Verst
in example sentence
When they were still a quarter of a
verst
from the house, Levin saw Grisha and Tanya running toward him.
More example sentences with word verst
Levin no longer thought it strange, as he had done when he first came to Moscow, that to go from the Vozdvizhenka Street to Sivtsev-Vrazhek it was necessary to harness a pair of strong horses to a heavy carriage to drive through the snowy slush a quarter of a verst, to keep the carriage waiting there for four hours, and to pay five roubles for it.
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