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Перевод: pincushion
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Тезаурус:
- He let in the estate agent and took him over the house, into the drawing room and the dining room, upstairs to the Pincushion Room, the Centaur Room, the Room of Astonishment, the Deathbed Room, the Room Without a Name, and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store, most of it a nineteenth century addition.
- She ate so many she looked like a prickly pincushion.
- From the window of the Pincushion Room he watched the man pottering about the edge of the lake.
- They slept it off, not getting up till around eleven next morning, Rufus in the principal guest room, Adam at the other end of the house in what he christened the Pincushion Room because it had a picture on the wall of St Sebastian stuck full of arrows.
- "So now what are you going to do about it, you overgrown pincushion?"
- They fetched a lightly padded patchwork quilt from the Centaur Room, a pink candlewick from the Room Without a Name, two of white cotton from the Room of Astonishment and a counterpane of heavy yellow satin they found in a cupboard in the Pincushion Room.
- And when he came into the Pincushion Room and rested his elbows on the window-ledge, he would look out of the window at the garden bright with midsummer sun or bathed in moonlight and think, all this is mine, that garden, that fruit cage within the flint walls, that lake, the Little Wood, as far as I can see on either side of me and in front of the house and behind, all that is mine
- The small fish fry of damsels and cardinalfish are often found sheltering within the diadema's pincushion spines, safe from their predators.
- Pincushion.
- On the wall was a gaudy oil painting of a bull pouring blood with pics sticking out of it like a pincushion.
- The deformation of such a stack in the direction of the lamellar normals is of barrel and pincushion type with maximum, hydrostatic, stress at the centre of each layer - positive in the barrel part and negative in the pincushion.
- At once he was feathered with arrows like a pincushion.
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