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1  I have always said so and I am beginning to experience it.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIX
2  He despised them because of his old age and experience of life.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XV
3  He's stupid, but he has experience, a quick eye, and resolution.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI
4  But he did not express his thoughts, for in such matters, too, he had gained experience.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XII
5  They are armed against you by the same experience of debauchery; but to promise a maid to marry her.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX
6  In the first moment of Pierre's outburst Anna Pavlovna, despite her social experience, was horror-struck.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
7  He knew from experience the tormenting expectation of terror and death the cornet was suffering and knew that only time could help him.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIV
8  The universal experience of ages, showing that children do grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the countess.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
9  He was dissatisfied because he knew by experience that if his patient did not die now, he would do so a little later with greater suffering.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
10  But Napoleon with his long experience of war well knew the meaning of a battle not gained by the attacking side in eight hours, after all efforts had been expended.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIV
11  It now seemed clear to him that all his experience of life must be senselessly wasted unless he applied it to some kind of work and again played an active part in life.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III
12  He carried his resolution within himself in terror and haste, like something dreadful and alien to him, for, after the previous night's experience, he was afraid of losing it.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIII
13  Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and activity, Tushin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never occurred to him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XX
14  And he was not the only man to experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle of Austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the Russian army were then in love, though less ecstatically, with their Tsar and the glory of the Russian arms.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X
15  The longer she lived, the more experience and observation she had of life, the greater was her wonder at the short-sightedness of men who seek enjoyment and happiness here on earth: toiling, suffering, struggling, and harming one another, to obtain that impossible, visionary, sinful happiness.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
16  He did nothing harmful to the progress of the battle; he inclined to the most reasonable opinions, he made no confusion, did not contradict himself, did not get frightened or run away from the field of battle, but with his great tact and military experience carried out his role of appearing to command, calmly and with dignity.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVIII
17  Not only did no one see this, but on the Russian side every effort was made to hinder the only thing that could save Russia, while on the French side, despite Napoleon's experience and so-called military genius, every effort was directed to pushing on to Moscow at the end of the summer, that is, to doing the very thing that was bound to lead to destruction.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I
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