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... thousand miles , are bound in icy chains for eight months in the twelve . In June , when the winter goes away , suddenly the slopes of a few favored valleys grow green with reindeer moss ; slight specks of verdure in a landscape which ...
... thousand miles , are bound in icy chains for eight months in the twelve . In June , when the winter goes away , suddenly the slopes of a few favored valleys grow green with reindeer moss ; slight specks of verdure in a landscape which ...
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... thousand miles . Cut in the great forests of Vo- logda and Nijni Konets , the pines are dragged to the water- side , and knitted by rude hands into these broad , floating masses . At the towns some sturdy helpers may be hired for ...
... thousand miles . Cut in the great forests of Vo- logda and Nijni Konets , the pines are dragged to the water- side , and knitted by rude hands into these broad , floating masses . At the towns some sturdy helpers may be hired for ...
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... thousand miles of road and river to Solovetsk , is now on his way to the shrines at Kief . As my horses rattled down the Dvina bluffs I saw this humble pilgrim on his knees , his little pack laid by , and his forehead bent upon the ...
... thousand miles of road and river to Solovetsk , is now on his way to the shrines at Kief . As my horses rattled down the Dvina bluffs I saw this humble pilgrim on his knees , his little pack laid by , and his forehead bent upon the ...
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... thousands of such vagrants roam about the country , telling crowds of gapers what they have seen in some holy place , where miracles are daily performed by the bones of saints . They show you a cross from Troitsa ; they give you a ...
... thousands of such vagrants roam about the country , telling crowds of gapers what they have seen in some holy place , where miracles are daily performed by the bones of saints . They show you a cross from Troitsa ; they give you a ...
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... thousand miles . On the river he takes an oar , on the wayside he endures with incredible fortitude the burn- ing sun by day , the biting frost at night . In Moscow I heard the history of three sisters , born in that city , who have ...
... thousand miles . On the river he takes an oar , on the wayside he endures with incredible fortitude the burn- ing sun by day , the biting frost at night . In Moscow I heard the history of three sisters , born in that city , who have ...
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