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... mountain was alive , and its tremor pierced me like a sudden chill . A rock rose at Karaibrahim's back . Water was flowing down it , but its flow was imperceptible . The fine transparent stream of water cast a glass robe over the rock ...
... mountain was alive , and its tremor pierced me like a sudden chill . A rock rose at Karaibrahim's back . Water was flowing down it , but its flow was imperceptible . The fine transparent stream of water cast a glass robe over the rock ...
Page 148
... mountain does not die . ' That same morning when I ate sun , and had sun under my lids , fate showed me Elitsa for the first time . For in the night I had seen her from a distance , in the moonlight , and I had taken her for a samodiva ...
... mountain does not die . ' That same morning when I ate sun , and had sun under my lids , fate showed me Elitsa for the first time . For in the night I had seen her from a distance , in the moonlight , and I had taken her for a samodiva ...
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... mountain . And once at noon , no matter how hard it tried to leap up , the sun did not manage to peep over the steep ... mountain reached the sky . And I wanted to set out upwards and melt away so that I , too , would vanish . Mists rose ...
... mountain . And once at noon , no matter how hard it tried to leap up , the sun did not manage to peep over the steep ... mountain reached the sky . And I wanted to set out upwards and melt away so that I , too , would vanish . Mists rose ...
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Aegean Sea Aga's alive Allah asked Balkandji began blood breast brother Bulgarian Candia cast cave chans Chepino child courtyard cried cross dark dead Delyo dogs earth Elindenya Elitsa eyes face faith father feet fell felt fire flocks forest Goran Grand Vizier Granny Srebra grass grew Gyulfié haidouts hair hand Hassan Hodja head heard heart horse howling hundred Ismaïl Bey Janissaries Karaibrahim kaval kill knife Konak light lips looked Manol meadow Mircho Momchil mountain night notables Old Galoushko Old Kralyo passed Petglassets pistol Podviss priest Prossoina rapier remembered Rhodopa Rhodope Mountains rocks rose seemed Sevda sheep shepherds Sherko shone shoulders shouted silent Spahis spoke spruce stone stood stopped Sultan Syuleiman Aga tell terrible thought tree Tsepina Turkish Turks turned valley veranda village voice Voivoda Vrazhou Kehaya waited wall wanted weeping wind woman women words yataghan Yurouks