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1  It was an autumn night with dark purple clouds, but no rain.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER VI
2  The rain was over, but drops were still falling from the trees.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER X
3  It was a fine day, sunny after rain, and the air was unusually pure.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER X
4  Day was breaking, the rain had ceased, and the clouds were dispersing.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIV
5  The rain had stopped, and only the mist was falling and drops from the trees.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER V
6  The horses, being drenched by the rain, all looked black whether chestnut or bay.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV
7  At times a sort of mist descended, and then suddenly heavy slanting rain came down.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV
8  On the twelfth of July, on the eve of that action, there was a heavy storm of rain and hail.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XII
9  The weather was already growing wintry and morning frosts congealed an earth saturated by autumn rains.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
10  On the twenty-fourth the weather cleared up after a spell of rain, and after dinner Pierre left Moscow.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVIII
11  Like his horse, which turned its head and laid its ears back, he shrank from the driving rain and gazed anxiously before him.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV
12  Denisov in a felt cloak and a sheepskin cap from which the rain ran down was riding a thin thoroughbred horse with sunken sides.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV
13  The rain was descending in torrents, and Rostov, with a young officer named Ilyin, his protege, was sitting in a hastily constructed shelter.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XII
14  An officer of their regiment, with long mustaches extending onto his cheeks, who after riding to the staff had been overtaken by the rain, entered Rostov's shelter.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XII
15  That curly grass which always grows by country roadsides became clearly visible, still wet with the night's rain; the drooping branches of the birches, also wet, swayed in the wind and flung down bright drops of water to one side.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIV
16  The wide expanse that opened out before the heights on which the Russian batteries stood guarding the bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
17  They went through the muddy village, past threshing floors and green fields of winter rye, downhill where snow still lodged near the bridge, uphill where the clay had been liquefied by the rain, past strips of stubble land and bushes touched with green here and there, and into a birch forest growing on both sides of the road.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I
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