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1  More than once he had enabled Dolokhov to escape when pursued.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVI
2  Simplicity is submission to the will of God; you cannot escape from Him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IX
3  and to escape from these dreadful thoughts she went to Sonya and began sorting patterns with her.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV
4  They had to hold their noses and put their horses to a trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
5  Nicholas could already see not far in front of him the wood where the wolf would certainly escape should she reach it.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V
6  On receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the letter.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
7  Not letting the abbe and Pierre escape, Anna Pavlovna, the more conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the larger circle.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
8  General Buxhowden was all but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX
9  He felt that everything was now at an end, all was in confusion and crumbling to pieces, that nobody was right or wrong, the future held nothing, and there was no escape from this position.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVIII
10  Beneath his smile Rostov saw in him the mood he had shown at the club dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIII
11  The latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the Guards, irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting it escape from his handsome mouth in rings.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII
12  He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to escape it all, and felt that Dolokhov knew that he could save him from all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does with a mouse.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIV
13  Everyone stood up respectfully when the Military Governor, having stayed about half an hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
14  As soon as Prince Andrew had given up his daily occupations, and especially on returning to the old conditions of life amid which he had been happy, weariness of life overcame him with its former intensity, and he hastened to escape from these memories and to find some work as soon as possible.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
15  This was the party of the elders, reasonable men experienced and capable in state affairs, who, without sharing any of those conflicting opinions, were able to take a detached view of what was going on at the staff at headquarters and to consider means of escape from this muddle, indecision, intricacy, and weakness.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
16  Bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all the Guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim escape, and Bagration's four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store for him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
17  "But he could not understand this," cried Prince Andrew in a shrill voice that seemed to escape him involuntarily: "he could not understand that there, for the first time, we were fighting for Russian soil, and that there was a spirit in the men such as I had never seen before, that we had held the French for two days, and that that success had increased our strength tenfold."
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXV
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