91 examples of vassili in sentences

"Ce Vassili," he heard more than once whispered, "c'est un homme dangereux.

Now, if a very keen observer had taken the trouble to ignore the throng and watch two persons only, that observer might have discovered the fact that Claude de Chauxville was slowly and purposely making his way toward the man called Vassili.

Vassili merely bowed and stood upright again.

There was something in his attitude of quiet attention, of unobtrusive scrutiny and retiring intelligence, vaguely suggestive of the policesomething which his friends refrained from mentioning to him; for this Vassili was a dignified man, of like susceptibilities with ourselves, and justly proud of the fact that he belonged to the Corps Diplomatique.

At the Café Tantalenot in the garden, for it was winter, but in the inner roomhe found the man called Vassili consuming a pensive and solitary glass of liqueur.

De Chauxville sat down, stated his requirements to the waiter in a single word, and offered his companion a cigarette, which Vassili accepted with the consciousness that it came from a coroneted case.

"Again," added Vassili, in his quiet voice.

" "On private affairs?" enquired Vassili, not so much, it would appear, from curiosity as from habit.

" The man called Vassili leaned back in his chair with a little smile.

"Then," said Vassili, "if I understand M. le Baron aright, it is a question of private and personal affairs that suggests this journey toRussia?"

Vassili had a habit of applying to every one the endearing epithet, which lost a consonant somewhere in his mustache.

"May one call it an affaire de coeur?" asked Vassili, with his grim smile.

" Vassili emptied his glass, drew in his feet, and glanced at the clock.

What you know from your point of view, you understand, my dear Vassili.

"In case," said Vassili, rather slowly, "I should only impart to you stale news and valueless details with which you are already acquainted, I must ask you to tell me first what you knowfrom your point of view.

" The face of Vassili expressed something remarkably like disbelief.

"You leave too much to my imagination," said Vassili.

" Vassili nodded, and suddenly launched into detail.

" "Karl Steinmetz?" "Yes," answered Vassili behind the rigid smile; "Karl Steinmetz.

"Not with Karl Steinmetz on the premises," said Vassili imperturbably.

" "Sydney Bamborough," repeated Vassili musingly, with a perfect expression of innocence on his well-cut face.

In winter the Neva is a broad, silent thoroughfare between the Vassili Ostrow and the Admiralty Gardens.

SEE GROSSMAN VASSILI.

SEE GROSSMAN, VASSILI.

SEE GROSSMAN VASSILI.

91 examples of  vassili  in sentences