Time for dinner
Read the full text in our reader
erão tres para quatro horas da tarde; a sineta chamava os escravos a jantar.
it was getting on for four in the afternoon; the bell was calling the slaves to dinner.
The idiom 'tres para quatro' — three going on four — dates the moment to late afternoon, and the bell that first sounded now gets its meaning: it summons the enslaved to their meal. Even rest is rung for; the day is portioned out by a bell that belongs to the master, not to them.
Read the full commentary — and tap any word for its dictionary entry — in the interlinear reader.
Open A Escrava Isaura 7.154 in the full reader
Always open passages in the reader
You are reading a page of the A Escrava Isaura — the whole book is free in our interlinear reader.
The Great Library Project presses the classics in their original languages, glossed word by word — free to read, always. Browse the whole library.
Also on our shelves:
A Escrava Isaura 7.154 — The Great Library Project interlinear edition · greatlibraryproject.com/book/escravaisaura/7.154/