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1  He was at a complete loss to understand what Anna was about.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 32
2  He looked intently at her, at a loss to explain this composure.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 25
3  She addressed the attache, who was at a loss now what to begin upon.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
4  Levin tried to drink coffee and put some roll in his mouth, but his mouth was quite at a loss what to do with the roll.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 15
5  And, strange to say, he felt utterly cold, and was not conscious of sorrow nor of loss, less still of pity for his brother.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
6  Levin was utterly at a loss to comprehend or recall what it was he had disliked in Sviazhsky, what he had failed to find in him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 14
7  I mix with all the neighboring landowners, who are cultivating their land on a rational system; they all, with rare exceptions, are doing so at a loss.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 27
8  But without this occupation, the life of Vronsky and of Anna, who wondered at his loss of interest in it, struck them as intolerably tedious in an Italian town.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 13
9  "Oh, still just the same, always at a loss," the landowner answered with a resigned smile, but with an expression of serenity and conviction that so it must be.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 29
10  He had expected himself to feel the same distress at the loss of the brother he loved and the same horror in face of death as he had felt then, only in a greater degree.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 17
11  Levin and other men like him, though they could have said a great deal about death, obviously did not know this since they were afraid of death, and were absolutely at a loss what to do when people were dying.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 19
12  An agreement had been made with the old servant, and on the road the bailiff had learned that everywhere the corn was still standing in the fields, so that his one hundred and sixty shocks that had not been carried were nothing in comparison with the losses of others.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 30
13  Madame Sviazhskaya had just told him at tea that they had that summer invited a German expert in bookkeeping from Moscow, who for a consideration of five hundred roubles had investigated the management of their property, and found that it was costing them a loss of three thousand odd roubles.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 27