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Слышен вторично собачий визг и крик: «Не пущай!»

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A second time the dog’s yelping is heard, and a shout: “Don’t let her go!”

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За ней гонится человек в ситцевой крахмальной рубахе и расстёгнутой жилетке. After her races a man in a starched cotton shirt and an unbuttoned waistcoat.

Он бежит за ней и, подавшись туловищем вперёд, падает на землю и хватает собаку за задние лапы. He runs after her and, pitching his body forward, falls to the ground and seizes the dog by her hind legs.

Из лавок высовываются сонные физиономии, и скоро около дровяного склада, словно из земли выросши, собирается толпа. Sleepy faces poke out of the shops, and soon a crowd has gathered by the timber yard, as though it had sprung up out of the ground.

The words in this sentence

слы́шен
audible (short adj m) — слышный
втори́чно
a second time, again (adv)
соба́чий
dog's, canine (nom m adj)
визг
squeal, yelp (nom/acc sg)
и
and; also, even
крик
shout, cry
не
not
пуща́й
let him, may he (dial. for пусть)

А. П. Чехов, «Хамелеон», 1884 · sentence 7 of 53

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