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1  Never, he repeated in a trembling voice like a boy asking for forgiveness.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VIII
2  Tell him only that I beg him to forgive, forgive, forgive me for everything.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXII
3  I said that a fallen woman should be forgiven, but I didn't say I could forgive her.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI
4  But if I forgive her for the sake of doing right, then let union with her have only a spiritual aim.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII
5  He continually hurt Princess Mary's feelings and tormented her, but it cost her no effort to forgive him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXV
6  And a joyful yet pathetic expression which seemed to beg forgiveness for her joy settled on Natasha's face.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XX
7  "If Mary is already persuading me to forgive, it means that I ought long ago to have punished him," he thought.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
8  Natasha looked at her with eyes full of tears and in her look there was nothing but love and an entreaty for forgiveness.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER II
9  Touched that this statuesque princess could so change, Pierre took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
10  I told my wife that I begged her to forget the past, to forgive me whatever wrong I may have done her, and that I had nothing to forgive.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII
11  Her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by Natasha's intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then thanked him for his love.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I
12  Rakes, those male Magdalenes, have a secret feeling of innocence similar to that which female Magdalenes have, based on the same hope of forgiveness.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI
13  He asked his sister to forgive him for not having told her of his resolve when he had last visited Bald Hills, though he had spoken of it to his father.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
14  He first implored her to forgive him and Sonya and consent to their marriage, then he threatened that if she molested Sonya he would at once marry her secretly.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XIII
15  But a man should not and cannot forgive and forget, he replied, and though till that moment he had not been thinking of Kuragin, all his unexpended anger suddenly swelled up in his heart.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
16  In his first letter which came soon after he had left home, Prince Andrew had dutifully asked his father's forgiveness for what he had allowed himself to say and begged to be restored to his favor.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II
17  In this letter she said briefly that all their misunderstandings were at an end; that availing herself of the magnanimity of Prince Andrew who when he went abroad had given her her freedom, she begged Princess Mary to forget everything and forgive her if she had been to blame toward her, but that she could not be his wife.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XV
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