português
caprichoso espanhol
noción 1
We all heaved at the windlass; still the obstinate anchor held fast.
2
I ordered the windlass manned, the sails loosed, and the topsails set.
3
With the aid of a windlass the roll was raised or lowered.
4
One of the three Apache guards hitched his pony to the windlass.
5
Convinced against his will, Lennon began to wind in on the windlass.
1
His choice of the Netherlands, however, was not taken on a whim.
2
Government controlled economic activity became an unemployment mop, activated on ministerial whim.
3
Money could no longer be printed at will or on a whim.
4
Ideally he did; but it was just a fleeting expression or whim.
5
The idle whim of a sardonic old man; nothing more than that.
6
The whole place proclaimed itself to be the whim of a despot.
7
To Christophe the remark was nothing but the whim of a moment.
8
This was no mere passing whim on the part of the emperor.
9
I don't like the idea of things being changed by a whim.
10
This tobacco had been a whim of mine in more prosperous times.
11
Then a whim seized her, and she sat up, grave and eager.
12
I traveled the world to follow my interests on the slightest whim.
13
He will be wealthy, and in a position to gratify any whim.
14
Lots of people have discovered their hidden gifts by following a whim.
15
It was reopened on a Tudor whim; it closes on Cromwell's command.
16
He rushed to the whim-room, but found the boy still sleeping soundly.
