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1  I shall expect you, she finished.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 15
2  I shall expect you before dinner.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 2
3  He expected some queer outburst from Levin.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
4  But Kitty did not expect much from the quadrille.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 23
5  A duel is quite irrational, and no one expects it of me.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
6  "You did not expect to find me like this," he articulated with effort.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 17
7  And he was on the tiptoe of expectation that she would come up to him, would lift her veil.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 27
8  Afterwards, on a day fixed beforehand, the expected offer was made to her parents, and accepted.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
9  Konstantin Levin was very glad to have him, especially as he did not expect his brother Nikolay that summer.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
10  That they laughed at him he was well aware, but he did not expect anything but hostility from them; he was used to that by now.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 24
11  "It happens that I expect visitors," said Levin, his strong fingers more and more rapidly breaking off the ends of the split stick.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 15
12  Levin felt now at leaving behind all his family and household cares such an eager sense of joy in life and expectation that he was not disposed to talk.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 8
13  But he felt ashamed of the feeling, and at once he opened, as it were, the arms of his soul, and with a softened feeling of joy and expectation, now he hoped with all his heart that it was his brother.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 14
14  The expectation of snipe was so intense that to Levin the squelching sound of his own heel, as he drew it up out of the mire, seemed to be the call of a snipe, and he clutched and pressed the lock of his gun.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 10
15  The position was one of misery for all three; and not one of them would have been equal to enduring this position for a single day, if it had not been for the expectation that it would change, that it was merely a temporary painful ordeal which would pass over.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 1
16  It would have struck him as absurd if he had been told that he would not get a position with the salary he required, especially as he expected nothing out of the way; he only wanted what the men of his own age and standing did get, and he was no worse qualified for performing duties of the kind than any other man.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
17  And feeling satisfied that she was alone, and wanting to take her by surprise, since he had not promised to be there today, and she would certainly not expect him to come before the races, he walked, holding his sword and stepping cautiously over the sandy path, bordered with flowers, to the terrace that looked out upon the garden.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
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