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SPARROW
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sparrow substantiv
(ornit.) vrabie (Fringilla domeatica);
she gave a short start like a frightened sparrow a tresărit ca o pasăre speriată.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
When that was eaten, the sparrow asked him whether he had had enough now.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
When the dog had eaten this too, the sparrow said to him, Well, my good friend, have you had enough now?
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
Come with me then, said the sparrow, and you shall soon have that too.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
The sparrow now hopped in, perched upon the window-seat, and cried, “Carter! it shall cost thee thy life!”
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
He went and listened, and then noticed that it was the sparrows who were chattering together, and telling one another of all kinds of things which they had seen in the fields and woods.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
Then he became mad and blind with rage, and struck the window-seat with such force that he cleft it in two: and as the sparrow flew from place to place, the carter and his wife were so furious, that they broke all their furniture, glasses, chairs, benches, the table, and at last the walls, without touching the bird at all.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
So on they went together into the town: and as they passed by a butcher’s shop, the sparrow said to the dog, “Stand there a little while till I peck you down a piece of meat.”
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
So the sparrow perched upon the shelf: and having first looked carefully about her to see if anyone was watching her, she pecked and scratched at a steak that lay upon the edge of the shelf, till at last down it fell.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)