All 7 Uses of
emit
in
War and Peace
- "If anyone comes meddling again," said he, emitting the words separately through his thin compressed lips, "I will throw him down there.†
Chpt 1emitting = sending out
- I even manage to put a little aside and to send something to my father," he went on, emitting a smoke ring.†
Chpt 1
- That's the way, Count," said Berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke.†
Chpt 3
- If at first the members of the council thought that Kutuzov was pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for the dispositions or anything else—he was engaged in satisfying the irresistible human need for sleep.†
Chpt 3emitted = sent out
- The Frenchman emitted a merry, sanguine chuckle, patting Pierre on the shoulder.†
Chpt 11 *
- Occasionally he emitted a long-drawn groan and then again became silent.†
Chpt 15
- Dessalles slept propped up on four pillows and his Roman nose emitted sounds of rhythmic snoring.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
to produce and send out -- such as sound or light