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1  The countess passed a fortnight in an armchair by his pillow without undressing.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V
2  He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he addressed an edifying exhortation to them.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
3  Within a week Moscow already had fifteen thousand inhabitants, in a fortnight twenty-five thousand, and so on.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XIV
4  The doctor who came to see her that day ordered her to continue the powders he had prescribed a fortnight previously.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVII
5  A fortnight after the letter Prince Vasili's servants came one evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
6  Denisov, now a general on the retired list and much dissatisfied with the present state of affairs, had arrived during that fortnight.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XI
7  If I had been two hours late a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster's clerk at Yukhnovna hanged, said Prince Andrew with a smile.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI
8  During that fortnight of anxiety Natasha resorted to the baby for comfort so often, and fussed over him so much, that she overfed him and he fell ill.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XI
9  Ever since that leave of absence had expired, more than a fortnight before, Natasha had been in a constant state of alarm, depression, and irritability.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XI
10  For the first time, after a fortnight's retreat, the Russian troops had halted and after a fight had not only held the field but had repulsed the French.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX
11  The horses also had been fed for a fortnight on straw from the thatched roofs and had become terribly thin, though still covered with tufts of felty winter hair.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XV
12  In regard to which I humbly submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left in it by spring.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX
13  After Denisov's departure, Rostov spent another fortnight in Moscow, without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls' room.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XVI
14  Then all at once she remembered the tortures of suspense she had experienced for the last fortnight, and the joy that had lit up her face vanished; she frowned and overwhelmed Pierre with a torrent of reproaches and angry words.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XI
15  Princess Mary, in her position as absolute and independent arbiter of her own fate and guardian and instructor of her nephew, was the first to be called back to life from that realm of sorrow in which she had dwelt for the first fortnight.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I
16  But a fortnight after his departure, to the surprise of those around her, she recovered from her mental sickness just as suddenly and became her old self again, but with a change in her moral physiognomy, as a child gets up after a long illness with a changed expression of face.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIV