By measuring them one after the other, according to their length and breadth, the marks of five men's feet were easily distinguished.
Sostuvo en alto dos calcetines, dejó uno y alzó otro, midiéndolo con el de la mano contraria, puntera con puntera.
She held up two socks, discarded one and held up another, measuring them against each other, toe to toe.
El reverendo Dudley Wiggin estaba atareado con las velas navideñas, midiéndolas para calcular cuáles estaban todavía lo bastante largas para ser usadas el año siguiente.
Dudley Wiggin was occupying himself with the Christmas candles, measuring them to ascertain which were still long enough to be used again next year. The Rev.
En efecto, parecía un ave de presa, agazapado en lo alto de la escalera de tijeras, observandolos, midiéndolos, retocándolos con trazos largos, enérgicos, y esos ojillos feroces, vivísimos, que saltaban de la cartulina a la cama, de la cama a la cartulina, sin prestar atención a nada más, indiferentes a las luces de Lima desparramadas al pie de la ventana y a su propia verga, que se había abierto camino fuera del pantalón haciendo saltar los botones y se estiraba y crecía como un globo que llenan de aire.
He looked, in fact, like a bird of prey crouched at the top of the ladder, observing them, measuring them, putting on the finishing touches with long, energetic strokes, those fierce, sharp eyes darting back and forth from the pad to the bed, the bed to the pad, not paying attention to anything else, indifferent to the lights of Lima spread out beneath the window, and to his own virile member that had forced its way out of his trousers, popping the buttons, and stretched and grew like a balloon filling with air.
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