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... hundred mothers had suckled him , and together with him his foster - brothers were growing up all over Rhodopa ... hundred , three hundred ? Half the sheep were Syuleiman Aga's , the others belonged to the peasants . But how many sheep ...
... hundred mothers had suckled him , and together with him his foster - brothers were growing up all over Rhodopa ... hundred , three hundred ? Half the sheep were Syuleiman Aga's , the others belonged to the peasants . But how many sheep ...
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... hundred pistols with them , a hundred guns and two or three hundred bows . Every man here shoots with a bow . ' ' Who gave them arms ? ' shrieked fat Molla Soulfikar Softa . ' You are to blame ! It is forbidden for an unbeliever to bear ...
... hundred pistols with them , a hundred guns and two or three hundred bows . Every man here shoots with a bow . ' ' Who gave them arms ? ' shrieked fat Molla Soulfikar Softa . ' You are to blame ! It is forbidden for an unbeliever to bear ...
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... hundred and we have five hundred men against us , we shall find the fifty who lead them . Then we shall be one hundred against fifty As for the rest - what is a body without a head ? ' The one - eyed hodja said : ' If twenty of you ...
... hundred and we have five hundred men against us , we shall find the fifty who lead them . Then we shall be one hundred against fifty As for the rest - what is a body without a head ? ' The one - eyed hodja said : ' If twenty of you ...
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