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Page 108
And at the foot of all those downs and hills flowed the river Bystraya Sosna,
stretching under the railway bridge like a ribbon made wide by the spring waters.
It was a quick-flowing river, a rapid stream of a river, carrying with it the last,
brown ...
And at the foot of all those downs and hills flowed the river Bystraya Sosna,
stretching under the railway bridge like a ribbon made wide by the spring waters.
It was a quick-flowing river, a rapid stream of a river, carrying with it the last,
brown ...
Page 127
He acknowledged defeat and in the hurly- burly of Moscow life would with
increasing frequency talk of an evening in the woods or a quiet day on the river.
One late afternoon he and I were sitting on the deserted bank of the river Oka
near the ...
He acknowledged defeat and in the hurly- burly of Moscow life would with
increasing frequency talk of an evening in the woods or a quiet day on the river.
One late afternoon he and I were sitting on the deserted bank of the river Oka
near the ...
Page 192
A crowded old tram went from port to town (the town was situated beyond the
river Rioni). It was surprising the tram was not burnt up by the sun in the course of
its slow journeys and equally surprising that the passengers did not get sunstroke
.
A crowded old tram went from port to town (the town was situated beyond the
river Rioni). It was surprising the tram was not burnt up by the sun in the course of
its slow journeys and equally surprising that the passengers did not get sunstroke
.
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4 Night Trains | 40 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Story of a Life, Volume 6 Story of a Life, Story of a Life |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Translated by | Manya Harari |
| Publisher | Harvill Press, 1974 |
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