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1  Petya pulled him by the arm to attract his attention.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XX
2  Atoms attract each other and atoms repel one another.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VII
3  At the center of the table, Prince Vasili attracted everybody's attention.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II
4  Wishing to speak and to attract their attention, he got up, but at that moment his legs grew cold and bare.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IX
5  Herself a consummate coquette, she could not have maneuvered better on meeting a man she wished to attract.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VI
6  The other couples could not attract a moment's attention to their own evolutions and did not even try to do so.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX
7  The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I
8  Closing his eyes, he bowed a la francaise, without taking leave, and trying to attract as little attention as possible, he left the room.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V
9  In the second file from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
10  More than two hours passed and Gerasim took the liberty of making a slight noise at the door to attract his attention, but Pierre did not hear him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVIII
11  Prince Andrew, who had also been brought forward before the Emperor's eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his attention.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
12  He felt it awkward to attract everyone's attention and to be considered a lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of Paris possessed of a Helen.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II
13  To fluff out her curls, put on fashionable dresses, and sing romantic songs to fascinate her husband would have seemed as strange as to adorn herself to attract herself.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER X
14  Into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy and handsome young man and woman for one another.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II
15  A particle of matter cannot tell us that it does not feel the law of attraction or repulsion and that that law is untrue, but man, who is the subject of history, says plainly: I am free and am therefore not subject to the law.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VIII
16  Rostov, standing in the front lines of Kutuzov's army which the Tsar approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this triumph.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
17  Another who wished to gain some advantage would attract the Emperor's attention by loudly advocating the very thing the Emperor had hinted at the day before, and would dispute and shout at the council, beating his breast and challenging those who did not agree with him to duels, thereby proving that he was prepared to sacrifice himself for the common good.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
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