The bandits, panting like a pack of hounds who are forcing a boar into his lair, pressed tumultuously round the great door, all disfigured by the battering ram, but still standing.
Les bandits, haletant comme une meute qui force le sanglier dans sa bauge, se pressaient en tumulte autour de la grande porte, toute déformée par le bélier, mais debout encore.