1 "You are lying," said Nozdrev without even letting him finish.
2 "No; it will not be possible to finish the game," replied Chichikov, glancing out of the window.
3 "He is not at home," she replied, almost before her interlocutor had had time to finish.
4 Oh, gentlemen, do you know, perhaps I consider myself an intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything.
5 It was dark; though I tried my best I could not finish dressing quickly.
6 Two footmen, the princess' and his own, stood holding a shawl and a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish.
7 He did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future.
8 He spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son was accustomed to understand him.
9 He could not finish, and ran out of the room.
10 But the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say.
11 but before Prince Andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon Dolgorukov to the Emperor.
12 Prince Andrew went out of the room, and then, leaving "God's folk" to finish their tea, Princess Mary took Pierre into the drawing room.
13 He did not finish, but gave a painfully unnatural smile.
14 "Yet you do not care to avail yourself of the privilege, Prince," said Speranski, indicating by a smile that he wished to finish amiably an argument which was embarrassing for his companion.
15 Simon did not finish, for on the still air he had distinctly caught the music of the hunt with only two or three hounds giving tongue.