CLAY

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Traducere în limba română

clay I. substantiv

1. argilă, lut, humă.

2. pământ.

3. nămol, noroi.

4. (fig.) corp, trup omenesc, carne, lut.

5. (poetic) cenuşă, pulbere, praf, ţărână.

6. pipă de lut.

◊ (glumeţ) to moisten one’s clay a-şi uda gâtlejul.

clay II. verb tranzitiv

a lipi cu lut, a acoperi cu argilă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I’ve had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I agree with you that he is at the head of his profession.

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

The clay of him was so moulded.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

The last office of the four carriage-horses was to draw Sir Walter, Miss Elliot, and Mrs Clay to Bath.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Well, now, in the whole world I've only had to do with one place that was a volcanic vent of blue clay.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"As white as clay or death," was responded.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

When we had finished our supper, my father led me into the great coffee-room, where a hundred or more officers may have been assembled, drinking their wine and smoking their long clay pipes, until the air was as thick as the main-deck in a close-fought action.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His feet were no longer clay, and his flesh became spirit; before his eyes and behind his eyes shone a great glory; and then the scene before him vanished and he was away, rocking over the world that was to him a very dear world.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I also observe that she does not fret much nor look in the glass, and has not even mentioned a very pretty ring which she wears, so I conclude that she has learned to think of other people more and of herself less, and has decided to try and mold her character as carefully as she molds her little clay figures.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

He’s a remarkable man, is young John Clay.

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

His daughter and Mrs Clay united in hinting that Colonel Wallis's companion might have as good a figure as Colonel Wallis, and certainly was not sandy-haired.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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