Terenty

My father, Terenty, taught accounting at a technical school and my mother, Vera Grigolia, was a housewife.

Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008

His servants too — Terenty and Vaska — in their own way noticed the change that had taken place in Pierre.

War and Peace 2003

And Pierre, noticing that Terenty wanted a chat, generally kept him there.

War and Peace 2003

The coachman, Terenty, fastened the horses, who kept whisking away the flies, to a tree, and, treading down the grass, lay down in the shade of a birch and smoked his shag, while the never-ceasing shrieks of delight of the children floated across to him from the bathing-place.

Anna Karenina 2003

When he came to himself after his illness he saw in attendance on him two of his servants, Terenty and Vaska, who had come from Moscow; and also his cousin the eldest princess, who had been living on his estate at Elets and hearing of his rescue and illness had come to look after him.

War and Peace 2003

The coachman, Terenty, fastened the horses, who kept whisking away the flies, to a tree, and, treading down the grass, lay down in the shade of a birch and smoked his shag, while the never-ceasing shrieks of delight of the children floated across to him from the bathing-place.

Chapter VIII. Part III 1917

"The ducks flew by here the other day, Terenty," says Danilka, still rubbing his hand.

The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

Fyokla, a little beggar-girl of six, is running through the village, looking for Terenty the cobbler.

The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

Terenty bends down to Fyokla, and his grim, drunken face is overspread with a smile, such as come into people's faces when they look at something little, foolish, and absurd, but warmly loved.

The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

The beggar-girl runs behind the huts to the kitchen-gardens and there finds Terenty; the tall old man with a thin, pock-marked face, very long legs, and bare feet, dressed in a woman's tattered jacket, is standing near the vegetable plots, looking with drowsy, drunken eyes at the dark storm-cloud.

The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882