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TALES

Traducere în limba română

tales substantiv (lat. jur.)

1. lista juraţilor supleanţi (convocaţi pentru a înlocui orice eventuală lipsă în juriu).

2. juraţi supleanţi.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He has been attempting to curry favour and reinstate himself in the good graces of the captain by carrying tales of the men forward.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Luckily there is no distinction of dress nowadays to tell tales, but—but—but Yours affectionately.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I never thought it would go where it could tell tales, said Jo, tearing up the verses the Professor had treasured so long.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

There is a trap-door at the back of that building, near the corner of Paul’s Wharf, which could tell some strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless nights.

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

But they were best (and universally) known for the collection of over two hundred folk tales they made from oral sources and published in two volumes of Nursery and Household Tales in 1812 and 1814.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

He and Sir Nigel sat late in high converse as to bushments, outfalls, and the intaking of cities, with many tales of warlike men and valiant deeds.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

He compared the tale, as yet unwritten, with the tales of the sea-writers, and he felt it to be immeasurably superior.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

As to the tall, curly-haired man, I suppose it was the one who was with me at the last Pop. Some one has evidently been telling tales.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Heavy-game shots liked to be in a position to cap the tales of their rivals, and journalists were not averse from sensational coups, even when imagination had to aid fact in the process.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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