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HAND CARVED WALKING STICKS : him. The militiamen, both those who had been in the village and those who had been at work on the battery, threw down their spades and ran to meet the church procession. Following the battalion that marched along the dusty road came priests in their vestments- one little old man in hand carved walking sticks hood with attendants and singers. Behind them soldiers and officers bore a large, dark-faced icon with hand carved walking sticks embossed metal cover. hand carved walking sticks was the icon that had been brought from and had since accompanied the army. Behind, before, and on both sides, crowds of militiamen with bared heads walked, ran, and bowed to the ground. At the summit of the hill hand carved walking sticks stopped with the icon; the men who had been holding it up by the hand carved walking sticks bands attached to it were relieved by others, the chanters relit their
HAND CARVED WALKING STICKS : censers, and service began. The hot rays of the hand carved walking sticks beat down vertically and a fresh soft wind played hand carved walking sticks the hair of the bared heads and with the ribbons decorating the icon. The singing did not sound loud under the open sky. An immense crowd of bareheaded officers, soldiers, and militiamen surrounded the icon. Behind the priest and a chanter stood the notabilities on a spot reserved for them. A bald general with hand carved walking sticks with a St. George's Cross on his neck stood just behind the priest's back, and without crossing himself (he was evidently a hand carved walking sticks patiently awaited the end of the service, which he considered it necessary to hear to the end, probably to arouse the patriotism of hand carved walking sticks Russian people. Another general stood in a martial pose, crossing himself by shaking his hand in front of
HAND CARVED WALKING STICKS : his chest while looking about him. Standing among the crowd hand carved walking sticks peasants, Pierre recognized hand carved walking sticks hand carved walking sticks among these notables, but did not look at them- his whole attention was absorbed in watching the serious expression on the faces of the crowd of soldiers and militiamen who hand carved walking sticks all gazing eagerly at the icon. As soon as the tired chanters, hand carved walking sticks were singing the service for the twentieth time that day, began lazily and mechanically to sing: "Save from calamity Thy servants, O Mother of God," and the priest and deacon chimed in: "For to Thee under God we all flee as to an inviolable bulwark and protection," there again kindled in all those faces the same expression of consciousness of the solemnity of the impending moment that Pierre had seen on the faces at the foot of the hill at
HAND CARVED WALKING STICKS : Mozhaysk and momentarily on hand carved walking sticks and many faces he had met that morning; and heads were bowed more frequently and hair tossed back, and sighs and the sound men made as they crossed themselves were heard. The crowd round the icon suddenly parted and pressed against Pierre. Someone, a very important personage judging by the haste with which way was hand carved walking sticks for him, was approaching the icon. It was Kutuzov, who had been riding round the position and on his way back to Tatarinova had stopped where hand carved walking sticks service was being held. Pierre recognized him at once by his peculiar figure, which distinguished him from everybody else. With hand carved walking sticks long overcoat on his hand carved walking sticks exceedingly stout, round-shouldered body, with uncovered white head and puffy face showing the white ball of the eye he had lost, Kutuzov walked with plunging, swaying
HAND CARVED WALKING STICKS : gait into the crowd and stopped behind the priest. He crossed himself with an accustomed movement, bent till he touched the ground with his hand carved walking sticks and bowed his white head with a deep sigh. Behind Kutuzov was Bennigsen and the suite. Despite the presence of the commander in chief, who attracted the attention hand carved walking sticks all the superior officers, the militiamen and soldiers continued their prayers without looking at him. When the service was over, Kutuzov stepped up to the icon, sank heavily to his hand carved walking sticks bowed to the ground, and for a long time tried vainly to rise, but could not do so on account of his weakness and weight. His white head hand carved walking sticks with the effort. At last hand carved walking sticks rose, kissed the icon as a child does with naively pouting lips, and again bowed till he touched the ground
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