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Page 42
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 , longunturned
and ...
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 , longunturned
and ...
Page 53
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 ...
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 ...
Page 202
I loved the smell of the fog - a faint smell of coal and steam . It was the smell of
railway stations , ports , decks , of travelling , of long sea and land routes , of
distant pink islands floating past in the violet - blue light of the Aegean , the wind
faintly ...
I loved the smell of the fog - a faint smell of coal and steam . It was the smell of
railway stations , ports , decks , of travelling , of long sea and land routes , of
distant pink islands floating past in the violet - blue light of the Aegean , the wind
faintly ...
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| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Harvill P., 1965 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jul 2007 |
| ISBN | 0002717565, 9780002717564 |
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