1 Undulating gently on elastic springs, the vehicle cautiously descended the steep incline, and then proceeded past water-mills, rumbled over a bridge or two, and jolted easily along the rough-set road which traversed the flats.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER III 2 And now the bridge was groaning under the hoofs and wheels, and now the avenue of lopped pines seemed running to meet them.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevGet Context In CHAPTER XXII 3 So he is to stand on duty on the bridge for appearance sake.
The Inspector-General By Nicolay GogolGet Context In ACT I 4 One must admit," continued Prince Andrew, "that Napoleon as a man was great on the bridge of Arcola, and in the hospital at Jaffa where he gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V 5 At midday the Russian baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI 6 Down below, the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling masses of Russian troops.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI 7 Two of the enemy's shots had already flown across the bridge, where there was a crush.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII 8 But the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense mass.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII 9 Looking down over the rails Prince Nesvitski saw the rapid, noisy little waves of the Enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of the bridge chased each other along.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII 10 Nesvitski like the rest of the men on the bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII 11 As often happens, the horses of a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole crowd had to wait.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII 12 Looking down at the waters of the Enns under the bridge, Nesvitski suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII 13 Beside the bridge Nesvitski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, and having done this he rode back.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII 14 Having cleared the way Denisov stopped at the end of the bridge.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII 15 The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII