OLD BIRD

Traducere în limba română

old bird substantiv, vezi old hand.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

He seemed an uppish old bird.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Hold your tongue, you disrespectful old bird!" cried Polly, tumbling off the chair with a bounce, and running to peck the 'rattlepated' boy, who was shaking with laughter at the last speech.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

With his long beak-like nose and his single gleaming eye, which shone brightly from under a thick tuft of grizzled brow, he seemed to Alleyne to have something of the look of some fierce old bird of prey.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

A large face, seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey.

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

Hold your tongue, you disrespectful old bird!

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

He pulled her hair whenever she came near him, upset his bread and milk to plague her when she had newly cleaned his cage, made Mop bark by pecking at him while Madam dozed, called her names before company, and behaved in all respects like an reprehensible old bird.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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