Setch

At another, folly simply took possession of him, and he drank and squandered everything away, was in debt to every one in the Setch, and, in addition to that, stole like a street thief.

Taras Bulba 2003

And not only did they arrive unharmed at the Setch, but they brought a gold-embroidered vesture for the archimandrite at the Mezhigorsky

Taras Bulba 2003

The Setch consisted of over sixty kurens, each of which greatly resembled a separate independent republic, but still more a school or seminary of children, always ready for anything.

Taras Bulba 2003

And let us also drink together to the Setch, that it may stand long for the ruin of the Mussulmans, and that every year there may issue forth from it young men, each better, each handsomer than the other.

Taras Bulba 2003

Tovkatch, and gave with it a strict command to appear with his whole force at the Setch the very instant he should receive a message from him.

Taras Bulba 2003

He wondered whom of his former comrades he should meet at the Setch.

Taras Bulba 2003

Such was the Setch, which had such an attraction for young men.

Taras Bulba 2003

The last, and strongest, still uttered some incoherent speeches; finally even they, yielding to the power of intoxication, flung themselves down and all the Setch slept.

Taras Bulba 2003

Setch, the military brotherhood of the Cossacks, living under open skies, picturesquely and heroically, he has drawn a picture of his romantic ideal, which if far from perfect at any rate seemed to him preferable to the grey tedium of a city peopled with government officials.

Taras Bulba 2003

Setch, all the Zaporozhtzi turned their heads back.

Taras Bulba 2003