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1  I'll dress up at once and go with them.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X
2  He was in a woman's dress, with tousled hair and a happy smile new to Sonya.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI
3  Helene welcomed Natasha delightedly and was loud in admiration of her beauty and her dress.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII
4  He opened the door softly and saw her, in the lilac dress she had worn at church, walking about the room singing.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XX
5  One very fat girl in a white silk dress sat apart on a low bench, to the back of which a piece of green cardboard was glued.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX
6  Nicholas, in his old lady's dress over which he had belted his hussar overcoat, stood in the middle of the sleigh, reins in hand.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X
7  Her whole house was scrubbed and cleaned on Saturdays; neither she nor the servants worked, and they all wore holiday dress and went to church.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII
8  In the front, in the very center, leaning back against the orchestra rail, stood Dolokhov in a Persian dress, his curly hair brushed up into a huge shock.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII
9  Burning lips were pressed to hers, and at the same instant she felt herself released, and Helene's footsteps and the rustle of her dress were heard in the room.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII
10  Hastily washing, and meekly putting on her shabbiest dress and an old mantilla, Natasha, shivering in the fresh air, went out into the deserted streets lit by the clear light of dawn.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVII
11  She looked at Natasha's dresses and praised them, as well as a new dress of her own made of "metallic gauze," which she had received from Paris, and advised Natasha to have one like it.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII
12  She nodded to the dressmaker, whom she knew and who had curtsied respectfully to her, and seated herself in an armchair beside the looking glass, draping the folds of her velvet dress picturesquely.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII
13  Pelageya Danilovna Melyukova, a broadly built, energetic woman wearing spectacles, sat in the drawing room in a loose dress, surrounded by her daughters whom she was trying to keep from feeling dull.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI
14  Prince Andrew, greatly changed and plainly in better health, but with a fresh horizontal wrinkle between his brows, stood in civilian dress facing his father and Prince Meshcherski, warmly disputing and vigorously gesticulating.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI
15  As soon as it rose everyone in the boxes and stalls became silent, and all the men, old and young, in uniform and evening dress, and all the women with gems on their bare flesh, turned their whole attention with eager curiosity to the stage.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII
16  Later on she recalled how she had asked her father to let her go to the dressing room to rearrange her dress, that Helene had followed her and spoken laughingly of her brother's love, and that she again met Anatole in the little sitting room.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII
17  A tall, beautiful woman with a mass of plaited hair and much exposed plump white shoulders and neck, round which she wore a double string of large pearls, entered the adjoining box rustling her heavy silk dress and took a long time settling into her place.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII
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