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ROUND ABOUT
Traducere în limba română
round about adverb
împrejur, primprejur.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Then Hans hastened home and brought a fowler’s net with little bells and hung it round about her, and she still went on sleeping.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
And therefore, when he was again about to move, I screamed as loud as fear could make me: whereupon the huge creature trod short, and, looking round about under him for some time, at last espied me as I lay on the ground.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
And round about the wheel went merrily; the work was quickly done, and the straw was all spun into gold.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
Whoever performs his part with most agility, and holds out the longest in leaping and creeping, is rewarded with the blue-coloured silk; the red is given to the next, and the green to the third, which they all wear girt twice round about the middle; and you see few great persons about this court who are not adorned with one of these girdles.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
The horsemen would not believe him, and rode into the forest; there they found the giants swimming in their blood, and all round about lay the torn-up trees.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
At length, when it was quite dark, Clever Elsie awoke and when she got up there was a jingling all round about her, and the bells rang at each step which she took.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
The little black dwarf soon came, and walked round and round about the circle, but could not find any way to get into it, and he either could not, or dared not, jump over it.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
When the seven kids saw that, they came running to the spot and cried aloud: “The wolf is dead! The wolf is dead!” and danced for joy round about the well with their mother.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
The third day one of the messengers came back, and said, “I have travelled two days without hearing of any other names; but yesterday, as I was climbing a high hill, among the trees of the forest where the fox and the hare bid each other good night, I saw a little hut; and before the hut burnt a fire; and round about the fire a funny little dwarf was dancing upon one leg, and singing.”
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
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