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1  Pierre stopped, being pressed against the side of the cutting in which the road ran.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XX
2  Four soldiers were holding him, and a spectacled doctor was cutting into his muscular brown back.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVII
3  The aim of cutting off Napoleon and his army never existed except in the imaginations of a dozen people.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIX
4  In whatever direction a ship moves, the flow of the waves it cuts will always be noticeable ahead of it.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VII
5  But besides the fact that cutting off Napoleon with his army would have been senseless, it was impossible.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIX
6  The sunshine from behind the hill did not penetrate into the cutting and there it was cold and damp, but above Pierre's head was the bright August sunshine and the bells sounded merrily.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XX
7  All the profound plans about cutting off and capturing Napoleon and his army were like the plan of a market gardener who, when driving out of his garden a cow that had trampled down the beds he had planted, should run to the gate and hit the cow on the head.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIX
8  Some twenty men of the Sixth Company who were on their way into the village joined the haulers, and the wattle wall, which was about thirty-five feet long and seven feet high, moved forward along the village street, swaying, pressing upon and cutting the shoulders of the gasping men.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER VII