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Между прочим и приказчик Булдеева Иван Евсеич пришёл к нему и посоветовал полечиться заговором.

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Among others, Buldeyev's clerk Ivan Yevseich also came to him and advised him to try a cure by charm.

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На предложение вырвать больной зуб генерал ответил отказом. To the suggestion that the bad tooth be pulled out the general answered with a refusal.

Все домашние — жена, дети, прислуга, даже поварёнок Петька предлагали каждый своё средство. The whole household — his wife, the children, the servants, even Petka the kitchen boy — each proposed a remedy of his own.

The words in this sentence

ме́жду
between, among
про́чим
other (instr m/n; между прочим = by the way) — прочий
и
and; also, even
прика́зчик
shop clerk, estate steward (nom sg) (arch.)
Булде́ева
Buldeyev's (gen/acc) (name) — булдеев
ива́н
Ivan (name, nom)
Евсе́ич
Yevseich (name, colloq. patronymic)
пришёл
he came, arrived (past m of прийти) — прийти
к
to, toward (+ dat)
нему́
him (dat of он after preposition) — он
посове́товал
advised (past m of посоветовать) — посоветовать
полечи́ться
to get some treatment, be treated (inf, refl)
за́говором
with a charm, incantation (inst sg) — заговор

А. П. Чехов, «Лошадиная фамилия», 1885 · sentence 6 of 56

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