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Sentence 54 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Pero poco a poco, sin embargo, las víboras comenzaron a desconfiar.

But little by little, all the same, the snakes began to grow suspicious.

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The sentences either side of it, each with its own page.

Cuando los flamencos pasaban bailando al lado de ellas, se agachaban hasta el suelo para ver bien.

When the flamingos came dancing past them, they crouched right down to the ground to see properly.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Pero perobut (conj.)
poco pocolittle, few; un poco — a little (adj./adv.)
a ato; at; on (prep.)
sin sinwithout (prep.)
embargo embargohowever (in: sin embargo) (adv.)
las elthe (def. art., f. pl.); also them (f. object pron., before a verb)
víboras víborasnake, viper (n., f.)
comenzaron comenzarto begin (v.)
desconfiar desconfiarto distrust, grow suspicious (v.)

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Cuentos de la selva, all eight tales · Horacio Quiroga

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