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В третьем часу утра он вышел из дому и постучался в окно к приказчику.

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Some time after two in the morning he went out of the house and knocked at the steward’s window.

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Генерал не спал всю ночь, ходил из угла в угол и стонал… The general did not sleep the whole night; he walked from corner to corner and groaned…

The words in this sentence

в
in, into
тре́тьем
third (prep sg m/n) — третий
часу́
hour (в часу: prep sg) — час
утра́
morning (gen sg) — утро
он
he
вы́шел
went out (past m of выйти) — выйти
из
from, out of (+ gen)
до́му
house (dat sg) — дом
и
and; also, even
постуча́лся
knocked (past m of постучаться) — постучаться
окно́
window (nom/acc sg)
к
to, toward (+ dat)
прика́зчику
to the clerk, steward (dat sg) (arch.) — приказчик

А. П. Чехов, «Лошадиная фамилия», 1885 · sentence 40 of 56

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