Domestic Scenes in Russia: In a Series of Letters Describing a Year's Residence in that Country, Chiefly in the InteriorJ. Murray, 1839 - 348 sider |
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... short time in the country , have little inducement to bestow much labour upon the study . All Russians of the educated classes speak French , with as much facility in general as their na- tive tongue , and many of them use it almost as ...
... short time in the country , have little inducement to bestow much labour upon the study . All Russians of the educated classes speak French , with as much facility in general as their na- tive tongue , and many of them use it almost as ...
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... short walk , and on our return found a dessert of fruit laid out in a pretty balcony filled with flowers , upon which the drawing - room windows opened . This was followed by music and singing , till , at half- past six tea made its ...
... short walk , and on our return found a dessert of fruit laid out in a pretty balcony filled with flowers , upon which the drawing - room windows opened . This was followed by music and singing , till , at half- past six tea made its ...
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... short swords , and had horns slung over their shoul- ders . Two managed the greyhounds , and the other three hunted the hounds , for the sport was a combi- nation of hunting and coursing ; the object being that the hounds should find ...
... short swords , and had horns slung over their shoul- ders . Two managed the greyhounds , and the other three hunted the hounds , for the sport was a combi- nation of hunting and coursing ; the object being that the hounds should find ...
Side 61
... short , all pains were apparently taken to excite the pack to the highest possible pitch of wildness , and certainly not without success . Away they went into cover giving tongue like hounds who already wind a fox . " That is no hare ...
... short , all pains were apparently taken to excite the pack to the highest possible pitch of wildness , and certainly not without success . Away they went into cover giving tongue like hounds who already wind a fox . " That is no hare ...
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... short , the trouble of loading and unloading waggons is thus saved , and two horses will in this manner bring in a vast quantity in the course of the day ; the tenth cock , as it is brought in , is weighed and taken as the average . The ...
... short , the trouble of loading and unloading waggons is thus saved , and two horses will in this manner bring in a vast quantity in the course of the day ; the tenth cock , as it is brought in , is weighed and taken as the average . The ...
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