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1  She took it quickly and bent her head over it.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
2  Prince Vasili bent his head and spread out his hands.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV
3  The princess bent over the exercise book on the table.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
4  Zherkov and the staff officer bent over their saddles and turned their horses away.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII
5  A wax candle stood at each side of the minister's bent bald head with its gray temples.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX
6  The count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his bent arm to Marya Dmitrievna.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX
7  You'd look fine, said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under the weight of his knapsack.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
8  Dolokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his clear, insolent eyes in the general's face.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
9  Each time the commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward in exactly the same manner.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
10  With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbe's plan chimerical.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
11  The general with the bandaged head bent forward as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides with his thin legs, went up to Kutuzov.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
12  Prince Vasili approached first, and she kissed the bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
13  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
14  I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
15  Her bust, which had always seemed like marble to Pierre, was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
16  Anatole stood with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
17  The eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked by the amusing scene she foresaw.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
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