1 were pre-eminently careful and refined in their choice of words and phrases.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII 2 But to everything he turned a dead ear, and the phrases in question might as well have been stones dropped into a pool.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII 3 All such phrases were very familiar to him.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevGet Context In CHAPTER XII 4 Mr. Lieutenant Zverkov," I began, "let me tell you that I hate phrases, phrasemongers and men in corsets.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyGet Context In PART 2: IV 5 I don't recall the words now, but I remember well that through the high-flown phrases there was apparent a genuine feeling, which cannot be feigned.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyGet Context In PART 2: VII 6 As he said this Prince Andrew was less than ever like that Bolkonski who had lolled in Anna Pavlovna's easy chairs and with half-closed eyes had uttered French phrases between his teeth.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII 7 The little princess, plump and rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking incessantly, repeating Petersburg reminiscences and even phrases.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII 8 His conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, finished phrases of general interest.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X 9 knowing how she did it, she contrived to utter a few polite phrases in.
War and Peace(V4) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XIV 10 Doesn't see anything, doesn't remember anything, she went on, repeating her usual phrases.
War and Peace(V6) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XIII 11 Men went from the west to the east killing their fellow men, and the event was accompanied by phrases about the glory of France, the baseness of England, and so on.
War and Peace(V6) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VII 12 Cranly's speech, unlike that of Davin, had neither rare phrases of Elizabethan English nor quaintly turned versions of Irish idioms.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceGet Context In Chapter 5 13 As he spoke he wrinkled a little his freckled brow and bit, between his phrases, at a tiny bone pencil.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceGet Context In Chapter 5 14 She came up to his step many times between their phrases and went down again and once or twice remained beside him forgetting to go down and then went down.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceGet Context In Chapter 5 15 He repeated his phrases over and over again, varying them and surrounding them with his monotonous voice.