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BIG JOHN

Traducere în limba română

big John substantiv

(amer. mil. sl.) recrut.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He is big John, of Hordle, a forest man, who hath now taken service in the Company.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Do not thwart her, comrade,” said big John.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“My God, but it is a noble fight!” shouted big John, clapping his hands.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Nay, we have one here who is second to none,” said Hawtayne, laying his hand upon big John's shoulder.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Afeard, thou lurden!” growled big John.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Well said, lad!” cried big John.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I can make some show at it,” said big John; “though I was scarce long enough among the monks to catch the whole trick of it.”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“But they must be sorry folk to bow down to the rich in such a fashion,” said big John.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not so, friend, quoth big John; it is not weakness of heart for I know the lad well.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aylward, who stood in the front row of the archers with Simon, big John, and others of the Company, had been criticising the proceedings from the commencement with the ease and freedom of a man who had spent his life under arms and had learned in a hard school to know at a glance the points of a horse and his rider.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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