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1  Evidently she was aware of her beauty and fearful because of it.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
2  From that point of view he gazed at the Oriental beauty he had not seen before.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
3  But Prince Andrew did not see that, he saw her shining eyes which were beautiful.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
4  Nicholas had been struck by the peculiar moral beauty he observed in her at this time.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII
5  Mounting the steps to the knoll Pierre looked at the scene before him, spellbound by beauty.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXX
6  But the abbe, though he evidently enjoyed the beauty of his companion, was absorbed in his mastery of the matter.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER VI
7  The other in the frieze gown stopped in front of the beautiful Armenian girl and with his hands in his pockets stood staring at her, motionless and silent.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
8  He would smile joyfully when listening to such stories, now and then putting in a word or asking a question to make the moral beauty of what he was told clear to himself.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XIII
9  Yet all the same this information astonished and irritated the count, coming as it did in the form of a simple note with an order from Kutuzov, and received at night, breaking in on his beauty sleep.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIV
10  That very young woman seemed to Pierre the perfection of Oriental beauty, with her sharply outlined, arched, black eyebrows and the extraordinarily soft, bright color of her long, beautiful, expressionless face.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
11  That very young woman seemed to Pierre the perfection of Oriental beauty, with her sharply outlined, arched, black eyebrows and the extraordinarily soft, bright color of her long, beautiful, expressionless face.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
12  Over the whole field, previously so gaily beautiful with the glitter of bayonets and cloudlets of smoke in the morning sun, there now spread a mist of damp and smoke and a strange acid smell of saltpeter and blood.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIX
13  By the indefinite signs which, even at a distance, distinguish a living body from a dead one, Napoleon from the Poklonny Hill perceived the throb of life in the town and felt, as it were, the breathing of that great and beautiful body.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
14  It was as if a light had been kindled in a carved and painted lantern and the intricate, skillful, artistic work on its sides, that previously seemed dark, coarse, and meaningless, was suddenly shown up in unexpected and striking beauty.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VI
15  Never to the end of his life could he understand goodness, beauty, or truth, or the significance of his actions which were too contrary to goodness and truth, too remote from everything human, for him ever to be able to grasp their meaning.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVIII
16  For a long time Pierre did not sleep, but lay with eyes open in the darkness, listening to the regular snoring of Platon who lay beside him, and he felt that the world that had been shattered was once more stirring in his soul with a new beauty and on new and unshakable foundations.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XII
17  The abbe, a well-fed man with a plump, clean-shaven chin, a pleasant firm mouth, and white hands meekly folded on his knees, sat close to Helene and, with a subtle smile on his lips and a peaceful look of delight at her beauty, occasionally glanced at her face as he explained his opinion on the subject.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER VI
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