Бывало, отвернётся к окошку, пошепчет, поплюёт — и как рукой!
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He’d turn to the window, mutter a bit, spit — and it was gone as if by magic!
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— Тут, в нашем уезде, ваше превосходительство, — сказал он, — лет десять назад служил акцизный Яков Васильич. “Here in our district, Your Excellency,” he said, “there served, some ten years back, an excise officer, Yakov Vasilyich.
Заговаривал зубы — первый сорт. He charmed away toothaches — first rate.
Сила ему такая дадена… Such a power was given him…”
The words in this sentence
- быва́ло
- used to happen; sometimes (particle) — бывать
- отвернётся
- he turns away (3sg pfv) — отвернуться
- к
- to, toward (+ dat)
- око́шку
- little window (dat sg, dimin.) — окошко
- поше́пчет
- will whisper a while (3sg of пошептать) — пошептать
- поплюёт
- will spit a little (3sg of поплевать) — поплевать
- и
- and; also, even
- как
- how; as, like
- руко́й
- hand (instr sg) — рука
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