COLLINS

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Traducere în limba română

collins substantiv

1. (amer.) cocteil (amestec de băuturi cu sifon).

2. scrisoare servilă de mulţumire pentru găzduire.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Lydia was bid by her two eldest sisters to hold her tongue; but Mr. Collins, much offended, laid aside his book, and said: I have often observed how little young ladies are interested by books of a serious stamp, though written solely for their benefit.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

She could think of nothing but of Mr. Wickham, and of what he had told her, all the way home; but there was not time for her even to mention his name as they went, for neither Lydia nor Mr. Collins were once silent.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room of the house, he was used to be free from them there; his civility, therefore, was most prompt in inviting Mr. Collins to join his daughters in their walk; and Mr. Collins, being in fact much better fitted for a walker than a reader, was extremely pleased to close his large book, and go.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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