I decided to make a kite of it

I ought to mention that a map of the world had been ordered for me from Moscow. It hung on the wall; no use was made of it, and I had long felt tempted by its width and thickness.

I decided to make a kite of it and, taking advantage of Beaupré's slumbers, set to work upon it.

My father came in just at the moment when I was fixing a tail of tow to the Cape of Good Hope.

in The Captain's Daughter (1836) de Alexander Pushkin