filter through

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Translations

w>filter through

vi (liquid, sound, news) → durchsickern; (light) → durchschimmern, durchscheinen

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He plunged his hands into them and let the priceless gems filter through his fingers.

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Now as the Princess walked daily in the green forest, hearing the wind singing in the branches and seeing the sunlight filter through the lattice-work of green leaves, there came unto her thoughts that had lain asleep in the stifling air of the cottage and the weariness of guiding the plough.

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Various water-courses filter through, toward the east, and work their way onward to flow into the Kingani, in the midst of gigantic clumps of sycamore, tamarind, calabash, and palmyra trees.