1 I slipped out from the cave and looked at Mr. Shimerda.
2 The air in the cave was stifling, and it was very dark, too.
3 It stood directly in front of their old cave, which they used as a cellar.
4 This cabin was his hermitage until the winter snows penned him in his cave.
5 We turned to leave the cave; Antonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children waited.
6 When we descended, they all came down after us, and seemed quite as proud of the cave as the girls were.
7 While the water was heating, I could bring in a washtub out of the cave, and take my bath in the kitchen.
8 Ambrosch was out with the ox-team, trying to break a road, and the women-folks was shut up tight in their cave.
9 'If they're nice people, I hate to think of them spending the winter in that cave of Krajiek's,' said grandmother.
10 That moment, when they all came tumbling out of the cave into the light, was a sight any man might have come far to see.
11 In the rear wall was another little cave; a round hole, not much bigger than an oil barrel, scooped out in the black earth.
12 Mrs. Shimerda had run to the animal, pulled up the lariat pin, and, when we came upon her, she was trying to hide the cow in an old cave in the bank.
13 But they were so glad to get away from their ugly cave and their mother's scolding that they begged me to go on and on, as far as Russian Peter's house.
14 When Mrs. Shimerda opened the bag and stirred the contents with her hand, it gave out a salty, earthy smell, very pungent, even among the other odours of that cave.
15 I suppose, in the crowded clutter of their cave, the old man had come to believe that peace and order had vanished from the earth, or existed only in the old world he had left so far behind.
16 We were standing outside talking, when they all came running up the steps together, big and little, tow heads and gold heads and brown, and flashing little naked legs; a veritable explosion of life out of the dark cave into the sunlight.