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The Grey Stone on a low ledge of which, nearly concealed from public view, our lovers had been sitting was, in point of size, a very large rock of irregular size. After the last words, alluding to the murder, had been uttered, an old man, very neatly but plainly dressed, and bearing a pedlar's pack, came round from behind a projection of it, and approached them.
At last he said, after an hesitation caused by the possibility that she was ignorant of the fact he had lately elicited from Julia, though it was more probable she might have learned it from the same source: "Am I perhaps indiscreet in alluding to the circumstance that Nick has been painting Miss Rooth's portrait?" "You're not indiscreet in alluding to it to me, because I know it."
The letter says, 'It is difficult to understand how an arbitrator could have accepted the task imposed upon him, &c., alluding to his being debarred from deciding on the middle channel.
I assured him that I had never, in my own mind, doubted that he was the real and only assassin, and I went on and asked him what he had done with the body of the cornet-player he had killed. He said, "To which one may you be alluding?" "Oh, were there any more then?" I inquired. He smiled, and gave a little cough.
Elster walk past this morning, as if he had just come by the luggage-train. I'm not sure but he spoke to him." "The answer is 'No, Simon," interposed the Rector, alluding to the note he had been reading. "But you can send word that I'll come in some time to-day." "Charles, did you hear what Simon said that Mr. Elster has come down?" asked Mrs. Ashton.
It was my habit to make full notes of the actual facts stated by him in the more formal parts of these evening recitals, and sometimes even of his comments; and I regret that I did not do so at the particular moment to which I am now alluding. It was not until the following morning that I made a few memoranda of the closing incident of the evening.
"But I suppose, sir, you're alluding now to a certain Member of Parliament whose name I needn't mention." "Yes, I allude to him, and to others to several others." "If some have spoken against me, there's a many more would have spoken for me." "But they have not done so," said the Colonel dryly.
"A count's leudes are matches for royal leudes!" "The polish of the steel does not make its temper." One of Chram's men turned towards his companions, and laughing, pointed at the count's people with the tip of his lance while sarcastically alluding to their rustic appearance: "Are these plow-slaves disguised as warriors, or warriors disguised as plow-slaves?"
I don't quite see what you think you're going to do when you get there, but that's up to you. 'There's no harm in giving the city a trial. Anyway, I can give you a letter or two that might help. 'That's awfully good of you. 'You won't mind my alluding to you as my friend William Smith? 'William Smith? 'You can't travel under your own name if you are really serious about getting a job.
They began poking the commissariat clerk and whispering something to him. They were evidently trying to egg him on. "Allow me to ask what are you alluding to," began the clerk, "that is to say, whose... about whom... did you say just now... But I don't care! That's nonsense! Widow! I forgive you.... Pass!" And he took another drink of vodka. Raskolnikov sat in silence, listening with disgust.
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