Vindolanda

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bryczesy (spodnie do jazdy konnej)
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breeches
wałach, trzebienie, kastracja
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gelding
At least his gelding was behaving.
rękojeść, trzonek, strzała
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shaft
A slim shaft almost three feet in length with white feathers on the end stuck out of his chest.
galop, cwał
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canter
A summoning call from the legate forced Ferox to canter away.
zachwiać się, przechylić
make an abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled movement or series of movements; stagger.
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to lurch
There were wounds on both arms, he had lost his shield and his armour was rent and strained, but the man lurched forward.
parskać, prychać
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to snort
Vindex shorted with laughter.
Krzyżyk na droge
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Good riddance to bad rubbish
They're gone, as you say, and good riddance to the murderous bastards.
bystry, przebiegły, sprytny
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shrewd
He hoped Neratius Marcellus was as shrewd as he seemed.
odosobniony, unstornny
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secluded
One stretch went along the bottom of a little valley and was even more secluded.
podpałka
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kindling
The beacon was prepared, but someone had taken the flints and kindiling.
robaczywy, brudny, niechlujny
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grubby
He was naked apart from a heavy gold torc and a grubby loincloth of the sort worn by slaves labouring to tend the furnaces in a bath-house.
kopiec, nasyp
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mound
They just trussed him up and buried him on a mound beside a stream.
subtelność
Bob jest taki prostacki! Nie ma za grosz subtelności.
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subtlety
Bob is so crude! He has no subtlety at all.
gość, facet (pot in br.)
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bloke
Little bloke, wasn't he?
ociagać się, przedłużać pobyt
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to tarry
Even when they came in sight of the fighting, they had tarried, and their influence made many other warriors cautious.

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