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1  Sviazhsky took his failure very light-heartedly.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 31
2  And in the absence of Vassenka, on whom Levin threw the blame of his failure, things went no better.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 10
3  It always happened with Levin that when his first shots were a failure he got hot and out of temper, and shot badly the whole day.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 10
4  All such questions as, for instance, of the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of certain tribes to their ancient beliefs, etc.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 6
5  It was indeed no failure in his eyes, as he said himself, turning, glass in hand, to Nevyedovsky; they could not have found a better representative of the new movement, which the nobility ought to follow.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 31
6  In spite of the magnificent harvest, never had there been, or, at least, never it seemed to him, had there been so many hindrances and so many quarrels between him and the peasants as that year, and the origin of these failures and this hostility was now perfectly comprehensible to him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 24
7  And now he poured out upon Stepan Arkadyevitch his poetic joy in the spring, and his failures and plans for the land, and his thoughts and criticisms on the books he had been reading, and the idea of his own book, the basis of which really was, though he was unaware of it himself, a criticism of all the old books on agriculture.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 14