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He visto vestidos que parecen volar, pero jamás vestidos que pueden volar.
I've seen dresses that look fly, but never dresses that can fly.
Y frente a ellos, con los ojos sobre ellos, con una mirada mucho más cautelosa y mucho más inteligente que la defensiva animosidad de los consejeros de Raleas, se encontraba un hombre pálido al que Bellis nunca había visto, vestido con ropas sencillas y oscuras.
And opposite them, his eyes on them with a far more careful, a far more intelligent gaze than the defensive animosity of the Curhouse councillors, was a pale man Bellis had never seen, dressed in dark and simple clothes.
Con esos enormes instrumentos simulaba escribir, mientras un auriga inmenso, el más grande que yo había visto, vestido como un muchacho de doce años con taparrabo, sandalias y cola de caballo en el pelo, meneaba la cabeza, lleno de vergüenza, frente a Pepti.
Holding these huge instruments, he pretended to write, while an immense charioteer, the largest I had ever seen, dressed like a twelve-year-old boy in a loincloth, sandals, and a pigtail thrown in front of one shoulder, stood in front of Pepti and rolled his head in shame.
El gran jefe, a mis ojos, era verdaderamente el jefe principal en toda la acepción de la palabra, era con quien había hecho mis primeras armas en la Policía Judicial; sin protegerme, propiamente hablando, me había seguido discretamente desde lo alto, era él a quien yo había visto vestido de negro y cubierto con un sombrero hongo dirigirse completamente solo, bajo el fuego de las balas, hacia la puerta del pabellón en la que Bonnot y su banda resistían a la policía y a los gendarmes desde hacía dos días.
And that chief, in my eyes, really was the chief in every sense of the word, the one under whom I had started out in the Police Judiciaire, the one who, without exactly protecting me, had always kept a discreet eye on me, the one whom I had seen, dressed all in black, with a bowler hat on his head, walk alone, while bullets were flying, towards the door of the house in which Bonnot and his gang had been defying the police and the gendarmerie for two days.
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