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1  He could see his britchka standing ready for him, and Selifan evidently awaiting orders to draw up to the entrance steps.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  Since you decline to rest satisfied with what has been given you, and quietly to await the decision of your case in St. Petersburg, I must find you a lodging.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
3  Chichikov sprang up with the alacrity of a military man, offered her his arm, and escorted her, as on parade, to the dining-room, where awaiting them there was the soup-toureen.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
4  The Prince paused for a moment or two, as though awaiting a reply; but none came, seeing that every man had his eyes bent upon the floor, and many of the audience had turned white in the face.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
5  In the drawing-room the company found dessert awaiting them in the shape of pears, plums, and apples; but since neither host nor guest could tackle these particular dainties the hostess removed them to another room.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
6  Everything had now wended its way homeward for the night; the cattle and poultry had been housed, and the herdsmen, standing at the gates of the village cattle-pens, amid the trailing dust lately raised by their charges, were awaiting the milk-pails and a summons to partake of the eel-broth.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
7  Also, of studies he selected none but those which may help a boy to become a good citizen; and therefore most of the lectures which he delivered consisted of discourses on what may be awaiting a youth, as well as of such demarcations of life's field that the pupil, though seated, as yet, only at the desk, could beforehand bear his part in that field both in thought and spirit.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I