If I had been asleep, or if the third troika had come immediately after the second, I should have been crushed to death or maimed.
I leap up and see--a third troika dashing upon us.
And that Stépan drives my troika with the blacks, and let the brown team be ready, too, but neither of these to come round until the grays have gone.
You will be quite safe with Olga and your friend, dearest," the Princess whispered to her as she got into the first troika which came round.
He lifted her into the troika which was waiting outside.
Looking up I saw a Tartar, rather a smart one too, in a fawn-coloured robe and the inevitable sheepskin hat, standing upright in a big flat cart, with a troika of capital horses before him.
We discovered afterwards that a valuable piece of the harness of our own troika had been lost, carried away by the droshky in the collision probably, seeing which the droshky man had held his tongue, and made off with his prize.
Once more the troika skimmed along, scarcely seeming to touch the earth, and the majestic convent with mysterious voices faded away in the gloom.
Katina instantly flew off to summon the driver of the troika in which Paul and Trevisa had made their journey from Slavowitz.
She had brought the troika to a standstill, and was now pointing to a large monastery that rose in solemn mediaeval grandeur at the distance of about a hundred yards from the roadside.
From Slavowitz they had driven in a troika or three-horse car, adopting by preconcerted arrangement a route different from that taken by Bora and his second.
The crowd facing the troika divided like water cleft by the hand, and the vehicle flew forward with nothing to oppose it.
The troika is ready, my little fathers," he cried.
The horses came very promptly, one troika to Schmidt's lodgings and the other to mine.
Wait a little," whispered my friend in French, "and we will have the other troika for Schmidt.
In half an hour by the clock I was told I could have a troika at once, in consideration of my special passport.
There was but one troika to spare and only one telyaga.
As Vassili put me into the troika he was all kindness and amiability; he wrapped me closely in the furs, and then took his seat beside me, muffling himself up to his nose in the bearskins.
Stahl and Bozevsky arrived in their troika from the neighboring castle of the Grigorievskys, where they had been staying.
But the troika had stopped, and Vassili sprang out upon the snow.
It was as "she" had desired; and smilingly Zeneida waved her white handkerchief to the vanishing gondola, which a troika awaited on the opposite bank.
But within scarce half an hour the three horsemen, with Schinko at their head, came back the way they had gone, and behind them a troika in which sat a man alone.
Russians, as a rule, do not troika except at night.
It is for you to bring the ladies here as your prisoners, to see us out of the town before daybreak, and to have the troika in readiness for us on the Tobolsk road.
Illustration: Tarantass with itsTroika for the Steppes.
And you, Russia of mine--are not you also speeding like a troika which nought can overtake?
The troika flies, sails, bright as a spirit of God.
The troika again passed the city gate, and quickly drew up in front of the boarded steps of the Zaitsova dwelling.
But at this moment the new deal gates were thrown open before him with a creaking sound; and a handsome, ruddy fellow of eighteen in wagoner's attire appeared, leading a troika of powerful-limbed and still sweaty horses.
Our fatal troika dashes on in her headlong flight perhaps to destruction and in all Russia for long past men have stretched out imploring hands and called a halt to its furious reckless course.
For if the troika were drawn by his heroes, Sobakevitch, Nozdryov, Tchitchikov, it could reach no rational goal, whoever might be driving it.
A fourth group: “What he said about the troikawas good, that piece about the other nations.
And if other nations stand aside from that troika that may be, not from respect, as the poet would fain believe, but simply from horror.
