All 19 Uses of
convey
in
War and Peace
- They had come by easy stages, their knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place.†
Chpt 3
- The day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed Rostov going or coming.†
Chpt 3
- Allow me to convey….†
Chpt 4 *
- They were half clad, hungry, too weak to get away on foot and had no means of obtaining a conveyance.†
Chpt 5
- Even those members who seemed to be on his side understood him in their own way with limitations and alterations he could not agree to, as what he always wanted most was to convey his thought to others just as he himself understood it.†
Chpt 6
- Boris came to the Rostovs' box, received their congratulations very simply, and raising his eyebrows with an absent-minded smile conveyed to Natasha and Sonya his fiancee's invitation to her wedding, and went away.†
Chpt 8
- He felt that his words, apart from what meaning they conveyed, were less audible than the sound of his opponent's voice.†
Chpt 9
- Three well-fed roans stood ready harnessed to a small conveyance with a leather hood.†
Chpt 10
- The fact was accordingly conveyed to Lavrushka.†
Chpt 10
- But Natasha was not satisfied with her own words: she felt that they did not convey the passionately poetic feeling she had experienced that day and wished to convey.†
Chpt 10
- But Natasha was not satisfied with her own words: she felt that they did not convey the passionately poetic feeling she had experienced that day and wished to convey.†
Chpt 10
- Every day thousands of men wounded at Borodino were brought in by the Dorogomilov gate and taken to various parts of Moscow, and thousands of carts conveyed the inhabitants and their possessions out by the other gates.†
Chpt 11
- He was being conveyed in a caleche with a raised hood, and was quite covered by an apron.†
Chpt 11
- She spoke in a soft, tremulous voice, and in the weary eyes that looked over her spectacles Sonya read all that the countess meant to convey with these words.†
Chpt 12
- "The doctor says that he is not in danger," said the countess, but as she spoke she raised her eyes with a sigh, and her gesture conveyed a contradiction of her words.†
Chpt 12
- With reference to diplomacy, all Napoleon's arguments as to his magnanimity and justice, both to Tutolmin and to Yakovlev (whose chief concern was to obtain a greatcoat and a conveyance), proved useless; Alexander did not receive these envoys and did not reply to their embassage.†
Chpt 13
- Denisov turned away from him frowning and addressed the esaul, conveying his own conjectures to him.†
Chpt 14
- He remembered a general impression of the misfortunes and sufferings of people and of being worried by the curiosity of officers and generals who questioned him, he also remembered his difficulty in procuring a conveyance and horses, and above all he remembered his incapacity to think and feel all that time.†
Chpt 15
- Not only her look, but her exclamations and the brief questions she put, showed Pierre that she understood just what he wished to convey.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express