Good Words: hungry, red-faced, headlong, ten to one, unimpressed, solemn, reasonable Good Sentences:
1, As far as they could see, out of the woods, from behind the forest officer's house, spun a number of men and vehicles, and close by the highway, fifteen or sixteen men rode, with rifles slung across the saddles, in this direction. The two in the forefront, one was a middle-aged man, wearing a protective-colored uniform with an officer's armed belt and binoculars on his chest; the other, walking side by side with him, was the very same man on horseback whom the three friends had just seen.
2. A train climbed into the station in a blizzard, and two university students in military coats and carrying rifles and a group of revolutionary soldiers wearing red cuffs jumped out of the car. They arrested the gendarme on the station, the elderly colonel and the chief of police. The townspeople then believed that the news was true. So thousands of inhabitants stepped through the snow, crossed the streets and poured into the square.
3. The little boy was so distressed that he cried, but there was nothing for him to do but to turn and run away, cursing as he did so. Paul, however, ran home contentedly. He jumped over the fence, ran into the shed, hid the gun he had gotten on a beam under the shed roof, and then whistled happily as he walked into the house. ? Good Paragraph:
1. Around the little table in the room sat three persons: one was Liza Suhariko, a pretty high school student, slightly dark-complexioned, with a capricious little mouth and a sassy hairdo; the other was a young man whom Paul had not seen before, who was neatly dressed in a black tunic, thin and tall, with greasy hair combed in a subdued manner, and with grey eyes that showed a look of loneliness and melancholy; The third, who sat between the two of them in a very fashionable high school uniform, was Viktor Leszczynski. He was the first thing Paul saw when Tonya pushed open the door.
2. The two men lay down on the bed. Paul fell asleep right away, while Juchlai kept smoking. Later, he got up from the bed again and walked barefoot to the window and looked toward the street for a long time before returning to bed. He was so tired that he lay down and fell asleep. One of his hands went under the pillow and pressed on the heavy pistol, the grip of which was warmed.
3. The big chief, Petliura himself, followed the divisional commander and clumsily got out of the automobile. He was of medium build, with an angular head knotted on a purplish neck, wearing a Ukrainian blouse made of fine blue Kintetsu tweed, a yellow belt with a small Browning pistol in a suede holster, and on his head a Kerensky military cap with an enameled cap badge of a trident.
How Steel Is Made is a full-length novel by Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky, written in 1933. The novel tells people through the recounting of Paul Kochagin's path of growth that only when a person defeats the enemy as well as himself amidst the hardships of the revolution, and only when he connects his own pursuits with the interests of the motherland and the people, will he create a miracle, and grow up to be a warrior of iron and steel.