En fait les mots que j'ai donnés se trouvent pour la plupart en début de textes à traduire. Voici les passages:
- "Upon the day appointed, pursuant to the Chancery Decision, the Commissioners of both Provinces, with
Remembrancers and Correspondents, attended by a Thronglet of Children out of School, Sailors, and Irishmen, all go trooping down to Cedar Street and the House in Question, to establish its north Wall officially as the southernmost Point of Philadelphia."
- "Pretty straightforward, regular Joists and
Scantlings, nothing too exotick, beyond this Cone Roof, trying to accomodate the tall one, spacing the Collar-Beams,...."
Cette phrase est dite par un homme qui parle d'une construction.
- "It is an instructive sight to see a waiter going into a hotel dining-room. As he passes thr door a sudden change comes over him.
The set of his shoulders alters; all the dirt and hurry and irritation have dropped off in an instant."
- "She was suddenly startled by the tinkling
alarum -high, sharp, and irregular- of a little bell."
- "Saturday noon. An anonymous crowd of sightseers loitered and drifted along Hollywood Boulevard west of Vine Street. They stopped to gawk at the photos in front of
second-storey night clubs and dance halls, at the windows discount dress and hat and shoe stores,..."
Voilà. Sinon, merci beaucoup pour tes réponses. Elles vont m'être d'une aide très
précieuse.