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PROPPED
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propped adjectiv
proptit, sprijinit, rezemat.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
He propped the book before him, and propped his eyelids with his fingers, and fell asleep with his eyes wide open.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
I plucked up courage at once, crossed the threshold, and walked right up to the man where he stood, propped on his crutch, talking to a customer.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
Holmes propped it against the cruet-stand and read it while he ate.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Henry propped himself up on an elbow and looked to see his comrade standing among the dogs beside the replenished fire, his arms raised in objurgation, his face distorted with passion.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
"If I can manage the young one, I can the old one," muttered Jo, as she walked away, leaving Laurie bent over a railroad map with his head propped up on both hands.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
Jonathan woke a little after the hour, and all was ready, and he sat up in bed, propped up with pillows.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
He propped Jim off with his long arm, and though the lad sprang lightly round him looking for an opening, he was held off as if a forty-inch bar of iron were between them.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I propped my eyelids open with my two forefingers, and looked perseveringly at her as she sat at work; at the little bit of wax-candle she kept for her thread—how old it looked, being so wrinkled in all directions!—at the little house with a thatched roof, where the yard-measure lived; at her work-box with a sliding lid, with a view of St. Paul's Cathedral (with a pink dome) painted on the top; at the brass thimble on her finger; at herself, whom I thought lovely.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
He hobbled to the torch, where it stood propped among the firewood, and took a fresh light to his pipe.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)