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1  That is all I have been able to find out about him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
2  Our reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XX
3  You won't be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, Prince.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII
4  Now and then they glanced at one another, hardly able to suppress their laughter.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
5  "No, I have been transferred to the line," said Anatole, hardly able to restrain his laughter.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
6  He stood before Bagration with his lower jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: "I don't know."
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
7  She drew her wool down through the canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying to make out the pattern.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
8  His son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVII
9  "I shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, gentlemen, it is already time for me to go," replied Prince Andrew looking at his watch.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI
10  She gave him a passionately angry glance, and hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile on her lips, she got up and left the room.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
11  "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
12  Prince Bagration looked at Tushin, evidently reluctant to show distrust in Bolkonski's emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully to credit it, bent his head, and told Tushin that he could go.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
13  Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezukhov and a rich man, felt himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
14  She lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to submit from habit, and she said: "I wish only to do your will, but if I had to express my own desire."
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
15  To be able to crush it absolutely he awaited the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from Vienna, and with this object offered a three days' truce on condition that both armies should remain in position without moving.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
16  Mademoiselle Bourienne had long been waiting for a Russian prince who, able to appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her off; and here at last was a Russian prince.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
17  "I am glad I was able to do you a service, my dear Anna Mikhaylovna," said Prince Vasili, arranging his lace frill, and in tone and manner, here in Moscow to Anna Mikhaylovna whom he had placed under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he had done in Petersburg at Anna Scherer's reception.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
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