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LONG-DRAWN
Traducere în limba română
long-drawn adjectiv
prelung(it), care se prelungeşte, de durată; tărăgănat.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Then, amid a long-drawn breath from the spectators, the glove fell from the marshal's hand, and the two steel-clad horsemen met like a thunderclap in front of the royal stand.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“What can my life be now save a long-drawn living death?”
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Looking back we saw only the dense screen of trees, but that long-drawn yell told us how many of our enemies lurked among them.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Far away out in the marsh there arose, all of a sudden, a sound like the cry of anger, then another on the back of it; and then one horrid, long-drawn scream.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence.
(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)
Both men were a little winded, and their quick, high breathing, with the light patter of their feet as they danced round each other, blended into one continuous, long-drawn sound.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The storm had died down now to a gentle breeze, which wafted to his ears the long-drawn stirring bugle-calls which sounded from the ancient ramparts.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At night we could hear from amid the trees the long-drawn cry, as some primitive Ezekiel mourned for fallen greatness and recalled the departed glories of Ape Town.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From the forest came the call (or one note of it, for the call was many noted), distinct and definite as never before,—a long-drawn howl, like, yet unlike, any noise made by husky dog.
(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)
Their determined rush carried the prize-fighters before them, the inner ropes snapped like threads, and in an instant the ring was a swirling,’ seething mass of figures, whips and sticks falling and clattering, whilst, face to face, in the middle of it all, so wedged that they could neither advance nor retreat, the smith and the west-countryman continued their long-drawn battle as oblivious of the chaos raging round them as two bulldogs would have been who had got each other by the throat.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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