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HEELED
Traducere în limba română
heeled adjectiv
cu călcâie;
(amer. sl.) well heeled a) bine armat; b) bine căptuşit (cu bani), gros la pungă.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
When all was ready, the word “hard-a-lee” was passed forward to me from man to man; and the Ghost heeled about on the port tack with practically no noise at all.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
I was heeled also, and I held up my gun to scare him off and let me get away.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Poor dear, just wait till I make my fortune, and you shall revel in carriages and ice cream and high-heeled slippers, and posies, and red-headed boys to dance with.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
A heavy surf thundered and burst over an outjutting rock; lowering storm-clouds covered the sky; and, outside the line of surf, a pilot-schooner, close-hauled, heeled over till every detail of her deck was visible, was surging along against a stormy sunset sky.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
The breeze blew, the sail bellied, over heeled the portly vessel, and away she plunged through the smooth blue rollers, amid the clang of the minstrels on her poop and the shouting of the black crowd who fringed the yellow beach.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As she filled away and heeled, the arm-chair began to slide across the cabin floor, and I sprang for it just in time to prevent the rescued woman from being spilled out.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
She was obliged to walk carefully, for she had on high-heeled shoes, and, as Laurie told Jo afterward, it was a comical sight to see her mince along in her gay suit, with Polly sidling and bridling just behind her, imitating her as well as he could, and occasionally stopping to laugh or exclaim, Ain't we fine?
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
The Ghost seemed to start into life as she heeled to the first fill of her sails.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
Meg's high-heeled slippers were very tight and hurt her, though she would not own it, and Jo's nineteen hairpins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable, but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
The wind smote the schooner with a sudden gust, and she heeled over till her lee rail was buried, the roar in her rigging rising in pitch to a shriek.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
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