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Author
Anna Sewell
Level
B1
Chapters
49
Length
~60k words
Reading time
~5 h
Translation
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Black BeautyAnna Sewell · B1
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DICTIONARY

cherish
verb

TRANSLATION

дорожить, лелеять

to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.

She cherishes the memory of her grandmother.
Она дорожит памятью о своей бабушке.

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How “Black Beauty” begins

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.

Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master’s house, which stood by the roadside; at the top of the meadow was a grove of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook overhung by a steep bank.

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