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1  As it was, devil only knows what was happening.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XV
2  These were temptations of the devil and Princess Mary knew it.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
3  , "in destroying them, and will send these visitors to the devil."
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIII
4  I've been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, Mack.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V
5  "Ah, may the devil take you and evewybody," were the last words Rostov heard.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
6  He attended some lectures somewhere and imagines that the devil is no match for him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER X
7  In the fourth act there was some sort of devil who sang waving his arm about, till the boards were withdrawn from under him and he disappeared down below.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X
8  To refute him someone would have to prove to him that there is no devil, or another peasant would have to explain to him that it is not the devil but a German, who moves the locomotive.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER III
9  Occasionally amid these memories temptations of the devil would surge into her imagination: thoughts of how things would be after his death, and how her new, liberated life would be ordered.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
10  Rostov himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling himself one with his horse, rode past the Emperor with a frowning but blissful face "like a vewy devil," as Denisov expressed it.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
11  Some see it as a force directly inherent in heroes, as the peasant sees the devil in the locomotive; others as a force resulting from several other forces, like the movement of the wheels; others again as an intellectual influence, like the smoke that is blown away.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER III