A-ridling!
Portuguese translation: let\'s go riding!
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| 2 | let's go riding! |
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| a-ridling! let's go riding! Explanation: Vejo que o contexto vem do Darby O'Gill and the Little People! Faz algum tempo que assisti este filme! Não encontrei subsídios na internet para explicar o sentido da frase. Mas o contexto (horn sounding, full cry) sugere que vão caçar raposos, a cavalho (fox hunting). O Rei está impaciente (Wait, your Highness..). Ele quer começar... E os irlandeses se permitem uma certa liberdade com a língua... Portanto a minha sugestão... |
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| a-ridling! fazendo enigmas Explanation: ridling => riddling A-ridling => making riddles fazendo enigmas riddling: Information from Answers.com www.answers.com › Library › Food & Cooking Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle. « Riddling triplets.» Tennyson. .. Midsummer www.witchessabbats.com/index.php?option=com_content... According to British faery lore, this night was second only to Halloween for its importance to the Wee Folk, who especially enjoyed a ridling on such a fine ... English Medieval Calender - Midsummer's Eve www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/holiday/midsumm.html 9 Jun 2004 – In Britain, Midsummer night was second only to Halloween for its importance to the Faeries, who especially enjoyed a ridling on such a ... Milton: The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/tenure/ But being slaves within doors, no wonder that they strive so much to have the ... him into the hand of thir brethren, on a suddain and in a new garbe of Allegiance, ... and with the same quotations to charge others, which in the same case they ...... and not with a ridling Covnant in thir mouths, seeming to sweare counter almost in the same breath Allegeance and no Allegeance; ... A Riddling Tale From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Riddling Tale is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales.[1] It is Aarne-Thompson type 407, the girl as a flower.[2] The tale portion of it is subordinate to the riddle, and the tale is not widely found in the oral tradition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Riddling_Tale -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 22 hrs (2011-12-31 10:37:38 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Copyright by Gregory Augustine Foran 2010 www.repositories.lib.utexas.edu/...UT.../FORAN-DISSERTATION... This ―riddling covenant,‖ complains Milton, was written to offer the king's party the ―latitude and shelter of ambiguous interpretation,‖ and by invoking .. Full text of "The history of Britain, that part especially now ... www.archive.org/stream/.../historyofbritain00miltuoft_djvu.... ... aid not with a.riddling Covenant in their mouths,seeming to swear two contrary things, almost in the same breath, allegiance and no allegiance j which, .. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 days (2012-01-04 07:06:47 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- >Não, airmailrpl. Não tem nada a ver com "riddle". Leia a explicação do Martin >Riordan. É aquilo mesmo se estiver satisfeito - então vai com isso - mas discordo -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 days (2012-01-04 20:38:38 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- >Airmailrpl, os exemplos que você ofereceu contêm tanto "riddling" quanto >"ridling", e são dois termos com significados diferentes, como você pode ver. >Nesse contexto, fica bem claro que se trata de "ridling", não "riddling". Sorry, you are in error - "ridling" is the archaic spelling of "riddling" - in the references above they mean exactly the same thing. As long as you are satisfied - for your purposes for your client - go with what you think - but you have not convinced me. |
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