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1  She was a thin, sallow, sickly, and nervous woman, with brilliant black eyes.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
2  "Not bad," he repeated, turning his dewy, brilliant eyes from Levin to the Tatar.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 10
3  Leaving the school very young as a brilliant officer, he had at once got into the circle of wealthy Petersburg army men.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 16
4  Very wealthy, clever, of aristocratic family, on the highroad to a brilliant career in the army and at court, and a fascinating man.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
5  His brilliant black eyes were looking straight at the excited country gentleman with gray whiskers, and apparently he derived amusement from his remarks.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
6  When Vronsky appeared on the scene, she was still more delighted, confirmed in her opinion that Kitty was to make not simply a good, but a brilliant match.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
7  Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
8  But, on the other hand, directly she thought of the future with Vronsky, there arose before her a perspective of brilliant happiness; with Levin the future seemed misty.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 13
9  His mother had been in her youth a brilliant society woman, who had had during her married life, and still more afterwards, many love affairs notorious in the whole fashionable world.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 16
10  In that brief look Vronsky had time to notice the suppressed eagerness which played over her face, and flitted between the brilliant eyes and the faint smile that curved her red lips.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
11  If England can point to the most brilliant feats of cavalry in military history, it is simply owing to the fact that she has historically developed this force both in beasts and in men.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 28
12  In the morning the sun rose brilliant and quickly wore away the thin layer of ice that covered the water, and all the warm air was quivering with the steam that rose up from the quickened earth.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
13  The bright sun, the brilliant green of the foliage, the strains of the music were for her the natural setting of all these familiar faces, with their changes to greater emaciation or to convalescence, for which she watched.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
14  He did not know that his mode of behavior in relation to Kitty had a definite character, that it is courting young girls with no intention of marriage, and that such courting is one of the evil actions common among brilliant young men such as he was.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 16
15  She was vexed, too, that from all she could learn of this connection it was not that brilliant, graceful, worldly liaison which she would have welcomed, but a sort of Wertherish, desperate passion, so she was told, which might well lead him into imprudence.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 18
16  Sergey Ivanovitch listened attentively, asked him questions, and, roused by a new listener, he talked fluently, uttered a few keen and weighty observations, respectfully appreciated by the young doctor, and was soon in that eager frame of mind his brother knew so well, which always, with him, followed a brilliant and eager conversation.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
17  They were not only fond of Vronsky in his regiment, they respected him too, and were proud of him; proud that this man, with his immense wealth, his brilliant education and abilities, and the path open before him to every kind of success, distinction, and ambition, had disregarded all that, and of all the interests of life had the interests of his regiment and his comrades nearest to his heart.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 18
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