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FAR-AWAY

Traducere în limba română

far-away I. adjectiv

1. îndepărtat.

2. absent; distrat;

far-away look privire distantă;

far-away voice voce stinsă.

far-away II. substantiv

(fot.) fotografie / imagine / vedere luată de departe / de la distanţă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

His eyes, which were of a peculiarly light, watery grey, seemed to always retain that far-away, introspective look which I had only observed in Sherlock’s when he was exerting his full powers.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the kitchen he found Jim, the other boarder, eating mush very languidly, with a sick, far-away look in his eyes.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

“Bertrand, Bertrand!” cried the lady in the same muttering far-away voice, “the blessed hour passes. Use it, Bertrand, while you may.”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I understand,” she said, in a weak, far-away voice, and her eyes showed me that she did understand.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

There was a far-away look in her eyes, and her voice had a sad dreaminess which was new to me.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I know it, for now and then I hear a far-away muffled sound as of mattock and spade, and, whatever it is, it must be the end of some ruthless villainy.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

For a moment or two he looked very sad, and said in a sort of far-away voice, as though saying it rather to himself than to me:—"All over! all over! He has deserted me. No hope for me now unless I do it for myself!"

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Never did tombs look so ghastly white; never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funereal gloom; never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously; never did bough creak so mysteriously; and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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