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Dijo: eres una mujer sana, son solo cinco verstas.
He said: you're a healthy woman, it's only five verstes.
He viajado siete mil verstas para reunirme con mi esposo.
I have covered 7,000 versts to see my husband.
Por ley, su lugar de destierro debía estar situado a diez verstas de una ciudad, a diez verstas de un río y a diez verstas de una carretera principal.
It was laid down that their fixed location should be ten versts from a town, ten versts from a river and ten versts from a high-road.
Versta tras versta tras versta de Rembrandts, impresionistas franceses, Tizianos, un Prado completo de pintores españoles; un botín para los obreros asombrados y mal vestidos y para sus mujeres.
Verst after verst after verst of Rembrandts, French Impressionists, Titians, a whole Prado of Spaniards—loot for the shabby dazed workers and their women.
Si solo son noventa verstas, “y desde allí podemos viajar tan ricamente, en tercera clase”, como mil verstas más. Y eso es lo razonable: hay que vivir con lo que uno tiene;
It is simplest ninety versts and then they can ‘travel very readily, 1/3 magnificence,’ for a thousand versts!
Les quedaban siete verstas de camino hasta Jurki;
It was still seven versts to Yurki, where they had to go on foot.
A su derecha se extendían muchas verstas de pantano con uno que otro sauce plateado.
To the right the swamp, with a few isolated, silvery willows, stretched away for many versts.
Apenas dos verstas le separaban aún de la casa paterna.
Hardly two versts separated him now from his father’s house.
El cochero nos llevaba al modo siberiano, haciendo como mucho veinte verstas en una hora.
The driver sped on in the Siberian fashion, making as much as twenty versts an hour.
Vio pasar el pueblo de su juventud a unos verstas de allí, al otro lado de los prados.
He saw the village of his youth going by now, some versts beyond the meadow.
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