ZVERKOV in Classic Quotes

1  Zverkov winced, but he tried not to notice it.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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2  This Zverkov had been all the time at school with me too.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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3  "It is not very handsome," Zverkov observed majestically.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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4  "You never were on good terms with Zverkov," Trudolyubov added, frowning.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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5  Zverkov walked in at the head of them; evidently he was the leading spirit.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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6  So it was to this Zverkov that my schoolfellows were going to give a dinner on his departure.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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7  They would abandon Zverkov, he would sit on one side, silent and ashamed, while I should crush him.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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8  He was some sort of distant relation of Zverkov's, and this, foolish as it seems, gave him a certain importance among us.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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9  Moreover, it was, as it were, an accepted idea among us that Zverkov was a specialist in regard to tact and the social graces.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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10  He was one of those worshippers of Zverkov who made up to the latter from interested motives, and often borrowed money from him.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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11  Trudolyubov was on my left, Simonov on my right, Zverkov was sitting opposite, Ferfitchkin next to him, between him and Trudolyubov.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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12  He and all of them were laughing; but, seeing me, Zverkov drew himself up a little, walked up to me deliberately with a slight, rather jaunty bend from the waist.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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13  There was not a word about the marriage, however, but the story was adorned with generals, colonels and kammer-junkers, while Zverkov almost took the lead among them.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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14  In spite of superficial, fantastic and sham notions of honour and dignity, all but very few of us positively grovelled before Zverkov, and the more so the more he swaggered.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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15  "So the three of us, with Zverkov for the fourth, twenty-one roubles, at the Hotel de Paris at five o'clock tomorrow," Simonov, who had been asked to make the arrangements, concluded finally.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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16  I got the better of him on that occasion, but though Zverkov was stupid he was lively and impudent, and so laughed it off, and in such a way that my victory was not really complete; the laugh was on his side.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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17  They were engaged in warm and earnest conversation about a farewell dinner which they wanted to arrange for the next day to a comrade of theirs called Zverkov, an officer in the army, who was going away to a distant province.

Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: III