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1  All of that now floated out of his soul like dust.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 13
2  The snipe were floating continually in the air over the reeds.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 10
3  She did not walk, but seemed, by some unseen force, to float to him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 15
4  The elder had just dropped in the hook, and was carefully pulling the float from behind a bush, entirely absorbed in what he was doing.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 12
5  And truly Levin had never drunk any liquor so good as this warm water with green bits floating in it, and a taste of rust from the tin dipper.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
6  With one hand she was supporting the fat baby that lay floating and sprawling on its back, while with the other she squeezed the sponge over him.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 18
7  Beside Anna, on a hot-looking gray cavalry horse, was Vassenka Veslovsky in his Scotch cap with floating ribbons, his stout legs stretched out in front, obviously pleased with his own appearance.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 17
8  When he was back in the carriage, he kept unceasingly going over every position in which he had seen her, every word she had uttered, and before his fancy, making his heart faint with emotion, floated pictures of a possible future.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 31
9  The plump, well-fed little baby, on seeing her mother, as she always did, held out her fat little hands, and with a smile on her toothless mouth, began, like a fish with a float, bobbing her fingers up and down the starched folds of her embroidered skirt, making them rustle.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 31
10  The coachman, Terenty, fastened the horses, who kept whisking away the flies, to a tree, and, treading down the grass, lay down in the shade of a birch and smoked his shag, while the never-ceasing shrieks of delight of the children floated across to him from the bathing-place.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 8
11  Behind the fog there was the flowing of water, the cracking and floating of ice, the swift rush of turbid, foaming torrents; and on the following Monday, in the evening, the fog parted, the storm clouds split up into little curling crests of cloud, the sky cleared, and the real spring had come.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
12  He saw that it was not all sitting still, floating smoothly; that one had to think too, not for an instant to forget where one was floating; and that there was water under one, and that one must row; and that his unaccustomed hands would be sore; and that it was only to look at it that was easy; but that doing it, though very delightful, was very difficult.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 14
13  During the service he would first listen to the prayers, trying to attach some meaning to them not discordant with his own views; then feeling that he could not understand and must condemn them, he tried not to listen to them, but to attend to the thoughts, observations, and memories which floated through his brain with extreme vividness during this idle time of standing in church.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1