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1  This famous Prussian neutrality is just a trap.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
2  He was too much absorbed in observing the famous man's personality.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V
3  Karay was a shaggy old dog with a hanging jowl, famous for having tackled a big wolf unaided.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
4  Serpukhov is already occupied by an enemy detachment and Tula with its famous arsenal so indispensable to the army, is in danger.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III
5  Balaga was a famous troyka driver who had known Dolokhov and Anatole some six years and had given them good service with his troykas.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVI
6  At that time a famous joke of Ermolov's was being circulated, that as a great favor he had petitioned the Emperor to make him a German.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
7  Helene had been at Erfurt during the famous meeting of the Emperors and had brought from there these connections with the Napoleonic notabilities.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX
8  Prince Andrew had never before heard Speranski's famous laugh, and this ringing, high-pitched laughter from a statesman made a strange impression on him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVIII
9  On first receiving the news, under the influence of indignation and resentment the Emperor had found a phrase that pleased him, fully expressed his feelings, and has since become famous.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III
10  The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktist, the club's head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and fish for this dinner.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II
11  He showed an interest in trifles, joked about de Beausset's love of travel, and chatted carelessly, as a famous, self-confident surgeon who knows his job does when turning up his sleeves and putting on his apron while a patient is being strapped to the operating table.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIX
12  The knoll to which Pierre ascended was that famous one afterwards known to the Russians as the Knoll Battery or Raevski's Redoubt, and to the French as la grande redoute, la fatale redoute, la redoute du centre, around which tens of thousands fell, and which the French regarded as the key to the whole position.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
13  The famous flank movement merely consisted in this: after the advance of the French had ceased, the Russian army, which had been continually retreating straight back from the invaders, deviated from that direct course and, not finding itself pursued, was naturally drawn toward the district where supplies were abundant.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II
14  It was an anecdote, then current, to the effect that the Duc d'Enghien had gone secretly to Paris to visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonaparte, who also enjoyed the famous actress' favors, and that in his presence Napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was subject, and was thus at the duc's mercy.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III