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I see you do not realize all the difficulty of my position... there in Petersburg,' she added.
And the adviser would make an elaborate plan to circumvent the fatal difficulty which was at the root of all this trouble.
Why, where is the difficulty?
'Yes, sir!'And, thanks to the conditions of town life, having thus simply and easily solved a difficulty which in the country would have required much exertion and personal attention, Levin went out, called an izvoshchik, and drove to the Nikitskaya.
'Well, and then their position will be as definite as mine or yours.''What is the difficulty?' asked Levin.
You see, you promised!''The promise was given before, and I thought the question about my son had settled the matter...Besides, I hoped that Anna Arkadyevna would have generosity enough...' uttered Karenin with difficulty, his lips trembling and his face turning pale.
If he loved her he would fully understand the difficulty of her situation, and would deliver her from it.
She is nursing her baby and has difficulty with it, and I was advising her...
Dolly, struggling with difficulty with the skirts that clung to her legs, no longer walked but ran, her eyes fixed on the children.
The servants were also gazing at these miserable creatures with the pity and vague uneasiness of girls who are in no difficulty about their own dinners.
But there was another difficulty when he talked of going to Maigrat's.
He breathed the coal-dust without difficulty, saw clearly in the obscurity, and sweated tranquilly, having grown accustomed to the sensation of wet garments on his body from morning to night.
He was a sort of business man, charged with correspondence and consulted by households in affairs of difficulty.
If a married miner can with difficulty make both ends meet, a sober lad who has no burdens can even manage to save.
An increasing irritation detached Madame Hennebeau, who had been brought up to respect money, and was disdainful of this husband who gained a small salary with such difficulty, and who enabled her to gratify none of the satisfactions of vanity which she had dreamed of at school.
Since the factories have closed, one by one, we have had a deuce of a difficulty in getting rid of our stock; and in face of the growing reduction in demand we have been forced to lower our net prices.
In practice he had at first, with Proudhon, been captured by the chimera of a mutual credit, a vast bank of exchange which suppressed middlemen; then Lassalle's cooperative societies, endowed by the State, gradually transforming the earth into a single industrial town, had aroused his enthusiasm until he grew disgusted in face of the difficulty of controlling them; and he had arrived recently at collectivism, demanding that all the instruments of production should be restored to the community.
He dressed her, slipped on the chemise easily, but swore over the difficulty he had in getting on the trousers, for she could not help much.
Bonnemort's swollen legs bore him so badly, that he had great difficulty in dragging himself so far; no one knew what curiosity impelled him, for his face had the earthy look of those days when he never spoke a word.
He picked himself up with difficulty, resting for a moment curled up on his knees, doing something with his hand in the bottom of his pocket which could not be observed.
Unfortunately, the difficulty began when the question arose, What could be done?
The first difficulty was in going down at Réquillart; it was necessary to clear out the rubbish from the mouth of the shaft, to cut down the mountain ash, and raze the sloes and the hawthorns; they had also repair the ladders.
The coal was becoming closer and harder, to such an extent that they now with difficulty struck through two metres.
Others have been wrenched, not without difficulty, from the undersides of vessels that narwhales have pierced clean through, as a gimlet pierces a wine barrel.
I swam more vigorously, but hampered by clothes that were as restricting as a cloak made of lead, I was managing with only the greatest difficulty.
I had great difficulty deciding.
"So I had difficulty deciding," he said.
"Fine, captain, but now we come to a genuine difficulty.
But at this juncture, I have a hunch that we're still left with one real difficulty."
All the same, I was content simply to put the frigate in a condition where it could do me no harm; it won't have any difficulty getting repairs at the nearest port."
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