Примеры использования: spinster
- все
- старая дева
- дева
- прочие переводы
The repressed spinster!
a New England spinster.
старая дева из Новой Англии.
Had he drunk a dozen bottles of claret, the old spinster could have pardoned him.
There's a kind of hideous respectability about Miss Milray that even a British spinster must recognise.
В мисс Милрей столько респектабельности, что даже британские старые девы не могут этого не учитывать.
We tease it out, like a spinster at her wheel.
The scarred veteran was afraid of that old spinster.
When the spinster took her drive, the faithful Mrs. Bute sate beside her in the carriage.
She was smart and tough, very opinionated and quite the spinster.
The old spinster used to wake up when these ditties ceased, and ask for more.
"You underrate the imagination of the British spinster."
The male spinster is typically a good host.
Старая дева мужского пола, как правило, является хорошим хозяином.
"Let us see, father," said the old spinster.
"She's married to whom?" cries the spinster in a nervous fury.
What to give this carefully selected spinster?
This dried-up old spinster will have to do.
The spinster caused Briggs to write back to the Colonel a gracious and complimentary letter, encouraging him to continue his correspondence.
Старая дева велела Бригс ответить полковнику любезным письмом, поздравить его и поощрить к продолжению корреспонденции.