Use boris in a sentence
Sentences starting with boris
- Boris and Natasha were at the other window and ceased talking when Vera entered. [2]
- Boris passed them twice and each time turned away. [2]
- Boris sketched two trees in the album and wrote: "Rustic trees, your dark branches shed gloom and melancholy upon me. [2]
- Boris listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the beautiful Helene, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome young aide-de-camp with a smile. [2]
- Boris understood that this was meant for him and, closing his eyes, slightly bowed his head. [2]
- Boris came to the Rostovs' box, received their congratulations very simply, and raising his eyebrows with an absent-minded smile conveyed to Natasha and Sonya his fiancee's invitation to her wedding, and went away. [2]
- Boris quietly left the room and went in search of Natasha. [2]
- Boris paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined his handsome face. [2]
- Boris belonged to the latter and no one else, while showing servile respect to Kutuzov, could so create an impression that the old fellow was not much good and that Bennigsen managed everything. [2]
- Boris was among the few present at the Niemen on the day the two Emperors met. [2]
Sentences ending with boris
- Rostov, in common with the whole army from which he came, was far from having experienced the change of feeling toward Napoleon and the French--who from being foes had suddenly become friends--that had taken place at headquarters and in Boris. [2]
- But this is what I'll do, Natasha, I'll have a talk with Boris. [2]
- Pierre stopped some thirty paces from Kutuzov, talking to Boris. [2]
- But I'll just tell Mamma how you are behaving with Boris. [2]
- This is my son," she added, indicating Boris. [2]
- You know, Uncle promised me only the day before yesterday not to forget Boris. [2]
- And so you no longer wish to marry Boris? [2]
- He has forwarded me a letter from Boris. [2]
- Would you believe it, I have literally not a penny and don't know how to equip Boris. [2]
- Rostov felt so ill at ease and uncomfortable with Boris that, when the latter looked in after supper, he pretended to be asleep, and early next morning went away, avoiding Boris. [2]
Short sentences using boris
- Boris followed her, smiling. [2]
- Boris, come here," said Natasha. [2]
- Boris did not laugh. [2]
- You say Boris is nice. [2]
- You don't remember Boris? [2]
- So you are Boris? [2]
- Boris bowed politely. [2]
- Ah, Boris, Boris! [2]
- Boris smiled. [2]
- Boris blushed. [2]
Sentences containing boris two or more times
- And so it was decided to send the letters and money by the Grand Duke's courier to Boris and Boris was to forward them to Nicholas. [2]
- When he and Boris were alone, Rostov felt for the first time that he could not look Boris in the face without a sense of awkwardness. [2]
More example sentences with the word boris in them
- Among the many young men who frequented her house every day, Boris Drubetskoy, who had already achieved great success in the service, was the most intimate friend of the Bezukhov household since Helene's return from Erfurt. [2]
- He was satisfied with the form in which he had expressed his thoughts, but displeased that Boris had overheard it. [2]
- Having been sent with papers from Kutuzov to the Tsarevich, he looked in on Boris, hoping to find him alone. [2]
- I know very well..." But Boris again interrupted him. [2]
- The one who was writing and whom Boris addressed turned round crossly and told him Bolkonski was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the reception room if he wished to see him. [2]
- To Boris, Julie was particularly gracious: she regretted his early disillusionment with life, offered him such consolation of friendship as she who had herself suffered so much could render, and showed him her album. [2]
- Julie said this was charming "There is something so enchanting in the smile of melancholy," she said to Boris, repeating word for word a passage she had copied from a book. [2]
- More than ever was Boris resolved to serve in future not according to the written code, but under this unwritten law. [2]
- The council of war was just over when Prince Andrew accompanied by Boris arrived at the palace to find Dolgorukov. [2]
- As he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress Boris and all his comrades of the Guards by his appearance--that of a fighting hussar who had been under fire. [2]
- Though at one time, in Petersburg, she had been annoyed with Natasha for drawing Boris away, she did not think of that now, and in her own way heartily wished Natasha well. [2]
- The ribbon of the order is a different matter...." When everybody rose to go, Helene who had spoken very little all the evening again turned to Boris, asking him in a tone of caressing significant command to come to her on Tuesday. [2]
- But Boris noticed that he was preparing to make fun of Berg, and skillfully changed the subject. [2]
- Still, I will take Boris and go to see him at once, and I shall speak to him straight out. [2]
- Boris, hearing a strange voice in the anteroom, came out to meet him. [2]
- Natasha on one side was talking with Sonya and Boris, and Vera with a subtle smile was saying something to Prince Andrew. [2]
- But in the secret depths of her soul the question whether her engagement to Boris was a jest or an important, binding promise tormented her. [2]
- That same day, Rostov, profiting by the darkness to avoid being recognized in civilian dress, came to Tilsit and went to the lodging occupied by Boris and Zhilinski. [2]
- That day Nicholas Rostov received a letter from Boris, telling him that the Ismaylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from Olmutz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for him. [2]
- Boris had been quartered, and had marched all the way, with Berg who was already in command of a company. [2]
- Speaking of the position of Prussia, Anna Pavlovna very naturally asked Boris to tell them about his journey to Glogau and in what state he found the Prussian army. [2]
- For Boris, Julie played most doleful nocturnes on her harp. [2]
- Boris felt that Pierre did not recognize him but did not consider it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least embarrassment looked Pierre straight in the face. [2]
- The novelty Anna Pavlovna was setting before her guests that evening was Boris Drubetskoy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from the Prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. [2]
- In the middle of his story, just as he was saying: "You cannot imagine what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack," Prince Andrew, whom Boris was expecting, entered the room. [2]
- Boris inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without indiscretion, one might ask about our plans. [2]
- Since Boris left Moscow in 1805 to join the army he had not seen the Rostovs. [2]
- Boris said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking off his cloak. [2]
- Thanks to Anna Mikhaylovna's efforts, his own tastes, and the peculiarities of his reserved nature, Boris had managed during his service to place himself very advantageously. [2]
- The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an exception made, and Boris transferred into the regiment of Semenov Guards with the rank of cornet. [2]
- Boris, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and then brought back to the general circle. [2]
- Boris read Poor Liza aloud to her, and more than once interrupted the reading because of the emotions that choked him. [2]
- Prince Andrew, who liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance and being well disposed toward Boris, who had managed to please him the day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. [2]
- Well, I don't like Anna Mikhaylovna and I don't like Boris, but they were our friends and poor. [2]
- Boris Drubetskoy, having left his wife in Moscow and being for the present en garcon (as he phrased it), was also there and, though not an aide-de-camp, had subscribed a large sum toward the expenses. [2]
- And Boris says it is quite possible. [2]
- Prince Andrew was in and Boris was shown into a large hall probably formerly used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. [2]
- Boris, fluttering as if he had not had time to withdraw, respectfully pressed close to the doorpost with bowed head. [2]
- It seemed as if from some words Boris had spoken that evening about the Prussian army, Helene had suddenly found it necessary to see him. [2]
- She told her how he had complimented her, how he told her he was going abroad, asked her where they were going to spend the summer, and then how he had asked her about Boris. [2]
- He ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of Boris, rode home. [2]
- Prince Andrew introduced his protege, but Prince Dolgorukov politely and firmly pressing his hand said nothing to Boris and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed Prince Andrew in French. [2]
- Boris was telling his new friend Pierre who the guests were and exchanging glances with Natasha, who was sitting opposite. [2]
- Boris made up his mind to avoid meeting Natasha, but despite that resolution he called again a few days later and began calling often and spending whole days at the Rostovs'. [2]
- Boris Drubetskoy, brushing his knees with his hand (he had probably soiled them when he, too, had knelt before the icon), came up to him smiling. [2]
- Boris looked at his general inquiringly and immediately saw that he was being tested. [2]
- He had established himself with Count Bennigsen, who, like all on whom Boris had been in attendance, considered young Prince Drubetskoy an invaluable man. [2]
- He could not himself go to the general in attendance as he was in mufti and had come to Tilsit without permission to do so, and Boris, even had he wished to, could not have done so on the following day. [2]
- It seemed to her mother and Sonya that Natasha was in love with Boris as of old. [2]
- The scantily clad Helene smiled at everyone in the same way, and Natasha gave Boris a similar smile. [2]
- Berg and Boris, having rested after yesterday's march, were sitting, clean and neatly dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, playing chess. [2]
- Boris kissed Natasha's hand and said that he was astonished at the change in her. [2]
- Hardly had Boris gone than Sonya, flushed, in tears, and muttering angrily, came in at the other door. [2]
- None of these gentlemen changed his position on seeing Boris. [2]
- Meeting at large gatherings Julie and Boris looked on one another as the only souls who understood one another in a world of indifferent people. [2]
- So Boris was full of nervous vivacity all day. [2]
- He meant to fortify that knoll quite differently, but..." Boris shrugged his shoulders, "his Serene Highness would not have it, or someone persuaded him. [2]
- Boris said a few words to his general, and Count Bennigsen turned to Pierre and proposed that he should ride with him along the line. [2]
- Boris noticed Arakcheev's excited face when the sovereign went out with Balashev. [2]
- But on Tuesday evening, having come to Helene's splendid salon, Boris received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for him to come. [2]
- She did not even notice the special attentions and amiabilities shown her during dinner by Boris Drubetskoy, who was visiting them for the third time already. [2]
- It was Boris Drubetskoy who was admitted. [2]
- Boris was elegantly dressed, with a slightly martial touch appropriate to a campaign. [2]
- Rostov, without sitting down, began at once, irritably (as if Boris were to blame in some way) telling him about Denisov's affair, asking him whether, through his general, he could and would intercede with the Emperor on Denisov's behalf and get Denisov's petition handed in. [2]
- But Boris spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into Pierre's eyes. [2]
- Boris, speaking with deliberation, told them in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his own about the facts he was recounting. [2]
- Next day the countess called Boris aside and had a talk with him, after which he ceased coming to the Rostovs'. [2]
- Now you know, Count," she said to Pierre, "even our dear cousin Boris, who, between ourselves, was very far gone in the land of tenderness..." (alluding to a map of love much in vogue at that time). [2]
- These guests--the famous Count Rostopchin, Prince Lopukhin with his nephew, General Chatrov an old war comrade of the prince's, and of the younger generation Pierre and Boris Drubetskoy--awaited the prince in the drawing room. [2]
- When the Rostovs came to Petersburg Boris called on them. [2]
- Afterwards Boris Drubetskoy came and began relating various adventures. [2]
- She was sitting by her sister at the tea table, and reluctantly, without looking at him, made some reply to Boris who sat down beside her. [2]
- Zhilinski, a Pole brought up in Paris, was rich, and passionately fond of the French, and almost every day of the stay at Tilsit, French officers of the Guard and from French headquarters were dining and lunching with him and Boris. [2]
- Glancing, however, at Boris, he saw that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. [2]
- Pierre saw that Boris wished to change the subject, and being of the same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the Boulogne expedition. [2]
- All the time Boris was going through the figures of the mazurka, he was worried by the question of what news Balashev had brought and how he could find it out before others. [2]
- Rostov without hearing Boris to the end spurred his horse. [2]
- A footman conducted Boris down one flight of stairs and up another, to Pierre's rooms. [2]
- You see..." but Boris did not finish, for at that moment Kaysarov, Kutuzov's adjutant, came up to Pierre. [2]
- Before long Boris, Berg's old comrade, arrived. [2]
- This was Lieutenant Berg, an officer in the Semenov regiment with whom Boris was to travel to join the army, and about whom Natasha had, teased her elder sister Vera, speaking of Berg as her "intended. [2]
- Toward him Boris behaved with a particularly dignified and sad deference. [2]
- Since he had begun to move in the highest circles Boris had made it his habit to watch attentively all that went on around him and to note it down. [2]
- As the mazurka began, Boris saw that Adjutant General Balashev, one of those in closest attendance on the Emperor, went up to him and contrary to court etiquette stood near him while he was talking to a Polish lady. [2]
- Prince Vasili stared at her and at Boris questioningly and perplexed. [2]
- Boris Drubetskoy had asked the important personage on whom he was in attendance, to include him in the suite appointed for the stay at Tilsit. [2]
- Clean and fresh as if you'd been to a fete, not like us sinners of the line," cried Rostov, with martial swagger and with baritone notes in his voice, new to Boris, pointing to his own mud-bespattered breeches. [2]
- Next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of Austerlitz, Boris was unable to see either Prince Andrew or Dolgorukov again and remained for a while with the Ismaylov regiment. [2]
- Boris did not appear to notice the constraint the newcomer produced and, with the same pleasant composure and the same veiled look in his eyes with which he had met Rostov, tried to enliven the conversation. [2]
- Boris lodged with another adjutant, the Polish Count Zhilinski. [2]
- Boris thanked him and went to the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. [2]
- There she paused and stood listening to the conversation in the drawing room, waiting for Boris to come out. [2]
- Boris looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not reply. [2]
- Boris was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate features. [2]
- This gaze disturbed and confused Boris more and more. [2]
- I love you and Boris also," she went on, gaining a little strength; "he is nice... there are no difficulties in your way.... [2]
- It's such an age..." "You are mistaken," said Boris deliberately, with a bold and slightly sarcastic smile. [2]
- Boris, in the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting Berg's move, and watched his opponent's face, evidently thinking about the game as he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. [2]
- Helene, not having a suitable partner, herself offered to dance the mazurka with Boris. [2]
- Boris was now a rich man who had risen to high honors and no longer sought patronage but stood on an equal footing with the highest of those of his own age. [2]
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