All 19 Uses of
trace
in
Anna Karenina
- All these traces of his life seemed to clutch him, and to say to him: "No, you're not going to get away from us, and you're not going to be different, but you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you."†
Part 1
- He felt that the love that bound him to Anna was not a momentary impulse, which would pass, as worldly intrigues do pass, leaving no other traces in the life of either but pleasant or unpleasant memories.†
Part 2
- The rain did not last long, and by the time Vronsky arrived, his shaft-horse trotting at full speed and dragging the trace-horses galloping through the mud, with their reins hanging loose, the sun had peeped out again, the roofs of the summer villas and the old limetrees in the gardens on both sides of the principal streets sparkled with wet brilliance, and from the twigs came a pleasant drip and from the roofs rushing streams of water.†
Part 2
- Whatever faults Levin had, there was not a trace of hypocrisy in him, and so the children showed him the same friendliness that they saw in their mother's face.†
Part 3
- All the long day of toil had left no trace in them but lightness of heart.†
Part 3
- There was no trace of shell, and there was stretched over fully half the sky an even cover of tiny and ever tinier cloudlets.†
Part 3
- And that's not all—twenty years ago he would have found in that literature traces of conflict with authorities, with the creeds of the ages; he would have perceived from this conflict that there was something else; but now he comes at once upon a literature in which the old creeds do not even furnish matter for discussion, but it is stated baldly that there is nothing else—evolution, natural selection, struggle for existence—and that's all.†
Part 5
- "Now I will enter upon my duties," she said with a smile after a pause, as she wiped away the traces of tears.†
Part 5
- If there were a trace of humanity left in her, she ought not to wish for it herself.†
Part 5
- "Do you know what, Levin, I'll gallop home on that left trace-horse.†
Part 6 *
- The coachman rode back on the trace-horse, and Levin himself drove the remaining pair.†
Part 6
- One was that the chestnut trace horse, who had been unmistakably overworked on the previous day, was off his feed and out of sorts.†
Part 6
- He was looking for traces of the conversation which he knew that, staying so long in Dolly's room, she must have had with her.†
Part 6
- Levin, looking at the tiny, pitiful creature, made strenuous efforts to discover in his heart some traces of fatherly feeling for it.†
Part 7
- The children were brought up in schools, and there was no trace of the wild idea that prevailed in Moscow, in Lvov's household, for instance, that all the luxuries of life were for the children, while the parents have nothing but work and anxiety.†
Part 7
- With the trace of a smile of commiseration for herself she sat down in the armchair, taking off and putting on the rings on her left hand, vividly picturing from different sides his feelings after her death.†
Part 7
- Vronsky besought her to be calm, and declared that there was no trace of foundation for her jealousy; that he had never ceased, and never would cease, to love her; that he loved her more than ever.†
Part 7
- This article was followed by a deadly silence about the book both in the press and in conversation, and Sergey Ivanovitch saw that his six years' task, toiled at with such love and labor, had gone, leaving no trace.†
Part 8
- "Can it have been only a momentary mood, and will it pass and leave no trace?" he thought.†
Part 8
Definition:
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(trace as in: found a trace of) a small quantity; or any indication or evidence ofThe exact meaning of this sense of trace depends upon its context. For example:
- a small indication that something was present -- as in "The plane disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean without leaving a trace."
- a very small amount of something -- as in "The blood test showed a trace of steroids."
- any evidence of something -- as in "We did not find a trace of the gene."