Émile Zola, Germinal
"All round there was a rising tide of beer, widow Désir's barrels had all been broached, beer had rounded all paunches and was overflowing in all directions, from noses, eyes - and elsewhere. People were so blown out and higgledy-piggledy, that everybody's elbows or knees were sticking into his neighbour and everybody thought it great fun to feel his neighbour's elbows. All mouths were grinning from ear to ear in continuous laughter."
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"All round there was a rising tide of beer, widow Désir's barrels had all been broached, beer had rounded all paunches and was overflowing in all directions, from noses, eyes - and elsewhere. People were so blown out and higgledy-piggledy, that everybody's elbows or knees were sticking into his neighbour and everybody thought it great fun to feel his neighbour's elbows. All mouths were grinning from ear to ear in continuous laughter."
"كان مدٌّ متصاعد من الجعة يحيط بالجميع، وقد فُضَّت جميع براميل الأرملة ديزير. وقد نفخت الجعة كل الكروش، وصارت تفيض في كل اتجاه، من الأنوف والعيون - ومن مواضع أخرى. كان الناس منتفخين ومبعثرين في فوضى عارمة، حتى أن أكواعهم وركبهم كانت تتغلغل في من يجاورهم، ووجد الجميع متعة عظيمة في الإحساس بأكواع جيرانهم. وقد شُقَّت كل الأفواه من الأذن للأذن بضحكات متواصلة."
Émile Zola, Germinal
"It was at times like this that one of those waves of bestiality ran through the mine, the sudden lust of the male that came over a miner when he met one of these girls on all fours, with her rear in the air and her buttocks busting out of her breeches."
"في أوقات كهذه، كانت إحدى تلك الموجات من البهيمية تجتاح المنجم، شهوة الذكر المفاجئة التي تعتري عامل المنجم حين يصادف إحدى هؤلاء الفتيات جاثية على أربع، مؤخرتها في الهواء، وأردافها تكاد تنفجر من سراويلها."
Émile Zola, Germinal
"Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward for the harvests of future ages. And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder."
"كان الرجال ينبثقون، جيش أسود منتقم ينمو ببطء في الأثلام، يدفع صاعدًا نحو حصاد العصور القادمة. وقريبًا جدًا، سيفلق إنباتهم الأرض شقًا."
Émile Zola, Germinal
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