42 Verbs to Use for the Word real
A bundle of a hundred selected stalks, a couple of feet long, costs about six reals.
I talked to him about the patients I had seen, and paid into his hands eight reales of the twelve I had received for my prescriptions.
The man earns daily one real, and the woman, if she weaves coarse stuff, one-fourth real, and her food (thus a piece of guinára, occupying the labor of two days, costs half a real in weavers' wages).
We substitute a real for a dramatic person, and judge him accordingly.
It was a real knocknot something she heard in the dream, but she was so held by the dream that she could not tell the real from the unreal.
You perhaps may laugh at me for a most Romantick Wretch, when I have disclosed to you the Occasion of my Uneasiness; and yet I cannot help thinking my Unhappiness real, in being confined to a Region, which is the very Reverse of Paradise.
While the natives manufactured oil in the manner just described, they obtained from a thousand nuts three and a half pots, which, at six reals each, fetched twenty-one reals; that is three reals less than was offered them for the raw nuts.
Learned in the doctrines of Christ, who closes heaven against the rich, they, our redeemers and genuine ministers of the Saviour, seek every means to lift away our sins and bear them far, far off, there where the accursed Chinese and Protestants dwell, to leave us this air, limpid, pure, healthful, in such a way that even should we so wish afterwards, we could not find a real to bring about our condemnation.
A piece of guinára, costing 1 real, gives two shifts; the coarsest patadíon costs 3 reals; a cloth, at the highest, 1 real; and a comb, 2 cuartos; making altogether 4 reals, 12 cuartos.
"It was evident to me," continued Thorndyke, "that the experts would be unable to distinguish the real from the forged thumb-prints, and, that being so, that they would look for some collateral evidence to guide them.
Even the cultivated, who are on their guard against the bias of associated ideas, and try to separate the real from the seeming, cannot escape the influence of current opinion.
It is under the influence of this motive, for instance, that many a man lives above his income, not for the purpose of gratifying any real wants either of himself or his family, but for the sake of 'keeping up appearances,' though he is exposing his creditors to considerable losses, his family to many probable disadvantages, and himself to almost certain disgrace in the future.
El tiempo que faltaba para emprender el camino de la frontera y concluir de ordenar las huestes reales, discurría en medio de fiestas públicas, lujosos convites y lucidos torneos, hasta que, llegada al fin la víspera
To you belongs the nobler (and much easier) task of idealising the real.
de seres imaginarios y reales.
There is a whole series of plays, to which Larroumet calls attention, in which Marivaux has left the real for the imaginary world.
He looked calmly and steadily into the eyes of Plausaby, Esq., and the hollow sham, who had been unshaken till now, quailed; counterfeit serenity could not hold its head up and look the real in the face.
"And I wonder if there isn't more dignity in fightingyes, and losingin the real, than just sitting around where you get nothing more unpleasant than the faint roar of the guns.
The most skilful female weaver of the finer stuffs obtains twelve reals per piece; but it takes a month to weave; and the month, on account of the numerous holy-days, must be calculated at the most as equal to twenty-four working days; she consequently earns one-fourth real per day and her food.
Upon one occasion, when I had determined, in spite of an invitation from the padre, to occupy the casa real, just as I was beginning to instal myself, the priest appeared upon the scene with the municipal officials and a band of music which was in the neighborhood pending the preparations for a religious festival.
si yo hubiera tenido ochocientos reales!
Sí, ¡cuándo volveré yo a tener ochocientos reales!
But I can pick out the real from a scene like that as I can pick out and throw away the seeds of an orange, and gazing o'er that enchanted scene I felt like the Knight of Snowdoun himself, when he first beheld the lake and said: "How blithely might the bugle horn Chide, on the lake, the lingering morn!"
Upon his majesty, my lords, lies the task of teaching the powers of the continent to prefer their real to their seeming interest, and to disregard, for the sake of distant happiness, immediate acquisitions and certain advantages.
y lo que son los trastos no valen ni treinta reales.