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CHESHIRE

Traducere în limba română

Cheshire cat substantiv

1. pisică din comitatul Cheshire.

2. (fig.) om hlizit / zâmbăreţ / rânjit;

to grin like a Cheshire cat a râde / zimbi prosteşte / stupid / idiot.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Lord Audley of Cheshire, the hero of Poictiers, and Loring of Hampshire, who was held to be the second lance in the army, were easily fixed upon.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am told that he had the best of it in a by-battle with Noah James, of Cheshire.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in the usual terms; how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale, serving the office of high sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and motto:—Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset, and Sir Walter's handwriting again in this finale:—Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the second Sir Walter.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

There are Norburys in Cheshire and in Wiltshire, and also, as I have heard, upon the borders.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Behind them marched six hundred Cheshire and Lancashire archers, bearing the badge of the Audleys, followed by the famous Lord Audley himself, with the four valiant squires, Dutton of Dutton, Delves of Doddington, Fowlehurst of Crewe, and Hawkestone of Wainehill, who had all won such glory at Poictiers.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then out rides our own little hothead with the patch over his eye, and my Lord Audley with his four Cheshire squires, and a few others of like kidney, and after them went the prince and Chandos, and then the whole throng of us, with axe and sword, for we had shot away our arrows.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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