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1  There was a glimpse of a woman's pink dress against the dark green, a young face from under the light fringe of a parasol.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  The front part of the temple had long ago been overgrown with thick bushes; only the pediments of the columns could be seen above the dense green.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  Dressed in a light check jacket and snow-white trousers, he was walking rapidly along the road; under his arm he carried a box wrapped up in green cloth.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  One day at seven o'clock in the morning Bazarov, returning from a walk, came upon Fenitchka in the lilac arbour, which was long past flowering, but was still thick and green.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  On ordinary days a serf-boy used to keep driving them away with a large green branch; but on this occasion Vassily Ivanovitch had sent him away through dread of the criticism of the younger generation.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  The manor-house was built in the same style as the church, the style known among us as that of Alexander; the house too was painted yellow, and had a green roof, and white columns, and a pediment with an escutcheon on it.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  He took his seat at the green table, expressing his satisfaction at so doing in measured terms, and ended by winning from Bazarov two roubles and a half in paper money; they had no idea of even reckoning in silver in the house of Arina Vlasyevna.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  The country-house in which Anna Sergyevna lived stood on an exposed hill at no great distance from a yellow stone church with a green roof, white columns, and a fresco over the principal entrance representing the 'Resurrection of Christ' in the 'Italian' style.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  However, he sometimes asked permission to be present at Bazarov's experiments, and once even placed his perfumed face, washed with the very best soap, near the microscope to see how a transparent infusoria swallowed a green speck, and busily munched it with two very rapid sort of clappers which were in its throat.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  Pavel Petrovitch went back to his artistic study, with its walls covered with handsome bluish-grey hangings, with weapons hanging upon a variegated Persian rug nailed to the wall; with walnut furniture, upholstered in dark green velveteen, with a renaissance bookcase of old black oak, with bronze statuettes on the magnificent writing-table, with an open hearth.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII