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1 So far from being bored by it, he works with passionate interest.
2 He heard only her words and gave them only the direct sense they bore.
3 In the choir the bored choristers could be heard trying their voices and blowing their noses.
4 Sergey Ivanovitch had caught nothing, but he was not bored, and seemed in the most cheerful frame of mind.
5 She went out with the rapid step which bore her rather fully-developed figure with such strange lightness.
6 Levin sat down and listened, but recalling all the conversation of the morning he felt all of a sudden fearfully bored.
7 Now he could only remember that there was some sort of trickery in it, but he was too bored to think what it was exactly.
8 "I am afraid that you must have been dreadfully bored," he said, promptly catching the ball of coquetry she had flung him.
9 At first he wondered and wanted to know what it meant; then feeling sure that he could not make it out he began to be bored.
10 Vronsky would never have expected to be so pleased to see Golenishtchev, but probably he was not himself aware how bored he was.
11 But his whole face suddenly bore the solemn rigidity of the dead, and his expression did not change during the whole time of the drive home.
12 When all this was so firmly established, Kitty began to be very much bored, especially as the prince went away to Carlsbad and she was left alone with her mother.
13 It seemed to her that both she and all of them were insincere, and she felt so bored and ill at ease in that world that she went to see the Countess Lidia Ivanovna as little as possible.
14 In Moscow he sometimes found a gray hair in his head, dropped asleep after dinner, stretched, walked slowly upstairs, breathing heavily, was bored by the society of young women, and did not dance at balls.
15 He stayed with them one hour, two, three, talking of all sorts of subjects but the one thing that filled his heart, and did not observe that he was boring them dreadfully, and that it was long past their bedtime.
16 And having, whether he liked or not, taken up for himself the position of an independent man, he carried it off with great tact and good sense, behaving as though he bore no grudge against anyone, did not regard himself as injured in any way, and cared for nothing but to be left alone since he was enjoying himself.
17 Vronsky had come to the elections partly because he was bored in the country and wanted to show Anna his right to independence, and also to repay Sviazhsky by his support at the election for all the trouble he had taken for Vronsky at the district council election, but chiefly in order strictly to perform all those duties of a nobleman and landowner which he had taken upon himself.