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cuando inspiraba, el de una sierra circular que da contra un grueso nudo de pino.
when he inhaled they sounded like a round saw cutting through a fat pine knot.
Cogí un gran nudo de pino y lo eché al fuego bajo una cuba.
I reached over and picked up a large pine knot and put it in the fire under a vat.
Doug Clayton oyó un chasquido sonoro y nítido, como cuando un nudo de pino estalla en el fuego intenso de una hoguera.
Doug Clayton heard a large bright SNAP, like a pine knot exploding in a hot fire.
Una seca detonación, semejante a un nudo de pino que estallara en la chimenea, o a una rama helada que se quebrara en dos pedazos, pero grandemente magnificada, llegó a sus oídos. ¡Era la detonación de un arma de fuego! —¡Viene de la casa! —aulló Ellery—.
A sharp report, like a pine-knot snapping in a fire or an ice-stiffened twig breaking in two, but greatly magnified, had come to his ears. Then the echo came to them, softer but unmistakable. It was the report of a gun. “From the house!” yelled Ellery.
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