Vulgar words in Tent Life in Siberia (Page 1)
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~ ~ ~ Sentence 744 ~ ~ ~
Hoping in the bitterness of my heart that we _should_ run against a snag, I lay down sullenly in the rain on the wet soaking grass of our raft, and tried to forget my misery in sleep.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,430 ~ ~ ~
The lady rose with a graceful courtesy and they began a sort of half dance half pantomime about the room, advancing and retiring in perfect time to the music, crossing over and whirling swiftly around, the man apparently making love to the lady, and the lady repulsing all his advances, turning away and hiding her face with her handkerchief.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,897 ~ ~ ~
Sleeping in short snatches, between shivers, to the accompaniment of a jangling dinner-bell and a driver's shouts, and getting out into an arctic temperature every two or three hours, night and day, for a whole week, reduces one to a very fagged and jaded condition.