noun
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A young Little Russian woman laid the table and handed ham, then beetroot soup.
From The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
The novelist's father was director of police in Lemberg and married Charlotte von Masoch, a Little Russian lady of noble birth.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock
Oh, my God!' in the voice of a little girl or the cadences of a Little Russian actress.
From Love by Garnett, Constance
But all the serious-minded convicts were not so particular as the Little Russian, who could not bear to see people gay.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Nyuta was wearing a Little Russian dress which did not suit her at all, and made her look clumsy; the architect was making dull and vulgar jokes.
From The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
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