Story of a Life, Volume 1Harvill P., 1965 |
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Page 11
... eyes . Now he sat in an armchair , breathing with difficulty and keeping his eyes fixed on my face while a tear rolled slowly down his dry cheek . The tear hung on his beard and Aunt Dosia wiped it away with a clean handkerchief . My ...
... eyes . Now he sat in an armchair , breathing with difficulty and keeping his eyes fixed on my face while a tear rolled slowly down his dry cheek . The tear hung on his beard and Aunt Dosia wiped it away with a clean handkerchief . My ...
Page 156
... eyes and his small black beard — even outwardly recall Chekhov's Vershinin , or at any rate the image we had of him . Like Vershinin , Uncle Kolya believed in , and was fond of talking about , a brighter future and was gentle and ...
... eyes and his small black beard — even outwardly recall Chekhov's Vershinin , or at any rate the image we had of him . Like Vershinin , Uncle Kolya believed in , and was fond of talking about , a brighter future and was gentle and ...
Page 234
... eyes were opened to the world of poetic imagery as though a bandage had been removed from them . If Selikhanovich opened our eyes to literature and philosophy , Klyachin introduced us to the modern history of the West . Scraggy , with a ...
... eyes were opened to the world of poetic imagery as though a bandage had been removed from them . If Selikhanovich opened our eyes to literature and philosophy , Klyachin introduced us to the modern history of the West . Scraggy , with a ...
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