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1  "God, death, love, the brotherhood of man," he kept saying to himself, associating these words with vague yet joyful ideas.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
2  His shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of them Pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a death's head.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I
3  But not to speak of her alone, that early and terrible death has had the most beneficent influence on me and on my brother in spite of all our grief.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXV
4  The feminine society world welcomed him gladly, because he was rich, distinguished, a good match, and almost a newcomer, with a halo of romance on account of his supposed death and the tragic loss of his wife.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V
5  Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a criminal," came into Pierre's head, "and from their point of view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a martyr's death for his sake.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
6  In the hospitals, death was so certain that soldiers suffering from fever, or the swelling that came from bad food, preferred to remain on duty, and hardly able to drag their legs went to the front rather than to the hospitals.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XV