BOW STREET

Traducere în limba română

Bow Street substantiv

stradă la Londra în care este situat sediul comisariatului de poliţie;

Bow Street officer / runner poliţist.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

During all this time Harrison lived half demented, expecting every hour to feel the hand of a Bow Street runner upon his collar, and to be tried for his life.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was taken to Bow Street, as well as I remember, on the completion of his fifteenth journey; when four-and-sixpence, and a second-hand fife which he couldn't play, were found upon his person.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“He doesn’t look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?”

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

All the time he was jerking out these phrases he was stumping up and down the tavern on his crutch, slapping tables with his hand, and giving such a show of excitement as would have convinced an Old Bailey judge or a Bow Street runner.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the right and found ourselves in Bow Street.

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

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