Tyrants Destroyed and Other StoriesA collection of short stories about Russian émigrés in Germany and France after the Russian Revolution. |
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... girl , whose massive braid and ink - blue eyes were so attractive to many that she was willingly forgiven a resemblance to a black chess knight . I know about his amorous tendencies and system of courtship from that very girl , now ...
... girl , whose massive braid and ink - blue eyes were so attractive to many that she was willingly forgiven a resemblance to a black chess knight . I know about his amorous tendencies and system of courtship from that very girl , now ...
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... girl in a white dress who had squatted down to tousle with two fingers a fat shaggy pup with warts on its belly . The inclination of her head bared the back of her neck , revealing the ripple of her vertebrae , the fair bloom , the ...
... girl in a white dress who had squatted down to tousle with two fingers a fat shaggy pup with warts on its belly . The inclination of her head bared the back of her neck , revealing the ripple of her vertebrae , the fair bloom , the ...
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... girls he had happened to note at one time or another there had been a wench who worked in that place . He entered ... girl he had seen three or four times be- fore . She was beautiful in a drab , freckled way , if beauty can be drably ...
... girls he had happened to note at one time or another there had been a wench who worked in that place . He entered ... girl he had seen three or four times be- fore . She was beautiful in a drab , freckled way , if beauty can be drably ...
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