tru-u-u-u-uth

Updated: May 11, 2025

And Mishka the Singer, who was no singer at all, but the owner of a drug warehouse, at once, upon entering, sang out in a vibrating, quavering, goatish voice: "They fe-e-e-l the tru-u-u-u-uth! Come thou daw-aw-aw-aw-ning..." which he perpetrated at every visit of his to Anna Markovna. Almost incessantly they played the quadrille, waltz, polka, and danced.

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