I could hear the whistling of trains, which, now nearer and now farther off, punctuating the distance like the note of a bird in a forest, shewed me in perspective the deserted countryside through which a traveller would be hurrying towards the nearest station:
trenen ziztua aditzen nuen, gutxi-asko urrun, txori baten kantuak basoan bezalatsu distantziak zedarriztatzen, bidaiaria hurbileko geltokirantz presaka doaneko landa-mortuaren hedadura deskribatzen;