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1  "Aunt, I did it gently," said the boy.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXII
2  "The prince says nothing about that," he remarked gently.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II
3  "With my father and sister, remember," said Prince Andrew gently.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII
4  Princess Mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII
5  "I am expecting you, Pierre," said the same voice, but gently and affectionately.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI
6  In Petersburg, as in Moscow, Pierre found the same atmosphere of gentleness and affection.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
7  Five minutes later, gently swaying on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to Prince Andrew.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII
8  When her toilet for the night was finished she sank gently onto the sheet spread over the hay on the side nearest the door.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXI
9  My friend," said Anna Mikhaylovna in gentle tones, addressing the hall porter, "I know Count Cyril Vladimirovich is very ill.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
10  "Adieu, Mary," said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
11  She understood those words to mean that he had suddenly softened and that this softening and gentleness were signs of approaching death.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XV
12  When Tikhon came to her Princess Mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping Mademoiselle Bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
13  Princess Mary had turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, rested on Prince Andrew's face.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVI
14  He spoke in that refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance who had grown old in society and at court.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
15  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.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII
16  The French, excited by all that had happened, were talking loudly among themselves, but as they passed Dolokhov who gently switched his boots with his whip and watched them with cold glassy eyes that boded no good, they became silent.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XV
17  And indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, Marya Dmitrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the onlookers for what was to follow.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX
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