With Fire and Sword. Генрик Сенкевич
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Название: With Fire and Sword

Автор: Генрик Сенкевич

Издательство: Public Domain

Жанр: Зарубежная классика

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СКАЧАТЬ more couriers rush in. "Beaten are the Poles, – beaten!"

      After them follow a detachment of Tartars. They march slowly, for they surround men on foot, evidently prisoners.

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      The author uses Skshetuski, the family name of his hero, oftener than Yan, his Christian name, prefixing Pan = Mr. in both cases. I have taken the liberty of using Yan oftener than Skshetuski because more easily pronounced in English.

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      Tear-trousers.

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      Tear-cowl.

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      Dog entrails.

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      Mouse entrails.

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      This is the popular form in Little Russian; therefore it is quoted.

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      The right bank of the Dnieper was called Russian; the left, Tartar.

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      Hmelnitski is made to apply the title Tsar to the Khan, either to give him more importance in the eyes of the Cossacks or because Tugai Bey was present.

1

The author uses Skshetuski, the family name of his hero, oftener than Yan, his Christian name, prefixing Pan = Mr. in both cases. I have taken the liberty of using Yan oftener than Skshetuski because more easily pronounced in English.

2

Tear-trousers.

3

Tear-cowl.

4

Dog entrails.

5

Mouse entrails.

6

This is the popular form in Little Russian; therefore it is quoted.

7

The right bank of the Dnieper was called Russian; the left, Tartar.

8

Hmelnitski is made to apply the title Tsar to the Khan, either to give him more importance in the eyes of the Cossacks or because Tugai Bey was present.

9

The author uses sometimes the word vudka and sometimes gorailka. The first is Polish; the second Little Russian. Both mean a liquor distilled generally from rye. When vudka is used it might mean that the liquor was from Poland, and when gorailka that it was of Ukraine origin; but here the words are used indifferently.

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