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1  On the contrary, I see that all is evil.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 25
2  He had but to cut short this dependence on evil.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 9
3  And strange, most evil thoughts of her began to come to him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 2
4  They believe in the evil eye, and in witchcraft and omens, while we.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
5  It was an evil action, of course, but it was the sole means of escape, and better not to brood over these fearful facts.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 8
6  But it was not merely a falsehood, it was the cruel jeer of some wicked power, some evil, hateful power, to whom one could not submit.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 9
7  "Truly is it said that all the world is evil," he thought, with another sidelong glance at the calves of the gentleman of the bedchamber.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 24
8  But some strange force of evil would not let her give herself up to her feelings, as though the rules of warfare would not permit her to surrender.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 12
9  She had broadened out all over, and in her face at the time when she was speaking of the actress there was an evil expression of hatred that distorted it.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 3
10  And she felt that beside the love that bound them together there had grown up between them some evil spirit of strife, which she could not exorcise from his, and still less from her own heart.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 12
11  His face and his whole figure in his uniform with the crosses, and white trousers striped with braid, as he moved hurriedly along, reminded Levin of some hunted beast who sees that he is in evil case.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 28
12  But every time he began talking to her, he felt that the spirit of evil and deceit, which had taken possession of her, had possession of him too, and he talked to her in a tone quite unlike that in which he had meant to talk.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
13  And death rose clearly and vividly before her mind as the sole means of bringing back love for her in his heart, of punishing him and of gaining the victory in that strife which the evil spirit in possession of her heart was waging with him.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 26
14  And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 31
15  He did not know that his mode of behavior in relation to Kitty had a definite character, that it is courting young girls with no intention of marriage, and that such courting is one of the evil actions common among brilliant young men such as he was.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 16
16  Then, for the first time, grasping that for every man, and himself too, there was nothing in store but suffering, death, and forgetfulness, he had made up his mind that life was impossible like that, and that he must either interpret life so that it would not present itself to him as the evil jest of some devil, or shoot himself.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 12