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1  He drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
2  At the sound of Weyrother's voice, he opened his one eye with an effort.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
3  Kutuzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall upon Prince Andrew, who was beside him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
4  On the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from their battery a milk-white cloud arose.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
5  The Tsar looked intently and observantly into Kutuzov's eye waiting to hear whether he would say anything more.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
6  To the left from that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI
7  When the monotonous sound of Weyrother's voice ceased, Kutuzov opened his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel is interrupted.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
8  Bagration cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, and the boyish face Rostov, breathless with excitement and hope, was the first to catch his eye.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVII
9  The two girls in their white dresses, each with a rose in her black hair, both curtsied in the same way, but the hostess' eye involuntarily rested longer on the slim Natasha.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XV
10  On approaching Alexander he raised his hat, and as he did so, Rostov, with his cavalryman's eye, could not help noticing that Napoleon did not sit well or firmly in the saddle.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XXI
11  Ah, my dear friend, our divine Saviour's words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God, are terribly true.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
12  With the naked eye Prince Andrew saw below them to the right, not more than five hundred paces from where Kutuzov was standing, a dense French column coming up to meet the Apsherons.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI
13  Prince Andrew stood right in front of Kutuzov but the expression of the commander in chief's one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII
14  Prince Andrew glanced at Kutuzov's face only a foot distant from him and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near his temple, where an Ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty eye socket.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII
15  Bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his tail extended, Bedouin, as if also conscious of the Emperor's eye upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
16  The vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully prepared to continue, but just then Anna Pavlovna, who had kept a watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbe, so she hurried to the rescue.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
17  The whole French army, and even Napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side of the streams and hollows of Sokolnitz and Schlappanitz beyond which we intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this side, so close to our own forces that Napoleon with the naked eye could distinguish a mounted man from one on foot.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV
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