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A partir de mi roca, tan difícil de trabajar, debo tallar la criatura y darle un buen acabado.
I must hew the creature out of my own intractable piece of rock and put a fine surface on it.
La parte interior de aquellas rejas no estaba reforzada con placas de hierro, de modo que trabajaron con frenesí para tallar y trocear los barrotes de roble en un asalto soberbiamente organizado, hasta que el hierro del exterior quedó al desnudo.
the inside faces had not been reinforced with iron plates. Hacking and hewing in a frenzy, they got through the oak in a superbly organized assault on the top and both sides of the portcullis until the iron outside was bared.
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Ni las municiones extra, ni el cuchillo para tallar.
Nor for extra ammo or the whittling knife, fine as it was.
Jimmy Blaine dejó de tallar madera. Era un conejo.
Jimmy Blaine finished whittling. It was a rabbit.
Había empezado a tallar con la navaja una vara de madera.
He had started to whittle his stick of wood.
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