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PRAYER
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Traducere în limba română
prayer1 substantiv
1. rugăciune, rugă.
2. rugăminte, implorare.
prayer2 substantiv
1. persoană care se roagă, rugător.
2. petiţionar, solicitator; jălbaş.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
The prayer over, we took leave of him: he was to go at a very early hour in the morning.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
Bless me in your prayers; and, Mina, pray for my happiness.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
For myself, at least, I must confess being not always so attentive as I ought to be (here was a glance at Fanny); that nineteen times out of twenty I am thinking how such a prayer ought to be read, and longing to have it to read myself.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
When her heart got heavy with longings for Mother or fears for Father, she went away into a certain closet, hid her face in the folds of a dear old gown, and made her little moan and prayed her little prayer quietly by herself.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
It was hours afore she knowed me right; and when she did, she kneeled down at my feet, and kiender said to me, as if it was her prayers, how it all come to be.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
Three years he were the man of this island, light and dark, fair and rain; and sometimes he would maybe think upon a prayer (says you), and sometimes he would maybe think of his old mother, so be as she's alive (you'll say); but the most part of Gunn's time (this is what you'll say)—the most part of his time was took up with another matter.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
Then when we begin our prayer for the dead—I shall read him, I have here the book, and the others shall follow—strike in God's name, that so all may be well with the dead that we love and that the Un-Dead pass away.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
It must do the heads of the family a great deal of good to force all the poor housemaids and footmen to leave business and pleasure, and say their prayers here twice a day, while they are inventing excuses themselves for staying away.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
Again the bell rang: all formed in file, two and two, and in that order descended the stairs and entered the cold and dimly lit schoolroom: here prayers were read by Miss Miller; afterwards she called out—Form classes!
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
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