1 For instance to the Governor he had hinted that a stranger, on arriving in his, the Governor's province, would conceive that he had reached Paradise, so velvety were the roads.
2 For instance, they will decline to have folly called wisdom, or any tune danced to but their own.
3 For instance, had pepper represented the nearest article within reach, she had added pepper wholesale.
4 For instance, look at wheelwright Michiev.
5 For instance, I have a kinsman who is constantly plaguing me.
6 For instance, one of them made a regular practice of reading Karamzin, another of conning the Moscow Gazette, and a third of never looking at a book at all.
7 In the first instance, therefore, resort was had to Korobotchka.
8 But this lasted only for a little while, for presently Petrushka was transferred to the servants' quarters, a course which ought to have been adopted in the first instance.
9 Being accustomed to make conquests, in this instance, too, he soon attained his object, but his easy success did not damp his ardour.
10 Every man must educate himself, just as I've done, for instance.
11 Mon amie, Odintsova, for instance, is nice-looking.
12 You, for instance; you avoid society, you are oppressed by it, and you have invited two students to stay with you.
13 I'll tell you; saying, for instance, that education is beneficial, that's a common-place; but to say that education is injurious, that's a common-place turned upside down.
14 It would have been quite enough, for instance, to have the consciousness by which all so-called direct persons and men of action live.
15 As soon as they prove to you, for instance, that you are descended from a monkey, then it is no use scowling, accept it for a fact.