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1  I do not wish to take it on my conscience.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VIII
2  And I say boldly that I have not a single man's life on my conscience.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VIII
3  I know I can't prevent your doing so, but if you have a spark of conscience.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX
4  So, Count, there never is any negligence in my company, and so my conscience was at ease.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII
5  "You fellows have no conscience," said he to the valet who was pouring water over his hands.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
6  But in Princess Drubetskaya's case he felt, after her second appeal, something like qualms of conscience.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
7  Mais, mon cher, I did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, and there is nothing to thank me for.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
8  The director of her conscience was astounded at having the case presented to him thus with the simplicity of Columbus' egg.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER VI
9  But at the door she stopped as if her conscience reproached her for having in her joy left the child too soon, and she glanced round.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XI
10  One officer told Rostov that he had seen someone from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither Rostov rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
11  And not for that day and hour alone were the mind and conscience darkened of this man on whom the responsibility for what was happening lay more than on all the others who took part in it.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  A dance, for which her partner came to seek her, put an end to her discourse with her future directeur de conscience, but the next evening Monsieur de Jobert came to see Helene when she was alone, and after that often came again.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER VI
13  At the first glance, when Davout had only raised his head from the papers where human affairs and lives were indicated by numbers, Pierre was merely a circumstance, and Davout could have shot him without burdening his conscience with an evil deed, but now he saw in him a human being.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER X
14  All he cared about was gaiety and women, and as according to his ideas there was nothing dishonorable in these tastes, and he was incapable of considering what the gratification of his tastes entailed for others, he honestly considered himself irreproachable, sincerely despised rogues and bad people, and with a tranquil conscience carried his head high.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI