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Sentence 75 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Pasaron días y días, y siempre sentían terrible ardor en las patas, y las tenían siempre de color de sangre, porque estaban envenenadas.

Days and days went by, and they still felt a terrible burning in their legs, and their legs were always the colour of blood, because they were poisoned.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Pasaron pasarto pass, happen, spend (time) (v.)
días díaday (n., m.)
y yand (conj.)
siempre siemprealways (adv.)
sentían sentirto feel; to hear (v.)
terrible terribleterrible (adj.)
ardor ardorburning, smarting (n., m.)
en enin, on, at (prep.)
las elthe (masculine)
patas patapaw, leg of an animal (n., f.)
tenían tenerto have; tener que — to have to (v.)
de deof, from (prep.)
color colorcolour (n., m.)
sangre sangreblood (n., f.)
porque porquebecause (conj.)
estaban estarto be — where a thing is, or how it is right now, against ser, what it is (v.)
envenenadas envenenarto poison (v.)

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