All 3 Uses of
epigram
in
Anna Karenina
- In the society in which she lived such plain statements produced the effect of the wittiest epigram.†
Part 2 *
- During those two hours in Volgarinov's waiting room Stepan Arkadyevitch, stepping jauntily about the room, pulling his whiskers, entering into conversation with the other petitioners, and inventing an epigram on his position, assiduously concealed from others, and even from himself, the feeling he was experiencing.†
Part 7
- But all the time he was uncomfortable and angry, he could not have said why—whether because he could not get his epigram just right, or from some other reason.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(epigram) a witty saying