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DUTCH CLOCK

Traducere în limba română

Dutch clock substantiv (sl.)

1. nevastă, babă.

2. plasă de pat.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Miss Betsey, looking round the room, slowly and inquiringly, began on the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen's Head in a Dutch clock, until they reached my mother.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

After looking at Mrs. Gummidge for some moments, in sore distress of mind, he glanced at the Dutch clock, rose, snuffed the candle, and put it in the window.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Not a word was spoken when we first went in; and the Dutch clock by the dresser seemed, in the silence, to tick twice as loud as usual.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I discovered this, by his being out on the second or third evening of our visit, and by Mrs. Gummidge's looking up at the Dutch clock, between eight and nine, and saying he was there, and that, what was more, she had known in the morning he would go there.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

There was a table, and a Dutch clock, and a chest of drawers, and on the chest of drawers there was a tea-tray with a painting on it of a lady with a parasol, taking a walk with a military-looking child who was trundling a hoop.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She's at school, sir, said Mr. Peggotty, wiping the heat consequent on the porterage of Peggotty's box from his forehead; she'll be home, looking at the Dutch clock, in from twenty minutes to half-an-hour's time.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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