The next morning a kibitka was at the door; my trunk was placed on it, and also a case holding tea and a tea-service, with some napkins full of rolls and pastry, the last sweet bits of the paternal home.
The kibitka advanced but slowly, now raised on a hillock, now descending into a hollow, swaying from side like a boat on a stormy sea.
The Tartar horses shot off, the bells tinkled, the kibitka flew over the snow.
I took my seat in the kibitka with Saveliitch, and shedding bitter tears, set out for my destination.
Our Tartar was humming a plaintive air; Saveliitch, sound asleep, swayed from side to side; our kibitka was gliding rapidly over the winter road.
My kibitkafollowed the narrow road, or rather trace, left by peasants' sledges.
I ordered the coachman to drive to the Commandant's, and almost immediately my kibitka stopped before a wooden house built on an eminence near the church, which was also of wood.
The chief advanced with amans of welcome, and the heavy-matted curtains in the kibitka doorway were raised, as we passed, in token of honor.
By the time darkness fell the kibitkawas filled to overflowing.
The kibitka stopped before a small barn, and the travellers hastened into it and laid themselves down to sleep.
This fact was communicated to the philosopher by the rector of the seminary himself, who sent for him to his room and told him that he must start at once, as a rich colonel had sent his servants and a kibitka for him.
The yourt, or tent, of the Kirghiz bears a close resemblance to the kibitka of the Kalmucks.
In every respectable Kirghiz kibitka the women keep constantly upon the fire a vessel of this beverage, which they offer to visitors, just as a Turk serves up coffee, and a Spaniard chocolate.
This constitutes a door, and the kibitka is complete.
Usually the kibitka is drawn by three horses, but this had but one, a beast with long hair and a very long tail.
After crossing the little river Biriousa, the kibitka reached Biriousensk on the morning of the 4th of September.
So long as the kibitka went with the current all was easy, and in a few minutes it had passed the quays of Krasnoiarsk.
This increase was very opportune, for something would soon have been needed to replace the koumyss with which the kibitka had been stored at Krasnoiarsk.
The kibitka moved on; the horse, which Nicholas never touched with the whip, ambled along.
Now, in the absence of any ferry, how was the kibitka to get from one bank to the other?
The kibitka no longer drifted, but spun rapidly round, inclining towards the center of the eddy, like a rider in a circus.
On the 22d of August, the kibitka entered the town of Atchinsk, two hundred and fifty miles from Tomsk.
This passage was much easier; no whirlpools broke the course of the river in this second bed; but the current was so rapid that the kibitka only reached the opposite side five versts below.
A dozen horsemen dashed forward, and the kibitkawas surrounded.
In the meanwhile the kibitka pursued its way, at a pace which Michael longed to render more rapid.
However, the result of all this was the kibitka went faster, and, according to Michael's calculations, now made almost eight miles an hour.
I got out, and he threw his arms around me, kissed me on both cheeks, called me his friend and brother, and mounted the kibitka with the old seigneur.
At nine o'clock the next morning a kibitka drove up to the door of our hotel, demanding an American and a Pole for Warsaw.
In the morning we found that he had been too late; that the kibitka had been stripped of every article except himself and the straw.
At Sloghan, about two hundred versts from Brezc the frontier town of Poland, we sold our kibitka for a breakfast, and took the char de poste, or regular troika.
We never stopped at night, for there seldom was any shelter on the road better than the Jews' inns, and even in our kibitkawe were better than there.
He offered to make us a bed of some dirty straw which had often been slept on before; but we shrank from it; and, as soon as we could get horses, returned to our kibitka and resumed our journey.
His own eyes were dim as he took his place in the kibitka beside Petrovitch; and when he turned to look his last upon the brown cottages of Nicolofsky, he could scarcely see them through his tears.
This to his horse, the wheel of the kibitka having stuck fast in a deep rut.
A kibitka serves for a whole family; men, women, and children sleep in it promiscuously without any separation.
The setting up of the kibitka concludes the whole ceremony.
He has now the rank of colonel, and he was the first of this nomade people who exchanged his kibitka for an European dwelling.
The zaizans are entitled to a contribution of two rubles from everykibitka under their command.
Every object assumes a more decided and more picturesque form, and stands out in clear relief, from the cupola of the mysterious pagoda which you see towering above the trees, to the humble kibitka glittering in the magic tints of sunset.
Now the hard clatter of hoofs and the rumbling, of wheels echoed from the archway, and the kibitkarolled into the courtyard.
Now the hard clatter of hoofs and the rumbling of wheels echoed from the archway, and the kibitka rolled into the court-yard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kibitka" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
