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1  When she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
2  Sonya had already struck him by her beauty on the preceding day.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I
3  If he ever thought of Helene, it was just of her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in society.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
4  The beauty went to the aunt, but Anna Pavlovna detained Pierre, looking as if she had to give some final necessary instructions.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
5  He did not see her marble beauty forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body only covered by her garments.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
6  But at the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
7  But the smile did not enhance Vera's beauty as smiles generally do; on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, expression.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
8  Helene was so lovely that not only did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
9  Austerlitz with the lofty heavens, his wife's dead reproachful face, Pierre at the ferry, that girl thrilled by the beauty of the night, and that night itself and the moon, and.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III
10  Pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every day until then, but he could no longer do it.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
11  But how often I have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty and social tact," thought he; "been proud of my house, in which she received all Petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
12  Six weeks later he was married, and settled in Count Bezukhov's large, newly furnished Petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II
13  He had merely understood that the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned he had said absent-mindedly: "Yes, she's good looking," he had understood that this woman might belong to him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
14  Pierre recalled how Helene had smilingly expressed disapproval of Dolokhov's living at their house, and how cynically Dolokhov had praised his wife's beauty to him and from that time till they came to Moscow had not left them for a day.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV
15  Though Mademoiselle Bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and after the soup the prince became more genial.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
16  In the forest the harness bells sounded yet more muffled than they had done six weeks before, for now all was thick, shady, and dense, and the young firs dotted about in the forest did not jar on the general beauty but, lending themselves to the mood around, were delicately green with fluffy young shoots.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III
17  His features were like his sister's, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
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