All 27 Uses of

bound

in

The Idiot

The general considered that the girls' taste and good sense should be allowed to develop and mature deliberately, and that the parents' duty should merely be to keep watch, in order that no strange or undesirable choice be made; but that the selection once effected, both father and mother were bound from that moment to enter heart and soul into the cause, and to see that the matter progressed without hindrance until the altar should be happily reached.†
Chpt 1.4

She was much more likely to overstep the bounds of reasonable conduct by some extraordinary eccentricity.†
Chpt 1.4

But she recognized his love, on the understanding that she bound herself to nothing whatever, and that she reserved the right to say "no" up to the very hour of the marriage ceremony.†
Chpt 1.4

Gania having once descended to abuse, and receiving no check, very soon knew no bounds or limit to his licence, as is often the way in such cases.†
Chpt 1.7

I think you might fairly remember that I was not in any way bound, I had no reason to be silent about that portrait.†
Chpt 1.8

"What simplifies the duty before me considerably, in my opinion," he began, "is that I am bound to recall and relate the very worst action of my life.†
Chpt 1.14

A woman's gratitude under such circumstances would have been boundless—but it was practically an impossibility.†
Chpt 1.14 *

This unkind action much surprised poor Ardalion Alexandrovitch, the victim, as he called himself, of an "unbounded trust in the nobility of the human heart."†
Chpt 2.1

This reasoning, however, seemed to end in a paradox, and lead to the further consideration:—"What matter though it be only disease, an abnormal tension of the brain, if when I recall and analyze the moment, it seems to have been one of harmony and beauty in the highest degree—an instant of deepest sensation, overflowing with unbounded joy and rapture, ecstatic devotion, and completest life?"†
Chpt 2.5

When the tubs containing these plants arrived at the villa and were set in their places, Lebedeff kept running into the street to enjoy the view of the house, and every time he did so the rent to be demanded from the future tenant went up with a bound.†
Chpt 2.6

He had chosen his ideal, and he was bound to serve her, and break lances for her, and acknowledge her as the ideal of pure Beauty, whatever she might say or do afterwards.†
Chpt 2.6

At this moment Vera came up to Lizabetha Prokofievna, carrying several large and beautifully bound books, apparently quite new.†
Chpt 2.7

But even supposing that your mother is a fool, you are none the less, bound to treat her with humanity.†
Chpt 2.9 *

But, good heavens! if you declare that the prince's generosity will, excite no gratitude in you, he might answer that he is not, bound to be grateful to Pavlicheff, who also was only satisfying his own conscience.†
Chpt 2.9

You see, prince, I'll tell you privately, Evgenie and ourselves have not said a word yet, we have no formal understanding, we are in no way bound on either side, but the word may be said very soon, don't you see, VERY soon, and all this is most injurious, and is meant to be so.†
Chpt 2.11

I will never accept one single copeck from you, but you have helped my mother, and I am bound to be grateful to you for that, however weak it may seem.†
Chpt 2.12

He remembered how he had stretched out his arms towards the beautiful, boundless blue of the horizon, and wept, and wept.†
Chpt 3.7

As to Hippolyte, I think his pistol was bound not to go off; it was more consistent with the whole affair.†
Chpt 3.8

When, therefore, she was bound to talk, especially at such delicate moments as this, she invariably did so with an air of haughty defiance.†
Chpt 3.8

You are bound, it is your DUTY to 'raise' her; you must go off somewhere again to soothe and pacify her.†
Chpt 3.8

Nor does every husband feel bound to repeat at every step, "Tu l'as voulu, Georges Dandin!" like another typical personage; and yet how many millions and billions of Georges Dandins there are in real life who feel inclined to utter this soul-drawn cry after their honeymoon, if not the day after the wedding!†
Chpt 4.1

I ought to tell you that I never in my life met a man anything like him for noble simplicity of mind and for boundless trustfulness.†
Chpt 4.8

He grew very pale on hearing the news; but a moment later he nodded his head, and said thoughtfully: "I knew it was bound to be so."†
Chpt 4.9

"From the very beginning," he said, "you began with a lie; what began with a lie was bound to end with a lie; such is the law of nature.†
Chpt 4.9

But if those good souls, in the boundless kindness of their hearts, were desirous of saving the eccentric young fellow from ruin, they were unable to take any stronger measures to attain that end.†
Chpt 4.10

Definitions:

(bound as in: south-bound lanes)
traveling in a particular direction or to a specific location