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Page 27
The fire gradually died down , but pungent , rainbow - coloured clouds of smoke
rose from the ruins for days on end . Our metal roof buckled and the window
frames smoked , but luckily did not catch . We coughed and our eyes watered
from ...
The fire gradually died down , but pungent , rainbow - coloured clouds of smoke
rose from the ruins for days on end . Our metal roof buckled and the window
frames smoked , but luckily did not catch . We coughed and our eyes watered
from ...
Page 34
The air smelled of the smoke of burning houses . Their glow was fading . Only in
the direction of Kiev Station was the sky still a dull crimson . Then , from the north
, from the side of Khodynka , came the whining of a shell . It crossed Moscow ...
The air smelled of the smoke of burning houses . Their glow was fading . Only in
the direction of Kiev Station was the sky still a dull crimson . Then , from the north
, from the side of Khodynka , came the whining of a shell . It crossed Moscow ...
Page 59
The clouds of cigarette smoke swayed . Before I could see anything in the dim
light and the smoky air , I heard someone say in an unusually calm , high voice ,
rolling his r ' s : ' Let me through , Comrades . The men at the back shoved to get
a ...
The clouds of cigarette smoke swayed . Before I could see anything in the dim
light and the smoky air , I heard someone say in an unusually calm , high voice ,
rolling his r ' s : ' Let me through , Comrades . The men at the back shoved to get
a ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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