FIXING

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fixing substantiv

1. fixare; stabilire.

2. plural (amer. fam.) echipament; accesorii; garnitură.

3. plural (amer. fam.) garnitură (la o haină, la o mâncare etc.).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Catherine, looking up, perceived Captain Tilney; and Isabella, earnestly fixing her eye on him as she spoke, soon caught his notice.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

The labour of winding among the little paths of the mountain and fixing my feet firmly as I advanced perplexed me, occupied as I was by the emotions which the occurrences of the day had produced.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was of gold, prettily worked; and though Fanny would have preferred a longer and a plainer chain as more adapted for her purpose, she hoped, in fixing on this, to be chusing what Miss Crawford least wished to keep.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

He had intended, about this time, to be going to London; but he could not leave his father and mother just when everybody else of most importance to their comfort was leaving them; and with an effort, felt but not boasted of, he delayed for a week or two longer a journey which he was looking forward to with the hope of its fixing his happiness for ever.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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