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GRAY
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Traducere în limba română
gray1 adjectiv, substantiv vezi grey.
gray2 substantiv
(înv.) bursuc, viezure.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Amy, flying up—"Oh, that must be Kenilworth, that gray place among the trees!"
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
“The current's less a'ready, sir,” said the man Gray, who was sitting in the fore-sheets; “you can ease her off a bit.”
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
Day came—a gray day and no sun.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
He had chambers in Gray's Inn, now; and had told me, in his last letters, that he was not without hopes of being soon united to the dearest girl in the world.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
In the early morning, just as day was breaking, a hand was laid upon my arm, and starting up, with all my nerves in a tingle and my hand feeling for a rifle, I gave a cry of joy as in the cold gray light I saw Lord John Roxton kneeling beside me.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
After some further discourse, which I then conjectured might relate to me, the two friends took their leaves, with the same compliment of striking each other’s hoof; and the gray made me signs that I should walk before him; wherein I thought it prudent to comply, till I could find a better director.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
From Gray, that—
(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)
“If Abe Gray—” Silver broke out.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
In the cold gray dawn the sisters lit their lamp and read their chapter with an earnestness never felt before.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
But above, perched each upon its own stone, tall, gray, and withered, more like dead and dried specimens than actual living creatures, sat the horrible males, absolutely motionless save for the rolling of their red eyes or an occasional snap of their rat-trap beaks as a dragon-fly went past them.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)