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1  She paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have mentioned their age.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
2  The old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: "Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre."
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVI
3  Apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed all the old feminine arts.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
4  Pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbe as tutor, and had remained away till he was twenty.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI
5  No, but imagine the old Countess Zubova, with false curls and her mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
6  The two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
7  Kutuzov still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
8  Karay, with all the strength age had left him, stretched himself to the utmost and, watching the wolf, galloped heavily aside to intercept it.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V
9  The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
10  A woman, bent with age, with a wallet on her back, and a short, long-haired, young man in a black garment had rushed back to the gate on seeing the carriage driving up.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII
11  By his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and so he went from one group to another.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III
12  He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather important post in Vienna.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
13  Another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful Princess Helene, Prince Vasili's daughter, and the little Princess Bolkonskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
14  The motion of the small foot shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
15  They had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young men take their first steps on life's road, each saw immense changes in the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken those first steps.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII
16  "Well, madam," he began, stooping over the book close to his daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of old age and tobacco, which she had known so long.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
17  Despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the Emperor himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy and strength.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII
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