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1  And she had stood just as innocent in orange flowers and bridal veil.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 5
2  Now, in the heyday of his highest glory, his fullest flower, he would have to be a liar or a scoffer.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
3  I knew her for a very short time, but she left on me the impression of an exquisite flower, simply a flower.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 10
4  She was like a fine flower, already past its bloom and without fragrance, though the petals were still unwithered.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 30
5  Dressed in a white gown, deeply embroidered, she was sitting in a corner of the terrace behind some flowers, and did not hear him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
6  He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 3
7  The peasant women, with their rakes on their shoulders, gay with bright flowers, and chattering with ringing, merry voices, walked behind the hay cart.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
8  The priest lighted two candles, wreathed with flowers, and holding them sideways so that the wax dropped slowly from them he turned, facing the bridal pair.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 4
9  Walking some forty paces away, Sergey Ivanovitch, knowing he was out of sight, stood still behind a bushy spindle-tree in full flower with its rosy red catkins.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 4
10  The ball was only just beginning as Kitty and her mother walked up the great staircase, flooded with light, and lined with flowers and footmen in powder and red coats.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 22
11  What he considered necessary was to cover all the furniture with cretonne, to put up curtains, to weed the garden, to make a little bridge on the pond, and to plant flowers.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7
12  More carriages were continually driving up, and ladies wearing flowers and carrying their trains, and men taking off their helmets or black hats kept walking into the church.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 3
13  They drove into a courtyard strewn with gravel and bright with flowers, in which two laborers were at work putting an edging of stones round the light mould of a flower bed, and drew up in a covered entry.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 18
14  They drove into a courtyard strewn with gravel and bright with flowers, in which two laborers were at work putting an edging of stones round the light mould of a flower bed, and drew up in a covered entry.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 18
15  Seryozha, all in white, with his back and head bent, was standing at a table under a looking-glass, and with an expression of intense concentration which she knew well, and in which he resembled his father, he was doing something to the flowers he carried.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 15
16  On the right side of the warm church, in the crowd of frock coats and white ties, uniforms and broadcloth, velvet, satin, hair and flowers, bare shoulders and arms and long gloves, there was discreet but lively conversation that echoed strangely in the high cupola.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 3
17  And feeling satisfied that she was alone, and wanting to take her by surprise, since he had not promised to be there today, and she would certainly not expect him to come before the races, he walked, holding his sword and stepping cautiously over the sandy path, bordered with flowers, to the terrace that looked out upon the garden.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
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