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1  Levin read in the queer, familiar handwriting: "I humbly beg you to leave me in peace."
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
2  Anna still mounted the familiar staircase, not understanding what the old man was saying.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 29
3  Running halfway down the staircase, Levin caught a sound he knew, a familiar cough in the hall.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 31
4  And she was not a girl who had gone the stale round of balls till every face in the ballroom was familiar and tiresome.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 22
5  Whatever he said, whatever he proposed, was heard as though it were something long familiar, and the very thing that was not needed.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 24
6  That feeling was an intimate, familiar feeling, like a consciousness of hypocrisy, which she experienced in her relations with her husband.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 30
7  Darya Alexandrovna peeped out in front, and was delighted when she recognized in the gray hat and gray coat the familiar figure of Levin walking to meet them.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 9
8  Alexey Alexandrovitch looked idly about at the endless familiar portraits which adorned the room, and sitting down to the table, he opened a New Testament lying upon it.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 25
9  Levin, who had long been familiar with these patriarchal methods, exchanged glances with Sviazhsky and interrupted Mihail Petrovitch, turning again to the gentleman with the gray whiskers.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 27
10  The bright sun, the brilliant green of the foliage, the strains of the music were for her the natural setting of all these familiar faces, with their changes to greater emaciation or to convalescence, for which she watched.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
11  Then he caught sight of a long, bony, familiar figure, and now it seemed there was no possibility of mistake; and yet he still went on hoping that this tall man taking off his fur cloak and coughing was not his brother Nikolay.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 31
12  Levin had come across the magazine articles about which they were disputing, and had read them, interested in them as a development of the first principles of science, familiar to him as a natural science student at the university.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
13  You must certainly take that room, she said to Vronsky in Russian, using the affectionately familiar form as though she saw that Golenishtchev would become intimate with them in their isolation, and that there was no need of reserve before him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 7
14  He could be heard getting up hurriedly, stumbling against something, and Levin saw, facing him in the doorway, the big, scared eyes, and the huge, thin, stooping figure of his brother, so familiar, and yet astonishing in its weirdness and sickliness.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 24
15  As long as the teacher was explaining to him, he believed him and seemed to comprehend, but as soon as he was left alone, he was positively unable to recollect and to understand that the short and familiar word "suddenly" is an adverb of manner of action.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 26
16  And indeed, no sooner had he uttered these words, when all at once, like the sun going behind a cloud, her face lost all its friendliness, and Levin detected the familiar change in her expression that denoted the working of thought; a crease showed on her smooth brow.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
17  He was the familiar friend of everyone with whom he took a glass of champagne, and he took a glass of champagne with everyone, and when in consequence he met any of his disreputable chums, as he used in joke to call many of his friends, in the presence of his subordinates, he well knew how, with his characteristic tact, to diminish the disagreeable impression made on them.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
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