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Page 16
The air was thick with the smell of printers ' ink and of rye bread . The village smell of bread was brought by 16 1 1 1 ! the army . In spite of Kerensky's shrill orders , In that Dawn.
The air was thick with the smell of printers ' ink and of rye bread . The village smell of bread was brought by 16 1 1 1 ! the army . In spite of Kerensky's shrill orders , In that Dawn.
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The room smelled of scorched wool . ... I caught the smell of rotting leaves , like the faint bouquet of a wine , as though the acrid vegetable smell of last year's thawedout flowers were seeping through the damp , comfortless ...
The room smelled of scorched wool . ... I caught the smell of rotting leaves , like the faint bouquet of a wine , as though the acrid vegetable smell of last year's thawedout flowers were seeping through the damp , comfortless ...
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He began with an elaborate description of the smell of timbered Turkish houses in general . They smelled , he said , of the warm dust of rotting wood and of honey , especially on hot still afternoons when , if you touched the verandah ...
He began with an elaborate description of the smell of timbered Turkish houses in general . They smelled , he said , of the warm dust of rotting wood and of honey , especially on hot still afternoons when , if you touched the verandah ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
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| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Translated by | Manya Harari |
| Publisher | Harvill Press, 1967 |
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