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Перевод: wren
[существительное] крапивник ; военнослужащая женской вспомогательной службы ВМС
Тезаурус:
- "I want to be a Wren," Lucinda whispered when they were alone again.
- Fabric in "Harriet" and "Victoria" from the Jenny Wren Collection by Dorma
- The yearning for explosions of fresh leafage in the top-most boughs is heightened by a notion that lack of foliage may well be delaying the return of more homecoming birds: warblers, wheatear, chiff-chaff, willow wren, swifts and flycatchers.
- He passed the walls of monasteries that once echoed to the chants of the Greyfriars, the Whitefriars and the Blackfriars, past guildhalls where merchants had convened to discuss the business of the world when Henry VIII was executing his wives down the road at the Tower, past delicate little churches designed by Wren in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666.
- This year a robin has nested in the closely interlacing branches; last summer there was a wren.
- He was showing his wife, a Wren in the war, around London landmarks, and they had reached the Cenotaph, where the flagstaffs were being touched up with gold paint for Armistice Day.
- Lower Thames Street, east London; originally built in the thirteenth century, destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren with a square tower crowned by a cupola and a short spire.
- Hawksmoor had been working for Wren since he was 18 and Castle Howard was very probably modelled on Wren's proposed plan for Hampton Court (which never got beyond the drawing board).
- On the list of its early members are such notable names as Robert Boyle, popularly remembered now for his work on the expansion of gases, Christopher Wren, the architect of St Paul's Cathedral, John Evelyn, the diarist, John Locke (who will be the subject of the next chapter of this book), Robert Hooke, remembered now for his work on elasticity, and, perhaps the most famous of all, Isaac Newton.
- near Holborn Viaduct, on the edge of the City of London, the church by Sir Christopher Wren of 1686 is on the site of an earlier church dating from c .1297, DC 25; OT 21.
- In the old days, they would have a real wren with them, alive or dead, but now I suppose you have to pretend a wren is there.
- Both the P-E Inbucon annual survey of executive salaries, and the much smaller Jonathan Wren city salary survey, confirm that salary increases have been bigger at the top end of business and the City than at the bottom.
- Fitch Benoy Design Team : Charles Dunnett, Phil Wren, Syed Arffin, Martyn Clarke, David Cresswell, Jenny Lowe, Sean McLaughlin Structural Engineer : Dewhurst MacFarlane Mechanical Engineer : Mott Laverack Quantity Surveyor : Banks Wood and Partners Lighting : Isometrix Main Contractor : Sir Robert McAlpine Mechanical and Electrical Subcontractor : Lorne Stewart Joinery Subcontractor : Hillsons Contracting Metalwork Subcontractor : Aynsleys Metalwork
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