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... train started . My father stood there , holding his hat , watching the racing wheels of the train . He didn't want to come back to Uncle Kolya's house , saying he had to catch the first train back to Bezhitsa where an urgent job was ...
... train started . My father stood there , holding his hat , watching the racing wheels of the train . He didn't want to come back to Uncle Kolya's house , saying he had to catch the first train back to Bezhitsa where an urgent job was ...
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... train . The train stopped at last in a wide glen . Yellow clouds of shrapnel fire blazed up continually in the leafy woods around the edges of the glen . Mounted soldiers were galloping past the train . A field battery hidden in some ...
... train . The train stopped at last in a wide glen . Yellow clouds of shrapnel fire blazed up continually in the leafy woods around the edges of the glen . Mounted soldiers were galloping past the train . A field battery hidden in some ...
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... train with this shattering piece of news . The doors were all closed at once , and all the iron stoves ex- tinguished , so as not to betray the train by their smoke . We were all glad to notice that there was a long train of empty ...
... train with this shattering piece of news . The doors were all closed at once , and all the iron stoves ex- tinguished , so as not to betray the train by their smoke . We were all glad to notice that there was a long train of empty ...
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The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
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