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3002 I, XV | out, was on the point of succumbing, he halted at one of these
3003 I, XI | you do not know what that suckling had become by the time judgment
3004 I, XIV | alone, alas? A horse would suffice him; and, very fortunately,
3005 I, V | were placed before him, and sufficed to satisfy his hunger. He
3006 II, XII | Siberia could not arrive in sufficiently large numbers to arrest
3007 II, VII | ran a great risk of being suffocated. Serko had been obliged
3008 I, X | was filled with sulphurous suffocating vapor, and a clump of huge
3009 II, II | devotion to the Tartar cause suggest?” asked the Emir, after
3010 II, XIII| now betray it whenever it suited him. He would inhabit the
3011 I, IV | answered an old Jew of sullen aspect. “Those in the market
3012 I, X | The air was filled with sulphurous suffocating vapor, and a
3013 II, II | But the armies of the Sultan of St. Petersburg?” said
3014 II, IV | title may be given to the sultana of the states of Bokhara.
3015 I, II | be feared that the “Grand Sultans,” who govern the Kirghiz
3016 II, II | or escape, which must be summarily suppressed.~Ivan Ogareff
3017 II, XII | that his whole life was summed up in a single word— strife—
3018 II, XII | they burnt, in passing, the summer-house of the governor-general,
3019 I, IV | severe, and likely in a few summers to unfold into beauty rather
3020 II, X | summer, already whitened the summits of the neighboring hills.
3021 II, XIII| defenders, whenever he should summon the besiegers to the assault.~
3022 II, V | movement of the nails. He sung. During the singing of each
3023 I, VIII| battered hat, browned by the suns of every clime, was pulled
3024 I, VII | scarcely darkened between sunset and dawn, and left the steersman
3025 II, V | Tsiganes, Sangarre appeared, superb in her strange and picturesque
3026 I, IV | examination, as by order of the superintendent of police, these officials
3027 I, III | like a soldier before his superior; but when he moved, his
3028 II, VIII| approaching evil. Nicholas, superstitious like the greater number
3029 I, IV | consequently, free from all police supervision.~At the station of Wladimir
3030 I, I | began to stream towards the supper-rooms.~At that moment. General
3031 I, I | foresight? Did they possess a supplementary sense, which enabled them
3032 I, IV | be in danger. Also, while supplying him with a large sum of
3033 II, XIV | moment of surprise, and not supposing that it could be any other
3034 II, VII | where would they find a surer guide, or a more devoted
3035 I, I | with regard to money— the surest, the most rapid, the most
3036 I, V | moving mass of human beings surging here and there, the excitement,
3037 I, VI | with a commerce so greatly surpassing that of all other places
3038 II, VII | Yenisei, and could therefore survey the whole of its wide course.~“
3039 II, III | escape, saw, after carefully surveying the situation, that under
3040 II, XIII| him. He came, therefore, sustained by his iron will, to hasten
3041 II, VII | camel’s milk, and is very sustaining, and even intoxicating;
3042 I, IV | Armenia, Hereditary Lord and Suzerain of the Scherkess princes,
3043 I, XII | some hours. Yes; but to swallow this affront!~“Will you
3044 I, XV | which floated over the vast swamp.~When Michael Strogoff perceived
3045 I, XV | height, and had made room for swamp-plants, to which the dampness of
3046 II, VI | might at any instant be swarming with Tartars.~Nadia, holding
3047 II, I | their back; round faces, swarthy complexions, lively deep-set
3048 I, IV | his great head, which was swaying from one shoulder to the
3049 II, VI | would have read in that sweet desolate gaze a world of
3050 I, IV | and expressive of much sweetness of temper. The nose was
3051 I, XII | young girl? Three strong swift horses were taking her across
3052 II, XII | is no doubt owing to the swiftness of its current. If therefore
3053 I, XIII| passage difficult enough. A swimmer could not have crossed,
3054 I, V | teas. European bronzes, Swiss clocks, velvets and silks
3055 I, XIII| Siberian basin are much swollen, the waters of the Irtych
3056 II, IX | gigantic bird which had swooped down. It was a vulture.
3057 II, I | trimmed with black plush, sword-belts of leather with silver buckles,
3058 II, V | ancients, in the midst of naked swords; but this Tartar dance was
3059 I, V | now covered with booths symmetrically arranged in such a manner
3060 I, I | rendered them but little sympathetic. However, they did not avoid
3061 I, V | visibly suffering. Another symptom also was marked. In Russia
3062 I, I | countenance of their host symptoms of disquietude, the source
3063 I, III | Damascus blade in the waters of Syria, he had a frame of iron,
3064 I, I | to view several immense tables beautifully laid out, and
3065 II, X | down to his heels. This taciturn old fellow was seated in
3066 II, I | Amoor and the province of Takutsk did not arrive in time to
3067 II, VIII| living being left to tell the tale.~About four o’clock in the
3068 I, IV | have been observed that the talkers used much circumspection.
3069 I, XVI | wore on their heads the “talpak,” or black sheep-skin cap,
3070 II, V | of the “daires”—a sort of tambourine played with the fingers.~
3071 I, V | or red-hot irons of the tamer; and, besides all these
3072 I, II | which contains the tomb of Tamerlane and the famous palace where
3073 I, XV | and rushes, which formed a tangled network, an impenetrable
3074 I, V | medicinal herbs, wood, tar, rope, horn, pumpkins, water-melons,
3075 I, VI | or stick stimulated the tardy ones, and made nothing of
3076 II, V | of an execution a la mode Tartare?”~“No more than your cousin!”~“
3077 II, II | dear Blount, it won’t do to Tartarise ourselves too much. The
3078 II, XIII| Siberian peasant, worn into tatters, and exhibiting several
3079 I, IV | of Siberia, Czar of the Tauric Chersonese, Seignior of
3080 I, VIII| had proceeded from this tawny group, and had been exchanged
3081 I, XV | geographical nomenclature—Tchang, Chinese in name, had to
3082 I, IV | territory of Nijni-Novgorod, Tchemigoff, Riazan, Polotsk, Rostov,
3083 II, VI | the town some morsels of “tchornekhleb,” a sort of barley bread,
3084 I, II | Eastern Siberia. The River Tchouna separates the two Siberias.~
3085 I, XVII| have been these twice ten tedious years, yet we no holiday
3086 II, V | ceremonies at the court of Teheran, but since the accession
3087 I, XII | Heaven preserve you from telgas.”~The two reporters held
3088 I, VIII| to stop that old fortune teller and his companions my incognito
3089 I, IV | expressive of much sweetness of temper. The nose was straight,
3090 I, III | decipher them. Moreover, tempered by snow like a Damascus
3091 II, X | Baikal is subject to violent tempests. Its waves, short like those
3092 II, XIV | officers put a pistol to his temple, ready to fire.~“Your name?”
3093 II, II | council, and placed him temporarily above the khodja.~Then Feofar
3094 II, XIV | to which hate had added ten-fold strength.~Mad with fury,
3095 I, XVI | deserted. Every one was tenantless.~One hut, however, which
3096 II, XII | severely wounded him in his tenderest affections, and ruined the
3097 II, VI | a world of devotion and tenderness.~The eyelids of the blind
3098 I, VI | for a time at least. The tenor of the first article of
3099 I, X | was at hand. The electric tension was such that it could not
3100 I, I | the lower portion of the terraces.~The principal personage
3101 I, IV | you’ll grease your shawls terribly if you mix them up with
3102 I, XI | The storm still swept with terrific violence across the defile.
3103 I, II | by the accession of the territories of Balkh, Aukoi, and Meimaneh.
3104 II, II | those who are in misfortune, thawed Marfa Strogoff’s coldness.~
3105 I, XIII| by the invaders— pillage, theft, incendiarism, murder. Such
3106 II, X | of Saint Antony and Saint Theodosia, at Kiev, that of Kazan,
3107 II, VIII| considering that during them the thermometer falls until the mercury
3108 I, II | the Mongols, Manchoux, and Thibetans.~The Tartars who now threatened
3109 I, XVI | gliding like a savage into the thickest underwood.~As they approached
3110 I, III | scoured the frozen plains, the thickets of birch and larch, the
3111 I, IV | Half-boots of leather, thickly soled, as if chosen in anticipation
3112 I, II | war, are rather nocturnal thieves and plunderers of caravans
3113 I, II | Moreover, Ivan Ogareff, thirsting for vengeance, aims at the
3114 I, VII | to the Daily Telegraph at thirteen minutes past ten.”~“Bravo,
3115 I, III | Strogoff had killed more than thirty-nine bears—that is to say, the
3116 I, III | been lucky enough up to the thirty-ninth bear, have succumbed to
3117 II, III | certain number of leathern thongs, at the end of which are
3118 I, I | who, with folded arms and thoughtful brow, was listening dreamily
3119 I, XII | journey. The postillion was thrashing his horses with all his
3120 II, XIV | of Irkutsk hung only by a thread.~On this day, the sun which
3121 I, IV | his ample brown robe, worn threadbare by use.~“Oh, there’s no
3122 II, X | a Man!”~The raft swiftly threaded its way among the blocks
3123 II, IV | gold beads strung on silver threads, chaplets of turquoises, “
3124 II, III | that, whatever might be his threats, whatever might be the tortures
3125 II, VI | Nadia for the first time, a thrill passed through Michael’s
3126 II, XI | plunge his weapon into its throat. Neither were Jolivet and
3127 I, IX | iemschiks to possess strong throats more than muscular arms,
3128 I, IV | disappeared in the crowd which thronged the platforms of the railway
3129 | throughout
3130 II, X | which after passing Irkutsk throws itself into the Yenisei,
3131 I, XIV | half-stifled cries, to which thrusts of the lance gave an instant
3132 I, VI | improbable enough, for such a thunder-clap could not have burst without
3133 I, VI | effect produced by these two thunder-claps bursting over a town like
3134 I, II | has at last burst like a thunderclap, and now all means of communication
3135 I, X | filled the defile, and the thunderclaps had become one continued
3136 II, III | earth—like insects which a thunderstorm brings to the surface of
3137 I, XVI | Ogareff more, yet a fresh tide of hate now rose in his
3138 I, I | Ivan Ogareff, are there no tidings of him?”~“None,” replied
3139 I, IV | adjusted at the neck by a blue tie. Under this pelisse, a short
3140 II, VIII| drawn by the cord which tied him. He was still “the Man
3141 I, V | from Smyrna and Ispahan. Tiflis armor, caravan teas. European
3142 II, XIV | himself together like a tiger about to spring, uttered
3143 II, XI | Irkutsk. Michael, his teeth tight set, his ear on the strain,
3144 I, V | Suddenly, according to a time-honored observance in the fair of
3145 I, XIII| the tarantass arrived at Tioukalmsk, having accomplished a distance
3146 I, XV | man dearly disputes with tipulae, gnats, mosquitos, horse-flies,
3147 I, XVII| weight! he rides a race! ’Tis for a thousand pound!’”
3148 I, XI | remains of the telga, and to-mor-how, if no accident befalls
3149 I, XIII| difficult than that of the Tobol. Indeed the current of the
3150 I, XVI | high-heeled boots with turned-up toes, like the shoes of the Middle
3151 I, X | Michael and the iemschik, they toiled on towards a narrow pass,
3152 II, VI | journey was being made under tolerable circumstances, slowly certainly,
3153 II, V | flute; wind instruments, tom-toms, tambourines, united with
3154 II, V | falling; for, with the Tartar tomans and sequins, rained also
3155 I, II | Samarcand, which contains the tomb of Tamerlane and the famous
3156 II, II | there. This fierce spy, the tool of Ivan Ogareff, had not
3157 II, XI | Had they possessed the tools usually employed by whalers
3158 I, I | his real opinion on this topic.~“And, naturally, you made
3159 II, V | square, followed by the torch-bearers.~Michael was left alone,
3160 I, XV | flanks. Mad with rage, he tore along over verst after verst
3161 I, II | by a marsh peopled with tortoises and lizards, is almost impregnable,
3162 I, XV | which made it easy, but very tortuous, and therefore long. It
3163 I, V | Nijni-Novgorod, that the sum total of its transactions amounts
3164 II, VI | for an instant, her limbs tottered, her steps flagged, her
3165 I, XV | not by bridges, but by tottering platforms ballasted with
3166 I, XII | reached the small town of Toulouguisk at seven o’clock in the
3167 II, X | they form a branch of the Toungouzes, and are derived from the
3168 I, III | the celebrated novelist Tourgueneff says, “will lead to the
3169 II, X | have assuredly amazed a tourist traveling in peaceful times
3170 I, XV | passed through the station of Touroumoff and entered the swampy district
3171 I, XVII| II est un petit homme, Tout habille de gris, Dans Paris!”~
3172 I, VII | passed numerous boats being towed up the stream, carrying
3173 I, X | Indeed, some firs which towered above this protection were
3174 I, XV | way, however, was clearly traceable. Now it would lie straight
3175 I, XIII| hesitation, either the rascal traded on the traveler’s impatience
3176 I, VII | hold in their hands all the traffic of Central Asia; and, lastly,
3177 I, XVII| of credit and renown; a train-band captain eke was he of famous
3178 I, XVI | two minutes he heard the tramp of several horses gradually
3179 II, VIII| only that the fields were trampled by horse’s feet, and that
3180 I, XIV | calm, and with a face so tranquil, that those who had witnessed
3181 II, XIII| the besieged had enjoyed a tranquillity to which the Tartars had
3182 II, XII | Cossacks, arrived in the Trans-Baikalcine provinces. Nikolaevsk, the
3183 I, I | Irkutsk, as those also of the Trans-Balkan territory, received orders
3184 I, IV | Asia was threatened in its transit.~He therefore noted in his
3185 II, XI | him. Then, by a natural transition, she came back to him who
3186 I, XVII| continued faithfully to transmit to the Daily Telegraph the
3187 II, VIII| which was proved by Nadia transmitting them to Michael, made them
3188 I, IV | the Tartar invasion had transpired in some degree. The occupants
3189 I, XII | who remained faithful, had transported their tents beyond the Irtych,
3190 I, XIV | some secret or to set some trap. Deceitful by nature, he
3191 I, III | the pine forests; setting traps; watching for small game
3192 I, IV | placing by her side a modest traveling-bag of red leather, which seemed
3193 I, IV | Nijni-Novgorod, or was the end of her travels beyond the eastern frontiers
3194 I, XV | extremely serious one, and the treachery of Ogareff made it still
3195 II, IX | Michael, feeling that he was treading no longer on powdery soil
3196 I, IV | ever on the watch for any treasonable expressions which may be
3197 II, I | Harry Blount’s shoulder.~“I treat you with water,” he said. “
3198 I, IV | for a spy, and not a word treating of the events of the day
3199 I, II | army of sixty thousand men, trebled in time of war, and thirty
3200 I, XII | them the country broken by tree-covered hills, the last remains
3201 I, XIV | Suddenly a cry made him tremble, a cry which penetrated
3202 I, IX | bogs, fallen trees, or trenches, which may happen to be
3203 II, V | profusion of jewels. Little triangles of gold, studded with jewels,
3204 II, V | from which hung little triangular bags. From these bags, embroidered
3205 I, XVI | bordered by pools and streams, tributaries of the Obi. Michael therefore
3206 I, X | this protection were in a trice shorn of their tops, as
3207 I, XIV | had recourse to the vilest trickery; lying when occasion demanded,
3208 II, III | stanched the blood which was trickling down his face, had broken
3209 I, IX | Russian driver never even tries to avoid either stones,
3210 II, VIII| To him this journey was a trip, an agreeable excursion
3211 II, V | him guards were carrying a tripod supporting a chafing-dish
3212 II, IV | the sports. In fact, the triumph of the vanquisher could
3213 I, XVI | ungrounded. The fields, trodden down by horses’ hoofs, afforded
3214 II, X | Solovetsk, the convent of Troitsa, those of Saint Antony and
3215 I, XII | Thus, though it had been so troublesome a matter to find horses
3216 II, III | about ten in the morning, trumpet-calls resounded throughout the
3217 I, XVI | consistent with safety. He trusted no less to the excellence
3218 II, I | matchlock gun, and the “tschakane,” a little short-handled
3219 II, V | kind of violoncello, the “tschibyzga,” a long reed flute; wind
3220 I, II | Kirghiz and that of the Tshouktshes. This immense extent of
3221 II, VII | being high rushed down with tumultuous violence. All three waited
3222 I, XVI | of the Middle Ages. Their tunics were close-fitting, and
3223 I, XVI | rather smaller than the Turcomanian horses, but are possessed
3224 II, I | beautiful Semitic races; and Turcomans, with eyes which looked
3225 I, XVI | of the Turks: “Where the Turk goes, no grass grows.”~Michael
3226 II, VI | Nicholas and the young girl. In turns, they each described to
3227 II, IV | silver threads, chaplets of turquoises, “firouzehs” from the celebrated
3228 I, XI | double.”~“Then gee up, my turtle-doves!” cried the iemschik.~Nadia
3229 I, VII | town in the government of Tver, that is, along the greater
3230 II, VIII| Nijni-Oudinsk, they were found by twenties, stretched on the ground.~
3231 II, XI | malevolence or imprudence, in the twinkling of an eye a conflagration
3232 II, III | which are attached pieces of twisted iron wire. It is reckoned
3233 I, XV | escape from the sting of the two-winged insects which infest this
3234 I, IV | Daily Telegraph to take a twofold view, physical and moral,
3235 I, I | my last telegram reached Udinsk,” observed Alcide Jolivet,
3236 I, II | for the formerly terrible ukases, warranted the belief that
3237 II, X | voice: one came from the Ukraine, another from the Yellow
3238 I, XVII| a mocking tone:~“II est un petit homme, Tout habille
3239 II, IX | called the girl. Her cry was unanswered.~Michael listened. Nadia
3240 II, XIV | attack on the points hitherto unassailed had been taken. The Grand
3241 I, X | as to lessen the jolting, unavoidable on a dark night. Lastly,
3242 I, XVII| same time, Michael, taken unawares as he was about to leap
3243 I, X | the blast. The wind was unchained, but as yet it was the upper
3244 II, VI | the same, the one in his unchange-able calm, the other two, uneasy,
3245 II, VII | noise in it, and go to bed uncommonly early!”~A presentiment of
3246 I, VIII| Kasan.~Michael Strogoff unconcernedly watched the bustle which
3247 I, XIV | Three days hast thou lain unconscious.”~“Hast thou a horse to
3248 II, VI | or less intoxicated, had unconsciously relaxed the vigilant guard
3249 II, VIII| was Michael to do?~He was undecided. However, having weighed
3250 I, V | compared to those she must undergo. Siberia! Irkutsk! I am
3251 II, VI | penetrating look appeared to have undergone no change. If he could no
3252 II, II | Korpanoff?”~“I admired without understanding him,” replied the girl. “
3253 I, VIII| she did not hesitate to undertake it. She would do what she
3254 I, XVI | and the cruel Ogareff had undertaken to make her speak when he
3255 I, XVI | savage into the thickest underwood.~As they approached the
3256 II, I | safe; his disguise had been undiscovered. He was included amongst
3257 II, II | Tartar Sardana-palus, an undisputed sovereign, who directs at
3258 II, XI | spectacle of an ocean of fire undulating and breaking into waves
3259 I, XII | slight inclines, which gentle undulations are the first signs of the
3260 II, VIII| winter succeeds summer almost unexpectedly. These winters of Asiatic
3261 I, IV | likely in a few summers to unfold into beauty rather than
3262 II, XIII| Duke took the letter. He unfolded it and recognized the Czar’
3263 II, XIV | care, and except for some unforeseen accident he believed that
3264 II, II | Feofar-Khan reserving for these unfortunates? Would he imprison them
3265 I, XVI | the Baraba was by no means ungrounded. The fields, trodden down
3266 I, IV | moreover, help obeying, unhesitatingly, orders which emanate from
3267 I, XIII| under the snowy sheet spread uniformly over the steppe; but in
3268 II, XV | other quarters of the town uninjured. Before daybreak the troops
3269 II, IV | pardon for the harm she had unintentionally done him, for she reproached
3270 I, XII | post traveling was as yet uninterrupted; and telegraphic communication
3271 II, I | understood, too, that the union of Ogareff’s troops with
3272 I, II | No, a Russian would never unite with a Tartar, to weaken,
3273 I, XIII| can be one—than that which unites the son to the mother.”~
3274 I, IV | time, the iron road which, uniting Moscow and St. Petersburg,
3275 I, IV | may understand that the unity of so vast a state must
3276 I, VIII| as well as the seat of a university. The varied population preserves
3277 I, XII | the right to resist the unjust demands of the traveler.~
3278 II, XIII| a false name?”~“We will unmask him, thanks to you, who
3279 I, II | he doing?”~“He appeared unoccupied, and there was nothing suspicious
3280 I, IV | other northern tribes with unpronounceable names, the Permiaks, the
3281 II, IV | Michael would have passed unrecognized, and all these misfortunes
3282 II, XI | which they could not escape unscathed.~For a man who hoped soon
3283 II, VIII| Nadia, her faith in Michael unshaken, and Michael himself, apparently
3284 II, VIII| below zero is considered an unsupportable temperature.~The weather
3285 II, I | before him with his girdle untied; the “scheikh-oul-islam,”
3286 I, VII | the wharf on the Volga an unusually large concourse of people,
3287 I, VII | length. Its waters, rather unwholesome in its upper part, are improved
3288 I, XIII| could Michael get over the unwillingness of the iemschik, for in
3289 I, XIV | only one thought—“Can I, unwittingly, have ruined him?”~“I am
3290 I, VI | together made an indescribable uproar. The girl for whom he searched
3291 II, III | not at all put out by the urgency with which Ogareff repeated
3292 I, V | for the journey must be urgent indeed! But though she may
3293 I, V | almost all the languages in usage from Tartary to the Sea
3294 II, X | this current they hoped to utilize, and with its assistance
3295 I, XI | Michael had to use his utmost strength.~He soon perceived
3296 I, IV | occupied by Michael Strogoff. A vacant place was found opposite
3297 II, II | been delighted to put her vagabond life to the service of the
3298 I, VI | Strogoff. He said to himself, vaguely at first, that, without
3299 II, V | he watched Michael. “That valiant soldier should have fallen
3300 I, XIV | two thousand men, resisted valiantly. But driven back, little
3301 I, I | groaning under a profusion of valuable china and gold plate. On
3302 II, IV | her feet might have been valued at almost countless millions
3303 II, VII | indifference? Was his life valueless in his eyes, and, according
3304 I, VII | escape-pipe and the lids of the valves were crowned with white
3305 II, XII | aspect. But this similarity vanishes as the traveler enters.~
3306 II, IV | public humiliation of the vanquished. This was why several hundreds
3307 II, IV | fact, the triumph of the vanquisher could not be complete without
3308 I, VI | horses of the traveling vans came back from their sheds.
3309 I, IV | station resembles, from the variety of characters assembled,
3310 I, II | country, with varied animal, vegetable, and mineral products, and
3311 I, V | cottons, harness, fruits, vegetables, minerals from the Ural,
3312 I, X | which burst forth with such vehemence in the winter.~Rain was
3313 II, III | should have had water in our veins instead of blood had it
3314 II, II | being hidden under the thick velvet-pile of a Bokharian carpet.~The
3315 I, V | European bronzes, Swiss clocks, velvets and silks from Lyons, English
3316 I, XV | s horse, stung by these venomous insects, sprang forward
3317 I, VII | if they did not give loud vent to their anger and despair,
3318 II, XIII| that he did not doubt his veracity. “What day did this battle
3319 II, VII | and poplars, looking like verdant ships, anchored in the river.
3320 I, II | Nijni-Udinsk, Irkutsk, Verkne-Nertschink, Strelink, Albazine, Blagowstenks,
3321 I, I | amongst others some by Horace Vernet, hung on the wall.~The officer
3322 I, VII | steamer among the numerous vessels going up or down the Volga.~
3323 II, IX | Nothing from you would vex me!”~“Speak, Nadia.”~“Why,
3324 I, V | hours to wait! It was very vexatious to a man so pressed for
3325 I, IV | Karelia, Sougria, Perm, Viatka, Bulgaria, and many other
3326 II, V | fresher breeze their harps vibrated with intenser sound in the
3327 I, XII | telegraph posts, their wires vibrating in the breeze like the strings
3328 I, IV | traveler from his unpleasant vicinity.~The latter looked at the
3329 II, VIII| through. The blood of the victims was not yet dry. As to gaining
3330 I, XVII| say so.”~“But who are the victors?”~“I don’t know.”~Such calmness,
3331 I, VIII| Russian nobles, who try to vie with the English in eccentricity,
3332 I, IV | he lost nothing of the views to the right. He inquired
3333 II, VI | unconsciously relaxed the vigilant guard which they had hitherto
3334 II, XIV | face with the one whose villainous hand would an instant later
3335 I, VII | costume, a very wide blue, violet, or black robe; Turks, wearing
3336 II, V | the “kobize,” a kind of violoncello, the “tschibyzga,” a long
3337 I, V | without an image of the Virgin, and a few saints framed
3338 I, I | politicians—physiognomists by virtue of their profession— failed
3339 I, I | read it carefully, and his visage became even more clouded
3340 I, IV | care to have your permit vised, at the police station of
3341 I, V | uneasiness. Their trade was visibly suffering. Another symptom
3342 I, IV | between the Volga and the Vistula.”~The readers of the Daily
3343 I, I | all ears.”~In fact, the visual apparatus of the one had
3344 I, IV | Oudoria, Obdoria, Kondinia, Vitepsk, and of Mstislaf, Governor
3345 I, III | proved the confidence and vivacity of his mind.~Michael Strogoff
3346 I, I | brilliancy of a conflagration, vividly illuminating the gloom in
3347 I, XII | he first appeared on the Vladimir railroad. She recalled his
3348 II, XV | gathered under his eyelids, and volatiliz-ing on the cornea, had saved
3349 II, X | surrounded by magnificent volcanic mountains. It has no other
3350 I, IV | of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volkynia, Podolia, and Finland, Prince
3351 I, XIII| nor the boatmen obeyed a volley was let fly, and two of
3352 I, V | of Raskalniks, made the vow of abstinence, rejected
3353 I, XIV | Strogoff and his guide, vowing fidelity, saluted them.~
3354 I, XIV | understand; it was he who was voyaging on board the Caucasus, with
3355 II, IX | had swooped down. It was a vulture. When Serko ran towards
3356 II, IX | which now came too late! The vultures had caught sight of the
3357 I, IV | other, with a wink.~“He’s a wag,” said the Jew to the Persian.~“
3358 I, VI | after taking him into the waiting-room, went to call an upper clerk.
3359 II, VII | Because I am afraid of waking up the inhabitants of the
3360 I, I | mazurkas, schottisches, and waltzes from among the choicest
3361 I, XVI | their heads, and began to wander towards the edge of the
3362 I, XIII| Michael recognized the Tartar war-cry, which is usually answered
3363 I, XV | the safety of all this war-ravaged country—Michael Strogoff
3364 I, II | was no longer possible to warn the Grand Duke, shut up
3365 I, XV | these lakes— large enough to warrant its geographical nomenclature—
3366 I, II | Koondooz, cruel and rapacious warriors, all ready to join an enterprise
3367 I, I | illumined by a few lamps, washed the lower portion of the
3368 II, XIII| suspended. He hoped the watchfulness of the besieged would relax.
3369 I, I | saloon. From time to time the watchword was repeated from post to
3370 I, V | tar, rope, horn, pumpkins, water-melons, etc— all the products of
3371 I, XV | shallow depression as in a water-tight bowl. There was, for a long
3372 I, XVI | which glared brighter lights waving about in the shadow.~“Torches!”
3373 I, II | unite with a Tartar, to weaken, were it only for an hour,
3374 II, V | yet not a single sign of weakness escaped him.~The spectators,
3375 I, VI | must yield to the public weal. As to the second article
3376 I, XIV | where the towns were more wealthy, and, consequently, pillage
3377 I, V | shawls, Turkey carpets, weapons from the Caucasus, gauzes
3378 II, II | do. The mourning which I wear is not yet for my son.”~
3379 II, IX | she struggled, against her weariness, and her only thought was
3380 II, IX | continue to plod on across this weary steppe on foot.~The third
3381 I, V | the wood merchants, the weavers’ quarter, the dried fish
3382 I, XVII| said to her dear, Though wedded we have been these twice
3383 I, XVI | an old man surrounded by weeping children. A woman still
3384 II, VIII| undecided. However, having weighed the pros and cons, he thought
3385 I, XVI | for reflection, carefully weighing the chances so as to take
3386 I, XIV | occur only from the most weighty motive. Ogareff had therefore
3387 I, IX | zeal of the postillions by well-applied “na vodkou,” or tips.~Unfortunately,
3388 II, V | Now I see once more your well-beloved face! Now shall my eyes
3389 I, III | hardy, intelligent, zealous, well-conducted young Siberian first distinguished
3390 II, IX | tarantass, fresh horses, well-kept post-horses assured the
3391 I, III | the Caucasian race. His well-knit frame seemed built for the
3392 I, XVII| the Daily Telegraph the well-known verses of Cowper.~Whilst
3393 I, XV | be, in fact, no longer a well-marked road. Still, there must
3394 II, XI | recollect it!” And with his well-practiced eyes he endeavored to pierce
3395 I, XVI | penetrated the gloom, than to the well-proved sagacity of his horse.~Just
3396 I, III | with large nostrils; and a well-shaped mouth, with the slightly-projecting
3397 II, XV | vain endeavored to subdue, welling up from his heart, gathered
3398 II, X | from some of those artesian wells which Nature has bored in
3399 II, VI | Yes.”~“I should have wept too. To think that one could
3400 I, XVII| office. Two wires left it in westerly and easterly directions,
3401 II, IX | looked anxiously to the Westward, but as yet no cloud of
3402 II, I | and skillfully placed the wet rag on Harry Blount’s shoulder.~“
3403 I, XI | never hear the story of the wet-nurse who claimed payment of twelve
3404 II, XI | tools usually employed by whalers to cut channels through
3405 I, V | province upon any pretext whatsoever.~“2nd. All strangers of
3406 I, XI | far as the center of the wheel. Such being the case, it
3407 | whereas
3408 | wherever
3409 I, XII | well, they shall belong to whichever of us is able to start.
3410 I, V | this imaginary vessel! A whimsical and pleasing custom!~Suddenly,
3411 I, XVI | separated by dwarfed bushes, whins, and heather. The ground
3412 II, VII | kibitka was thus in the whirlpool, and the horse was nearly
3413 I, XII | thick mus-taches meeting red whiskers. He wore a plain uniform.
3414 I, X | pressing his, and he heard her whisper these words in his ear: “
3415 I, IX | almost all alike, with their white-walled, green-roofed chapels, the
3416 II, X | last till summer, already whitened the summits of the neighboring
3417 | whoever
3418 II, VIII| continued. At sight of this wicked treatment, Nicholas could
3419 II, XII | invaders possessed guns of wider range, they would have rendered
3420 II, VII | kibitka had crossed the widest arm of the river, and had
3421 II, II | savage worthy to share the wigwam of an Apache or the hut
3422 I, XVI | medium height, rough, and wild-featured, wore on their heads the “
3423 I, V | ancient Copts—singing their wildest melodies and dancing their
3424 I, I | Even should it be only a wildgoose chase,” said Alcide Jolivet
3425 II, V | surrounded the Tsigane in the windings of their dance.~At that
3426 I, XV | exhalations, that the road winds, and entails upon the traveler
3427 II, V | to the ground, once more winged their way into the sky,
3428 I, XIII| complained. She longed to give wings to the horses. Something
3429 I, IV | answered the other, with a wink.~“He’s a wag,” said the
3430 II, VIII| almost unexpectedly. These winters of Asiatic Russia may be
3431 I, XII | almost maternal gesture, wiped away a tear which sprang
3432 I, IV | work of time, aided by the wisdom of many successive rulers.~
3433 I, XII | a friend so generous and wise. She knew that she was safe
3434 I, IX | depending on anyone. He wisely preferred to buy a carriage,
3435 I, VII | to go contrary to their wishes. The boilers of the Caucasus
3436 I, XIV | horse to sell me?”~“Thou wishest to go?”~“At once.”~“I have
3437 I, XVI | know how to make the old witch speak when the time comes.”~
3438 I, V | preparing an article of the most withering character against a town
3439 II, VII | But, being too weak to withstand the Emir’s troops, now concentrated
3440 I, XV | ignorant of it. Could he have withstood this fresh trial?~Michael
3441 II, XI | knife, and every time that a wolf passed within his reach,
3442 II, IV | mother. As yet she could only wonder, but she felt instinctively
3443 I, VIII| here very wide, and its wooded banks lovely. A few white
3444 I, IV | nor caviare, nor wood, nor wool, nor ribbons, nor, hemp,
3445 II, XV | effect is produced, when a workman smelter, after dipping his
3446 I, X | a considerable number of workmen to that region. Also, those
3447 II, XII | said he, “we will visit the works on the right bank. Ice is
3448 I, XVI | fail to cut him off. And, worst of all, his mother was in
3449 I, V | Europeans and Asiatics, talking, wrangling, haranguing, and bargaining.
3450 I, VII | enveloped in cloaks and wraps. It was impossible to recognize
3451 II, XII | besiegers; and, that done, wreak his vengeance on the brother
3452 I, XVI | greatest caution was necessary. Wreaths of smoke curling upwards
3453 II, II | were many other unfortunate wretches, and thus dragged along
3454 I, VIII| pulled forward over his wrinkled face. His arched back was
3455 I, XI | in an instant, his strong wrist mastered it. His companion
3456 I, XVII| quietly.~And he proceeded to write some sentences, which he
3457 I, XVII| Alcide was just finishing writing his lines; but to stop,
3458 I, XVI | CHAPTER XVI A FINAL EFFORT~MICHAEL’S
3459 I, XVII| CHAPTER XVII THE RIVALS~MICHAEL was in
3460 I, III | thirst, or fatigue. Like the Yakout of the northern countries,
3461 I, IV | resembling both a cutlass and a yataghan, with which a Siberian hunter
3462 I, X | the flashes, could be seen yawning beneath them. From time
3463 I, V | its transactions amounts yearly to nearly a hundred million
3464 I, XIV | mother in his arms; but if he yielded it was all over with him,
3465 I, I | to the merriment of the younger guests or the graver remarks
3466 II, II | service, Nadia secured to her youth and beauty the protection
3467 II, XI | Minor, in China, on the Yuen-Kiang, in the Burman Empire, springs
3468 I, I | Blount, what occurred at Zakret in 1812?”~“I remember it
3469 I, III | The hardy, intelligent, zealous, well-conducted young Siberian
3470 I, I | Kitai-Gorod, Beloi-Gorod, Zemlianai-Gorod—European, Tartar, and Chinese
3471 II, IV | blue-silk petticoat, fell the “zirdjameh” of silken gauze, and above
3472 II, I | should be beyond the hostile zones, that he could traverse
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