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Page 244
... smoke . Enormous black puffs moved behind it , like petrified cotton . These were the storm clouds seen through the smoke . Dead silence stood all around us . The frogs and the birds grew silent , fish stopped splashing . Even the ...
... smoke . Enormous black puffs moved behind it , like petrified cotton . These were the storm clouds seen through the smoke . Dead silence stood all around us . The frogs and the birds grew silent , fish stopped splashing . Even the ...
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... smoke from its fires were already darkening the Moscow sky . We found out later that this had indeed been smoke but only from forest fires - the woods and dry marshes near Tver were burning . In the mornings I woke up in my room - I ...
... smoke from its fires were already darkening the Moscow sky . We found out later that this had indeed been smoke but only from forest fires - the woods and dry marshes near Tver were burning . In the mornings I woke up in my room - I ...
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... smoke stood against the horizon . The orderlies said this was burning grain . A Cossack patrol galloped through the little village . They rode up to the square in front of the synagogue , went into two or three houses , and then ...
... smoke stood against the horizon . The orderlies said this was burning grain . A Cossack patrol galloped through the little village . They rode up to the square in front of the synagogue , went into two or three houses , and then ...
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Carp | 16 |
The Pink Oleanders | 29 |
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