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Turovtsin, with a tankard of something to drink, was sitting on the high sofa in the billiard-room, and Oblonsky was talking to Vronsky by the door in the far
corner.
At the
corner
he encountered a night izvoshchik hurrying along.
She went back to her
corner
and sat down.
They were sitting in a
corner
talking loudly, evidently aware that the attention of their fellow-passengers and of Katavasov, who had just entered, was directed toward them.
As soon as he had turned the
corner
of the road and saw those who were approaching he at once recognized Katavasov in a straw hat, waving his arms just as Tanya had represented.
Be good and go to the
corner
room and see how they have arranged things for Sergius Ivanich!
She had piled up the fire, wedging the pot that held the remains of the soup into a
corner
of the grate, so that the grandfather might find it warm when he came in at six.
These ten years he had lived in this hole, occupying the same
corner
of the stable, doing the same task along the black galleries without every seeing daylight.
And exclamations greeted this scheme, a rebellion was germinating in this little corner, nearly six hundred metres beneath the earth.
But around these buildings the space extended, and he had not imagined it so large, changed into an inky sea by the ascending waves of coal soot, bristling with high trestles which carried the rails of the foot-bridges, encumbered in one
corner
with the timber supply, which looked like the harvest of a mown forest.
Brigands who would take away even your shirt at the
corner
of a wood."
The administration building was there at the
corner
of the road, a veritable brick palace, where the great people from Paris, princes and generals and members of the Government, came every autumn to give large dinners.
As the Company reserved this new experiment for the captains, the workpeople called this
corner
of the hamlet the settlement of the Bas-de-Soie, just as they called their own settlement Paie-tes-Dettes, in good-humoured irony of their wretchedness.
One
corner
of the table was free; but the mother only was eating there.
Vegetables for Levaque's soup, potatoes and leeks, lay about on a
corner
of the table, half-peeled, taken up and dropped a dozen times in the midst of continual gossiping.
She was overcome, and pulled up the skirt of her gown; with her nail she cut the thread and drew out some half-franc pieces from a
corner
of the hem.
He swore, exclaimed that it was a sacred promise; then, when he had got the three pieces, he kissed her, tickled her, made her laugh, and would have pushed things to an extreme in this
corner
of the pit-bank, which was the winter chamber of their household, if she had not again refused, saying that it would not give her any pleasure.
Derelict trains were lying about, and piles of old rotting wood, while a dense vegetation was reconquering this
corner
of ground, displaying itself in thick grass, and springing up in young trees that were already vigorous.
The girl, certainly a virgin, was struggling and resisting with low whispered supplications, while the lad in silence was pushing her towards the darkness of a
corner
of the shed, still upright, under which there were piles of old mouldy rope.
From five to six hundred miners were there in front of the little platform, which was placed in the corner, and the bidding went on so rapidly that one only heard a deep tumult of voices, of shouted figures drowned by other figures.
As her father turned the
corner
of the church, Catherine perceived Chaval, and, hastening to join him, they took together the Montsou road.
At the
corner
of the Joiselle road, beside the Administration buildings, in a spot enclosed by fences, crowds were watching a cock-fight, two large red cocks, armed with steel spurs, their breasts torn and bleeding.
When one lives like the beasts with face bent towards the earth, one needs a
corner
of falsehood where one can amuse oneself by regaling on the things one will never possess.
And as she took refuge in a
corner
he turned on her mother.
A rosy
corner
was still obstinate, and she pushed it back with her finger, and then buttoned herself up, and was now quite black and shapeless in her old gown.
The deserted square, obstructed by great motionless shadows, seemed like the
corner
of an abandoned fortress.
Only the musicians' platform had been replaced by a table and three chairs in one corner; and the room was furnished with forms ranged along the floor.
There was no more credit to be had anywhere and not an old saucepan to sell; they might lie down in a
corner
to die like mangy dogs.
One morning, near Piolaine, the ground was found cracked above the north gallery of Mirou which had fallen in the day before; and on the following day the ground subsided within the Voreux, shaking a
corner
of a suburb to such an extent that two houses nearly disappeared.
He had taken ambush in a vacant space, behind a paling opposite an obscure grocery shop, situated at the
corner
of a lane.
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