All 3 Uses of
emit
in
The Idiot
- As he came near the front door he heard someone outside vainly endeavouring to ring the bell, which was evidently broken, and only shook a little, without emitting any sound.†
Chpt 1.8 *emitting = sending out
- The face, especially the eyes, become terribly disfigured, convulsions seize the limbs, a terrible cry breaks from the sufferer, a wail from which everything human seems to be blotted out, so that it is impossible to believe that the man who has just fallen is the same who emitted the dreadful cry.†
Chpt 2.5emitted = sent out
- Towards the end he wept no more, though he continued to emit an occasional groan; but his face grew more overcast day by day, as though Eternity were wrapping its gloomy mantle about him.†
Chpt 4.4emit = send out
Definition:
to produce and send out -- such as sound or light