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REINS

Traducere în limba română

reins substantiv pl. (înv.)

1. (anat.) rinichi.

2. mijloc, şale;

my reins ache me mă dor şalele, mă doare mijlocul.

3. (bibl.) rărunchi; suflet.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

As he grew silent, Bernard Higginbotham got the reins and did the talking.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

In his left hand the squire held not only the reins of his own horse but those of a great black war-horse, fully harnessed, which trotted along at his side.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes threw the reins into my lap and sprang down from the cart.

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

As I stood, the driver jumped again into his seat and shook the reins; the horses started forward, and trap and all disappeared down one of the dark openings.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“Keep a finger for each, or you will have your reins clubbed,” said he.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The reins were broken, but they had been dragging on the ground.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She used to practice mounting, holding the reins, and sitting straight on an old saddle in a tree.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.' The forehead declares, 'Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

But by coolly giving the reins a better direction herself they happily passed the danger; and by once afterwards judiciously putting out her hand they neither fell into a rut, nor ran foul of a dung-cart; and Anne, with some amusement at their style of driving, which she imagined no bad representation of the general guidance of their affairs, found herself safely deposited by them at the Cottage.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Catherine, delighted at so happy an escape, spoke her pleasure aloud with grateful surprise; and her companion immediately made the matter perfectly simple by assuring her that it was entirely owing to the peculiarly judicious manner in which he had then held the reins, and the singular discernment and dexterity with which he had directed his whip.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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