1 were pre-eminently careful and refined in their choice of words and phrases.
2 But to everything he turned a dead ear, and the phrases in question might as well have been stones dropped into a pool.
3 All such phrases were very familiar to him.
4 Mr. Lieutenant Zverkov," I began, "let me tell you that I hate phrases, phrasemongers and men in corsets.
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.
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.
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.
8 His conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, finished phrases of general interest.
9 knowing how she did it, she contrived to utter a few polite phrases in.
10 Doesn't see anything, doesn't remember anything, she went on, repeating her usual phrases.
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.
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 JoyceContext Highlight 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 JoyceContext Highlight 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 JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 15 He repeated his phrases over and over again, varying them and surrounding them with his monotonous voice.