1 One settled on his lip, another on his ear, a third hovered as though intending to lodge in his very eye, and a fourth had the temerity to alight just under his nostrils.
2 And almost as Chichikov spoke he saw a third chessman coming into view between the queens.
3 For instance, one of them made a regular practice of reading Karamzin, another of conning the Moscow Gazette, and a third of never looking at a book at all.
4 Yet neither on the morrow, nor on the day following, nor on the third would documents arrive at the suitor's abode.
5 "This is not the sort of thing for me," he murmured, and turned his attention to a third bookcase, which contained books on the Arts.
6 The first bottle of champagne was followed by another, a third, and even a fourth.
7 Vassily Ivanovitch poked his third finger into his pipe, where a little smouldering ash was still left.
8 Nikolai Petrovitch was surprised; Fenitchka, the reserved and staid Fenitchka, had never given him a caress in the presence of a third person.
9 but on the third day, at dinner, he could bear it no longer.
10 I saw him once in the theatre, in the third tier of boxes.
11 You will go from here to something lower, another house; a year later--to a third, lower and lower, and in seven years you will come to a basement in the Haymarket.
12 You will change to another house, then to a third, then somewhere else, till you come down at last to the Haymarket.
13 After serving three terms I was decorated with the Vladimir of the third class with the approval of the government.
14 Anna of the third class is not so nice.
15 The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pavlovna.