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  • If you can't or if they come to you, then you have to respond and so I asked one of my 'seriosni' acquaintances how to deal with the punk problem in that 'dvor' or yard between the main roads.

    [serious people] and bully boy punks 2009

  • If you can't or if they come to you, then you have to respond and so I asked one of my 'seriosni' acquaintances how to deal with the punk problem in that 'dvor' or yard between the main roads.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Only the house and the _dvor_ or inclosure, and his share in the harvest, were the property of each householder.

    The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

  • The terms of this law made all peasants free, and secured to them, upon the payment of a tax established by law, the use of their habitations (dvor) and a grant of land, of which they could become owners in fee simple by pecuniary redemption.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • They found meager employment for him in the Stchoukine-dvor, an immense popular bazaar.

    The Secret of the Night Gaston Leroux 1897

  • There is a _gastinni-dvor_ or row of shops and a market-place surrounded with huckster's stalls, much like those near Fulton Ferry.

    Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

  • Paul, with whom I was quartered, occupied pleasant apartments overlooking the _gastinni-dvor_.

    Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

  • Many dwellings in the former town are of unpainted logs, and each town has its gastinni-dvor, spacious and well arranged.

    Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

  • The event was held in the center of St. Petersburg, not far from Gostinyi dvor (Guest Court) on Nevsky Avenue.

    RIA Novosti 2010

  • Polina Silnova, a local student who was visiting the exhibition on a recent Wednesday afternoon, said she wanted to find the dvor depicted in "Man with a Bucket," saying it seemed to be "from a different city, a different time."

    The St. Petersburg Times 2009

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