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Kiev
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  • A line of cold weather squawls racing northeast was just on the horizon as he approached the Kiev.†   (source)
  • "Nobody has chicken Kiev in their car unit," she said with her mouth full.†   (source)
  • Course back to Kiev is one-eight-five, true.†   (source)
  • Be advised that Kiev has a pair of Forgers in the air, thirty miles east, heading your way.†   (source)
  • Jesus, you see how close they are to the Kiev group?†   (source)
  • He'd been briefed on the Seahawk immediately before flying from the Kiev.†   (source)
  • Kiev has an S-band air search just come on.†   (source)
  • Five minutes later he was aboard the Kiev, still pale with rage.†   (source)
  • Granted she makes a nice force flag, but they could do the same thing with Kiev.†   (source)
  • One night they cross a bridge over the Dnieper with the domes and blooming trees of Kiev looming ahead and ash blowing everywhere and prostitutes bundled in the alleys.†   (source)
  • But he had never hit a tighter mark from a greater distance than when he noted his friend's interest in Katerina from Kiev.†   (source)
  • It took a moment for the Count to realize that this was none other than Mishka's Katerina, the poet from Kiev whom he had lived with back in the 1920s.†   (source)
  • …a field like snow; and not all that far from Jutta, the fuhrer raises a glass of warm (but never boiled) milk to his lips, a slice of Oldenburg black bread on his plate and a whole apple beside it, his daily breakfast; while in a ravine outside Kiev, two inmates rub their hands in sand because they have become slippery, and then they take up the stretcher again while a sonderkommando stirs the fire below them with a steel pole; a wagtail flits from flagstone to flagstone in a courtyard…†   (source)
  • In fact, having captured Minsk, Kiev, and Smolensk, by late October the German forces had already advanced nearly six hundred miles and were approaching Moscow from the north and south in a classic pincer formation.†   (source)
  • Half an hour later, after the Count had sent Mishka off to a discussion on the future of meter (at which Katerina from Kiev would presumably be in attendance), he headed to the Boyarsky, apparently destined to dine on duck alone.†   (source)
  • He is merely given a Minus Six: the administrative sentence that allows him to roam Russia at will, as long as he never sets foot in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Kharkov, Yekaterinburg, and Tibilisi—that is, the country's six largest cities.†   (source)
  • It had been four years since Mishka had moved to Kiev with Katerina; it had been one year since she had left him for another man; and six months since he had returned to St. Petersburg to barricade himself once again behind his books.†   (source)
  • Particularly when he learned that at the end of the evening, as the group was about to climb into three different cabs, Mishka reminded Zelinsky that he had forgotten his hat; and when Zelinsky dashed back inside to retrieve it, Katerina from Kiev leaned from her cab to call: Here, Mikhail Fyodorovich, why don't you ride with us….†   (source)
  • And as it was the third week of June, the Fourth Annual Congress of RAPP was underway, but Mishka was not in attendance, having taken a leave from his post at the university in order to finish his short story anthology (now in five volumes) and to follow his Katerina back to Kiev, where she was teaching in an elementary school.†   (source)
  • "I'm just doing my same old little housewife things, just whipping up a little chicken Kiev, baking some bread, chocolate cherries and mandarin oranges for dessert.†   (source)
  • Do you require an escort back to Kiev?†   (source)
  • The Kingfisher Flight "Kingfisher, warning, warning, the Amerikantsi have increased speed," Kiev cautioned.†   (source)
  • For starters, they'll have to move Kiev offshore to give themselves some kind of air defense against Kennedy.†   (source)
  • It had required a Helix helicopter from the Kiev to the Tarawa, then a U.S. Navy Sea King to Norfolk.†   (source)
  • He is, in fact, a graduate of the higher naval school for political officers at Kiev and the GRU intelligence academy.†   (source)
  • The Kiev group is under total EMCON.†   (source)
  • The Russians had split into three groups, with the carrier Kiev easternmost to face the Kennedy's battle group.†   (source)
  • The Kingfisher Flight "Kingfisher flight, this is Kiev," called the carrier's air operations officer.†   (source)
  • Navy Orions and air force Sentries had been shadowing them for days now, and the day before, he'd been told, the Soviets had sent an armed fighter from the Kiev to the nearest Sentry.†   (source)
  • The North Atlantic The YAK-36 Forger had left the Kiev half an hour before, guided first by gyro compass and now by the ESM pod on the fighter's stubby rudder fin.†   (source)
  • I gather that the Soviets will want to use the Kiev and Moskva groups inshore, with Kirov guarding them out to sea—but Kennedy's relocation will make them rethink that.†   (source)
  • One is built around their carrier Kiev, two cruisers and four destroyers; the second, probably the force flag, is built around Kirov, with three additional cruisers and six destroyers; and the third is centered on Moskva, three more cruisers and seven destroyers.†   (source)
  • Between Kiev and Kirov.†   (source)
  • Distance to Kiev is 318.†   (source)
  • How about Kiev?†   (source)
  • Oleg, another Prince of Kiev, was killed by a snake that came out of the skull of his favorite horse. and believed that a man should do something socially useful in his practical life.†   (source)
  • There was the CCC, draining swamps and planting trees in the distance, and on the road was this wanderer population without any special Jerusalem or Kiev in mind, or relics to kiss, or any idea of putting off sins, but only the hope their chances might be better in the next town.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I was of Kiev," Kritsky replied angrily, his face darkening.†   (source)
  • "These aren't needed," said she, putting aside some plates of Kiev ware.†   (source)
  • Le prochain—your Kiev peasants to whom you want to do good.†   (source)
  • [DUNYASHA has already returned with the coffee-pot and is making the coffee, VARYA stands near the door] I go about all day, looking after the house, and I think all the time, if only you could marry a rich man, then I'd be happy and would go away somewhere by myself, then to Kiev …. to Moscow, and so on, from one holy place to another.†   (source)
  • "This is from Kiev, Dmitri Fyodorovitch," she went on reverently, "from the relics of the Holy Martyr, Varvara.†   (source)
  • The Kiev Grenadiers, Podolian….†   (source)
  • "You're of the Kiev university?" said Konstantin Levin to Kritsky, to break the awkward silence that followed.†   (source)
  • Do you know who this is?" he said, addressing his brother, and indicating the gentleman in the jerkin: "This is Mr. Kritsky, my friend from Kiev, a very remarkable man.†   (source)
  • After his liberation he reached Orel, and on the third day there, when preparing to go to Kiev, he fell ill and was laid up for three months.†   (source)
  • And he dreamed that the Holy Virgin Mother of the Kiev catacombs came to him and said, 'Believe in me and I will make you whole.'†   (source)
  • His new brethren gave him letters to the Kiev and Odessa Masons and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity.†   (source)
  • When he reached Kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office and explained to them his intentions and wishes.†   (source)
  • When I was in Kiev, Crazy Cyril says to me (he's one of God's own and goes barefoot summer and winter), he says, 'Why are you not going to the right place?†   (source)
  • In Kiev Pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the largest landowner of the province.†   (source)
  • He imagined only important possibilities: "If the enemy attacks the right flank," he said to himself, "the Kiev grenadiers and the Podolsk chasseurs must hold their position till reserves from the center come up.†   (source)
  • Soon after his admission to the Masonic Brotherhood, Pierre went to the Kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to what he should do on his estates.†   (source)
  • But at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses of the French were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in disorder and was retreating upon the Kiev grenadiers.†   (source)
  • The pilgrim woman was appeased and, being encouraged to talk, gave a long account of Father Amphilochus, who led so holy a life that his hands smelled of incense, and how on her last visit to Kiev some monks she knew let her have the keys of the catacombs, and how she, taking some dried bread with her, had spent two days in the catacombs with the saints.†   (source)
  • …the look Platon had given him as he sat under the tree, of the shot heard from that spot, of the dog's howl, of the guilty faces of the two Frenchmen as they ran past him, of the lowered and smoking gun, and of Karataev's absence at this halt—and he was on the point of realizing that Karataev had been killed, but just at that instant, he knew not why, the recollection came to his mind of a summer evening he had spent with a beautiful Polish lady on the veranda of his house in Kiev.†   (source)
  • After passing a chasseur regiment and in the lines of the Kiev grenadiers—fine fellows busy with similar peaceful affairs—near the shelter of the regimental commander, higher than and different from the others, Prince Andrew came out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man.†   (source)
  • To Kiev?†   (source)
  • Below the height on which the Kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of the suite pointed out to Bagration a French column that was outflanking us.†   (source)
  • During the first half of the journey—from Kremenchug to Kiev—all Rostov's thoughts, as is usual in such cases, were behind him, with the squadron; but when he had gone more than halfway he began to forget his three roans and Dozhoyveyko, his quartermaster, and to wonder anxiously how things would be at Otradnoe and what he would find there.†   (source)
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