Both Uses of
refrain
in
Anna Karenina
- Levin for his part refrained from taking any vodka simply because he felt such a loathing of that Frenchwoman, all made up, it seemed, of false hair, poudre de riz, and vinaigre de toilette.†
Part 1 *
- One of the younger women kept staring at the Englishwoman, who was dressing after all the rest, and when she put on her third petticoat she could not refrain from the remark, "My, she keeps putting on and putting on, and she'll never have done!" she said, and they all went off into roars.†
Part 3
Definition:
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(refrain as in: refrain from laughing) avoid or resist doing something