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1  The only question is on what terms you agree to give her a divorce.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 22
2  Because I am beginning an action for divorce against your sister, my wife.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 8
3  "Yes, I am brought to the painful necessity of seeking a divorce," he said.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 8
4  You know I had resolved on a divorce, and had even begun to take proceedings.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 17
5  I want a divorce, but the form in which it is possible is of great consequence to me.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 5
6  One of two things: either let him take her away, act with energy, or give her a divorce.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 21
7  All the hatred of that day when he had resolved on a divorce had sprung up again in his soul.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 12
8  His chief object, to define the position with the least amount of disturbance possible, would not be attained by divorce either.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
9  He had thought it all over hundreds of times, and was convinced that a divorce was not at all simple, as Stepan Arkadyevitch had said, but was utterly impossible.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 22
10  In his own case, Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that a legal divorce, that is to say, one in which only the guilty wife would be repudiated, was impossible of attainment.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
11  But apart from this, what more than all made divorce seem impossible to Alexey Alexandrovitch was, that by consenting to a divorce he would be completely ruining Anna.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 22
12  An attempt at divorce could lead to nothing but a public scandal, which would be a perfect godsend to his enemies for calumny and attacks on his high position in society.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
13  Alexey Alexandrovitch had thought to pass at once into those frigid relations in which he ought to stand with the brother of a wife against whom he was beginning a suit for divorce.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 8
14  Moreover, in the event of divorce, or even of an attempt to obtain a divorce, it was obvious that the wife broke off all relations with the husband and threw in her lot with the lover.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
15  But this step too presented the same drawback of public scandal as a divorce, and what was more, a separation, quite as much as a regular divorce, flung his wife into the arms of Vronsky.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
16  The saying of Darya Alexandrovna at Moscow, that in deciding on a divorce he was thinking of himself, and not considering that by this he would be ruining her irrevocably, had sunk into his heart.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 22
17  I have come to tell you that I am going tomorrow to Moscow, and shall not return again to this house, and you will receive notice of what I decide through the lawyer into whose hands I shall intrust the task of getting a divorce.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 4
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