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How could one fail to understand But at this point I stopped short, and in great confusion, indeed And how few, how few words, I thought, in passing, were needed; how little of the idyllic (and affectedly, bookishly, artificially idyllic too) had sufficed to turn a whole human life at once according to my will.— Notes from the Underground
I knew I was speaking stiffly, artificially, even bookishly, in fact, I could not speak except "like a book."— Notes from the Underground
They do not talk bookishly about clouds or stones, or pigs or slugs, or horses or anything you please.— Alarms and Discursions
And how few, how few words, I thought, in passing, were needed; how little of the idyllic (and affectedly, bookishly, artificially idyllic too) had sufficed to turn a whole human life at once according to my will.— Notes from the Underground
"But I can appreciate Miss Sally's-ah-maidenly dislike, in fact, her quite proper dislike of a loan from-ah-one who aspires ---- In fact," he said, boldly breaking away from all attempt to speak bookishly, "from me.— Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent
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