ba-a-a-st-a-a

Updated: May 28, 2025

But now a long blast sounded on the dredging machine in the port. A second, a third, responded to it on the river; a few more on shore; and for a long time they roared together in a mighty chorus of different voices. "Ba-a-a-st-a-a!" hoarsely and thickly, exactly like a locomotive blast, Zavorotny started roaring. And now the last smack-smack and the work stopped instantaneously.

A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin - Yama: the pit