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LEATHERN
Traducere în limba română
leathern adjectiv
1. de piele.
2. ca pielea, tare, solid, rezistent.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
For defence each man wore a coat of interlaced leathern thongs, strengthened at the shoulder, elbow, and upper arm with slips of steel.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But when the son looked at the horse, he thought it a great pity to put the leathern saddle upon it.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
They were small men, wiry, active, and well-built, with lank black hair tied up in a bunch behind their heads with a leathern thong, and leathern also were their loin-clothes.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I might easily have stifled it with my coat, which I unfortunately left behind me for haste, and came away only in my leathern jerkin.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
On these occasions Mr. Dick never travelled without a leathern writing-desk, containing a supply of stationery and the Memorial; in relation to which document he had a notion that time was beginning to press now, and that it really must be got out of hand.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
One night during my accustomed visit to the neighbouring wood where I collected my own food and brought home firing for my protectors, I found on the ground a leathern portmanteau containing several articles of dress and some books.
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Where all this difference then between the ermine cloak and the leathern tunic, if what they cover is the same?
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I can find a cure for this, thought he; now I will milk my cow and quench my thirst: so he tied her to the stump of a tree, and held his leathern cap to milk into; but not a drop was to be had.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
Around its edge were scattered a number of leathern thongs cut from iguanodon hide, and a large collapsed membrane which proved to be the dried and scraped stomach of one of the great fish lizards from the lake.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the north-east coast, and putting off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked into the sea, in my leathern jerkin, about half an hour before high water.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
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