Hadji Murad

What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.

He had great faith in his own fortune. When planning anything he always felt in advance firmly convinced of success and fate smiled to him.

It is in the mountains that the eagles dwell

Where the legs have gone the hind legs must follow

Decision it was only necessary for him to concentrate his attention for a few moments and the spirit moved him, and the best possible decision presented itself as though an inner voice had told him what to do.

All this was as it should be, because welfare and happiness of the world depended on him, and wearied though he was he would still not refuse universe the assistence.

Desapareció la luna y empezó a clarear el día. Habían terminado ya la primera tanda cuando el hijo mayor, Akim, en pelliza corta y gorro, se acercó a los que trabajaban. -¡Tú sí que te lo tomas con calma! -le gritó el padre, dejando de golpear y apoyándose en el mayal. -Tenía que atender a los caballos. -¡Atender a los caballos! -dijo el padre remedándole- La vieja cuidará de eso. Tú coge un mayal. Te estás poniendo demasiado gordo. ¡Borrachín! -¿Eres tú el que me pagas la bebida? -gruñó el hijo. -¿Qué? -dijo el padre, frunciendo el ceño y blandiendo el mayal con aire de amenaza. El hijo, sin decir palabra, cogió el mayal y la faena se reanudó.

to the foe in the field you need not yield

The dog gave the meat to the ass and the ass gave hay to the dog and both went hungry

I threw it away feeling sorry to have vainly destroyed a flower that looked beautiful in its proper place. How many different plant lives man destroys to support his own existence.

He was in a full possession of facile, refined and agreeable intellect which he used to maintain his power and strengthen and increase his popularity.

It was futile class of people who discussed not merely science and poetry but even the ways of governing men

How many different plant-lives man destroys to support his own existence - I thought!

In the service, especially in the complicated situation such as this, it is difficult not to say impossible, to follow any one straight path without risking mistakes and without accepting responsibility, but once a path seems to be the right one I must follow it, happen what may.

No one spoke of hatred of the Russians. the feeling experienced by all the Chechens, from the youngest to the oldest, was stronger than hate. It was not hatred, for they did not regard those Russian dogs as human beings, but it was such repulsion, disgust, and perplexity at the senseless cruelty of these creatures, that the desire to exterminate them — like the desire to exterminate rats, poisonous spiders, or wolves — was as natural an instinct as that of self-preservation.