Crossword-Solution: SOBOL 5 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

What can Sobol (our Zemstvo doctor) and his lady assistant do when more than medicine the peasants need bread which they have not? The District Zemstvo refuses to assist them, on the ground that their names have been taken off the register of this district, and that they are now reckoned as inhabitants of Tomsk; and, besides, the Zemstvo has no money.

And I feel that now, on the verge of old age, my love for her is purer and loftier than it was in the past; and that is why I want to go up to her, to stamp hard on her toe with my heel, to hurt her and smile as I do it.” “Monsieur Marten,” I said, addressing the doctor, “how many hospitals have we in the district?” “Sobol,” my wife corrected.

The events of the previous day--the conversation at tea, my wife, Sobol, the supper, my apprehensions--worried me, and I felt glad to think of getting away from the surroundings which reminded me of all that.

But allow me at parting to give you one piece of advice, Natalie; be on your guard with Sobol, and with your assistants generally, and don’t trust them blindly.

Only do your duty towards God and your neighbour, and then never mind what happens.” “Eccellenza,” said Sobol solemnly, “just look at nature about us: if you poke your nose or your ear out of your fur collar it will be frost-bitten; stay in the fields for one hour, you’ll be buried in the snow; while the village is just the same as in the days of Rurik, the same Petchenyegs and Polovtsi.