All 50 Uses of
utter
in
War and Peace
- "Because I hate ghost stories," said Prince Hippolyte in a tone which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he had uttered them.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- 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.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- You see…." was all Natasha managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny).†
Chpt 1 (definition 2)
- Just fancy!" said the countess with a gentle smile, looking at Boris' and went on, evidently concerned with a thought that always occupied her: "Now you see if I were to be severe with her and to forbid it…. goodness knows what they might be up to on the sly" (she meant that they would be kissing), "but as it is, I know every word she utters.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- "If it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to Uncle," said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, "I know his character: noble, upright…. but you see he has no one with him except the young princesses….†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- "I am convinced that we Russians must die or conquer," he concluded, conscious—as were others—after the words were uttered that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and were therefore awkward.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- She smiled as she uttered his pet name, "Andrusha."†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- "Vous voyez le malheureux Mack," he uttered in a broken voice.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- "Yes," said Rostov as if it cost him a great deal to utter the word; and he sat down at the nearest table.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- He went on talking in this way in French, uttering only those words in Russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- If he reached Znaim before the French, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the French forestall him at Znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a disgrace such as that of Ulm, or to utter destruction.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- Prince Bagration, uttering his words with an Oriental accent, spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no need to hurry.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- One soldier, in his fear, uttered the senseless cry, "Cut off!" that is so terrible in battle, and that word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- Formerly in Anna Pavlovna's presence, Pierre had always felt that what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary Hippolyte's stupidest remarks came out clever and apt.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- He began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered 'Sergey' he sobbed, 'Kuz-mi-ch,' tears, and 'From all sides' was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- Humbug, humbug, humbug!" cried Prince Bolkonski, frowning and taking his daughter's hand; he did not kiss her, but only bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so that she winced and uttered a cry.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- But as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is alone with her, so Rostov, now that he had attained what he had longed for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach the Emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- "And I might have been in his place!" thought Rostov, and hardly restraining his tears of pity for the Emperor, he rode on in utter despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkonski bleeding profusely and unconsciously uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- He collected all his strength, to stir and utter a sound.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan which aroused his own pity.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- At the very instant he did this and uttered those words, Pierre felt that the question of his wife's guilt which had been tormenting him the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- "Please," he uttered with an effort.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1) *
- And he vividly recalled that moment after supper at Prince Vasili's, when he spoke those words he had found so difficult to utter: "I love you."†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Helene laughed, "that Dolokhov was my lover," she said in French with her coarse plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other word, "and you believed it!†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- You do not know Him, but He is here, He is in me, He is in my words, He is in thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!" pronounced the Mason in a stern and tremulous voice.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- Thou dreamest that thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words," he went on, with a somber and scornful smile.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- Pierre looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved his lips without uttering a sound.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- For a long time he could not utter a word, so that the Rhetor had to repeat his question.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- I…. desire regeneration," Pierre uttered with difficulty.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- "Now thou hast seen the lesser light," uttered a voice.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- When Rostov asked what was the matter, he only uttered some incoherent oaths and threats in a hoarse, feeble voice.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- He was knocking the back of his head against the floor, hoarsely uttering some word which he kept repeating.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- "You see, my dear sir, I have read your project," interrupted Arakcheev, uttering only the first words amiably and then—again without looking at Prince Andrew—relapsing gradually into a tone of grumbling contempt.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- No one has ever heard him utter a groan or a word of complaint.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- I shall perish of my debauchery if Thou utterly desertest me!†
Chpt 6 (definition 2) *
- "Look out!" he shouted, in a voice plainly showing that he had long fretted to utter that word, and letting the borzois slip he galloped toward the count.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- But he had no time to utter the decisive word which the expression of his face caused his mother to await with terror, and which would perhaps have forever remained a cruel memory to them both.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- In spite of this the old man inspired in all his visitors alike a feeling of respectful veneration—especially of an evening when he came in to tea in his old-fashioned coat and powdered wig and, aroused by anyone, told his abrupt stories of the past, or uttered yet more abrupt and scathing criticisms of the present.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- "Bonaparte treats Europe as a pirate does a captured vessel," said Count Rostopchin, repeating a phrase he had uttered several times before.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- But in Julie's presence, looking at her red face and chin (nearly always powdered), her moist eyes, and her expression of continual readiness to pass at once from melancholy to an unnatural rapture of married bliss, Boris could not utter the decisive words, though in imagination he had long regarded himself as the possessor of those Penza and Nizhegorod estates and had apportioned the use of the income from them.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- In some places she raised her voice, in others she whispered, lifting her head triumphantly; sometimes she paused and uttered hoarse sounds, rolling her eyes.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- The Emperor was not dancing, he stood in the doorway, stopping now one pair and now another with gracious words which he alone knew how to utter.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- It seemed to Boris that it gave the Emperor pleasure to utter these words.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- He could not utter them, though he wished to do so.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- Napoleon noticed Balashev's embarrassment when uttering these last words; his face twitched and the calf of his left leg began to quiver rhythmically.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- A sovereign should not be with the army unless he is a general!" said Napoleon, evidently uttering these words as a direct challenge to the Emperor.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- He knew that none of the words now uttered by Napoleon had any significance, and that Napoleon himself would be ashamed of them when he came to his senses.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- And probably still more perturbed by the fact that he had uttered this obvious falsehood, and that Balashev still stood silently before him in the same attitude of submission to fate, Napoleon abruptly turned round, drew close to Balashev's face, and, gesticulating rapidly and energetically with his white hands, almost shouted: "Know that if you stir up Prussia against me, I'll wipe it off the map of Europe!" he declared, his face pale and distorted by anger, and he struck one of his…†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- Balashev involuntarily flushed with pleasure at the aptitude of this reply, but hardly had he uttered the word Poltava before Caulaincourt began speaking of the badness of the road from Petersburg to Moscow and of his Petersburg reminiscences.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice
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(2) (utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)