Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

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• On the beach he always wore a straw hat with a red band and a brief pair of leopard print trunks.
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• Adam, faltering long, thus answered brief.
• The U.S. president was briefed on the military coup and its implications on African stability.
• Each woman is a brief of womankind.
• A survey of their follie, a briefe of their barbarisme.
• Bear this sealed brief, / With winged haste, to the lord marshal.
• We got a news brief.
• A written answer or any other brief shall be submitted to the court while allowing a period necessary for the opponent to make preparations with regard to the matters stated therein.
• Her reign was brief but spectacular.
• Her skirt was extremely brief but doubtless cool.
• She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
• The brief style is that which expresseth much in little.
• His speech of acceptance was brief but moving.
• That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.
• It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
• How brief the life of man.