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Congolese army, who also runs a distillery that makes "douma", a local liqueur made from honey.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

Here is what I recognized as I wandered about haphazard: first, there was the "douma," which is the town hall, where the "golova," or mayor, resides; if you had done me the honor to accompany me, I would have taken you to the promenade of Krasnoia-Gora on the left bank of the

The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Jules Verne 1866

The douma invited the hetman to occupy the kremlin with his shoulders.

The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

He secured from the douma an order by which three thousand families were moved to that port, and streltsi were dispatched to garrison it.

The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

The douma, not fancying the idea that an impostor should rule over them, invited the hetman of a Polish army to Moscow, to discuss the other candidate.

The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

They asked for the re-establishment of the douma as the beginning of a constitutional government, but the czar was not prepared to grant this, and he was right because under existing circumstances the peasants would have to be disfranchized, -- and there is small choice between an autocracy and an oligarchy.

The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

The _douma_ of the Little Russians corresponds to the _bîlina_ of the Great Russians.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

The douma did not fancy the idea, -- but there were the streltsi with their pikes, and they carried the day.

The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

Peculiar to them is the _douma_, a kind of narrative poem, in which the metre is generally very irregular; but a sort of rhythm is preserved by the recurrence of accentuated syllables.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

After this rioting had continued seven days, the streltsi sent their commandant Khovanski to the douma, to demand that there should be two czars, Ivan, with Peter as his assistant.

The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen