The gesture of a king
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Estendeu o braço e fez com a mão um gesto de rei, que rei das florestas ele era, intimando aos cavaleiros que continuassem a sua marcha.
He stretched out his arm and made, with his hand, the gesture of a king — for a king of the forests he was — enjoining the riders to continue their march.
He stretches out his arm and makes, with his hand, the gesture of a king — for a king of the forests he was — bidding the riders keep to their march.
The chapter's thesis, stated openly: 'rei das florestas.' Peri's authority over this ground is sovereign; the armed Europeans are, for a moment, subjects waved on their way.
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