All 8 Uses of
invariably
in
Anna Karenina
- You despise public official work because you want the reality to be invariably corresponding all the while with the aim—and that's not how it is.
Part 1invariably = always
- Her invariable and favorite pursuit, when they met, consisted in making fun of him.†
Part 1 *
- Kitty had been seeing Anna every day; she adored her, and had pictured her invariably in lilac.
Part 1invariably = always
- These principles laid down as invariable rules: that one must pay a cardsharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat anyone, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on.†
Part 3
- …Russia has splendid land, splendid laborers, and that in certain cases, as at the peasant's on the way to Sviazhsky's, the produce raised by the laborers and the land is great—in the majority of cases when capital is applied in the European way the produce is small, and that this simply arises from the fact that the laborers want to work and work well only in their own peculiar way, and that this antagonism is not incidental but invariable, and has its roots in the national spirit.†
Part 3
- As is invariably the case, after they had been asked at what price they wanted rooms, it appeared that there was not one decent room for them; one decent room had been taken by the inspector of railroads, another by a lawyer from Moscow, a third by Princess Astafieva from the country.†
Part 5
- There were at the time as many reasons for the step as against it, and there was no overbalancing consideration to outweigh his invariable rule of abstaining when in doubt.†
Part 5
- Though they were divorced and lived apart, yet whenever the husband met the wife, he invariably behaved to her with the same malignant irony, the cause of which was incomprehensible.†
Part 5
Definition:
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(invariably) never changing; or always the same