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1  I understand, quite understand.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
2  "I don't understand it," replied Prince Andrew.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
3  But you will understand that I have no desire for the post.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
4  I don't understand it; I don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII
5  You don't understand why I say this," he continued, "but it is the whole story of life.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
6  Perhaps I don't understand things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
7  England with her commercial spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander's loftiness of soul.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
8  "I still can't understand what you are afraid of," said Prince Andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII
9  You understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his wishes; that is my only reason for being here.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
10  I understand such feelings in others, and if never having felt them I cannot approve of them, neither do I condemn them.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
11  The English have not understood and cannot understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for himself, but only desires the good of mankind.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
12  Pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed Anna Mikhaylovna who was already opening a door.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII
13  "Tonight, not later," said he in a low voice, and he moved away with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to understand and state the patient's condition.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
14  I can't understand why he wants to go to the war, replied Pierre, addressing the princess with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their intercourse with young women.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII
15  For a long time Pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped up from the sofa, seized Boris under the elbow in his quick, clumsy way, and, blushing far more than Boris, began to speak with a feeling of mingled shame and vexation.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
16  He frowned, trying to appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for knowledge.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII
17  I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
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