In addition to the sacred cabinet, the oven, and the benches, every one of the rooms contains another loose bench about six feet long, a table of the same length, and the kvass barrel which is indispensable to every Russian.
A little clean rye straw is placed inside of the vat, in front of the bunghole, allowing the kvass to run fairly clear into the wooden cup.
Kvass is a very refreshing summer drink, especially in the houses of wealthy peasants who need not be particular with their rye flour and who frequently renew the original ingredients of the concoction.
You see here the species of kvass for which our house has long been famous," said Vassili to Chichikov.
In Khlobuev's eyes it was de rigueur that he should provide a guest with champagne; but, though he had sent to the town for some, he had been met with a blank refusal to forward even a bottle of kvass on credit.
What he stands up in, he lies down to sleep in; he picks the potatoes out of the soup with his fingers; he drinks kvass with a cockroach in it, and doesn't bother to blow it away!
And at that moment, as luck would have it, we were eating grated radish with kvass and frying fish, and there was a stink enough in the flat to make the devil sick.
Only frog’s ratefia” (so the French called the kvass of the Russians).
Huge buckets of kvass were of course prepared; and it might have been better if this harmless beverage had not been supplemented by a plentiful supply of vodka.
He made me sit down at his table, and gave me food, and the kvass he promised.
You require food; perhaps a glass of kvasswill do you good.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kvass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
