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1  "I humbly invite you to join us at table," said Manilov.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
2  The surly Chief Clerk wavered for a while; then ended by inviting Chichikov to tea.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
3  Shortly afterwards there arrived a card of invitation to the Governor's ball already referred to.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
4  At length they reached the drawing-room, where Sobakevitch pointed to an armchair, and invited his guest to be seated.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
5  However, the laws of Russian hospitality do not permit even of a miser infringing their rules; wherefore Plushkin added to the foregoing a more civil invitation to be seated.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
6  The little wooden tavern, with its narrow, but hospitable, curtain suspended from a pair of rough-hewn doorposts like old church candlesticks, seemed to invite Chichikov to enter.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
7  Upon this Theodulia Ivanovna requested her guest to be seated, and accompanied the invitation with the kind of bow usually employed only by actresses who are playing the role of queens.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
8  Lastly, he received from the company a pressing, as well as an unanimous, invitation to extend his stay in town for at least another fortnight, and, in the meanwhile, to allow a wife to be found for him.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
9  In the result the Governor had invited him to a reception the same evening, and certain other officials had followed suit by inviting him, one of them to dinner, a second to a tea-party, and so forth, and so forth.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
10  In the result the Governor had invited him to a reception the same evening, and certain other officials had followed suit by inviting him, one of them to dinner, a second to a tea-party, and so forth, and so forth.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
11  Then it was that Chichikov suddenly recollected that, when a friend has invited one to visit his country house, and has said that the distance thereto is fifteen versts, the distance is sure to turn out to be at least thirty.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
12  I invite those men to remember the duty which confronts us, whatsoever our respective stations; I invite them to observe more closely their duty, and to keep more constantly in mind their obligations of holding true to their country, in that before us the future looms dark, and that we can scarcely.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
13  A millionaire suffers from the disadvantage of everywhere having to behold meanness, including the sort of meanness which, though not actually based upon calculations of self-interest, yet runs after the wealthy man with smiles, and doffs his hat, and begs for invitations to houses where the millionaire is known to be going to dine.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII