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1  "I am obliged to tell you that your behavior has been unbecoming today," he said to her in French.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 29
2  "Let us go, if you like," he said in French, but Anna was listening to the general and did not notice her husband.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 29
3  But Stepan Arkadyevitch apparently did not care to allow him the satisfaction of giving the French names of the dishes.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 10
4  On reaching the French theater, Vronsky retired to the foyer with the colonel, and reported to him his success, or non-success.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
5  In reality, of all the Russian entertainments the prince liked best French actresses and ballet dancers and white-seal champagne.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 1
6  He went up to Madame Stahl, and addressed her with extreme courtesy and affability in that excellent French that so few speak nowadays.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
7  Vronsky drove to the French theater, where he really had to see the colonel of his regiment, who never missed a single performance there.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
8  And with the habit common with Russians, instead of saying in Russian what he wanted to keep from the servants, he began to speak in French.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 7
9  The little girl tried to say it in French, but could not remember the French for spade; the mother prompted her, and then told her in French where to look for the spade.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 10
10  When Anna went into the room, Dolly was sitting in the little drawing-room with a white-headed fat little boy, already like his father, giving him a lesson in French reading.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
11  He wrote without using any form of address to her, and wrote in French, making use of the plural "vous," which has not the same note of coldness as the corresponding Russian form.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 14
12  He sat with his coat unbuttoned over a white waistcoat, resting both elbows on the table, and while waiting for the steak he had ordered he looked at a French novel that lay open on his plate.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 19
13  The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
14  She at once began talking to him with French exaggerated politeness, applauding him for having such a delightful daughter, extolling Kitty to the skies before her face, and calling her a treasure, a pearl, and a consoling angel.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
15  Alexey Alexandrovitch ordered tea to be brought to the study, and playing with the massive paper-knife, he moved to his easy chair, near which there had been placed ready for him a lamp and the French work on Egyptian hieroglyphics that he had begun.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 14
16  The men went into the dining-room and went up to a table, laid with six sorts of spirits and as many kinds of cheese, some with little silver spades and some without, caviar, herrings, preserves of various kinds, and plates with slices of French bread.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 9
17  And strange it was that they were actually talking of how absurd Ivan Ivanovitch was with his French, and how the Eletsky girl might have made a better match, yet these words had all the while consequence for them, and they were feeling just as Kitty did.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 23
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