All 4 Uses of
partition
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Grigory's wife, Marfa, in answer to Ivan's questions, declared that Smerdyakov had been lying all night the other side of the partition wall.†
Chpt 11 *
- I knew I'd be the other side of the partition, for whenever I was ill, Marfa Ignatyevna used to put me there, near them.†
Chpt 11
- I saw at the end of the room, behind the platform, a special partition hurriedly put up, behind which all these lawyers were admitted, and they thought themselves lucky to have standing room there, for all chairs had been removed for the sake of space, and the crowd behind the partition stood throughout the case closely packed, shoulder to shoulder.†
Chpt 12
- I saw at the end of the room, behind the platform, a special partition hurriedly put up, behind which all these lawyers were admitted, and they thought themselves lucky to have standing room there, for all chairs had been removed for the sake of space, and the crowd behind the partition stood throughout the case closely packed, shoulder to shoulder.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(partition) something that divides space
or: the act of dividing into parts, or a divided part