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1  Marya Dmitrievna shook her fat finger.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX
2  And smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
3  the mayonnaise, that's one, said he, bending down a finger.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II
4  "Use your finger, Mary Hendrikhovna, it will be still nicer," said Rostov.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIII
5  He bent down his head and listened, shaking a warning finger at his master.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
6  Lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before his nose.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
7  "England is done for," said he, scowling and pointing his finger at someone unseen.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
8  "Don't be unkind," cried Anna Pavlovna from her end of the table holding up a threatening finger.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II
9  "Your joke is too bad, it's witty but unjust," said Anna Pavlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII
10  Pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
11  Ilyin put a few drops of rum into the bucket of water and brought it to Mary Hendrikhovna, asking her to stir it with her finger.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIII
12  His shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of them Pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a death's head.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I
13  and she seized the countess' hands and kissed a knuckle of the little finger, saying, "June," and continued, kissing, "July, August," on the other hand.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIII
14  One of the doctors came out of the tent in a bloodstained apron, holding a cigar between the thumb and little finger of one of his small bloodstained hands, so as not to smear it.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVII
15  Having advanced six paces and strayed off the track into the snow, Pierre looked down at his feet, then quickly glanced at Dolokhov and, bending his finger as he had been shown, fired.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V
16  Sonya stood ready dressed in the middle of the room and, pressing the head of a pin till it hurt her dainty finger, was fixing on a last ribbon that squeaked as the pin went through it.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIV
17  Another valet, with his finger over the mouth of a bottle, was sprinkling Eau de Cologne on the Emperor's pampered body with an expression which seemed to say that he alone knew where and how much Eau de Cologne should be sprinkled.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVI
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