cabbage-soup

Gerasim took up his spoon again and went on with his cabbage-soup.

Mumu 2006

At that time the peasant woman cautiously carried him, in both hands, a plate of cabbage-soup.

The Wife 2004

My rank as a general and my fame have robbed me for ever of cabbage-soup and savoury pies, and goose with apple-sauce, and bream with boiled grain.

The Wife 2004

At dinner you had cabbage-soup and boiled grain, and at supper the same again.

The Witch, and other stories 2004

And the dirty peasant woman, standing with her body thrust forward, and the cabbage-soup which Ryabovsky began eating greedily, and the hut, and their whole way of life, which she at first had so loved for its simplicity and artistic disorder, seemed horrible to her now.

The Wife 2004

I put up at the inn which is frequented by all who travel in those parts, and where, by the way, there is no one you can order to roast your pheasant and cook your cabbage-soup, because the three veterans who have charge of the inn are either so stupid, or so drunk, that it is impossible to knock any sense at all out of them.

A Hero of Our Time 2003

Contrary to his habits Mayakin ate slowly, stirring his spoon in his plate of cabbage-soup for a long time, and examining the soup closely.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

After eating a hearty meal consisting of cabbage-soup, roast pig, meat-cake, pastry with milk, jelly, sweet cakes, and vodki, he called his woman cook to him and ordered her to be seated and sing songs, Simeonovitch accompanying her on the guitar.

The Kreutzer Sonata, and other stories 2003

The former captives, some unwashed for weeks, smelled of their cabbage-soup diet.

Certain, Robert G. 1991

Friends he has without number, who stop before his bench, from which he administers poetical justice to all persons, to have a long chat, or sometimes to bring him a friendly token; and from the dark interior of his drawer he often brings forth an orange, or a bunch of grapes, or handful of chestnuts, supplied by them, as a dessert for the thick cabbage-soup which he eats at _mezzo giorno_.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various