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BERTHA

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Bertha substantiv

1. Berta (nume feminin); (sl. mil.)

Big Bertha “Dicke Bertha” (mortier german de mare calibru – 421 mm – utilizat în primul război mondial).

2. bertha bertă, guler de damă (de obicei de dantelă).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Bertha Mason, the true daughter of an infamous mother, dragged me through all the hideous and degrading agonies which must attend a man bound to a wife at once intemperate and unchaste.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I witnessed, and several more witnessed, Mr. Rochester ascend through the sky-light on to the roof; we heard him call 'Bertha!'

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

"Oh, I know! you won't kiss the husband of Bertha Mason? You consider my arms filled and my embraces appropriated?"

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Bertha, like a dutiful child, copied her parent in both points.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations!

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I now inform you that she is my wife, whom I married fifteen years ago,—Bertha Mason by name; sister of this resolute personage, who is now, with his quivering limbs and white cheeks, showing you what a stout heart men may bear.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Briggs calmly took a paper from his pocket, and read out in a sort of official, nasal voice:—'I affirm and can prove that on the 20th of October A.D. — (a date of fifteen years back), Edward Fairfax Rochester, of Thornfield Hall, in the county of —, and of Ferndean Manor, in —shire, England, was married to my sister, Bertha Antoinetta Mason, daughter of Jonas Mason, merchant, and of Antoinetta his wife, a Creole, at — church, Spanish Town, Jamaica. The record of the marriage will be found in the register of that church—a copy of it is now in my possession. Signed, Richard Mason.'

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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