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Grey light — the first chilly light of dawn — seeped from the east . Moscow was
unusually still , so still that we could hear ... The lime trees with their broken
branches stood in the grey hoar frost and smoke . All along the Boulevard , as far
as the ...
Grey light — the first chilly light of dawn — seeped from the east . Moscow was
unusually still , so still that we could hear ... The lime trees with their broken
branches stood in the grey hoar frost and smoke . All along the Boulevard , as far
as the ...
Page 137
His grey Cossack moustache drooped over his chin . He wore baggy grey pin -
striped trousers , an equally baggy tussore coat with bulging pockets , and an
embroidered shirt fastened at the neck with a cord ending in red pompoms . He
had ...
His grey Cossack moustache drooped over his chin . He wore baggy grey pin -
striped trousers , an equally baggy tussore coat with bulging pockets , and an
embroidered shirt fastened at the neck with a cord ending in red pompoms . He
had ...
Page 201
Landesman - grey , impressive and meticulously well - mannered - gave us the
use of two small wards in return for our acting as caretakers . We had to see to it
that the small garden was not cut down and the house itself broken up for
firewood ...
Landesman - grey , impressive and meticulously well - mannered - gave us the
use of two small wards in return for our acting as caretakers . We had to see to it
that the small garden was not cut down and the house itself broken up for
firewood ...
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Contents
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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