which marks the natural boundary of the country that the
Oppressed by frequent darts, break those that fall
Rebounding from his horny hide, and shake
Those that find lodgment, while his life within
Lies safe, protected, nor doth spear avail
To reach the fount of blood. Unnumbered wounds
By arrow dealt, or lance, thus fail to slay
This single warrior. But lo! from far
A Cretan archer's shaft, more sure of aim
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- my father slowly but obstinately kept climbing upward.
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- After the hot, tense summer of the steppe is over, and
- either a watch or a clock; and an old man who was supposed
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- Beyond the barns and the sheds for animals, extended two
- in the hall, and pots and basins would be placed on the
- at our arrival, and said one to the other, “This is the
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- of an ancient tertiary epoch) of which these islands are
- activity has moved to the threshing-floor beyond the sheds,
- to get married?” asks their mistress. “Why, we are
- these adders were mistaken for poisonous snakes, and boiling
- could trust. To them he explained his plans and the rich
- the sheds lay the threshing-floor. Across a ravine lay
- The straw roof harbored countless sparrows’ nests under
- old and has served twenty-five years in the army of Nicholas
- The people here live chiefly on shell-fish and potatoes.
- that occupied at least a quarter of the room. I can remember
- wooden floor which was rubbed once a week with yellow sand.
- two hundred and fifty acres of land from Yanovsky and leased
- big farm, evidently finding in the society of this rougher
- had built, contained the machine-shop, the main kitchen,
- and the servants’ quarters. Next to it stood the “little”
- as well. The peasants brought their grain in from ten and
- solid wall opened before her; it was another masked door.
- “My legs are getting weak,” he has been complaining
- for several months in Elizavetgrad, and he would strum
- the world market makes itself felt even in Yanovka. Then
- their terrible ordeals in the untracked jungle to the south;
- Philip the miller, wearing glasses, is standing beside
- outside my native village. Its name, Yanovka, came from
- old and has served twenty-five years in the army of Nicholas
- golden dragon. Max pulled the keys from his pocket, and
- in at all. A big mud house with a tile roof, which my father
- have found a thousand roubles!” says the master. “And
- way. One measured profit or loss with the eye. For that
- He ducked rapidly, almost touching the muddy water with
- had already reached my seventeenth year. During my last
- summer holidays I used to calculate the distance between
- them into the thresher. At each armful the thresher growls
- his fingers, right and left, and presently found slimy
- slip down on the other side. My arms would be buried to
- one gets to that damned city, one runs here and there,
- in the hall, and pots and basins would be placed on the
- his boys had deserted, for a hunting party from the bungalow
- and I am offended and hurt. I kick my heels and try to
- straw, playing with it as it goes. The chaff pours out
- wooden floor which was rubbed once a week with yellow sand.
- He strove to peer about him, but the feeble ray of the
- they don’t grow on every bush!” But sometimes the reverse
- two hundred and fifty acres of land from Yanovsky and leased
- For the first nine years of my life I hardly stuck my nose
- And thus matters stood when, one hot night, Meriem, unable
- I never lived in the house itself. It is now used as a
- summer holidays I used to calculate the distance between
- was torn in two places. The smaller hole was near the chair
- his face. A bank of yellow fog instantly enveloped him,
- it blaze up. Once Uncle Gregory found my younger sister
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