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1  Her father is very rich and stingy.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
2  Rostov, the father, is Ilya, and his son is Nicholas.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
3  She knew his father to be a connection of Prince Vasili's.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
4  Write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI
5  "With my father and sister, remember," said Prince Andrew gently.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII
6  He had now been for some days in Moscow and was staying as usual at his father's house.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
7  You know I did all a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
8  She had reminded him of what was quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in his career.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
9  When he returned to Moscow his father dismissed the abbe and said to the young man, "Now go to Petersburg, look round, and choose your profession."
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI
10  Anna Mikhaylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the father and son.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
11  Rousing himself, Pierre followed Anna Mikhaylovna out of the carriage, and only then began to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII
12  Prince Vasili's daughter, the beautiful Helene, came to take her father to the ambassador's entertainment; she wore a ball dress and her badge as maid of honor.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
13  They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though I don't feel that weakness in myself as yet, I know a little person who is very unhappy with her father.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
14  The latter understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII
15  Ah yes, my dear," said the count, addressing the visitor and pointing to Nicholas, "his friend Boris has become an officer, and so for friendship's sake he is leaving the university and me, his old father, and entering the military service, my dear.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
16  The princess looked in a scared way at her father's eyes glittering close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her fear would prevent her understanding any of her father's further explanations, however clear they might be.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
17  Berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, continued to explain how by exchanging into the Guards he had already gained a step on his old comrades of the Cadet Corps; how in wartime the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII
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