All 43 Uses of
capital
in
Anna Karenina
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Capital.†
Part 1
- All the skaters, it seemed, with perfect self-possession, skated towards her, skated by her, even spoke to her, and were happy, quite apart from her, enjoying the capital ice and the fine weather.†
Part 1
- "He's a capital fellow," pursued Oblonsky.†
Part 1
- Nikolay Levin went on talking: "You know that capital oppresses the laborer.†
Part 1
- Petritsky, whom he liked, was implicated in the affair, and the other culprit was a capital fellow and first-rate comrade, who had lately joined the regiment, the young Prince Kedrov.†
Part 2
- Everything was capital, everything was cheering.†
Part 2
- The stand-shooting was capital.†
Part 2
- "That's capital."†
Part 2
- Capital.†
Part 2
- In Sergey Ivanovitch's eyes his younger brother was a capital fellow, with his heart in the right place (as he expressed it in French), but with a mind which, though fairly quick, was too much influenced by the impressions of the moment, and consequently filled with contradictions.†
Part 3
- "That's capital!†
Part 3
- But a capital road.†
Part 3
- Capital, we'll drive over."†
Part 3
- "That merely proves either that I'm a bad manager, or that I've sunk my capital for the increase of my rents."†
Part 3
- But there was a gleam of alarm in Sviazhsky's eyes, and he said smiling: "No; that screaming story is positively capital!†
Part 3
- He saw that 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…†
Part 3
- They deny the justice of property, of capital, of inheritance, while I do not deny this chief stimulus.†
Part 3
- "I've just been seeing him, and he's really a capital fellow.†
Part 4
- No, really he's a capital fellow."†
Part 4
- Capital!†
Part 4
- There, that's capital.†
Part 4 *
- "I am very glad of one thing," said Anna to Golenishtchev when they were on their way back, "Alexey will have a capital atelier.†
Part 5
- One so knows the man: a good-natured, capital fellow, but an official through and through, who does not know what it is he's doing.†
Part 5
- "A capital fellow, and a keen sportsman," as Stepan Arkadyevitch said, introducing him.†
Part 6
- Capital!†
Part 6
- "Capital! we'll make the bigger bag!†
Part 6
- "It's capital lying here."†
Part 6
- "He really is a capital fellow, isn't he?" said Stepan Arkadyevitch, when Veslovsky had gone out and the peasant had closed the door after him.†
Part 6
- "Yes, capital," answered Levin, still thinking of the subject of their conversation just before.†
Part 6
- A walk now would be capital.†
Part 6
- "There are some among us, too, like our friend Nikolay Ivanovitch, or Count Vronsky, that's settled here lately, who try to carry on their husbandry as though it were a factory; but so far it leads to nothing but making away with capital on it."†
Part 6
- This influence was due to his wealth and reputation, the capital house in the town lent him by his old friend Shirkov, who had a post in the department of finances and was director of a flourishing bank in Kashin; the excellent cook Vronsky had brought from the country, and his friendship with the governor, who was a schoolfellow of Vronsky's—a schoolfellow he had patronized and protected indeed.†
Part 6
- The episode of the elections served as a good occasion for a capital dinner.†
Part 6
- The condition of the laborer will always depend on his relation to the land and to capital.†
Part 7
- He saw that Metrov, like other people, in spite of his own article, in which he had attacked the current theory of political economy, looked at the position of the Russian peasant simply from the point of view of capital, wages, and rent.†
Part 7
- He would indeed have been obliged to admit that in the eastern—much the larger—part of Russia rent was as yet nil, that for nine-tenths of the eighty millions of the Russian peasants wages took the form simply of food provided for themselves, and that capital does not so far exist except in the form of the most primitive tools.†
Part 7
- Capital!†
Part 7
- Capital!" said Stepan Arkadyevitch.†
Part 7
- After a capital dinner and a great deal of cognac drunk at Bartnyansky's, Stepan Arkadyevitch, only a little later than the appointed time, went in to Countess Lidia Ivanovna's.†
Part 7
- He was going both to rest for a fortnight, and in the very heart of the people, in the farthest wilds of the country, to enjoy the sight of that uplifting of the spirit of the people, of which, like all residents in the capital and big towns, he was fully persuaded.†
Part 8
- Katavasov went back to his own carriage, and with reluctant hypocrisy reported to Sergey Ivanovitch his observations of the volunteers, from which it would appear that they were capital fellows.†
Part 8
- "Alphonse Karr said a capital thing before the war with Prussia: 'You consider war to be inevitable?†
Part 8
- He could not admit that some dozens of men, among them his brother, had the right, on the ground of what they were told by some hundreds of glib volunteers swarming to the capital, to say that they and the newspapers were expressing the will and feeling of the people, and a feeling which was expressed in vengeance and murder.†
Part 8
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Capital has many other senses including an uppercase letter (such as B in contrast to b); and anything that is more important than other similar things -- especially a city from which a nation is governed. Capital is often confused with capitol which is the building (or buildings) from which a nation is governed. See a comprehensive dictionary for other senses of capital.