All 33 Uses of
disperse
in
War and Peace
- Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed.†
Chpt 1 *
- After a few minutes' bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had carried the sick man dispersed.†
Chpt 1
- The smoke above it had not yet dispersed.†
Chpt 2
- The smoke of the first shot had not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report.†
Chpt 2
- The remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs in fine order.†
Chpt 2
- The guests began to disperse, some without taking leave of Helene.†
Chpt 3
- The fog that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they were descending.†
Chpt 3
- Twice the marauders even attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a battalion to disperse them.†
Chpt 5
- As no transports could arrive, the men dispersed about the abandoned and deserted villages, searching for potatoes, but found few even of these.†
Chpt 5
- His hospital companions, who had gathered round Rostov—a fresh arrival from the world outside—gradually began to disperse as soon as Denisov began reading his answer.†
Chpt 5
- The serfs all dispersed.†
Chpt 7
- On the third day of Christmas week, after the midday dinner, all the inmates of the house dispersed to various rooms.†
Chpt 7
- Day was breaking, the rain had ceased, and the clouds were dispersing.†
Chpt 9
- The crowd ran after the Emperor, followed him to the palace, and began to disperse.†
Chpt 9
- The Emperor went in, and after that the greater part of the crowd began to disperse.†
Chpt 9
- Many voices shouted and talked at the same time, so that Count Rostov had not time to signify his approval of them all, and the group increased, dispersed, re-formed, and then moved with a hum of talk into the largest hall and to the big table.†
Chpt 9
- "All our stupidity, Yakov Alpatych," came the answers, and the crowd began at once to disperse through the village.†
Chpt 10
- Amid the powder smoke, slowly dispersing over the whole space through which Napoleon rode, horses and men were lying in pools of blood, singly or in heaps.†
Chpt 10
- After that the generals began to disperse with the solemnity and circumspect silence of people who are leaving, after a funeral.†
Chpt 11
- Having waited there for Rostopchin who did not turn up, they became convinced that Moscow would be surrendered, and then dispersed all about the town to the public houses and cookshops.†
Chpt 11
- Half the men have dispersed.†
Chpt 11
- He was told by his fellow officers that the screams of the crowd and the shrieks of the woman were due to the fact that General Ermolov, coming up to the crowd and learning that soldiers were dispersing among the shops while crowds of civilians blocked the bridge, had ordered two guns to be unlimbered and made a show of firing at the bridge.†
Chpt 11
- But it remained an army only until its soldiers had dispersed into their different lodgings.†
Chpt 11
- As soon as the men of the various regiments began to disperse among the wealthy and deserted houses, the army was lost forever and there came into being something nondescript, neither citizens nor soldiers but what are known as marauders.†
Chpt 11
- Order after order was issued by the French commanders that day forbidding the men to disperse about the town, sternly forbidding any violence to the inhabitants or any looting, and announcing a roll call for that very evening.†
Chpt 11
- As a hungry herd of cattle keeps well together when crossing a barren field, but gets out of hand and at once disperses uncontrollably as soon as it reaches rich pastures, so did the army disperse all over the wealthy city.†
Chpt 11
- As a hungry herd of cattle keeps well together when crossing a barren field, but gets out of hand and at once disperses uncontrollably as soon as it reaches rich pastures, so did the army disperse all over the wealthy city.†
Chpt 11
- He struggled against the confession of his weakness but dimly felt that he could not overcome it and that his former gloomy frame of mind, concerning vengeance, killing, and self-sacrifice, had been dispersed like dust by contact with the first man he met.†
Chpt 11
- The crowd of Russians and Frenchmen began to disperse.†
Chpt 12
- In such actions, instead of two crowds opposing each other, the men disperse, attack singly, run away when attacked by stronger forces, but again attack when opportunity offers.†
Chpt 14
- The French, avoiding the Russians, dispersed and hid themselves in the forest by night, making their way round as best they could, and continued their flight.†
Chpt 15
- One part of it dispersed and waded knee-deep through the snow into a birch forest to the right of the village, and immediately the sound of axes and swords, the crashing of branches, and merry voices could be heard from there.†
Chpt 15
- While you were talking in the study I was looking at you," Natasha began, evidently anxious to disperse the cloud that had come over them.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(disperse as in: the crowd dispersed) to scatter or cause to spread