1 In a word, he was always a gentleman of excellent manners, and every official in the place felt pleased when he saw him enter the door.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER I 2 Either the climate hindered operations or the materials used were of the kind which prevents official edifices from ever rising higher than the basement.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER XI 3 He was unused to receiving visitors, and for the moment conceived the new arrival to be a Government official, sent to question him concerning an abortive society to which he had formerly belonged.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER I 4 The latter, on appearing, was seen to have the air, half of a peasant, half of an official.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER III 5 Clerical pens slaved, and brains skilled in legal casus toiled; for each official had the artist's liking for the curved line in preference to the straight.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER IV 6 Portfolio in hand, this official stood waiting respectfully.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER IV 7 They are more likely to listen to a plain man than to an official.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER IV 8 The young men started living together in one set of rooms, under the remote supervision of a cousin on their mother's side, Ilya Kolyazin, an official of high rank.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevGet Context In CHAPTER I 9 Meanwhile Nikolai Petrovitch had already, in his parents' lifetime and to their no slight chagrin, had time to fall in love with the daughter of his landlord, a petty official, Prepolovensky.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevGet Context In CHAPTER I 10 Matvy Ilyitch received Arkady with the good-nature, we might even call it playfulness, characteristic of the enlightened higher official.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevGet Context In CHAPTER XII 11 The following means, among others, is in great vogue, 'is quite a favourite,' as the English say; a high official suddenly ceases to understand the simplest words, assuming total deafness.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevGet Context In CHAPTER XII 12 Matvy Ilyitch was a higher official all the same, though he was reckoned a liberal.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevGet Context In CHAPTER XII 13 She talked with equal ease to her partner and to the grand official, softly turned her head and eyes, and twice laughed softly.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevGet Context In CHAPTER XIV 14 I was lying when I said just now that I was a spiteful official.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyGet Context In PART 1: I 15 I, for instance, genuinely despised my official work and did not openly abuse it simply because I was in it myself and got a salary for it.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyGet Context In PART 2: I