All 13 Uses of
Sappho
in
Anna Karenina
- Sappho Shtoltz you don't know?†
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- They heard the sound of steps and a man's voice, then a woman's voice and laughter, and immediately thereafter there walked in the expected guests: Sappho Shtoltz, and a young man beaming with excess of health, the so-called Vaska.†
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- He walked after Sappho into the drawing-room, and followed her about as though he were chained to her, keeping his sparkling eyes fixed on her as though he wanted to eat her.†
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- Sappho Shtoltz was a blonde beauty with black eyes.†
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- He addressed Sappho: "You've lost your bet.†
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- Sappho laughed still more festively.†
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- The unexpected young visitor, whom Sappho had invited, and whom she had forgotten, was, however, a personage of such consequence that, in spite of his youth, both the ladies rose on his entrance.†
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- He was a new admirer of Sappho's.†
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- Liza was as soft and enervated as Sappho was smart and abrupt.†
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- It is true that her tone was the same as Sappho's; that like Sappho, she had two men, one young and one old, tacked onto her, and devouring her with their eyes.†
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- It is true that her tone was the same as Sappho's; that like Sappho, she had two men, one young and one old, tacked onto her, and devouring her with their eyes.†
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- Sappho smoking a cigarette went off into the garden with the two young men.†
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- Sappho says they did enjoy themselves tremendously at your house last night.†
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Definition:
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(Sappho) the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC)