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Перевод: papery
[прилагательное] похожий на бумагу; тонкий
Тезаурус:
- She often appends two to a single noun ( long pink clouds ; wet, leathery hydrangea leaves ; stiff papery blades ) to flesh out, give further fullness to the feeling she wants to call forth in the reader.
- Dot guessed by the papery men lurking inside the walls that she must be ill.
- The hair came off like Herman's wig, and the papery flesh flaked away from the exploded skull.
- He found his hands full of dry, papery skin which, as he worked his way closer to her windpipe, came up and away like a curtain of strudel dough.
- She pressed it with her tongue, as she had pressed hundreds, thousands now, over twenty years' worth of these papery discs stamped with crosses, made by nuns.
- Perhaps she'd just imagined it, like she'd imagined the pallid papery men buried in the walls.
- Small and birdlike with papery skin on her bird's claws, her scarred anxious face, pink-rimmed eyes blinking rapidly with emotion, she was unimpressive.
- I can evoke the wind at will and make it rustle the stiff papery blades of the bamboos and sing, through the comb-like leaves of the yew, as a worthy accompaniment to the voice that on that day and on all other days, even to the final silence, spoke words that had always the same meaning.
- Thickets of fawn papery stems, tender green as they unfurl in the spring, have a specialized ecology all of their own.
- We watched the emergence of one moth; it crept out from its pale yellow papery cocoon, and clung to the stem of grass to which the cocoon had been fixed with silken threads.
- Now he bent and kissed her cheek; it was a thin papery kiss, but she understood that; understood when - rarely - she simply had to put her arms around him out of an exuberance of love, the instinctive shrinking, as though she held a wraith, something cold and wailing, a lost child.
- The slower growing plants were unaffected although the faster growing species went very papery and spindly - and haven't recovered fully after several weeks.
- A broad, flat dish of papery petals just pleading for a visit from passing insects.
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