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Sentences starting with russian

Russian wenches, by heaven, so they are! [2]

Sentences ending with russian

For Gallicisms I won't be responsible," she remarked, turning to the author: "I have neither the money nor the time, like Prince Galitsyn, to engage a master to teach me Russian! [2]
Toll explained to Volkonski in Russian. [2]
Je vous demande un peu,"*(4) said he, continually changing from French to Russian. [2]
You have been to Paris and have remained Russian. [2]
The consciousness that this would be so and would always be so was and is present in the heart of every Russian. [2]
Marya Dmitrievna always spoke in Russian. [2]
One of them said something strange, not in Russian. [2]
Then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in Russian. [2]
He himself did not yet know what he would say, but he began to speak eagerly, occasionally lapsing into French or expressing himself in bookish Russian. [2]
On the Continent, in addition to the tribute paid to it by M. Guizot, it was translated into Dutch, into German, and into Russian. [6]

Short sentences using russian

Her husband is a Russian. [5]

Sentences containing russian two or more times

Everyone was dissatisfied with the general course of affairs in the Russian army, but no one anticipated any danger of invasion of the Russian provinces, and no one thought the war would extend farther than the western, the Polish, provinces. [2]
Where did this virile, blood-full, throbbing Russian literature come from; this Russian painting of Verestchagin, that smites us like a sword with the consciousness of the tremendous meaning of existence? [4]
Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days' truce. [2]
At a distance the mass of the Russian people seem as monotonous as their steppes and their commune villages, but the Russian novelists find characters in this mass perfectly individualized, and, indeed, give us the impression that all Russians are irregular polygons. [4]
It was plain that the Russian nest was ruined and destroyed, but in place of the Russian order of life that had been destroyed, Pierre unconsciously felt that a quite different, firm, French order had been established over this ruined nest. [2]
Petya recognized the sound of Russian voices and saw the dark figures of Russian prisoners round their campfires. [2]
The most compassionate Russian commanders, those favorable to the French--and even the Frenchmen in the Russian service--could do nothing for the prisoners. [2]
He is as right as other historians who look for the explanation of historic events in the will of one man; he is as right as the Russian historians who maintain that Napoleon was drawn to Moscow by the skill of the Russian commanders. [2]
Countess Bezukhova was present among other Russian ladies who had followed the sovereign from Petersburg to Vilna and eclipsed the refined Polish ladies by her massive, so called Russian type of beauty. [2]
Besides it was pleasant, after his reception by the Austrians, to speak if not in Russian (for they were speaking French) at least with a Russian who would, he supposed, share the general Russian antipathy to the Austrians which was then particularly strong. [2]

More example sentences with the word russian in them

So much the worse for the Russian army.... Go on... harder, harder! [2]
Balashev remembered these words, "So long as a single armed foe remains on Russian soil," but some complex feeling restrained him. [2]
My sympathies are with the Russian revolution, of course. [5]
Zdrzhinski, the officer with the long mustache, spoke grandiloquently of the Saltanov dam being "a Russian Thermopylae," and of how a deed worthy of antiquity had been performed by General Raevski. [2]
Besides this, the whole staff of the Russian army was now reorganized. [2]
Besides Russian families who had taken refuge here from the fire with their belongings, there were several French soldiers in a variety of clothing. [2]
The Russian Revolution, which we must seek to understand and not condemn, the Allied defeats that are its consequences, can only make our purpose the firmer to put forth all our strength for the building up of a better world. [9]
The highroad on which he had come out was thronged with caleches, carriages of all sorts, and Russian and Austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and some not. [2]
Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and Russia's glory were led to destruction. [2]
Where, how, and when had this young countess, educated by an emigree French governess, imbibed from the Russian air she breathed that spirit and obtained that manner which the pas de chale * would, one would have supposed, long ago have effaced? [2]
But whether they were moving or stationary, whether they were French or Russian, could not be discovered from the Shevardino Redoubt. [2]
Austrian column guides were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds of the advance. [2]
On chance news-stands were displayed newspapers in Russian, Bohemian, Arabic, Italian, Hebrew, Polish, German-none in English. [4]
He dismounted and went up into the porch of a large country house which had remained intact between the Russian and French forces. [2]
A French official wearing a scarf came up to the right of the row of prisoners and read out the sentence in Russian and in French. [2]
On the twenty-fourth, we are told, Napoleon attacked this advanced post and took it, and, on the twenty-sixth, attacked the whole Russian army, which was in position on the field of Borodino. [2]
Having forced his way out of the crowd of fugitives, Prince Andrew, trying to keep near Kutuzov, saw on the slope of the hill amid the smoke a Russian battery that was still firing and Frenchmen running toward it. [2]
The only difference was that the Russian army moved voluntarily, with no such threat of destruction as hung over the French, and that the sick Frenchmen were left behind in enemy hands while the sick Russians left behind were among their own people. [2]
The second order was that Poniatowski, moving to the village through the wood, should turn the Russian left flank. [2]
Among the men was an Italian prisoner, an officer of the French army; and Nicholas felt that the presence of that prisoner enhanced his own importance as a Russian hero. [2]
And by this visit of the Emperor to Moscow the strength of the Russian army was trebled. [2]
Often, speaking with vexation of some failure or irregularity, he would say: "What can one do with our Russian peasants? [2]
An entire and unsuspected Russian army in reserve! [5]
Though it was unintelligible why he had told it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pavlovna and the others appreciated Prince Hippolyte's social tact in so agreeably ending Pierre's unpleasant and unamiable outburst. [2]
But as it turns out, just at that moment a third enemy rises before us--namely the Orthodox Russian soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! [2]
We had General Todtleben (the famous defender of Sebastopol, during the siege,) and many inferior army and also navy officers, and a number of unofficial Russian ladies and gentlemen. [5]
If you wish to see what abysses servility can descend, present yourself before a Baden-Baden shopkeeper in the character of a Russian prince. [5]
In a letter to his old comrade, Prince Polgorouki, then Russian Minister at Naples, he recalls the days of their delightful intercourse at the D'Oubrils': "Time dispels charms and illusions. [4]
I have written to her, but I can not direct the epistle because her name is one of those nine-jointed Russian affairs, and there are not letters enough in our alphabet to hold out. [5]
Willarski was married to a Russian heiress who had a large estate in Orel province, and he occupied a temporary post in the commissariat department in that town. [2]
For the first time, after a fortnight's retreat, the Russian troops had halted and after a fight had not only held the field but had repulsed the French. [2]
How such a thought would have insulted him the night we lay in our cabin planning European trips and brown stone houses on Russian Hill! [5]
And above all," thought Prince Andrew, "one believes in him because he's Russian, despite the novel by Genlis and the French proverbs, and because his voice shook when he said: 'What they have brought us to! [2]
I have since thought it a peculiarly amusing trick of fate that the palace of the Russian embassy--the property of the autocrat Nicholas--was obliged to celebrate with a brilliant display of lights the movement for liberty in a sister country. [10]
The explanation of this strange fact given by Russian military historians (to the effect that Kutuzov hindered an attack) is unfounded, for we know that he could not restrain the troops from attacking at Vyazma and Tarutino. [2]
It was in this park that that fellow with an unpronounceable name made the attempt upon the Russian Czar's life last spring with a pistol. [5]
He did not think of doubting Freemasonry itself, but suspected that Russian Masonry had taken a wrong path and deviated from its original principles. [2]
He liked most things continental; he found his social pleasures in that polite Bohemia which indulges in midnight suppers and permits ladies to smoke cigarettes after dinner, which dines at rich men's tables and is hob-a- nob with Russian Counts, Persian Ministers, and German Barons. [11]
Except your Kutuzov, there is not a single Russian in command of a column! [2]
When Pierre remembered them afterwards they all seemed misty figures to him except Platon Karataev, who always remained in his mind a most vivid and precious memory and the personification of everything Russian, kindly, and round. [2]
I saw through the windows of the long Galerie de Diane the roues of the Regency at supper, and at table with them a dark, semi-barbarian little man in a coat of Russian sable, the coolest head in Europe at a drinking-bout. [4]
They rode through the village of Rykonty, past tethered French hussar horses, past sentinels and men who saluted their colonel and stared with curiosity at a Russian uniform, and came out at the other end of the village. [2]
He stopped at the threshold and asked in Russian whether Drubetskoy lived there. [2]
On the contrary, the soldiers became aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other Russian columns were moving in the same direction. [2]
He looked at the snowflakes fluttering above the fire and remembered a Russian winter at his warm, bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. [2]
At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was brought into Wischau from our outposts. [2]
The two Emperors, the Russian with his heir the Tsarevich, and the Austrian with the Archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. [2]
On October 23 the Russian troops were crossing the river Enns. [2]
The rapidity of the Russian pursuit was just as destructive to our army as the flight of the French was to theirs. [2]
Dr. Hamel was the Russian gentleman of the party which made the ascent at the time of the famous disaster. [5]
When I read the Russian despatch further my dream of world peace vanished. [5]
March on, destroy the Russian army.... You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. [2]
But the army, the Russian army, everyone declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. [2]
The pursuit of the Russian army, about which Napoleon was so concerned, produced an unheard-of result. [2]
The men in the Russian army were so worn out by this continuous marching at the rate of twenty-seven miles a day that they could not go any faster. [2]
The aim of the Russian army was to pursue the French. [2]
Nicholas was with the Russian army in Paris when the news of his father's death reached him. [2]
The part of the room behind the columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated with red light like a Russian church during evening service. [2]
I have favored the project for connecting the United States with Europe by an Atlantic telegraph, and a similar project to extend the telegraph from San Francisco to connect by a Pacific telegraph with the line which is being extended across the Russian Empire. [7]
At one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of Russian wounded. [2]
The idea of the overthrow of the Russian dynasty was pleasant to Mark Twain. [5]
It began with the one in 1820 when the Russian Dr. Hamel's three guides were lost in a crevice of the glacier, and it recorded the delivery of the remains in the valley by the slow-moving glacier forty-one years later. [5]
That movement from the Nizhni to the Ryazan, Tula, and Kaluga roads was so natural that even the Russian marauders moved in that direction, and demands were sent from Petersburg for Kutuzov to take his army that way. [2]
He saw over the mist that in a hollow between two hills near the village of Pratzen, the Russian columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into the mist. [2]
Why, my friend the Judge is not only, as it turns out, not a dead lion, nor even a living one,--he is the rugged Russian Bear! [7]
On the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the French to suppose that here--in the center--the main Russian forces were concentrated. [2]
When dispatching Balashev, the Emperor repeated to him the words that he would not make peace so long as a single armed enemy remained on Russian soil and told him to transmit those words to Napoleon. [2]
My authorities make the British Empire not much short of a fourth larger than the Russian Empire. [5]
Our Emperor joined the army to encourage it to defend every inch of Russian soil and not to retreat. [2]
The other was that vague and quite Russian feeling of contempt for everything conventional, artificial, and human--for everything the majority of men regard as the greatest good in the world. [2]
The same thing that took place in Moscow had happened in all the towns and villages on Russian soil beginning with Smolensk, without the participation of Count Rostopchin and his broadsheets. [2]
How was it that the Russian army, which when numerically weaker than the French had given battle at Borodino, did not achieve its purpose when it had surrounded the French on three sides and when its aim was to capture them? [2]
Rostov learned later that Russian and Austrian soldiers had been firing at one another. [2]
The very day that Napoleon issued the order to cross the Niemen, and his vanguard, driving off the Cossacks, crossed the Russian frontier, Alexander spent the evening at the entertainment given by his aides-de-camp at Bennigsen's country house. [2]
The whole of that is intelligible to me--and sane and rational, too --except the remark about the Inauguration of a Russian Chinese. [5]
Prince Andrew felt that either the actions of Kutuzov's army interested the Minister of War less than any of the other matters he was concerned with, or he wanted to give the Russian special messenger that impression. [2]
It was true that a view over nearly the whole Russian position and the greater part of the enemy's opened out from this battery. [2]
At dinner the talk turned on the latest political news: Napoleon's seizure of the Duke of Oldenburg's territory, and the Russian Note, hostile to Napoleon, which had been sent to all the European courts. [2]
That city is taken; the Russian army suffers heavier losses than the opposing armies had suffered in the former war from Austerlitz to Wagram. [2]
In the Emperors' suite were the picked young orderly officers of the Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian. [2]
For Russian historians, strange and terrible to say, Napoleon--that most insignificant tool of history who never anywhere, even in exile, showed human dignity--Napoleon is the object of adulation and enthusiasm; he is grand. [2]
This spite increased still more when, on calling over the roll of prisoners, it was found that in the bustle of leaving Moscow one Russian soldier, who had pretended to suffer from colic, had escaped. [2]
It was that spring that Gorky and Tchaikowski, the Russian revolutionists, came to America hoping to arouse interest in their cause. [5]
Behind these were some Russian sharpshooters. [2]
Higher up stood some Russian infantry, neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the fleeing crowd. [2]
I said with some asperity: "Fragment of a Russian General! [5]
The flight was so rapid that the Russian army pursuing the French could not keep up with them; cavalry and artillery horses broke down, and the information received of the movements of the French was never reliable. [2]
The facts clearly show that Napoleon did not foresee the danger of the advance on Moscow, nor did Alexander and the Russian commanders then think of luring Napoleon on, but quite the contrary. [2]
A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. [2]
There they all seemed to be Poles--all under the Russian crown--but here they're all regular Germans. [2]
It is so searching and so effective that it keeps the general level of Russian intellect and education down to that of the Czar. [5]
His thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one's fingers after a Russian bath. [2]
There was a rustling among the crowd and it again subsided, so that Pierre distinctly heard the pleasantly human voice of the Emperor saying with emotion: "I never doubted the devotion of the Russian nobles, but today it has surpassed my expectations. [2]
A prisoner, the Russian soldier the Frenchman had pushed away, was sitting near the fire patting something with his hand. [2]
He is a Russian seigneur who has had misfortunes, but he is a man. [2]
But today the Russian Revolution sounds the keynote. [9]
Asking about the Russian prisoners with that detachment, Dolokhov said: "A horrid business dragging these corpses about with one! [2]
There is a Russian princess, a fair woman with cool observant eyes, making herself agreeable to a mixed company in three languages. [4]
On seeing the Russian general he threw back his head, with its long hair curling to his shoulders, in a majestically royal manner, and looked inquiringly at the French colonel. [2]
Part of the Russian force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes and part were leaving these Pratzen Heights which he intended to attack and regarded as the key to the position. [2]

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